Did you know that today is Geek Pride Day! I didn’t, so I guess that blows my geek cred out of the water. But apparently it is. May 25th was declared Geek Pride Day to commemorate the opening of Star Wars on May 25, 1977. It didn’t really get “officially” acknowledged until much later in [...]
The Pantech Vega 5 tablet for the Asian market bears the same 5-inch form factor that straddles the line between large smartphone and undersized tablet beautifully, like the 5-inch Dell Streak that was released before it. Unfortunately, though, this handset may never make it to the U.S. so those who are awaiting for the Vega [...]
Though he’s probably best known as one of the original XBox founders, Otto Berkes was a key figure in the Tablet and Mobile PC world. Yesterday, he announced his departure from Microsoft, leaving a big tablet-shaped hole in their brain pool. Brier Dudley of The Seattle Times broke the news. As lead developer on Origami [...]
While Asus is teasing its own phone-pad hybrid, rival Acer may be releasing an Intel Atom-based tablet running the Android Honeycomb platform at Computex next week. The tablet would bear a 10-inch form factor and would utilize Intel’s Oak Trail chips, which is based on the Atom processor line. Acer would be among the first [...]
The easiest way to share my favorite Android apps, for the HTC ThunderBolt as well as the other devices I review, is to show you my homescreens. Like the iPhone, Android phones allow you to place shortcuts to your favorite apps on your various homescreens. Unlike the iPhone, you can also include widgets that give [...]
U.S. Cellular may be launching the HTC Merge on May 31st after some initial delay. The handset was at one point also rumored to be coming to Verizon Wireless, though neither HTC nor Verizon have announced a timeline or date for launch. The device is a world phone Android smartphone with a landscape-oriented sliding keyboard [...]
Sprint may be adopting another handset from Verizon Wireless–the Now Network had previously announced that it will be launching the Verizon Motorola Droid Pro as the Motorola XPRT on its network–and this time it’s the Droid X2, which would launch as the Photon 4G. Rumors are circulating that the Photon model name, which was leaked [...]
WiFi Tether is an app for rooted Android phones that lets you use your phone as a wireless hotspot. This allows users to bypass carriers’ built-in Wi-Fi hotspot software, which is especially helpful on phones that come with unreliable hotspot apps, such as the HTC Thunderbolt. Installing the WiFi Tether App Keep in mind you [...]
Following Microsoft’s Mango announcement that Nokia’s first Windows Phone 7 handset will ship pre-loaded with the software update, Nokia is saying that it is optimistic that it can ready multiple Windows Phone 7 devices by the end of the year with Mango pre-installed. While Nokia’s Jo Harlow, who is in charge of the company’s smart [...]
As part of its legal battles with Samsung, Apple has been granted early access to un-released products from Samsung by a federal court. The court hopes that the move will help Apple examine the products and determine if the products infringe on any of the patents held by the iPhone-, iPad-, and iPod Touch-maker. The [...]
After HTC, which has in the past been warm and welcoming to hackers, stated that its HTC Sensation 4G (coming to T-Mobile USA) and the EVO 3D (coming to Sprint as a 4G WiMax phone) would both be launched with a locked bootloader, user outcry has prompted the company to release a statement on its [...]
The race is on in the mobile wallet and digital payment space with NFC adoption to kick in full gear. Sprint and Google are teaming up, and sources tell Bloomberg that the two companies may be ready to reveal its digital payment service as soon as Thursdasy, May 26th. When the service rolls out initially, [...]
While the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play isn’t scheduled to officially arrive on Verizon until May 26th, it looks like some of those that pre-ordered the device are already seeing their orders arrive. Back on May 17th, Verizon announced that the device formally known as the PlayStation Phone would be hitting its network this week for [...]
Tim Bray, Google’s Developer Advocate for Android, has taken a stand on tablet orientation, and he says portrait mode is the way to go. I wouldn’t go that far, but he makes some good points. Unfortunately, the problem isn’t with how people are holding their Android tablets, but how manufacturers are designing them.
Square makes it incredibly simple for small businesses owners to accept credit card payments on their mobile phones and iPads. From what I can tell, small business owners absolutely love Square and the service is going viral. Spin City Cafe is an example of one business I frequent that uses Square. Located in Noe Valley, the [...]
If the locked bootloader situation hasn’t scared you away from T-Mobile’s upcoming beast of a smartphone, the HTC Sensation 4G, then you probably want to have a look at this collection of photos of the device that clearly shows off its T-Mobile roots. There is one thing that we know for sure. The HTC Sensation [...]
With the newly announced Mango software update for Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform, device-makers are able to take Windows Phone to the next level of mobile broadband connectivity by bringing 4G to devices. Current Windows Phone devices only top out at 3G, connecting either to the GSM-based HSPA/UMTS standard or the CDMA EV-DO standard. 4G, [...]
Sharp, which has released a number of Android smartphones under its Aquos brand in Japan, will be looking to take the brand global with smartphone releases worldwide. It’s unclear which models and what features will make it outside of Japan when they do begin to roll out worldwide. At CES, when I last talked to [...]
With Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference set to kick off on June 6th in San Francisco and with an announcement about iOS 5 appearing to be a likely one, Eldur Murtazin from Mobile-Review has decided to stir the pot by claiming that Apple’s iPhone 3GS will not only not be included in the first betas [...]
The biggest news this morning in notebooks is the introduction of the new Dell XPS 15z, a new MacBook Pro competitor from Dell which starts at $999. The Dell XPS 15z lifts many features and looks from the MacBook Pro, but adds in a collection of ports to try to differentiate from the MacBook Pro. [...]
Barnes and Noble is going to be offering a new Nook with a touch screen to compete with the Amazon Kindle and the new touch-enabled Kobo eReader. The new Simple Touch Reader from Barnes and Noble will retail for $139 and boasts 2 months of battery life and a touch-enabled black-and-white E-Ink screen that is readable outdoors and [...]
In a bit of sad news for those who were planning or have already pre-ordered the HTC EVO 3D on Sprint, Android Police has confirmed that the device will indeed have the same locked bootloader as the HTC Sensation. This means that those of you looking forward to putting ROMs, kernels and recoveries on your [...]
Dummy units and promo materials for Verizon’s next 4G LTE smartphone, the LG Revolution, have started arriving in stores ahead of a rumored launch date on May 26th. The LG Revolution will be the third 4G LTE smartphone that Verizon puts on the market after the releases of the HTC ThunderBolt back in March and [...]
Earlier this year at the Consumer Electronics Show, Toshiba had shown off a concept device that runs Windows 7 on an Intel Atom processor and utilizing a similar hardware form factor to its Android 3.0 Honeycomb Toshiba Thrive tablet. However, since CES, it looks like this concept Windows tablet will remain just that–a concept. Toshiba [...]
Evernote announced an update to the Evernote Clipper extension for Google Chrome today that adds a much more focused Article clipping feature as well as an updated look, better notifications and the ability to search your notes while you search Google, Bing or Yahoo. The biggest news is the Article Clip mode which can detect [...]
At the Book Expo America conference, Kobo has debuted its new e-book reader, which eschews buttons in favor of a touch experience similar to Barnes & Noble’s announcements today and the latest crop of Sony Reader hardware. The device was announced a day before the Barnes & Noble announcement, and sports a slate form factor [...]
Today, Microsoft had announced its next software update to Windows Phone 7, also referred to by number as Windows Phone 7.1 or by name as the Mango update. The new update brings a number of new changes–over 500 to be exact–and a number of those demos will be available in video form later in the [...]
While Windows Phone 7.1, codenamed Mango, will be coming to current Windows Phone 7 handsets as a software update later this year, Nokia’s debut smartphone running on the platform will come with Mango pre-installed. Nokia has published on its official blog, Nokia Conversations that it will be waiting for the new features of Mango to [...]
The Dot camera attachment for the iPhone is a Kickstarter project from Kogeto that will allow the user to shoot a 360 degree panoramic video of an environment in real-time instead of taking multiple shots and later splicing them all together. It uses the same technology that the company created to help keep track of [...]
This shouldn’t come as a real surprise to Tablet watchers, but there are reports that we’re starting to see some casualties in the ranks of promised as well as delivered Tablets. First up is word that the Entourage eDGe digital content store is closing down and that is fueling speculation (probably very accurate speculation) that [...]
Microsoft may be getting ready to show off a refreshed user interface and user experience for its Windows 8 tablet environment next week at the All Things Digital conference. The tablet UI will closely resemble the Metro UI on Windows Phone 7 to help users access important information quickly. News of the rumored preview of [...]
Microsoft will be livestreaming its Windows Phone event from New York and if you’re not in attendance, you can catch all the latest surrounding Redmond, Washington’s mobile OS. Though details are scarce, the event may be host to a number of improvements through the forthcoming Mango update to the operating system, as well as play [...]
T-Mobile USA is launching its Rocket 3.0 4G USB modem as the carrier is turning on its faster 42 Mbps network in 55 markets. made by ZTE, the Rocket 3.0 modem is capable of achieving up to 42 Mbps theoretical download speeds, though usually real world speeds are lower. The device is available for $100 [...]
After Symbian leaker Eldar Murtazin had posted that Microsoft may be looking to buy Nokia, we have seen Nokia deny such allegations and now the German arm of Microsoft is also refuting Murtazin’s speculations. Calling out the rumor as nonsense, Microsoft says, “Microsoft is very pleased with the current solution that the group in future provide the software [...]
Slates and tablets may be used interchangeably in 2011 to describe one touchscreen form factor on a larger-sized touchscreen befitting of the category’s moniker, but in 2012 when Windows 8 systems begin to ship, they’ll have separate distinctions. Addressing a crowd of developers in Japan, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer referred to the next-generation desktop-class operating system [...]
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Droid RAZR MAXX First Impressions and Unboxing Video
The Droid RAZR is just months old, but Motorola has already seen fit to introduce another mmber to the RAZR family, the Droid RAZR MAXX. The Droid RAZR (review) was known for a super thin design and Kevlar back, but it lacked in the battery life department. We saw 11-12 hours of battery life in [...]
The Next Nexus: What It Needs to Stay Ahead of the Pack
Late last year, Google and Samsung released the third rendition of the Nexus smartphone. The first of course was the HTC-made Nexus One which arrived in 2010 to great fan fare. Then, in late part of 2010, the Samsung-made Nexus S launched which eventually became available in two variants, the regular Nexus S and the [...]
Nokia Responds to Alleged 3-Inch ‘Tablet’ Leaks
When Nokia took the stage in New York City with carrier partner T-Mobile USA, various news outlets were reporting that Nokia was either working on a 3-inch tablet or media player. Right now, the company says that the information that was reported earlier was all a misunderstanding by various hopeful blogs. The device that was [...]
Pad & Quill Octavo iPad Case 2 Looks Great but is Bulky
The Pad & Quill Octavo case for the iPad 2 is a leather bound case that looks great on the iPad 2. This case is crafted with care and you can tell that when you pick it up. Pad & Quill is known for producing high quality cases that protect your tablet, computer or iPhone with [...]
Pad & Quill Fire Keeper: A Beautiful Kindle Fire Case
If you have a Kindle Fire, then you owe it to yourself to take a look at the beautiful Kindle Fire Keeper, a case from Pad & Quill. Pad & Quill cases protect your iPad, eBook reader, computer or iPhone with a touch of class giving users a classic book-like experience even though they’re holding a very [...]
id America Gasket iPhone Case Review
iPhone cases are a dime a dozen, but now and then I see one that stands out. Enter the Gasket iPhone case from id America. The id America Gasket case is a brushed aluminum iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S case that looks absolutely stunning. The machined case is inspired by the head gasket you’d find inside a [...]
