Granted, 4G LTE and its consumer-facing devices are still in an infancy period having only been recently made available for purchase within the last few months, but the three Android smartphones–two of which are available today and one coming later this week–all exhibit similar traits. For one, all three devices are touchscreen-only devices so that [...]
While we had known that Android 2.3 Gingerbread would likely be coming to the newest batch of Motorola Droid 3G devices, there had been nothing official saying so. That is, until today, when Motorola confirmed on their forums that the Droid X, Droid 2, Droid 2 Global, and Droid Pro would all be getting the [...]
It’s been no secret that Apple’s design mantra has been to go in the ‘nano‘-me direction, even going as far as trying to shrink SIM cards, and now carrier Orange CEO Stephane Richard has revealed that the next iPhone will be both slimmer and smaller. It’s unclear if that means that Apple will be shrinking the [...]
While all of the talk about Microsoft’s event tomorrow in New York City might be about Windows Phone 7.5 and the supposed 500 new features coming along with it, the company might also be planning a big hardware unveil with WMPowerUser reporting that Redmond might unveil as many as nine Windows Phone 7 devices at [...]
We had previously reported that a patent company called Lodys has been targeting small third-party iOS app developers who use Apple’s in-app purchase APIs with a patent infringement lawsuit, and now Apple is speaking out on behalf of its developers and is defending its third-party developers. The Cupertino, California maker of the iPhone and iPad [...]
As part of the tenth anniversary of Apple entering the retail business with retail stores, the company is now utilizing its iPad tablets as part of its signs and information display to provide information, specs, and other relevant product information of the products that they are trying to sell. Essentially, iPads are now replacing paper and printed [...]
Though Toshiba still has not announced the Android 3.0 tablet that it had shown off at CES, video embedded below, J&R, a U.S. retailer, has priced the Toshiba Thrive Android 3.0 Honeycomb slate. A release date has not been announced nor revealed, but Netbook News is reporting that the 8 GB version of the tablet [...]
After leaks and speculations behind two Amazon tablets–codenamed Coyote and Hollywood–it is now rumored that those tablets will be aggressively priced when they enter the market at $350 and $450. Though the entry price of the 7-inch model at $350 would be more costly than the $250 Nook Color tablet from rival bookseller Barnes & [...]
If you’re waiting for the Asus Eee Pad Transformer, which not only comes with a unique keyboard dock to ‘transform’ the Transformer into an Android laptop, but is one of the more affordable Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets on the market, then OfficeMax is hoping to lure you away with the competing Acer Iconia Tab A500. [...]
Amazon has a great deal today for fans of cloud music or Lady Gaga. For a limited time you can purchase the Lady Gaga Born This Way album for 99 cents and get a free upgrade from 5GB of Amazon Cloud Player storage to 20GB. The upgrade is a standard upgrade with an album purchase, [...]
Microsoft is set to unveil the next major update for Windows Phone 7 tomorrow at an event in New York City and one that will apparently, according to Microsoft honcho Steve Ballmer, bring over “500 new features” to Redmond’s mobile software. The video you see here shows Microsoft’s CEO talking at the company’s Japanese Microsoft [...]
There have been are a lot of good mobile tech ads over the years, but we have seen a lot of awful ones as well. My friend Avram from Laptop Mag posted his seven least favorite, including a couple that I haven’t seen before. The netbook bubble popped over a year ago. Some people blame [...]
The Oprah Show is coming to a close after 25 years and Sprint is offering a way for Oprah Winfrey fans to say goodbye. The wireless carrier’s put together a group ‘card’ that lets Oprah fans upload a photo and add a message. The card will presumably be forward to Oprah herself at some point. [...]
Verizon has announced that it will be expanding 4G LTE service to 21 new markets starting in a little under a month’s time on June 16th. If you live in one of these cities, and you own a HTC ThunderBolt or a Samsung Droid Charge, you can expect 4G LTE service to light up mid-way [...]
Digitimes is reporting that the next incarnation of the iPhone, possibly called the iPhone 5, will be coming with “curved cover glass” for its display. If true, it’s possible that we could see aspects of the Nexus S and the last generation of the iPod nano featured on the next iPhone. The report cites sources [...]
T-Mobile has announced a series of new unlimited data plans with one set aimed at individuals who don’t like signing up for contracts and the other aimed at families who chew through lots of data. The company’s new no-contract plans, called “Monthly 4G”, are for individuals and T-Mobile is offering two different options, both of [...]
Even though Best Buy, Radio Shack and Sprint are currently taking pre-orders for the upcoming HTC EVO 3D, none of them have bothered to confirm an official price for the smartphone. However, according to a leaked ad, Radio Shack will be selling the device for $199, a price that may or may not come to [...]
Are you in the San Francisco area and interested in winning some free Samsung gear? Then come and meet up with us and a bunch of other mobile geeks next Friday (June 3) in San Francisco! GottaBeMobile is co-hosting an event with Samsung and some great mobile tech sites to kick off the launch of [...]
Successors to a few of the older Droid phones have started hitting Verizon recently starting with the HTC Droid Incredible 2 and more recently, the launch of the Motorola Droid X2. And now it appears that we finally have some details on another upcoming Droid heir, the Motorola Droid 3. Techno Buffalo has leaked some [...]
HTC EVO 4G owners have been patiently waiting for an update to Android 2.3 Gingerbread ever since it was announced back in December. It now appears that the wait might be over as Sprint is now referring to the device as now having Android 2.3 on their official website. If you head here to Sprint’s [...]
When it comes to phones with big 4.3″ displays like the Droid X2 and the HTC ThunderBolt, the quality of the display is a big deal. The Droid X2 comes with a qHD display that looks beautiful indoors and is also bright enough to be readable outside without looking for shade or the right angle. [...]
As someone who has recently entered the Android arena after being a an Phone user, one problem is using my collection of iOS audio accessories with my new HTC Thunderbolt. Many accessories have a headphone jack, but for those that don’t, we’ve found a great adapter from CableJive. The CableJive Dock Input Cable ($18.95 )has a female 30-pin [...]
HP has big hopes for its “coming this summer” TouchPad. HP Exec Eric Cador is so stoked that he proclaimed: In the PC world, with fewer ways of differentiating HP’s products from our competitors, we became number one; in the tablet world we’re going to become better than number one. We call it number one [...]
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There is a video on Youtube showing how to “auto” root your HTC Thunderbolt thanks to a program written by the thetechREF who posted it. We put “auto” in quotes because it does require interaction from the user, but at least there are no command line strings to enter into Terminal and you don’t need [...]
Sprint has begun taking pre-orders for their upcoming WiMAX enabled HTC Flyer, the HTC EVO View 4G, a tablet that won our award for the best tablet device at CTIA 2011 earlier this year. Much like its pre-order for the HTC EVO 3D, Sprint requires you to go into one of its retail stores in [...]
Back at Google I/O, Google launched a new service called Google Movies for Android that allows device owners to rent movies straight from the Android Market. The only problem is, Google is blocking the service on rooted devices. According to a discovery made by Android Central, rooted devices are currently not supported “due to requirements [...]
It appears that some lucky individuals have been greeted with Google’s CR-48 prototype Chromebook on their doorsteps over the last few days. Sounds perfectly normal, right? Wrong. These people applied for the pilot program all the way back in December and hadn’t heard anything from Google until the new hardware arrived. What makes this even [...]
While Sprint still remains mum on an official release date for their upcoming HTC EVO 3D smartphone, the carrier will gladly take your money for a pre-order if you waltz into any Sprint retail location starting today. The carrier has confirmed that pre-orders for the EVO 3D have begun and this is a very good [...]
It doesn’t happen too often, but AT&T has put out a hilarious spider commercial for the new Samsung Infuse 4G Android smartphone featuring the high end 4.5″ Super AMOLED display that, if commercials are to be believed, will cause your coworkers to freak out. In the Samsung Infuse 4G Spider commercial, a prankster puts his [...]
Netflix for Android arrived last week, but only for a handful of phones. While we can go back and forth about who is to blame for this DRM streaming nightmare, it’s better to get past it and get Netflix for Android working on more unsupported devices like the Motorola Droid X2 and other new phones [...]
Ever have trouble hearing someone on the other end of a phone call? If so, you aren’t alone. For some of us it can be an annoyance, but for others, with hearing problems, it can make using a cell phone a difficult task. Thankfully, there is a new service called ClearCaptions, that will add captions [...]
Plenty of you out there have been waiting to get your hands on the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer and tonight might just be your chance to do that as Best Buy finally has an unknown quantity of the Honeycomb-powered tablet in stock. How long supplies will last is anyone’s guess but knowing the popularity of [...]
For those of you dead set on picking up an HTC Flyer Wi-Fi from Best Buy, you’ll be happy to know that you don’t have to wait until May 22nd, this Sunday, to get your hands on your piece of equipment. In fact, Best Buy stores have been told to sell their stock starting today [...]
Verizon’s CTO of Communications Tony Melone made some pretty interesting statements today at the TIA Conference in Grapevine, Texas. Melone believes that his company will have pushed out 3G service completely by 2013 and it will be replaced by, you guessed it, Verizon’s 4G LTE network. According to Melone, it’s possible that phones might start [...]
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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 [...]
