We had thought that T-Mobile was going to officially bring free and unlimited Wi-Fi calls back on May 11th but the announcement never came. Fortunately, today, Kineto Wireless and T-Mobile both confirmed that Wi-Fi calls with phones that support UMA are now free. In a message passed along to GigaOm today, T-Mobile stated that it’s: [...]
A paraplegic UC Berkeley graduate was able to walk during the university’s commencement ceremony thanks to an exoskeleton. Austin Whitney was seriously injured in an auto collision in 2007 and hadn’t walked since. The exoskeleton was built specifically for Austin by UC Berkeley researchers. As you can see in the above video, he was able to walk across [...]
Samsung has announced that it is postponing its press event that was supposed to take place on May 24th in New York City. The company stated that the event has been “postponed until a later date” but didn’t offer any sort of explanation as to why. It’s also uncertain what the exact purpose of the [...]
According to inter gathered by BGR, Apple might be preparing to launch something big on Thursday, May 19th which will mark the 10th anniversary of Apple’s retail stores, the first of which opened on May 19th, 2001. Apparently, there is an overnight shift scheduled at Apple stores for 10-15 employees who will work through the [...]
If you liked what you saw earlier with the HTC Lead for AT&T, well, then be prepared to be blown away because the HTC Holiday is also an Android handset headed for Ma Bell only the HTC Holiday is an absolute beast of a smartphone. The HTC Holiday is apparently going to be rocking a [...]
It appears that T-Mobile is gearing up for three launches on June 8th with the Samsung Exhibit 4G and the Samsung Gravity Touch 2 joining the highly anticipated HTC Sensation on T-Mobile’s network. While the HTC Sensation is a beast of a phone, the Exhibit 4G and the Gravity Touch 2 are both mid-range Android [...]
It appears that the Sony Xperia Play will be launching the day that the Motorola Droid X2 is supposed to arrive, that day being May 26th, and it will be the first Verizon device rocking Google’s latest and greatest version of Android, Android 2.3 Gingerbread. While that’s good news for those on Verizon looking to [...]
According to Bernstein Research, the next-generation iPhone will not employ near-field technology (NFC) when it arrives sometime this year, likely during the month of September. There had been whispers in March that stated that the iPhone 5, or iPhone 4S as it’s now being referred as, would come equipped with NFC support something that the [...]
If you’ve been holding out for a dual-core device on AT&T not made by Motorola or Samsung, it looks like the HTC Lead is going to be your device as some of its specs have leaked out and it has a 1.2GHz processor on board along with some other intriguing specs. An image of the [...]
RIM confirmed today that it has recalled around 1000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets because they were sent off with an unstable OS build that prevented them from being able to load up the software on the initial set-up of the device. The company claims that a majority of the devices affected by the bad version of [...]
While we had thought that the Samsung Galaxy S II would be coming to AT&T and T-Mobile at the very least, it appears that it will be AT&T, Sprint and Verizon getting the device when it arrives in the United States, this according to a product description on a third party retailers site. Wireless Xcessories [...]
When the iPad 2 was announced, one of the biggest things we focused on was the inclusion of front and rear facing cameras. The ability to take pictures with the iPad and FaceTime was huge — and much requested. So, a few months later, are we really using the iPad 2′s camera? If you take [...]
Nokia will be re-branding its Ovi Store, Ovi Maps, and other Ovi Messaging, and other services to bearing the Nokia brand, rather than Ovi. The company is transitioning from Ovi to Nokia to centralize its offerings under one brand. The services and apps should still continue on with the same functionality and utility, just that [...]
HP may be working on enhancing the camera experience on the webOS flagship Pre 3 smartphone with its new 5-a megapixel autofocus camera. While a 5-megapixel autofocus camera isn’t anything to write home about–the iPhone 4 has sported such a feature for nearly a year now, the camera experience on webOS may none the less [...]
After Italian users were greeted with an early update to Android 2.3 Gingerbread on their 7-inch Galaxy Tab tablets, Samsung has finally gone on to officially confirm the Android system update to the company’s Galaxy series phones and slates worldwide. The company says that the update will initially launch for the UK and Nordic countries [...]
HTC may be making a red version of the unibody Inspire 4G smartphone for AT&T for sale through Radio Shack. Right now, Android Central has obtained an image of a dummy unit of the Inspire 4G for Radio Shack. It’s unclear at this time whether the red unit will be a Radio Shack exclusive, or [...]
While an analyst had suggested that the next-generation iPhone, to be released this fall, will only be a modest upgrade and will utilize the same iphone 4 form factor but to come with Sprint and T-Mobile support for the U.S. market along with an HSPA+ radio for GSM units, a recent case design leaked case [...]
The folks at XDA Developer’s Forum have done it again, giving more people a way to install the new Netflix for Android app on more phones than are officially supported. We tried it on the HTC Thunderbolt with no success. Sadly, while writing this post XDA removed their link to the app’s APK file. Fortunately, [...]
Though the industry and Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha had attributed the lack of native Android apps optimized for the tablet experience for the poor sales of the first Honeycomb tablet, the Motorola Xoom, NVIDIA says the problem is more than just software, laying blame on poor sales of the initial batch of Honeycomb tablets due [...]
If you are a fan of Note Taker HD, you might be interested in meeting the developer, Dan Bricklin. He is no lightweight in the software development community. As the creator of Visicalc, he has quite a pedigree. The young people won’t recognize Visicalc unless they are also computer or software history buffs. Visicalc was [...]
Early benchmarks on the Nenamark benchmarking site confirms some preliminary specs of the upcoming, yet unreleased Motorola Droid 3 smartphone destined for Verizon Wireless. The Android smartphone was shown by the benchmark to come with a PowerVR SGX540 graphics processor, suggesting that it would be arriving a dual-core gigahertz applications processor by Texas Instruments, and [...]
Josh had written previously that the 4G LTE mobile hotspot feature may be priced aggressively at $30.00 for unlimited use on the HTC Thunderbolt, giving it the ability to replace your MiFi unit on Verizon for fast mobile broadband access, but Verizon seems undecided as ever about the pricing of the 4G LTE mobile hotspot [...]
The HTC Sensation with its large 4.3-inch qHD display, 8-megapixel HD camera, and the latest version of HTC Sense will be among the many Android phones to lust for this summer, and a Target leak suggests that the phone will launch on Sunday, June 11, 2011 at the retailer for a price of $200 with [...]
Prior to the launch of the long-rumored Motorola Droid X2–see our detailed roundup of the rumors and videos–the user guide for the successor for the Droid X, otherwise known as the Droid X1, has been leaked online, confirming some of the leaked and rumored specs. The device will run on a dual-core Tegra 2 CPU, [...]
With rumors circulating about Apple looking deeper into voice as a progression of the iOS user interface on the iPhone and a possible Nuance acquisition, we’re beginning to see how voice may shape the future of mobile computing. A recent patent granted to Apple demonstrates how the company intends to use text to speech and [...]
In the Windows Phone Developer Podcast, Microsoft’s Ryan and Travis reveal additional features that are forthcoming as part of the platform’s forthcoming Mango software update. It’s unclear if these features will be in addition to, or in lieu of, the new Bing voice integration that’s been previously rumored. In the podcast, though, these features seem [...]
The PlayStation Network is coming back online according to Sony, but Sony is deservedly catching a lot of flack over the outage and its security policies. I’m a big fan of online services, but nothing serves as a reminder of how fragile the Interwebs are like an extended outage. The PlayStation Network isn’t a service [...]
An Boston-area woman is using an iPad to see her kid’s faces for the first time in over 30 years. Evelyn O’Brien suffers from Macular degeneration and is legally blind. Mrs. Obrien hasn’t been able to see her five children’s faces because disease makes it difficult or impossible to see objects in the middle of [...]
Amazon has recently announced that its lowest price Kindle, with subsidies through minimal displays of ads, is its best selling Kindle, beating out the WiFi and 3G-enabled e-reader models. This serves to suggest that consumers interested in e-readers, and perhaps as an extension also the tablet space, are still price-sensitive to this emerging category of [...]
Chris Davies of SlashGear has an HTC Flyer in his hands and has put up a video that demonstrates the Inking functionality for that device. He also talks about just how kooky HTC seems to be viewing the Inking and pen features it has obviously taken pains to incorporate into the device. As others have [...]
Privacy issues relating to your data stored in the cloud are going to always be with us as long as we have data stored in the cloud. But then again, privacy issues when everyone had their data stored on local hard drives and networks were and are still an issue. There are many ways to [...]
Update: Early initial testing shows that performance has been improved tremendously and that most of the issues related to lags seem to be resolved. Keep an eye out on this space and we’ll update you with more of our findings through continued use and testing. — On the eve of consumer availability of the Samsung [...]
If you have been considering a Samsung Galaxy S II and let’s face it, many of you have, you’ll probably want to check out this insanely extensive live video demo that Samsung recently threw up on YouTube. The video touches on just about everything you probably had questions about. It shows off everything from its [...]
After the Symbian Anna update was captured on the Nokia N8 hardware, a new video has surfaced showing the Nokia E7 business messaging phone, part of the company’s Communicator heritage, running the forthcoming Symbian^3 OS update. The official French language video highlights some new features behind Symbian Anna, which refreshes the Symbian^3 appearance and user [...]
Leaked screenshots of the Symbian^3 Belle operating system firmware update, the one to follow Symbian Anna, reveals that soft keys are finally being abandoned on the Nokia E7 hardware that it was loaded on. In the picture above with the list icons, you can see the older soft-key style navigation scheme on the bottom. The [...]
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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 [...]
