Developers who have taken a peek at the iOS 5 software have found references to two new iPad models not yet released–iPad 3,1 and iPad 3,2–suggesting that the new iPad models could potentially come late summer or early fall alongside Apple’s speculated next-generation iPhone refresh. While the iPad 2 tablet was only released recently–and is [...]
Sprint has yet to launch its 4G WiMax edition of Research in Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, but the carrier has now announced that it will start selling the 16 GB WiFi edition through its channels, including its corporate-owned retail stores. The 16 GB WiFi edition of the PlayBook tablet will retail for $499.99. The device [...]
There had been speculation prior to WWDC that Apple might exclude the iPhone 3GS from the benefits of the iOS 5 update. As we now know, iOS 5 will indeed be coming to the 3GS when it arrives sometime this fall. However, as it did with the release of iOS 4 last year, Apple has [...]
It looks like AT&T’s first 3D smartphone, the LG Thrill 4G, is finally ready to make an appearance on Ma Bell’s network after the device was spotted passing through the FCC today. If you recall, the Thrill 4G was first announced by the carrier back in March and both LG and AT&T failed to elaborate [...]
Yesterday was a big day for Apple. The company kicked off its Worldwide Developers Conference by announcing a trio of products including OS X Lion, iCloud and its latest mobile software, iOS 5. iOS 5 will be headed to the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad, iPad 2, and the 3rd and 4th generation iPod touch [...]
Android devices like the HTC Thunderbolt and Droid X2 make for great multimedia devices in the car especially with all the great music apps currently available. The biggest issue is that on most phones and in most apps the screen will go blank and the phone will lock after a short period, even while plugged [...]
With last week’s announcement of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 for Verizon, Motorola Xoom owners got a rude awakening. Their tablet wouldn’t be the first Android tablet to get 4G LTE even thought it came out all the way back in February. However, it looks like the upgrade might be coming soon as Motorola has [...]
Nintendo unveiled the Wii U at E3 2011 today. The Wii U controller is what really caught our eyes. The Wii U is a tablet-like controller that augments what’s on the screen. While we don’t normally cover gaming consoles here at GBM, we find the Nintendo Wii U controller particularly interesting. It blends a lot [...]
The Motorola Droid Bionic will not be the only Droid device released this summer. In fact Verizon and Motorola will be releasing a new version of the original Droid device, the Motorola Droid 3, whose release date appears to be coming up pretty quickly. A few stones have been unturned in regards to the Droid [...]
Average iPhone and iPad users will see a lot of benefits when iCloud is released as part of iOS 5. Below are seven iCloud features that will typical iPhone and iPad users will love. ‘Cloud’ is a buzzword that can be confusing and intimidating to some users. The concept of cloud computing might not be anything [...]
Not only has the HTC ChaCha Facebook phone launched on in the United Kingdom, HTC also saw it fit to boost the processor speed of the device up from 600MHz to 800MHz before launch. Certainly some exciting news if you live across the pond and were hoping to get your hands on the device. As [...]
Yeah, I’m reviewing a printer here. Go figure. We don’t usually cover printers at GBM, but then again, printers seem to have almost become the forgotten peripheral now that we’re all in the wonderful, wacky, world of mobile. So, why am I reviewing a printer? Read on to find out. One of the great scandals [...]
It’s been just about 24 hours since the WWDC 2011 keynote took place, a keynote that lacked a hardware announcement from Apple. That means that the iPhone 5 rumor mill will begin to churn once again and already we have a couple of rumors rearing their ugly heads. According to DigiTimes, OmniVision has won a [...]
If you can’t wait to until this Fall to get iOS 5 on your iPhone or iPad, we have you covered with a collection of solutions for installing the iOS 5 beta on your device right now without buying a $99 developers license. We’ve used this method to upgrade several devices to iOS 5, but be sure [...]
Update: Fix is on the way. This isn’t good, HTC EVO 4G owners. This isn’t good at all. It looks like the EVO 4G”s recent bump to Android 2.3 Gingerbread has caused Netflix to go haywire, haywire in the sense that playback has stopped working. It’s bad enough that it appears that the app has [...]
One of the items I was looking forward to hearing about from Apple’s WWDC Keynote yesterday didn’t make the cut. That item was about where Apple is going with voice control on the iPhone. Speculation had been rampant about some sort of partnership with Nuance, the maker of Dragon Naturally Speaking, which powers Siri, which [...]
The WWDC keynote has come and gone without an iPhone 5 announcement and that means that many people, especially those looking for an upgrade on AT&T, might be looking in a different direction. Well, if you’re thinking about going Android, AT&T’s got you covered as it has dropped the Motorola Atrix 4G to its cheapest [...]
Apple announced iOS 5, the latest version of the popular iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch operating system at WWDC 2011 this week. While iOS 5 will be coming to a collection of devices, there are a number of new iOS 5 features that extend the functionality of the iPad and iPad 2. While iOS 5 [...]
Yesterday’s announcements from Apple at WWDC showed that there are major changes coming when it comes to how Apple users think about media and data. Yeah, I’m talking about the iCloud features. Most of what we heard yesterday had already leaked, and quite honestly while we learned some new details, we’ve still got quite a [...]
Apple finally announced the top ten features of iOS 5, which included a few of the features that iOS 5 needed to make me switch from Android to the iPhone, but ultimately iOS 5 is too much catching up and not enough innovation to get me to make the jump. Granted we are still learning [...]
The ViewSonic ViewBook 730 is a 7-inch Android slate that runs the Android 2.2 Froyo operating system and is among one of the cheapest Android tablets on the marklet. Though the device doesn’t run the latest Android 3.x Honeycomb operating system software, the ViewBook 730 packs enough of a punch for tablet enthusiasts to consider, [...]
The HTC Flyer is getting a small software update over the air that is said to improve system performance, though HTC was not specific to the improvements. The software update may be rolling out in batches so fret not if you haven’t received an update notification. According to HTC, your software number should be 2.00.405.3 [...]
While T-Mobile USA had already announced the HTC Sensation 4G for its network–arriving mid-month–the high-powered super phone may also be coming to rival GSM network AT&T, according to an FCC filing. The Sensation has recently gone through the FCC with AT&T-compatible 3G/4G bands. The unibody aluminum smartphone should be a nice high-end alternative to the [...]
Apple just announced iCloud, a new online service that provides easy access to all the music users have purchased through iTunes for free. Apple has also announced a service called iTunes Match, which will match the music you have ripped or purchased from other stores and add a high quality version to your iCloud library [...]
Shown at Computex, the Evolve III tablet is an ambitious hardware platform that’s built on an Intel Atom processor that can triple boot into Windows 7, Android, and Maemo. The tablet was shown before earlier this year, but now the company has placed a AUS$799 price tag on the device. The tablet features a 1.5 GHz [...]
New images of an un-released Sony Ericsson smartphone called Urushi has leaked. The Android smartphone may be a more compact and affordable version of the Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc and features a 3.2-inch FWVGA display which features the Bravia engine. The device features a 1 GHz Scorpion single-core CPU coupled withy the Adreno 205 GPU, [...]
Research in Motion has announced a new incremental OS to its tablet platform for the BlackBery PlayBook. While the operating system update, which takes the BlackBerry Tablet OS to version 1.0.5 still doesn’t bring the promised email and calendar apps natively to the PlayBook nor Android app compatibility, it does bring some new features, including [...]
As an ink blogger, the feature I’ve been most enthusiastic about testing on the HTC Flyer is ink. The Flyer is designed for pen input in a way unlike other pen tablets before it. What I’ve found is the experience breaks out into quantity vs. quality. It’s easy to spill a lot of ink, but [...]
If you were holding out for Apple to announce a new, next-generation iPhone, perhaps even an iPhone 4G LTE, at WWDC and were disappointed that there was no new hardware announcement, you shouldn’t be disappointed. 3G smartphones, or even evolutionary 3G devices that rely on HSPA+ technologies are still great options. Depending on your needs, [...]
Apple has made some changes on the server side to incorporate the iBookstore for iBooks purchases on iTunes on the desktop on Mac and Windows versions of iTunes. Previously, though users can manage EPUB and PDF e-books through iTunes, users cannot access the store for downloading and purchasing new books on the desktop–this task was [...]
Apple’s gone ahead and published the full 2011 World Wide Developers Conference keynote presentation. The video is available at Apple.com and runs for 118 minutes. The 2011 WWDC keynote includes the introduction of iOS 5, iCloud and OS X Lion. With a focus on software, Apple did not introduce a new iPhone or other hardware, which [...]
While the last leaked images of the alleged HTC-made Nexus smartphone turned out to be fakes, a new teaser by LG for an Optimus-branded smartphone without any physical or capacitive touch Android navigation buttons could signify that the phone is built for Google’s next-generation Android smartphone platform called Ice Cream Sandwich. As Ice Cream Sandwich [...]
Even after over a year since Microsoft had launched the now defunct KIN, a Windows Phone that the company had hoped would consumerized the platform ahead of the Windows Phone 7 launch debut, Apple’s iCloud announcement at WWDC falls short when it comes to photo streaming. As the iPhone-maker aims for simplicity while at the [...]
Walmart has rolled back the price of the 16GB iPhone 4 to $147. That’s $52 less than Apple and its wireless carrier partners sell the same device for. The deal is up at Walmart.com, but the online store is sold out. The iPhone 4 is available for $147 at select Walmart retail stores through the [...]
Earlier today, Apple introduced a host of new products including new mobile software (iOS 5), they cloud service (iCloud) and they also showed off their latest and greatest Mac software aka OS X 10.7 Lion. Well, if you’re a Mac user, you’ll be glad to know that Apple has posted a fairly thorough introduction video [...]
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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 [...]
