Many Apple watchers are assuming that iCloud will simply be a digital music locker, but iCloud could be much, much more. Apple has built out a gigantic data center that could serves as the mothership for iOS5 devices. Backing up and synching data between iPhones, iPods and iPads requires plugging them into a Mac or [...]
Sprint has finally spilled the beans on the launch date and pricing for the upcoming HTC EVO 3D and the highly anticipated smartphone is going to be arriving on the carrier starting June 24th and will have a price tag of $200. There had been a lot of speculation about the launch date for the [...]
Steve Jobs is prepared to announce iOS 5 at WWDC in a few hours, but we had to share this iOS 5 preview video we just found. Unlike other early videos, this iOS 5 video delivers a truly magical experience that has to be seen to be believed. While we don’t get a look at [...]
At WWDC 2011 Steve Jobs will return to the stage as Apple’s number one pitchman, selling a nation of eager fans on the latest and greatest products to come out of the Cupertino braintrust like iOS5, iCloud and possibly the iPhone 5. Steve Jobs isn’t your average CEO and pitchman. Jobs’ eccentricities and mannerisms allow him to describe Apple’s [...]
Sony’s dual-screen Android S2 tablet was spotted at the FCC with AT&T’s HSPA+ frequencies, which could potentially indicate that AT&T may offer the tablet in its lineup. The tablet, along with a single-screen slate, was announced a few months ago in Japan. The S2 will come with two foldable 5.5-inch display panels that can be [...]
The HTC Sensation may be the latest handset to suffer from the death grip, made infamous by Apple’s iPhone 4, but this time the issue may be affecting both WiFi and Bluetooth radios rather than the 3G/4G cellular radio as it did on the Apple case. Nordic Hardware had conducted several tests and found that [...]
In a case of mistaken identity, Motorola’s tablet evolution ads may be advertising its Xoom as the Eee Pad Transformer. In its early ad campaign on television, Microsoft shows a young businessman folding down a tablet, breaking down the form factor, to fold into the Xoom tablet. Does the Xoom do that in real life? [...]
As Microsoft pushes ahead to try to maintain competitiveness in the tablet game by making sure that the hardware and software are more integrated to have tighter control of the user experience, the company may be eying an acquisition of chipset-maker NVIDIA, whose dual-core Tegra 2 was believed to be the reference platform for Android [...]
In addition to using its A4 and A5 chipsets along with the mobile iOS platform on products like the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and Apple TV, Apple may be expanding its proprietary ARM chips and iOS into the wireless router market, potentially introducing new hardware with better iCloud integration. It’s unclear if updated Time Capsule [...]
The Acer Iconia Tab A100, which was reported earlier as being delayed, has been seen passing through the FCC for regulatory approval with a WiFi radio. The device features a 7-inch 1024 X 600 resolution, which was speculated as the reason behind its original delay as it was noted that some Honeycomb apps built for [...]
Ever lugged around a backpack full of textbooks? If you have, you’d know that the task at hand can be tedious. Fortunately, with the iPad’s large 10-inch display, students can now reduce back strain by carrying less, thanks to the Kno textbook app, accompanying bookstore, and Apple’s iPad to display all the knowledge that’s found [...]
As a person who regularly carries a Nokia N8 to replace a standalone digital camera, my biggest complaint with many smartphones–including Apple’s iconic iPhone 4–is that many of these devices aren’t catered to taking quick, instant photos on the go by the mere fact that they lack a hardware shutter button. When you have to [...]
Deep Twitter integration has been rumored in the last few weeks leading up to WWDC, an event later today where Apple is slated to reveal new features of iOS 5 to developers in San Francisco, California. However, ahead of the 10 AM Pacific Time announcement, a new image surfaced on TechCrunch revealing Twitter alerts–mentions and [...]
Pixel Qi, makers of a screen technology that can be considered a good mix of the best of LCD (color) and e-ink (outdoors visibility, energy saving) features, is looking to invade more tablets beyond its popular release on the Notion Ink Adam Android tablet. The company is working with ZTE to re-release the ZTE Light, [...]
Tomorrow is Apple’s biggest event of the year, the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) which will run from June 6th all the way through the week at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. The first keynote from the conference takes place tomorrow at 10AM and there are plenty of rumors regarding the products that Apple has announced [...]
The Motorola Droid 3 has leaked out in a series of tutorial videos and those videos have confirmed a few of the features that will be coming on Verizon’s upcoming successor to the Motorola Droid 2 Global. We had already seen a few features of the Droid 3 leak out and these videos showcase a [...]
The iPhone 4 is AT&T’s hottest selling smartphone. So why is the wireless carrier hiding Apple’s iPhone 4 on ATTWireless.com? It is likely that AT&T is pulling the iPhone 4 out of the spotlight ahead of an iPhone 5 announcement that may occur at WWDC on Monday. AT&T was the exclusive iPhone 4 wireless carrier from [...]
As you may have already seen, I am now evaluating the HTC Flyer, a 7″ Android tablet with a twist – active pen input. That makes it of special interest to me, Sumocat, The Father of Ink Blogging, and I’ve wasted no time spilling ink on this thing with realtime reporting. Let me tell you [...]
It’s not every day that someone like Robert Scoble makes a claim about unreleased Apple software so when he opens his mouth about it, it’s news worthy. Now, Scoble isn’t saying much, but what he is saying is this. iOS 5 is going to be coming with Twitter integration deeper than just photo sharing and [...]
After another cold winter, the weather is finally starting to get warmer and summer time is getting close. It’s never a bad idea to start planning on what events are going to occur and how much weight your going to gain from learning how to properly cook a steak. With these applications, turn your iPhone [...]
Apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) is just around the corner.WWDC is Apple’s biggest stage and it would make perfect sense for the company to use that stage to launch the iPhone 5. A lot of analysts are pointing to ‘unnamed sources’ and rumors that put the iPhone 5′s announcement off until this fall. But [...]
At the Qualcomm-hosted Uplinq conference in San Diego, California, Qualcomm was upbeat and optimistic about its Snapdragon chipset. The company says that its dual-core Snapdragon are efficient enough that it will out-perform quad-core offerings from rivals. Though company senior VP Rob Chandhok didn’t mention any rivals by name, he cites Qualcomm’s implementation of asynchronous processing [...]
Sprint’s going on the offensive with its smartphone lineup as the Now Network is now rumored to be moving closer to launching three more smartphones. It’s unclear when these devices will launch as the Bold 9900 for GSM networks is reportedly delayed until September, and RIM usually releases GSM handsets before those for CDMA networks, [...]
In a statement today, NVIDIA denied that it’s Tegra 2 dual-core processor is having any issues with Verizon’s LTE network citing the upcoming Samsung Galaxy 10.1 as an example of it working fine with the 4G network. Yesterday, Motorola’s Sanjay Jha admitted that his company was late in getting on Verizon’s 4G LTE network. In [...]
Thanks to Computex 2011 in Taipei we have a large collection of new notebooks to share with you. We also have some new news about smartphones and tablets, including an in-depth look at the HP TouchPad from Computex. Don’t forget, if you signed up for our reader meetup tonight, you should grab your ticket and get to the venue for your [...]
June 6th marks the day that Apple will take over the Moscone Center in San Francisco and hosts its annual World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC), a sold out event that will last all the way until the 10th of June. As you well know, WWDC is the platform that Apple generally uses to make announcements [...]
Fujitsu announced today that the Stylistic Q550 Slate PC is now shipping. Starting at just $729, the Fujitsu tablet is an affordable tablet designed for businesses that need to run full Windows apps. The Stylistic Q550 slate is quite different from the Apple iPad, BlackBerry PlayBook and Android Honeycomb tablets. The first and most important [...]
It looks like Sprint still intends on releasing the BlackBerry PlayBook and it appears that it intends on releasing it soon. According to remarks made by Sprint Market Director Gerald Evans – which have since been deleted – the PlayBook will arrive on Sprint in Wi-Fi form on June 5th. Here is what he said: [...]
As many of you with Verizon handsets know, smartphones from Big Red come with a bunch of pre-loaded software – called bloatware – that can’t be uninstalled. Well, it appears that Motorola’s Droid X2, which comes with the usual stuff, allows for some of that bloatware to be removed. In the past, Verizon smartphone owners [...]
At the D9 Conference on Thursday, AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega said that AT&T’s 4G LTE network won’t match up with Verizon’s until 2013 or 2014. When first asked, de la Vega expressed that he couldn’t say when AT&T’s network would meet Verizon’s in terms of quality. However, later on, he stated that he [...]
The Samsung Galaxy S II is an extremely popular device already and it figures to become even more popular when it arrives in the United States. The only problem is, we still have no idea when that is going to be. Well, that is until today when it became apparent that Sprint’s version of the [...]
We have known that it might take awhile before RIM gets the BlackBerry Bold 9900, a phone that it announced at BlackBerry World, out the door. And today, those fears were realized as it has become apparent that the company will likely not get the phone out until sometime after August is over. According to [...]
Today is the day HTC EVO 4G owners as Sprint has made the EVO’s Android 2.3 Gingerbread update available for manual installation as promised and from the looks of things, the update is a massive one. Those who have seen the update say it’s around 110MB, so be prepared to wait a little bit while [...]
Since the introduction in 2007, the iPhone has shaken up the mobile industry with the iPhone, the largest app store, a tightly controlled but beautiful iOS operating system and yearly upgrades to the iPhone. As we approach WWDC 2011 where Apple will announce iOS 5 and may announce an iPhone 5 or may not announce [...]
In the past, Nokia has said that it will only enter the tablet market if it could bring some innovation to that segment, and that message has been reiterated at least twice this week by CEO Stephen Elop in two separate technology gatherings in Southern California. Prior to the Dow Jones-hosted All Things D conference [...]
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The Best Way to Beat AT&T’s Data Throttling is to Have Everyone Consume More Data!
We had previously reported that grandfathered unlimited data plan subscribers of AT&T Mobility have begun to receive notices that they are excessively using their data plans with as little as 2 GB of data consumption within the month, and now we’re beginning to hear multiple sources report that they are receiving notices with as little [...]
Samsung Galaxy Note Review: First Impressions and Size Comparisons
How big is it? Just saying the screen measures 5.3-inches diagonally doesn’t really help you picture it. So we compared it to the Galaxy Nexus, Droid RAZR, and Galaxy Tab.
12 iPhone Photography Accessories – Lenses, Stands, Filters and More To Enhance Your Photos
Apple made a lot of shutterbugs happy with the camera upgrades in the iPhone 4S — more pixels and a bigger sensor means an even better “best camera” to carry everywhere. Want to take the iPhone even further than that? With some additional accessories and apps you can turn this device into a mobile photo and video studio worthy of your enhanced skills.
iPhone 4S Battery Case Showdown: 6 Cases Battle For Power
The iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S are incredibly popular phones, but one of the biggest complaints for both devices is the lack of a removable battery and poor battery life. While there are tricks you can use to fix bad iPhone 4S battery life, sometimes there’s nothing better than a bigger battery. If you find your iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S is running [...]
Galaxy S Pen and Holder Kit Mini-Review
If you’re more comfortable using a regular-sized pen, Samsung has an accessory that should please you. The $59.99 Galaxy S Pen and Holder Kit has both an extra S Pen and a Holder that makes it the size of a normal pen. You get the side-button functionality and everything, just in a larger form factor.
Plantronics Marque Review: Small, Affordable, Awesome
If you’re looking for a great bluetooth headset, but you don’t want to spend $100 on a high-end headset, the Plantronics Marque M-155 bluetooth headset. Plantronics makes a number of headsets, including the Plantronics Voyager HD, which we gave a Best of 2011 Award, but not everyone is willing to wear the larger headset out [...]
