T-Mobile has gone ahead and announced two new Android smartphones, the Samsung Exhibit 4G and the Samsung Gravity SMART with the former bringing T-Mobile an affordable Gingerbread offering and the latter offering customers an extremely cheap Android 2.2 Froyo device. The specifications are pretty much what we expected from both devices. The Samsung Exhibit 4G [...]
Today at the All Things D 9, Microsoft Windows President Steven Sinofsky showed off the company’s highly anticipated new Windows software, Windows 8. While the version that was shown off is still in its infancy, we got a clear look into the future of Windows which seems to be a mix of both Windows 7 [...]
Don’t look now HTC EVO 4G owners but it looks like your upgrade to Android 2.3 Gingerbread is just around the corner as new evidence suggests that the update will be rolling out next Monday, June 6th. As is the case with many of these dates, they are subject to change at a moments notice, [...]
Right on cue, the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer has received its upgrade to the latest version of Android Honeycomb, Android 3.1. Eee Pad owners have confirmed that the update is rolling out over the air, just as we knew it would, and that their tablet is now playing host to newfound USB support, Books and [...]
Unless he misunderstood the question, it seems like HP’s CEO Leo Apotheker is open to licensing his company’s mobile software, webOS, to companies like HTC. His statements were made during the All Things D 9 conference today and seemed to infer a willingness to possibly expand the reach of webOS beyond HP-made devices. Here is [...]
It’s looking more and more like we might see an announcement from T-Mobile regarding the myTouch 4G Slide aka HTC Doubleshot in the very near future as the device has just passed through the FCC and is now ready for launch. T-Mobile is expected to show off three new HTC devices at an event on [...]
RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet has only been out for two months, the company has yet to even ship their WiMax flavored PlayBook on Sprint and already we are hearing rumors of a sequel that is currently being dubbed, the BlackBerry PlayBook 2. N4BB is citing sources that are claiming that RIM is preparing to release [...]
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Steve Jobs will take the stage at WWDC 2011 on Monday to announce a collection of new software updates and features. While OS X Lion is expected to be a big part of this announcement, we also expect Jobs to talk about the future of the software that powers the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad [...]
HP has still yet to give us anything substantial on the HP TouchPad, its webOS tablet device that it announced back in February. Lucky for us, SanDisk was more than willing to show off the new device giving a detailed video tour of the tablet at this year’s Computex conference in Taipei. The video touches [...]
T-Mobile has announced that it has expanded its 4G network to 14 new cities in the United States which brings the total up to 184 cities and covers over 200 million people. So, for those of you without T-Mobile 4G coverage, have a look at this list and see if your city has been given [...]
Yesterday, T-Mobile officially announced the HTC Sensation 4G, a beastly dual-core smartphone that will be available at T-Mobile stores on June 15th and through select Walmart outlets on June 12th. However, there was one thing missing in the announcement. The pricing. Fortunately, T-Mobile revealed that to us today. The HTC Sensation 4G is going to [...]
Yesterday it became apparent that the HTC EVO 3D might not be launching in the first part of June but instead, come during the fourth week of next month and now we have some evidence from Radio Shack to back up that notion. Originally, the EVO 3D was thought to be launching on June 4th. [...]
Windows 7 enthusiast Justin Campana has put together a wonderful custom interface for a fully touch-optimized environment using a combination of ObjectDock, widgets, themes, and the right applications on his ASUS Eee EP121. Beautiful.
Apple did an unusual thing to satiate hunger about iOS and OS X news coming out of WWDC this year, which is slated to happen next week: it prematurely announced the iCloud service ahead of Steve Jobs’ keynote on June 6th at 10 AM Pacific Time. So what to expect of iCloud? We’ve been talking [...]
Despite rumors that Toshiba may have killed off its Windows 7 slate, the company has proven naysayers wrong with a debut of an 11.6-inch Windows-powered tablet at the Computex trade show in Taiwan. The tablet, model WT310/C, is slated for the Japanese market and would run on Intel’s Oak Trail processor platform. It’s unclear if [...]
The RocketFish Stylus and Pen from Best Buy is the perfect weight and length for an iPad stylus. The fact that it also has a ballpoint pen is a nice plus. RocketFish is the Best Buy brand of technology products. While many of their RocketFish branded accessories are often cheap knock-offs, this is the exception. [...]
PAC-MAN is the free Android app from the Amazon App Store today. Normally it costs $.99 so save yourself a buck and get a fun version of the classic arcade game. We downloaded the game and were happy to find that it is the classic game and not some ridiculous updated version that steals away [...]
Not to be outdone by Asus with its newly announced Padfone device at the Computex trade show in Taiwan, ECS and ICE Computer have joined together to show off a prototype of the same hybrid convertible form factor that will convert an ordinary iPhone 4 iOS smartphone into an iPhone 4-powered tablet akin to an [...]
The newly launched Google Music cloud streaming service is a good step in the right direction for Google as the company tries to compete with Apple’s iTunes in the content delivery space on mobile devices, but it still lacks a true MP3 download store. That void is being filled by HTC Listen, the second content [...]
Qualcomm is touting the prowess of its single-core 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, now in its generation, and has uploaded a video to YouTube highlighting that its applications processor is faster than the 1 GHz dual-core Tegra 2 from rival NVIDIA. Is a single-core faster than a dual-core at the same speed? While on the surface, [...]
Acer is showing off the W4 Windows Phone 7 hardware at the Computex trade show. The device is said to be pre-loaded with the latest Windows Phone 7 Mango update, and would come in two variants with one variant supporting AT&T’s U.S. 3G bands. Here are some specs for the device: 3.6-inch WVGA Capacitive screen, Screen [...]
Microsoft has found itself struggling to remain competitive in the tablet PC market that it helped to usher in with limited success and is now being dominated by market-leading Apple iPad. The Redmond, Washington software giant is trying to change course, and perhaps take an Apple approach into trying to control the hardware and software [...]
There is now speculation that Google is dumping NVIDIA, whose dual-core chipset helped to shape Android 3.0 Honeycomb, in favor of Texas Instruments for its Ice Cream Sandwich platform, which will begin the process of merging the tablet and smartphone editions of Android into one platform. The company’s OMAP 4 chip will be the reference [...]
While the iPad 2 is still fairly new, having been only made available for purchase in the U.S. several months ago and is still being rolled out internationally, Apple is already looking to secure components for the next-generation tablet, perhaps dubbed as the iPad 3. Taiwan news DigiTimes is reporting that LED backlight units from [...]
After having announced that the iCloud service will be announced at WWDC, Apple is now rumored to be leveraging its rumored cloud storage and streaming service for movies and TV shows in addition to music. The iCloud service has long been rumored as a transition to move iTunes to the cloud. The latest speculation has [...]
At Computex, Acer announced an Iconia Tab M500 tablet that will run on the MeeGo operating system, which was co-developed by Intel and Nokia, and will also sport the Intel Atom-based Moorestown processor. The device is similar in appearance to the Android-powered A500 tablet with a 10-inch display bearing a 1,280 X 800 resolution. The [...]
AT&T will be joining rivals Sprint, T-Mobile USA, and Verizon Wireless in offering a rugged Android smartphone in the form of the Pantech Crossover, slated for debut on June 5th according to the company’s press release. The device was seen previously with little information going through the FCC for certification, and now we know it’s [...]
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Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE Review: A Worthy Successor to the Original (Video)
When Sprint had debuted the original WiMax-capable HTC EVO 4G nearly two years ago, it was an instant hit on the Now network. Not only was the HTC EVO 4G the first 4G smartphone in the world taking advantage of Sprint’s then speedy WiMax network, but it brought some new features and pizzazz to the [...]
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