Grab those scissors and get ready to Cut The Rope in the Android version of Chillingo’s fun puzzle game Cut The Rope. iPhone and iPad aren’t alone in their ability to cut ropes and feed cute monsters thanks to the release of Cut The Rope for Android on the GetJar app store. Cut The Rope is a physics based puzzle game [...]
The latest release of iOS 5, currently in beta 2, will pave way for over-the-air software updates as Steve Jobs had promised when the iPhone OS was unveiled at WWDC earlier in the month. Reader Sonny Dickson of 9to5 Mac dissected the code of the latest beta and finds that iOS 5 will allow select [...]
It appears that Nokia may be outsourcing the manufacturing of its Windows Phone 7 handsets to Compal, according to a report by DigiTimes. The move to have a third-party manufacture Nokia’s high-end smartphone is somewhat surprising considering that Nokia has built up its economy of scale through its manufacturing plants in the past, but it [...]
Want to know what the iPhone 5 will be capable of? If so, you should spend a few minutes pouring over the iPhone 5 Rumor infographic created by Infographic labs from the thousands of iPhone 5 rumors which have been propagating since the iPhone 4 launched last year. Rather than a sloppy collection of hard to weight rumors the [...]
Customers who buy new iPhone 4s at Apple retail stores may be given an AT&T version that’s unlocked on the spot at an Apple retail store should the store run out of the unlocked model, which suggests that Apple has the capability of unlocking the AT&T edition of the GSM iPhone 4 units. According to [...]
Home phones have largely been ignored in our race to touch screen smartphones, but the new Android powered Archos Smart Home Phone changes that trend. The Archos Android home phone has everything you would expect in a smartphone and connects to your DECT home phone system to deliver an Android smartphone that works at home. The [...]
Today only you can relive your childhood gaming with Duck Hunt AR and Super World Adventures. These well played knockoffs take you on a Super Mario Bros. style adventure and include the ever laughing mutt from Duck Hunt. Super World Adventures is a Super Mario Bros. style side scroller which pits you against the evil “Wild [...]
The GD2000 delivers a portable rugged mobile computing solution that can handle the hazards of field and medical work. The light weight and 5.6″ display make it small enough to carry in one hand and easy to slip into your cargo pocket or lab jacket when you need to move to the next job. [...]
Sprint has just released the HTC EVO 3D and it still has the Motorola Photon 4G to get out at some point this summer but that apparently won’t stop the carrier from releasing some new top-notch Android devices before the year is over. ThisIsMyNext has revealed Sprint’s Q3 roadmap and there are some pretty interesting [...]
The Samsung Galaxy S II will outsell the Motorola Droid Bionic according to a study of almost 15,000 social media users. The survey examined social media interaction on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks Mashwork compiled the following data which points to an 11% increase in interest of the Galaxy S II over the Droid Bionic from April [...]
We had heard that the Motorola Droid 3 might be launching on July 7th but without any sort of hard evidence, that rumor is a little suspect. Well, it appears that we finally have some physical evidence but it points to a release date a week later on July 14th. The evidence comes from Droid [...]
A device that appears to be a Nokia Android phone prototype has leaked out just a day after Nokia’s first Windows Phone device, the Sea Ray, was unofficially revealed to the public. What you see here may or may not be the real deal but whatever it is, it’s definitely a phone that takes after [...]
A new tool called ExEn has entered a private beta which will allow Xbox Live game developers to port their games to Silverlight and to iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad with eventual support of the Android. The new tool is already in the hands of some developers so it is conceivable that we will soon see our [...]
MG Siegler of TechCrunch has a post up about what he calls the future of computing. Not only does he believe it this future of how we interact with our data and the machines that help us do that, but he says it is not only useful but beautiful. The company in question is called [...]
While it’s still unknown if Motorola plans to unlocked the Motorola Atrix bootloader with the upcoming update to Gingerbread, there is now a known way to get the bootloader unlocked which should be exciting for those that have wanted to be able to fully customize their dual-core device. The method which was posted over at [...]
Plenty of you have been clamoring about Virgin Mobile’s upcoming pre-paid phone, the Motorola Triumph, and it looks like you can now go ahead and place a pre-order at Best Buy if you have $300 sitting around. Yes folks, the phone still doesn’t have an official release date – we’re hearing July 19th – but [...]
Today is a glorious day for Sprint and its customers as a new EVO smartphone, the HTC EVO 3D, has officially gone on sale after what has seemed like an eternity. The phone, originally announced at CTIA, is now available through multiple retail channels and can also be found at several retailers online for $199 [...]
When Windows Phone 7 Mango arrives later this year, expect to see plenty of gaming related features in the new Games Hub. The Games Hub feature of Windows Phone 7 Mango will feature better collection management, 3D Avatars with attitude and a collection of XBox Live improvements which could point to multiplayer functionality. The most exciting feature [...]
We’ve all laughed at images of computer illiterate users trying to pay for online purchases by holding their credit card up to the monitor, but it if card.io has anything to say about it you’ll soon be pulling a similar move to pay for your next in app purchase. Card.io uses your phone’s built-in camera to scan your [...]
A funny thing happened on the way to the The Year of the Tablet 2.0. Actually several funny things happened. Of course they aren’t so funny if you’re a Tablet manufacturer or developer hoping for a competitor to the iPad. Things didn’t quite pan out for those Tablets released so far due to problems we’ve [...]
The iPad 3 will likely come with a higher resolution Retina display, which is great, but after hearing about now screen technology from Nanosys called QDEF, we are hoping that Steve Jobs will work in this new screen technology which delivers richer colors. We’ve certainly heard a lot about the next iPad display from retina [...]
My family and I are on our summer road trip across the Southeastern US and my HTC Thunderbolt has been a wonderful companion but has one major problem – charging it while watching video in portrait mode with the phone propped up by the built-in kickstand is awkward due to poor placement of the charging [...]
Just like with gadgets, comfort and usability are a big part of the car experience. Thanks to car commercials you may think this is all happening with clay models and wind tunnel tests, but actually, your car’s design has improved thanks to hollywood blockbusters like Avatar. While touring the Ford labs this week we found [...]
The FBI has raided a Virginia data center operated by Swiss hosting company DigitalOne and seized the servers of a Latvian crime ring that had racked up quite a haul using scareware tactics. (You need to buy this software to get rid of the malware that is infecting your computer. We all know how that [...]
Yesterday, Motorola threw us a curve ball when it announced via Twitter that its team was working on “new features” for the upcoming and might I say, highly anticipated, Motorola Droid Bionic smartphone. Before that piece of info was revealed, we thought we knew exactly what we’d be getting at some point this summer. Turns [...]
The Motorola Atrix 4G has a lot of good stuff going for it lately and you can add another thing to the list as Amazon is now offering the dual-core handset for a only a penny with a new two-year contract. Now is as good of a time as any to pick up AT&T’s Android [...]
The Motorola Photon 4G wasn’t the only smartphone announced at an event in New York at the beginning of June. In fact, Motorola also announced a new, fairly high-end smartphone for Virgin Mobile called the Motorola Triumph that the company said would be hitting shelves at some point in July of this year. The Triumph [...]
Sprint’s HTC EVO 3D, which goes on sale to the public tomorrow, will allow for all of the bloatware aka pre-installed software that comes on the device to be uninstalled without the need to root. Every single mobile carrier and manufacturer should be taking notes here. If you’ve never owned an Android device, almost all [...]
Rob Bushway has his hands on the Motion Computing CL900 Tablet and has put up a few posts and videos about his early usage on the slate that is being billed as light and rugged. You can check out all of Rob’s posts so far here, here, here, and here. Rob, as you would expect [...]
HTC’s device with deep Facebook integration known elsewhere as the HTC ChaCha will apparently be hitting AT&T in the coming weeks under the very appropriate moniker, HTC Status. Just recently, we had seen the ChaCha pictured with AT&T branding and it appears that Ma Bell is going to soon make the phone with the dedicated [...]
We still have no idea if Apple is going to finally put its iPhone on T-Mobile when the iPhone 5 rolls around we do know that T-Mobile is currently a popular destination for iPhones that are currently on the market. In remarks made to 9to5Mac, T-Mobile confirmed that its network now plays host to over [...]
Archos has announced a pair of Android Honeycomb 3.1 tablets, the Archos 80 G9 and the Archos 101 G9, and they look like they are both going to be pretty solid offerings, especially for those of you who covert hard drive space on your devices. The biggest difference between the two is the size of [...]
Stephen Elop didn’t want this ending up on the blogosphere but sure enough, here it is. It appears Elop has leaked out a device that may or may not be the company’s first Windows Phone and it looks to be very similar to the MeeGo powered N9 that was announced just a short time ago. [...]
Information on the Motorola Atrix Gingerbread update keeps on pouring in and from the looks of things, this is going to be one heck of an update for Atrix owners. Last night, we learned that there is a possibility that the bootloader will be unlocked when Gingerbread arrives and now we have some intel pointing [...]
It’s no secret that the Asus Eee Pad Transformer is a hit. For awhile, it was nearly impossible to find the fairly inexpensive Honeycomb tablet in stores in North America and Asus itself has said that it has shipped over 400,000 tablets in the first half of 2011. That’s better than any tablet not called [...]
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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 [...]
