We know that Nokia’s first Windows Phone 7 handset will be running Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.5 Mango software. That’s for sure. And while we still have no idea what kind of device Nokia is cooking up for Windows Phone 7, at least one person is saying that it’s going to “blow our socks off.” According [...]
It has taken a little bit for eBay’s application on Android to catch up with the one on the iPhone but the day has finally arrived as the company has released it’s new and improved Android application that brings a host of new selling options. eBay has added some essential selling features to the application [...]
For the professional who likes to carry his or her Apple iPhone around on the belt, the PureGear Carbon Fiber Soft Case is an attractive option that comes complete with a firm metal belt clip. Features The PureGear Carbon Fiber Soft Case is made of leather with a carbon fiber pattern on the outside. The case [...]
Ping! Chirp! Boop! Whatever. Notifications and talk about notifications are all the rage and have been for some time. Now that Apple looks to have finally addressed its lousy notification system by essentially copying how Android does that, the talk about notifications has heated up again. Whenever that conversation comes up it reminds me of [...]
A 25 year old man from India has reportedly died after being electrocuted by a phony cell phone, known in most places as a Shanzhai phone. Back in April, we showed you a movie that touched on China’s thriving knock-off phone industry in a city called Shenzhen. It’s extremely fascinating but, as it turns out, [...]
T-Mobile has announced that it has rolled out its HSPA+ 42Mbps network to 47 new cities which means that the network now covers a grand total of 102 cities around the United States. So, which cities are now blanketed in T-Mobile’s goodness? Well, here is a full list: Akron, Ohio Albuquerque, N.M Allentown-Bethlehem, Penn Brownsville, [...]
It took a while, but Evernote has finally announced the availability of the Evernote for Windows Phone 7. The Evernote App for WP7 represents has been designed to work with the native Windows Phone 7 environment, taking advantage of the Windows Phone 7 Panorama interface to deliver a feature rich, yet accessible Evernote experience. As [...]
For those of you that own an HTC EVO Shift 4G and got excited when you heard the Gingerbread update would be arriving tomorrow for install, well, get ready to feel ecstatic once again because Sprint has confirmed that the update is now available a day earlier than expected and can be manually installed this [...]
Samsung has reminded us today that it’s upcoming Honeycomb tablet, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, will be in stores nationwide tomorrow with a price tag that starts at $499. The tablet device has been on sale in New York’s Union Square Best Buy for a few days now but it hasn’t been available to the [...]
The Motorola Droid 3 is a yet to be announced follow up to the Motorola Droid 2 that will be available on Verizon at some point in the future. While Big Red has yet to release any official details on the handset, it has leaked out several times and we currently have a pretty good [...]
This post continues a conversation I’ve been having via email with a GBM Reader. That reader has given me permission to post this conversation but wishes to remain anonymous. You can find Part 1 of this series here. Warner, Thanks for the lengthy response, but let me say that there is nothing surprising in it. [...]
Apple, a major investor in Imagination Technologies, may be a licensee for the company’s next-generation PowerVR Series 6 graphics engine, codenamed Rogue. Though Imagination Technologies have revealed that ST-Ericsson, Texas Instruments, and MediaTek are three licensees of the GPU, it also revealed that there are three licensees that ‘are yet to be announced’ for its [...]
I have friends that own aging smartphones with contracts that are ending this summer and, as expected, they have bombarded me with questions about what smartphone to get. More than a few of them are on Sprint and answering their questions has almost become a daily routine since Sprint and Motorola announced the Photon 4G [...]
Now that Apple has made a first-party official SIM-unlocked iPhone 4 available to consumers to buy in the U.S., AT&T’s customers should still not expect the carrier to unlock their AT&T-locked iPhones. iPhone user Chronic tweeted on Twitter that ‘AT&T has told me that if you already own a locked iPhone 4, they are still [...]
It looks like the original 7-inch Galaxy Tab may be getting a hardware refresh this fall to bring it in line with the rest of Samsung’s tablet lineup and make the more portable form factor competitive against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9. Samsung was among one of the earlier companies with a tablet entry [...]
Facebook has its eyes set on Apple’s iOS platform and the company may launch a rival app store that will be HTML5-based, rather than supporting native apps, that will allow it to compete with native apps available through Apple’s App Store. Apps for Project Spartan would be tied to Facebook’s social ecosystem and would work [...]
It looks like Sony may be on schedule in launching its pair of Android tablets, a first for the consumer electronics-maker, and the S1 and S2 tabs may appear as early as September in Europe. A private note from Sony’s marketing group obtained by Engadget reveals that Sony may be taking pre-orders for the tablet [...]
It looks like in addition to rolling out a patch for the original HTC EVO 4G, Sprint will also be updating the handset’s little brother, the HTC EVO Shift 4G, to Gingerbread on June 17th via an OTA software update. In addition to Gingerbread, Swype will also be part of the experience, as will some [...]
After the debacle surrounding the Android Gingerbread software update for the HTC Desire smartphone, HTC’s resolve to deliver the software update to end-users will result in the update to be delivered without select apps. It’s unclear which apps would be eliminated as a result of HTC’s efforts, but at least Desire owners will get a [...]
Both Sprint and T-Mobile USA are rumored to be bringing an LG Optimus Slider handset of some variant to the U.S. market, and a device spotted with T-Mobile branding may be that handset. The device has a landscape-oriented sliding keyboard, which by itself isn’t a new concept. What is new and unique to this sliding [...]
Update: The update that fixes Netflix has begun to roll out. HTC EVO 4G owners have been dealing with a broken Netflix application since the arrival of Android 2.3 Gingerbread back on June 3rd. It appears that the nightmare is going to end soon as an OTA update is scheduled to roll out in just [...]
T-Mobile has announced the release dates of the upcoming mid-level Android smartphones, the Samsung Exhibit 4G and the Samsung Gravity Smart both of which will be hitting the carrier on June 22nd. While the mobile carrier had announced the phones back on June 1st, they did so without revealing any release dates for the devices. [...]
Last we heard from the HTC Kingdom, it’s specs had leaked out along with an image. Well, it’s back in the news as it has made its way through the FCC on its way to a release at some point in the future on Sprint. The device, known as the PH44100 at the FCC, is [...]
While we can’t say the same for HTC EVO owners, Netflix for Android is now available for Motorola Droid X owners who were recently updated to the latest version of Google’s software, Android 2.3 Gingerbread. As many of you know, the Netflix application has come under fire because it only supports a handful of Android [...]
Google announced an update to their sync service for iOS devices like the Apple iPhone and iPad bringing three welcome feature updates. The ability to search all email – not just locally stored Calendar events invitation handling Send Mail As which lets you send messages with a different return address than the one being used [...]
There have been all sorts of rumors out there regarding Google’s next Nexus phone and we can toss another into the hat today as BGR is reporting that it might just be a monster of a smartphone that is set to hit shelves somewhere around Thanksgiving. Now, before we dive in, we should note that [...]
In a bit of sad news, it appears that the Motorola Milestone 3 aka Motorola Droid 3 will not be coming to the United Kingdom, this according to UK retailer Clove who broke the news on its blog. According to the company, there are currently no plans to release the Milestone 3 on carriers in [...]
The Acer Iconia Tab A500 Android Honeycomb 10.1″ tablet that I am reviewing is easy incredibly easy to root thanks to the Gingerbreak app which can root or unroot the device with the tap of a finger Here are the steps and applications needed to root the Acer Iconia Tab A500. Turn on USB debugging – from [...]
The day has finally come for many of you in the United States as Verizon plans to roll out its 4G LTE network in 19 new markets tomorrow. Many of you probably heard a couple weeks back about the roll out taking place on June 16th but in case you didn’t, here is the list [...]
We had heard that Motorola and Verizon were going to be rolling out the Motorola Droid 2 Global Gingerbread update similar to how they did it with the Droid X, however from the looks of things, it appears that they have gone ahead and just released it to the masses. If you head on over [...]
T-Mobile is finally carrying one of the best devices to hit the carrier in awhile, the HTC Sensation 4G, a release that comes a few days after the dual-core smartphone hit Walmart stores across the United States. The Sensation 4G is currently available in both T-Mobile stores and online through T-Mobile and we encourage you [...]
This is going to be a series of posts that chronicle a series of conversations I have had with a GBM reader. That reader wishes to remain anonymous but has given me permission to use the conversation in posts here on GBM. Below is the first email I received and my first response. Warner, I’m [...]
Yesterday, HTC announced that because of memory constraints, the HTC Desire would not be seeing a boost up to Android 2.3 Gingerbread. However, today, the company has mysteriously reversed course and is now saying that the device will in fact be getting the update. HTC dropped the bad news on Desire owners yesterday via its [...]
A new study from Blaze.io found that 1/3rd of the top 500 websites in the U.S. fail to recognize Android tablet browsers, and in turn deliver the same version optimized for a 4″ display on a 10″ tablet. As you can see in the example below, the result isn’t pretty, but looks aren’t the only [...]
With iOS 5, Apple is allowing camera phone photographers to make use of the volume up button as a shutter button to capture images, rather than relying on the touchscreen button to snap a photo. However, it seems that the next-generation iOS operating system–still a developer beta–also extends the capabilities to headphones and headsets as [...]
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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 [...]
