Just as congress and the president are bickering over raising the federal debt ceiling, news comes from the BBC that Apple has a larger cash reserve than the United States of America (Apple has $76.4 billion, the U.S. has $73.7 billion). So we are going to do what any sensible person looking at these two [...]
The HP Elitebook 2760p convertible notebook features a quick-start option called HP QuickWeb. It’s a rebrand of the Splashtop “instant-on” OS, which is itself based on Chromium OS. It’s a nice option, but I’m not sure it delivers on all its supposed benefits.
While AT&T never actually announced an official release date for the LG Thrill 4G, we were pretty certain that it would be coming on August 7th. Documentation pointed to that date as launch day and Radio Shack even began taking pre-orders for the phone that is known as the LG Optimus 3D elsewhere in the [...]
We had heard that AT&T might start throttling heavy data users ahead of the launch of the iPhone 5 and sure enough, Ma Bell has slapped down an official announcement today regarding the new policy which will go into effect on October 1st. AT&T’s new policy is only going to effect those customers who are [...]
Do your parents or friends still use that same hotmail or yahoo account they signed up for in 1998? You know, the one that goes flyfisher90210rocks@yahoo.com? If this sounds like someone you know, why not stage an email intervention? There is no charge to get the expert help of Dr. Richard Muscat to convert your [...]
Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha confirmed the bad news to the legions of people interested in his company’s upcoming 4G LTE smartphone, the Motorola Droid Bionic: It’s not launching until September. I’ve already outlined several reasons why the Droid Bionic needed to launch in August. Well, that’s not happening anymore and last night, after I let [...]
I recently purchased a Quickie bag from Timbuk2 to serve as a carrying case for my 11″ MacBook Air. Some would call it a man purse, but I’m much more concerned about saving my back than making a fashion statement. I was originally looking for a simple notebook sleeve for my MacBook Air when I [...]
ASUS promised an update to my ASUS Eee Pad Transformer yesterday. Being the excited ASUS TF101 user that I am spent half the day tapping the “Check Now” button in the software update page in Settings. Nothing! What a bummer. I also went to the XDA Developer’s forum for my device and learned that I was [...]
We were a little bit skeptical when we found out that AT&T had not one, but two supposed Samsung Galaxy S II devices, and for good reason. AT&T will likely only be launching one Galaxy S II device in the future after BGR confirmed that the device with the physical QWERTY that they had thought [...]
Yesterday the Samsung’s Galaxy Tab went on sale at Verizon Wireless, the first 4G LTE tablet in the U.S. Previously only available with Wi-Fi, the 10.1-inch Tab is going a similar route as its 7-inch sibling, just not on all carriers at once. I received our review unit this morning and got down to comparisons. [...]
Unconfirmed reports (traced back to Business Insider) are saying that Amazon’s tablet could be a smaller and limited Nook Color competitor - not a full tablet that would take on the iPad. While Amazon has every reason to go after the success of the Nook Color as well, we believe that we will soon be seeing a [...]
A few days ago, we learned that Sony Ericsson had released Gingerbread for unbranded version of its Xperia X10 smartphone. A day later, we were then informed that what we had digested the previous day was wrong and that the release of Android 2.3 had been premature. Fortunately, the company said that the release of [...]
At some point, you may need to conference in 2 phone calls on your Android smartphone. While there is usually a way to do this built right in, it can vary from phone to phone. Instead of figuring out every possible combination to make a conference call on your Droid, ThunderBolt or Android smartphone, I [...]
Google Voice can be a life saver for long distance calls on your smartphone, when the Google Voice app fails, you could be left with a hefty bill and no recourse. Sophie makes a good number of calls to France every month. She uses Google Voice to complete the calls at .02 cents per minute, a very [...]
Great efforts have been taken lately in attempts to prevent digital piracy. U.S. internet service providers recently agreed to a “six strikes” agreement to put the policing in ISPs’ hands. Paypal agreed to work with London police to cut off a website that sells pirated content. And yesterday a UK high court ordered BT (the [...]
Microsoft may be confident–or over-confident–as the Windows Phone-maker is gearing up for a massive September launch of devices from partners running the Mango operating system. The key here is that the launch this year will be timed to happen alongside Apple’s next-generation iPhone, which would debut new hardware and the iOS 5 software to consumers. [...]
Amazon‘s initial foray into the tablet space will be positioned more akin to an Android-powered e-reader rather than a tradional Android tablet offering. As such, it would probably be a closer competitor to the Barnes & Noble-powered Nook Color rather than be a true iPad, Xoom, or Asus Eee Pad Transformer challenger, according to a [...]
It looks like the third-generation Motorola Droid is a hot seller as the phone is sold out online at Verizon Wireless’s website. Though the $199.99 3G smartphone–with a two-year contract–lacks a 4G LTE radio, the device has a number of high-end features that make it attractive to consumers, including a much improved keyboard, high resolution [...]
There’s no doubt that Verizon 4G LTE is fast. In our tests we’ve found speeds that put most other carriers, and even some cable connections, to shame. We’ve all seen the Verizon 4G LTE commercials where Verizon traces a rocket, an impending takeoff and fire and rescue workers. Now, Verizon is asking you to go [...]
FusionGarage, the maker of the JooJoo tablet after a public dispute with TechCrunch over the CrunchPad partnership, may be readying an Android successor to its original web-based proprietary tablet. A schematic of the device is seen going through the FCC for regulatory approval, and the rendering shows a ‘Grid 10′ name on the rear side [...]
After speculations that the leaked Defy+ smartphone, an upgraded model of the T-Mobile Defy, would hit U.S. carrier AT&T, Motorola had revealed in its earnings call that the Android smartphone aimed at those with an active lifestyle would not hit the U.S. market. The company confirmed the existence of the Defy+ and says that it [...]
Ahead of the U.S. launch of the second-generation flagship Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone, Samsung had posted official images of the white edition of its super phone. A 16 GB version of the white model will be available contract-free for £492.95 in Europe, but if you’re keen on your U.S. 3G/4G mobile broadband speeds, you may [...]
Dell will be rounding out its Android-powered Streak lineup with a 10-inch Streak Pro launching in China later this week. The device was pictured with the 5- and 7-inch Streak tablets and shows that the 10-inch model will be running Android Honeycomb upon launch. It’s unclear if and when Dell intends on making the Streak [...]
Like Wolverine from the comic books, the HP Elitebook 2760p convertible tablet packs a lot of power and weight in a relatively small package. Its weight, toughness, and stamina form a triangle of intertwined traits that work with and against each other.
When Apple had launched its first aluminum-clad iPhone, industry-watchers had said that the Cupertino, California Mac-maker had changed the wireless industry. Not only did the iPhone brought mass attention to the smartphone industry and begin the process of consumerizing smartphones, but also the device ushered in a low-cost $20 data plan that included unlimited data [...]
When Sprint’s wholly owned pre-paid subsidiary Virgin Mobile announced the Motorola Triumph, it was hailed as a groundbreaking device in the pre-paid smartphone market, offering high-end Android smartphone features, affordable contract-free data and rate plans, and bringing an unadulterated Android experience to the masses. The Triumph, priced at $300 without a contract, the Triumph’s impressive [...]
The much delayed Acer Iconia Tab A100 will be launching this August according to retailers. The dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2-powered 7-inch slate will run Android 3.2 Honeycomb, a first for the 7-inch tablet category, along with a price point of $300, which will make the Iconia Tab A100 one of the most full-featured tablet with [...]
The nation’s third largest carrier announced that it had entered into a deal with LightSquared for 15 years that will be worth $9 billion for Sprint. The deal may bring the 4G LTE protocol closer to Sprint, which so far has been relying on the 4G WiMax standard through its partnership with Clearwire. Switching to [...]
Google had just updated the Gmail app for Android smartphone, taking the app up to version 2.3.5. Cognizant of carrier’s evolving data plan changes that skew towards metered and tiered plans, Google is offering its subscribers the ability to synchronize just their priority inbox, rather than their entire inbox, to save on data bandwidth and [...]
There are recent rumors that Apple may be looking to launch a low-cost iPhone 4 next year, perhaps replacing the scratch-resistant front and rear glass panels for plastic. However, for the Mac-maker who refused to enter the low-cost netbook space and opted to release an ultra-portable, but premium, MacBook Air instead, such a strategy would [...]
Based on Motorola’s conference call, Droid-Life is deducing that if the Sasmung-made Galaxy S II is launched in August, that device would lack 4G LTE. The reasoning behind this is due to Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha stating that the Droid Bionic launching in September would be the first phone in the world to feature both [...]
It looks like at least one of the two iterations of the Samsung Galaxy S II superphones is now hitting the FCC for regulatory approval. The device comes complete with AT&T-compatible HSPA bands, which means that this ’4G’ smartphone can be used on the carrier’s HSPA+ network when launched, which is fine as 4G LTE [...]
Verizon is rapidly expanding its 4G LTE network here in the United States and with that expansion comes marketing. Unfortunately, unlike the awesome Droid commercials that Big Red has run in the past, the commercials for it’s 4G LTE network are painfully bad. The latest is a prime example. Instead of explosions and cyborgs and [...]
By now you’ve probably heard that Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha announced that the Motorola Droid Bionic will be launching in September. That would be fine, if Motorola hadn’t announced the phone all the way back in January of this year. It’s quite clear that Motorola has not figured out 4G LTE. The company launched a [...]
We know that Windows Phone 7.5 Mango is done, Microsoft has sent it off to manufacturers, so now all we’re left to do is sit around and wait for it arrive OTA to old hardware and on shelves within new hardware. Unfortunately, an exact date is unknown which means that all we can do is [...]
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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 [...]
