It has been more than a year since Gizmodo rocked the tech world by leaking Apple’s iPhone 4 ahead of its launch at WWDC 2010. If you recall, Gizmodo paid $5000 in cash for the prototype that an Apple engineer left on a bar stool in Redwood City and soon after, Apple dropped the hammer [...]
Just yesterday, we learned that Apple had won a ruling in Germany that halted the sale of Samsung’s latest and greatest tablet, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, in the European Union. How were they able to do this? By accusing Samsung of infringing on their intellectual property. In Apple’s eyes, Samsung has ripped off the [...]
Based on the number of lawsuits that Apple has filed in the past few months, it’s clear that the company is concerned by the progress being made in the Android tablet space. Even though Apple is still the number one player in the tablet space, and pegged to be there for quite some time, the [...]
I’m not a big fan of the Mets but as many of you know, I am a big fan of the Motorola Droid Bionic and that’s why I was thrilled to hear that advertising for the device was discovered last night at New York’s Citi Field ahead of its September launch. As you can see [...]
Earlier this week the YouTube user account iPhone5Website uploaded a purported iPhone 5 website leak on the Apple Germany website. In the video, shown below, you can see the author click on a random blank area below the iPhone 5 to bring up what looks like a very beautiful iPhone 5 website. If you watch [...]
If you want to play console style games on the go, take a look at the Android powered Sony Xperia Play. The Xperia Play is a Playstation certified phone which plays a collection of PSP-like games and includes a slide out controller to deliver gaming on par with portable gaming consoles. The Xperia Play is [...]
Amazon hasn’t officially announced the new online ebook reading application, but it is now live at read.Amazon.com. The new online kindle reading app is officially known as the kindle cloud reader, and works in Chrome, Safari and on Safari on the iPad. iPad access is huge, because it gets around Apple’s restrictive in app purchase [...]
How much do you pay each month to get online? Odds are you’re paying upwards of $100 for cable phone and Internet service. Even if you break it out by service, getting online with a high-speed connection is expensive. This monthly expense puts the cost of a basic internet connection out of the price range [...]
Though still un-matched by rivals in their respective spaces, Acer founder Stan Shih is dismissing the Cupertino, California’s success with the iPad tablet and MacBook Air ultraportable computer. Shih says that these fad products are just ‘short-term phenomena,’ and that his company will be coming out with its own products to compete in these respective [...]
It looks like with the forthcoming Mango software update for Windows Phone 7, Microsoft is bringing back a beloved feature from its Windows Mobile era. Previously, with the now defunct Windows Mobile platform and the optional Microsoft Voice Command software pack, users can set their phones to not only ring with custom ringtones, but also [...]
In addition to revealing Motorola’s openness in making smartphones running on Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform if the company was given the access that Nokia has, Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha talks about his company’s plans for global Android domination. The company, which had fallen after the RAZR era, had seen a turnaround when it had [...]
It looks like Windows Phone Tango may come after the release of Windows Phone Mango according to Microsoft reporter Mary-Jo Foley of ZDNet. Details of Tango are still unclear at this time, and Microsoft is not commenting on anything beyond the release of Windows Phone Mango, which is slated to come this fall. According to [...]
Skipping a formal announcement of the proprietary HTC Sense user interface, Taiwanese smartphone- and tablet-maker HTC has uploaded several images of what appears to be Sense and the HTC Scribe functionality on top of Google’s Honeycomb tablet operating system on its developer’s portal. HTCDev.com is now live with images of what inking on Honeycomb will [...]
Though it appears that Nokia is fully committed to the U.S. market and to the Windows Phone platform, dropping the MeeGo-powered Nokia N9 from the U.S. lineup, the company may also drop the N9′s cousin, the Windows Phone 7-powered Nokia Sea Ray smartphone, from its U.S. portfolio as well according to the latest rumor. However, [...]
Tribune Co., the media conglomerate behind the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and other publications, is looking at entering the tablet hardware space in order to sell newspaper subscriptions. News of Tribune Co.’s foray into the tablet space comes just as we’re hearing that Amazon, which provides music, videos, and books as digital content, [...]
Now that the BlackBerry Bold 9900 is beginning to go on sale in RIM’s home turf of Canada, we’re starting to see what the retail version of the phone with the box and accompanying accessories will look like. It looks like the phone went on sale a day early at some Rogers wireless store, [...]
It appears that Nokia, Samsung, HTC, and others might have competition beyond Android at some point in the future as Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha has confirmed that his company has interest in developing phones with Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS on board if the right situation presents itself. In comments made today at the Oppenheimer Technology [...]
There has been a lot of negativity regarding the Motorola Droid Bionic and its delayed launch. We had originally thought it would launch in August and then Motorola dropped a bomb on us. It wasn’t arriving until September. Many of you started to question whether or not you would buy the Droid Bionic when it [...]
Facebook has announced a new extension to Facebook chat for mobile devices called Facebook Messenger that is a stand-alone app that will be available today for both the iPhone and Android. The roots of Facebook’s new application come from its purchase of the messaging app, Beluga, earlier this year. Again, this is a separate app [...]
Apple scored a win this week in the tablet space without releasing a new iPad. How you ask? By stopping the competition of course. Apple celebrated a major win in Germany this week where a court blocked the sale of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 from launching in the European Union. Apple alleges that Samsung has violated the [...]
Jake is a Senior business student in Ohio looking to replace an aging budget notebook from Freshman year with something that will get through the rest of his college career and roll right with him into his first post college job. With many consumer notebooks puttering along after 2 or 3 years of hard use [...]
At Google I/O, Google told the world that its next major release of Android, Android Ice Cream Sandwich, would be touching down at some point during Q4 of 2011. When Google said that, I, like many of you, assumed that we’d probably see it in November or December with a launch of a new Nexus [...]
Today Apple pulled ahead of Exxon Mobil, the large oil company, to become the U.S. company with the highest market cap. In short, while the economy is taking a nosedive, Apple is the U.S. company with the most money invested in it. The poor performance of Exxon Mobil is the reason Apple jumped ahead today, but it’s [...]
The Dell Latitude XT3 is now available for order from Dell.com. The 13.3″ Tablet PC starts at $1,789 and has a preliminary ship date of September 21. The convertible Tablet PC is a departure from the XT2, a 12″ Tablet PC. The 12″ form-factor is the industry standard for enterprise-grade Tablet PCs. The 13.3″ XT3 [...]
We’ve been waiting to hear something, anything about an LTE-enabled Samsung Galaxy S II device and finally, today, we have some murmuring. It appears that a Galaxy S II device capable of reaching 4G LTE speeds has surfaced in Korea today, a device that is currently codenamed, Samsung Celox. The Celox apparently looks like the [...]
Many of you out there either own an HTC EVO 4G or have owned one in the past. If you’re not a part of that group, then you probably know somebody that wields one or has done so in the past.And if you somehow don’t find yourself nodding in approval, you probably can appreciate awesome [...]
A few days ago we told you that Nokia had started a countdown on the Nokia N9‘s website. For those that aren’t aware, the Nokia N9 is the Finnish company’s last MeeGo powered smartphone and people around the world have been excited to get their hands on it, including many people in the United States. [...]
Yesterday, we brought you some exclusive new pictures of the Motorola Droid Bionic which we knew were definitely not the last photos that would leak out prior to its launch in September. Far from it. Today, another photo has surfaced and this one, instead of giving us a good look at the phone, gives us [...]
If you are a Google+ user who wants to put your posts there and on Twitter and/or Facebook, the tool for you is Publish Sync: a Chrome-only extension. There are not many options for cross-posting your updates to Google+ as well as the other social networking services. This one seems to do the job. You will only [...]
For almost 200 years, teenagers have made the trek to Washington D.C. to help the government in its gargantuan task of managing our nation. These pages have handled messages and ferried documents from representative to representative since the 20th Congress. Now, thanks to the widespread use of BlackBerries and other smartphones, the Page program is [...]
Watch out Nook Color. The new 8″ Vizio Android tablet is looking to take over the affordable Android tablet space with a $299 price tag and modest specs. We’d heard about the Vizio Tablet back in January at CES 2011, and now, 8 months later it is finally hitting shelves at popular retailers like Amazon, [...]
We’ve seen iPhones fall out of planes and keep working, but on a recent flight one of our editors caught sight of the world’s most busted iPhone that is still in daily use. This broken iPhone 4 doesn’t belong to a stuntman, but to a sorority sister who may party a bit too hard and [...]
The United States International Trade Commission has agreed to review Apple’s patent infringement claims against rival Android smartphone-maker HTC. In June, Apple had a major victory in that a judge had agreed that HTC had violated 2 of the 5 patents in question. If the result of the 6-member ITC panel is in Apple’s favor, [...]
After national wireless carriers AT&T and Verizon Wireless had changed to tiered data plans from unlimited smartphone data, it appears that U.S. Cellular will be migrating to the same data plan pricing and offer. In its recent earnings call, regional carrier U.S. Cellular CEO Mary Dillon said that her wireless company will be moving to [...]
In testing user experiences, a recent Harvard University survey put forth by the Human Factors in Design lab shows that Apple’s and Microsoft’s mobile platforms are both easier to use than Google’s Android and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry operating systems. The Harvard study tested the ease in which new smartphone users can perform simple, but [...]
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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 [...]
