Just a few short hours after AT&T started sending out notices letting its heavy data users know that it’s going to start throttling their data use, another carrier, Sprint’s Virgin Mobile, has declared that it will not start throttling its heaviest data hogs until 2012 at the very earliest. Back in July, Virgin Mobile announced [...]
You may recall, back during the middle of the month, T-Mobile posted a curious video depicting what appeared to be myTouch devices made by LG. The videos were quickly removed. And now today, it would appear that one of those LG-made devices has again appeared in an official channel as TMoNews has caught it sitting [...]
The iPad is the dominate tablet on the market today, so much so that when I even try to show off Android tablets, people often give me a weird look. The Kindle Fire may be aimed at beating the Nook Color, but it is also drawing comparisons to the iPad, as many consumers want to [...]
The title says it all. It’s becoming quite clear that Verizon or the company it has hired to do its marketing has absolutely no idea how to market smartphones or the carrier’s 4G LTE network. The Motorola Droid Bionic commercials have been terrible for the most part and the advertising that it has done for [...]
With the 2011 Postseason underway, there’s no doubt you are looking for a way to watch the Detroit Tigers run up the score on the New York Yankees from work or on your iPhone or Android. Whether you are rooting for the Tampa Bay Rays, Texas Rangers, St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies Arizona Diamondbacks or the Milwaukee Brewers you [...]
I’ve been getting a lot of emails from frustrated Motorola Droid Bionic owners who have been complaining about a number of bugs including issues with the phone making the switch from 3G to 4G and in regards to a mysterious high pitched sound that seems to occur when listening to media through a pair of [...]
With the reports that Sprint will carry the iPhone 5, it’s almost certain that this coming new iPhone launch will destroy every iPhone launch before it (which have crushed every other phone launch ever). One has to wonder if Apple is up to the supply challenge, but also if their competition is ready to face [...]
I think it’s pretty safe to say that besides Apple’s iPhone 5, there is no other phone on the planet that is more highly anticipated than a phone that is believed to be called either the Samsung Nexus Prime or the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Personally, I like the first name. It’s not up to me [...]
Yesterday, it became readily apparent that the price of the Android-powered HTC Flyer would be dropping at Best Buy in wake of the Amazon’s Kindle Fire announcement. And while yesterday it was unconfirmed, today, Best Buy made it official and the HTC Flyer will be dropping down to the low price of $299 starting tomorrow. [...]
If you are excited about the iPhone 5 release date, which is almost here, then you’ll definitely want to check out our latest GottaBeMobile Giveaway. Today is the last day to enter for a chance to win an Apple gift card that will be delivered in time to purchase an iPhone 5 on release day. To enter, [...]
Just in case you have been out of the loop, Sprint is heavily rumored to be getting the iPhone alongside AT&T and Verizon. Sprint and Sprint customers have been waiting for years for the iPhone to arrive but it would appear that the carrier is having to make some serious concessions in order to carry [...]
It has only been a couple of days since the long awaited HTC ThunderBolt Gingerbread update starting rolling out to owners of Verizon’s original 4G LTE flagship but it would appear that within those few days, ThunderBolt owners and Verizon have discovered some horrific bugs within the software that apparently have caused Big Red to [...]
Apple will announce a new iPhone on October 4th, and we expect to find out about the Sprint iPhone release date at this time. Analysts have suggested that Sprint will help sell an additional 1.2 Million iPhones for Apple, which would be good news for the third place carrier. Unfortunately for Sprint, our recent survey [...]
The next iPhone is expected to arrive in just a few short weeks, and it may mark the first time you can buy a 64GB iPhone. The current iPhone 4 is available with 16GB or 32GB of storage, priced at $199 and $299 respectively. Mr. X, tells 9to5Mac, that the new iPhone will come in [...]
Just a month ago Samsung told the press that they had “no plans” to launch their new 7.7-inch Galaxy Tab in the U.S., but most of us here at GBM suspected that it would make its way across the pond in time for the holidays. The truth ends up being a little of both. Samsung [...]
Apple is expected to announce the iPhone 5 next week, but this iPhone 4 mod is cool enough to steal our attention from the new iPhone for a few minutes. We shared a glowing iPhone logo mod with you earlier this month, but it wasn’t available just yet for international, read U.S. orders. Now, you [...]
Android tablets and phones make great media players, but they don’t play every format, which can frustrate users. There are multiple apps, programs, and services for loading or streaming video, but most aren’t as simple and streamlined as iTunes. Even Google Video doesn’t totally fit the bill. That’s why when VideoLAN announced that they would bring VLC [...]
It looks like T-Mobile USA is looking for a 7-inch slate to replace its aging Samsung Galaxy Tab 7-inch and the Dell Streak 7-inch with a Huawei 4G HSPA+ tablet of the same size at possibly budget prices with a two-year service agreement. The tablet is rumored to be priced at $200 with a contract, [...]
With smartphones now possessing better image sensors and some even boasting enhanced optics, we wanted to test out the Motorola Droid Bionic’s prowess at recording 1080p HD videos on a recent trip. I was out in Houston, Texas at HP’s campus and as luck would have it, the SD card on my JVC HD camcorder [...]
It looks like AT&T is making good on its promise that if you’re among the top 5% of data users on its network, you’ll most likely be throttled to reduced speeds for the duration of your billing cycle. The carrier had stated that the policy change will go into effect at the beginning of October [...]
This article is cross-posted on Notebooks.com. I had joined HP on a press tour earlier this week where the company was showing off its business-class EliteBook notebooks, which is an elegant aluminum-clad enterprise notebook that boasts rugged features that are tested using military specs. During the company’s presentation on design, notebooks design head Stacy Wolff [...]
Samsung had introduced two new chips that will make smartphones even better. The company had introduced a faster version of its ARM-based dual-core Exynos processor, which is one of the stand-out features of Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S II smartphone, along with a better camera sensor that can capture better stills and videos. The new Exynos [...]
In addition to Nokia’s Sea Ray Windows Phone, which is similar to the Nokia N9 MeeGo smartphone handset from a hardware design perspective, it appears that Nokia may have another Windows Phone handset codenamed the Nokia Sabre. The name of the phone was leaked as part of a contest by Microsoft Canada. The Windows Phone [...]
Earlier in the week, it was reported that AT&T inventory systems had contained listings for iPhone 5 from third-party accessories-maker Case-Mate, and now we’re beginning to see photo evidence of silicone cases, or flexible gel cases. The cases that are beginning to appear at AT&T retail stores are not made by Case-Mate, however, and are [...]
Based on leaks, rumors, and speculations, a user has created and machined his own iPhone 5 body from a unibody block of aluminum. The design shows off a sloped design, which the user calls a teardrop shape, that’s supposed to be taper to offer the illusion of an even slimmer design similar to the dramatic [...]
Xoom owners who were early adopters of the debut Honeycomb tablet made by Motorola were straddled with the slower Verizon 3G CDMA/EV-DO data connections with the promise that at some point in the near future, Verizon Wireless and Motorola would roll out the hardware and software updates to make the faster 4G LTE data speeds [...]
Skype announced recently that they’ve updated their Android app to work on 14 more devices and improved the overall experience. Good news for the Skype faithful, especially if you have a Galaxy Tab 10.1, Motorola Atrix, HTC Evo 3D and several other devices. There are now 41 Android tablets and phones in total with Skype [...]
Apple broke the mold this year, by moving their annual iPhone launch from June to October. While this has caused a lot of angst for iPhone upgraders, it has placed the company in the position to have an amazing holiday season. Apple has scheduled an iPhone event for October 4th, where they are expected to announce a [...]
People are kind of excited for the Kindle Fire. So much so that it’s currently listed as the #1 selling item on Amazon.com just above the new Kindles which are just above the old Kindles, crowding everything else from the top 10. All this before most people have even touched the thing. What is it [...]
When Amazon announced the Kindle Fire tablet yesterday, it set the new bar for Android tablet prices. You see, Amazon’s tablet is going to be $199 without a contract effectively making the current slew of expensive Android tablets an ugly sight to consumers. So, how to make them more attractive? By lowering the price of [...]
Earlier today, a report from Collins Stewart analyst John Vinh suggested that RIM’s manufacturing partner, Quanta, who is responsible for production of the BlackBerry PlayBook, was ordered to halt production of the tablet device due to poor sales. RIM took exception to this report and has fired back saying that it does not plan to cancel [...]
We’ve been waiting and waiting for a sign indicating progress in AT&T’s quest to launch a 4G LTE smartphone and finally, today, it appears that we have our sign. It would appear that the upcoming 4G LTE compatible HTC Raider aka HTC Holiday, has passed through the American FCC on its way to Ma Bell’s [...]
Microsoft makes almost as much money licensing patents to HTC, Samsung and other companies as it does selling Windows Phone 7 devices. Yes, you read that right, Microsoft makes almost as much from Android sales as they do through sales of their own Windows Phone devices. That’s more than Google makes from the Android, which the company [...]
Yesterday, we saw a new iPhone 4 and a new iPod touch show up in Apple’s inventory system suggesting that Apple might be preparing to announce a cheaper iPhone 4 model alongside a new iPhone at its October 4th iPhone event. And while that’s exciting, what we really wanted to see show up was the [...]
Generally, when we hear about the opening of a beautiful new retail store, it has something to do with Apple. Today though, it’s T-Mobile who has announced that it will be bringing a redesign to new and current U.S. locations, a redesign that is modeled off of its successful design format T-Mobile’s parent company Deutsche Telekom [...]
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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 [...]
