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The Motorola Droid Bionic is my current favorite Android smartphone because it has snappy performance and blazing fast 4G LTE speeds. While it is great to have super fast downloads and uploads, the 4G connection is torturous on your Bionic battery life and on your 2GB capped data plan. The tiered data plans may be [...]
Have you been waiting for a dual-core slider made by LG? If you have, then you’ll be excited to know that a device called the LG Optimus Note has leaked out in Korea and will be bringing some fairly intriguing specifications along with it. What are those specifications you ask? Well, for starters. It’s going [...]
The Droid Bionic is one of the hottest Android smartphones available on the market, but the $300 price tag is a major drawback. If you are willing to wait until September 13th, you can get an amazing Droid Bionic deal at Costco. Costco is going to include everything you need to get the most out of your [...]
The Droid Bionic is going on sale today and the line at the Verizon Kiosk is… Well there is no line. After months of anticipation, rumors and rants, where’s the crowd of Android geeks? This is the same mall where I buy my iPhones, iPads and much of my other mobile gear. It’s also where [...]
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play has been out in the United States since May 26th. Only problem is, it has been limited to Verizon only. We knew that AT&T would end up getting the PlayStation Phone eventually but we weren’t sure as to when until today when AT&T dropped a release date and pricing on [...]
Yesterday, Eric Schmidt confirmed that the next major Android update dubbed Android Ice Cream Sandwich would be arriving at some point in either October or November. Exciting news. And if you bought a 2011 Sony Ericsson handset and have been wondering if your phone would get upgraded to the new software, there is some exciting [...]
A post on the FOSS Patents blog yesterday caused a considerable amount of buzz when blogger Florian Mueller
While it may be easy to take sides, it is tough to completely blame the combatants in the patent wars. All sides recognize we have a lousy system that leads to the kind of expensive legal wrangling we now see going on. Certainly, if a company has intellectual property that it needs to protect there [...]
I’ve been coveting the Samsung Galaxy Note ever since Xavier got his first look at IFA last week. A big 5.3-inch screen is a good compromise between smartphone and tablet for me, and I’m not about to complain about a 1280 x 800 resolution or a really gorgeous AMOLED display. Add the note-taking capabilities and [...]
This holiday shopping season is expected to be a big one for mobile shopping searches. Google projects that 44% of searches for last minute gifts and store location will be made from mobile devices this year, and that 15% of all Black Friday searches will happen on a smartphone. Rather than a single peak, our [...]
If you are thinking of purchasing an iPhone 4, you’ll have to wait an extra 1 to 3 days for it to arrive, a jump in ship time that is evidence of low inventory levels. Low inventory levels are typical before Apple releases a new product, like the iPhone 5. Typically iPhone orders ship within [...]
Though NVIDIA had boldly promised in the past that we’ll begin to see tablets with quad-core processors–the Kal-el variety that’s been demoed before–this fall, the company says that there has been delays and devices won’t hit shelves until around Christmas. CEO Jen-Hsun Huang cites that manufacturers of the Android tablets are taking as much time as [...]
A new rumor is circulating that Apple may introduce a new iPod Touch model this month that would add cellular mobile broadband connectivity in addition to WiFi this month. The move would essentially make the 3G iPod Touch a device that’s similar, but smaller, in function to Apple’s iPad with 3G. Though the iPod Touch [...]
Despite Microsoft’s insistence in the past that the Windows Phone operating system, as its name implies, is reserved strictly for phones and that tablets are computers that requires Windows, NVIDIA’s outspoken CEO Jen-Hsun Huang spilled a major secret that the next-generation Windows 8 for tablets will be able to run apps made for Windows Phone [...]
Apple has begun releasing new versions of iOS 5 to carrier partners for testing, which reveals new information about voice command and the company’s partnership with Nuance, FaceTime Over 3G for video chat and communications, as well as training information for iCloud. According to 9to5 Mac, Apple has been working with carriers to develop training [...]
Thought the iPad 1 and iPad 2 had an impressively long 10-hour battery life in a sleek package? Well, Apple may be looking to shrink the tablet’s thickness even further with an even thinner battery pack that’s supposed to deliver the same performance and can be recharged more times than the current and previous generation [...]
If you’re a BlackBerry developer and are interested in T-Mobile USA’s network, you may want to check out the new BlackBerry Bold 9900. The device is offered for a stiff $300 to consumers, but T-Mobile is willing to sell the flagship BlackBerry smartphone to developers for only $199, giving the device a $100 discount. The [...]
Apple’s manufacturing partner Foxconn is now ramping up production of the next-generation iPhone 5 and is now producing 150,000 units of the flagship smartphone prior to an official announcement from Apple. At the manufacturing rate, it is believed that Apple may be able to ship 5-6 million iPhone 5 units in September and 22 million [...]
While Verizon Wireless’s official $300 asking price for its flagship Droid Bionic smartphone is standard for a 4G LTE device, you can get more bang out of your buck if you shop around. We’re hearing some discounts at a number of reputable wireless dealers, including through Amazon, which is offering the phone for significantly less, [...]
Last we heard from Sony Ericsson’s rumored upcoming superphone, codename Nozomi, was actually at the beginning of this month when it first leaked out with a couple of impressive specifications and a rumored March 2012 release date. And now today, we have even more details regarding Sony’s upcoming Android flagship. Let’s recap though. The Nozomi [...]
If you’ve been waiting for a 4G LTE smartphone with a physical keyboard, it looks like your lucky day will arrive soon as the Samsung Stratosphere has passed through the FCC and lo and behold it has 4G LTE capabilities on board. The Stratosphere is certainly not going to turn heads like the Motorola Droid [...]
HP has begun sending out emails to customers that have backordered HP TouchPad tablets informing them that the device will be shipping at some point within the next 6-8 weeks. As many of you know, HP put the webOS tablet up for a mere $99 after it was announced that the company would be discontinuing [...]
The Droid Bionic might be the best 4G LTE phone you can buy, but Verizon’s limits will prevent the device from living up to its full potential. Both Motorola’s Droid Bionic and Verizon’s 4G network are speed demons, but what’s the use if you have to worry about burning through your data allocation before the [...]
The only thing more frustrating than leaving a file at home when you really need it is being unable to send a file to a co-worker or family member because it is too big for email. If you commonly encounter these problems, you need to check out SugarSync and enter our SugarSync Back to school giveaway for [...]
The Motorola Droid Bionic is finally official and Verizon will be releasing it tomorrow, September 8th, for $299 on a new two-year contract. Many of you have been waiting for the entire duration of 2011 for this phone to arrive and now that it’s finally here, you have a pretty big choice to make. Do [...]
Today is the big day folks. Verizon and Motorola have finally, at long last, made the Motorola Droid Bionic official and it will be arriving tomorrow, September 8th, for a cool $299 on a new two-year contract. And while we were absolutely thrilled with the device, you can read our review here, there are still [...]
At the Dreamforce Conference in San Francisco, Eric Schmidt let a little something slip out about the release window for Google’s upcoming Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. According to Schmidt, the operating system will be coming out at some point in October or November which lines up with what we had heard in the [...]
Verizon 4G LTE offers amazing download and upload speeds in a growing number of markets, but as I discovered this week, it’s still finicky in a number of markets, especially when compared to Verizon’s 3G nationwide blanket of coverage. For the past week I have been spending a lot of time in the closest 4G LTE market, [...]
While today’s big announcement is surely the arrival of the heralded Motorola Droid Bionic, check out our review here, AT&T also announced a new Android smartphone and the Huawei Impulse 4G might appeal to those of you who are looking to get a 4G smartphone without breaking the bank. Of course, the Impulse 4G runs [...]
What you are looking at is a photo of sushi. However, this isn’t any old photo of sushi. This picture, according to Pocketnow, very well could be the first photo taken with Apple’s upcoming iPhone 5. The photo claims to be taken from an iPhone 4 but there is some evidence that disputes that. The [...]
Last week, we got word that the Droid Incredible Gingerbread update had started rolling out. However, the roll out, if there even was one, was extremely small. Well, today, we’re happy to say that Gingerbread for the Droid Incredible is now available to all Droid Incredible owners, so if you own one, it’s probably worth [...]
The Droid Bionic is one sweet phone — a great combination of power and speed thanks to the 4G LTE radio inside. Once you have it in your hands, which apps should you download to take advantage of all the Bionic has to offer? I have a few suggestions below, including one that will help [...]
The long wait is over folks. Verizon has officially announced the Droid Bionic with a two year contract price of $299 and availability on September 8th at Verizon Wireless. Now that you have the important details, you can skip over to our Droid Bionic review for everything you need to know before you buy. Spoiler [...]
Been fielding a good number of private questions as of late regarding tablet options and alternatives to OneNote, specifically Android- and iPad-based ones. Trend seems to be growing, so I thought I should address it publicly. Beats turning it into my email signature.
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