With the introduction of iOS 5 and iCloud, Apple has brought a collection of new features and functionality to the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The new iPhone 4S also has all of these new features, plus the added bonus of Siri. Siri is a virtual personal assistant, that can perform actions based by your [...]
Yesterday, Nokia finally made its highly anticipated Windows Phone devices official introducing the Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710 to the world. Well, as AdAgeDigital reports, Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop has promised a marketing blitz triple the size of any previous launch in order to promote these two phones in Europe this year and in [...]
iAudition 2.o records audio on your iPhone. It then allows you to quickly edit the resulting file and either send it via email or post it to an FTP server as an MP3 file, which makes it a great tool for mobile recording. The makers claim it’s the first app that will send MP3 files [...]
This isn’t the first time that we’ve seen the upcoming LG Prada K2 but these photos, courtesy of PhoneArena, definitely represent the best of the bunch. Before today, all we had was a render and a short video clip but now, we finally get a look at LG’s upcoming Android smartphone in the wild. This [...]
Today I’m once again on a plane headed across the country to attend a conference. I prefer to fly with Virgin America because their fleet has free Wi-Fi and a few other sweet amenities. (Though they can keep their Chromebooks…) This time I’m flying Delta, though, and luckily my plane is connected. Delta has increased [...]
WaterField Designs makes a case for your iPhone called the iPhone Wallet, designed to serve double duty – protect your iPhone and carry your cash and plastic. If you are a phone-in-the-wallet kind of person, then rest assured that WaterField Designs makes great cases for your computer or tablet, so I’m sure the quality of the iPhone [...]
Windows Phone 7.5 aka Windows Phone Mango just began rolling out a short time ago and already there is talk about a release window for the next major software update from Microsoft. Speaking to Engadget, Nokia’s Michael Halbherr, who is the Executive VP for Location and Commerce, has confirmed that the next major Windows Phone [...]
Corning announced their next generation display glass for mobile tech this week, dubbing it Lotus and not, say, Gorilla 2. This new glass will withstand higher temperatures in the manufacturing process and allow for higher resolution displays and tighter design rules. That may indicate thinner phones in the future, and more resolution is usually welcome. [...]
So, after finding out that the Motorola Droid Bionic’s price has indeed dropped to $250 at Verizon, I decided to take a little gander over to Verizon’s Droid RAZR page. Remember, it’s up for pre-order today. And what I found shocked me. It appears that the pre-orders have already sold out through Big Red’s store [...]
Well, would you look at that? There were some murmurs last night about Verizon dropping the price of the Motorola Droid Bionic down $50 in the wake of the Droid RAZR and Galaxy Nexus announcements and one look over at Verizon’s online store confirms the news. Big Red has lowered the on-contract price of the [...]
Tablets and other mobile technology have become so ubiquitous that we sometimes forget how much impact they’ve had on our lives. This is especially true for people living with disabilities. One example of that is apps that help non-verbal kids with autism communicate with their parents and peers. Yesterday Robert Scoble posted about a new iPad [...]
One of the biggest gripes that we had with the Motorola Droid 3 was that it didn’t have 4G LTE on board when it arrived. And this meant that those looking to get their hands on a 4G LTE device with the original Droid design would have to wait and see if it would come [...]
This chart and link to this Business Insider and The Understatement articles by Michael DeGusta is circulating around the Interwebs today. It is certainly worth a look. (As is DeGusta’s post from either source.) Fragmentation has been such a big issue with Android for so long that it has almost become a cliché. Except for [...]
Dell took the semi-transparent lid off their new Windows 7 slate, the Latitude ST, today and it’s already been reviewed.
If you love music, but are sick of listening on the puny smartphone speakers or being chained to headphones while you move through your house, you need to get a Sonos system. The new Sonos PLAY:3 is a smaller, more affordable HiFi system that delivers impressive audio and can connect to the Sonos Bridge, allowing [...]
Though Asus had flashed the new, second-generation Eee Pad Transformer, called the Transformer Prime, earlier this month in Asia on stage at AsiaD, we are now finally seeing photos of the tablet’s laptop dock up close. The Laptop Dock borrows its visual cues from the company’s new Zenbook ultrabook notebook, with an aluminum colored shell [...]
It was previously revealed that Samsung’s forthcoming Galaxy Nexus, with its curved touchscreen display, will not be utilizing the Corning-branded Gorilla Glass display, and now Samsung has chimed in to clarify that the glass screen on the Android smartphone will be a fortified and strengthened glass panel, though not made by Corning. It’s unclear what [...]
Now that Verizon Wireless has thrown up a landing page on its own website for the Galaxy Nexus smartphone by Samsung with Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the carrier is saying that the device will be ‘exclusively’ available on its network. At this point, it’s unclear what Verizon’s definition of exclusive means, but Galaxy [...]
After Nokia had announced the Nokia Lumia 800 and 710 smartphone running Microsoft’s Windows Phone Mango operating system in London at Nokia World, we spoke with company executives in Sunnyvale, California to take a tour of the new smartphones. Quite simply, the Nokia 800, like the MeeGo-powered N9 that it borrows its aesthetics from, is [...]
Canadian wireless carrier Rogers is speculated to debut the HTC Raider, a smartphone also known by its HTC Holiday code name, soon. The 4G LTE smartphone will join the Galaxy S II LTE smartphone on the carrier’s faster 4G network. The device is expected to cost $149 with a three-year service agreement though contract-free pricing [...]
Verizon Wireless is now making the sign up page for news and information about the next-generation Google Nexus smartphone available for consumers. Users interested in the Samsung-made Galaxy Nexus, which will debut with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, can visit a dedicated page on Verizon’s website to submit their email address to receive additional news [...]
In London at Nokia World, Nokia is announcing that the MeeGo-powered Nokia N9 smartphone will be available in white later this year. Explaining that there were some obstacles in manufacturing the white color, Nokia says that white will be arriving later this year instead of at launch. Like the black Nokia N9 available currently, the [...]
Earlier in the year, Motorola had launched a version of the Motorola Xoom Android tablet with access to a 3G radio that will be upgradable to support Verizon’s 4G LTE network. After some delays, earlier this month, Verizon and Motorola finally made the 4G upgrade available, a process that required Verizon’s Xoom owners to send [...]
Apple is now giving online shoppers the option to pickup merchandise at its three San Francisco stores instead of having iDevices shipped to them. Apple will be rolling out the in-store pickup option nationwide in time for the holiday shopping season. Shoppers in the San Francisco area will now see the “pick up” option next [...]
Apple has made iCloud a big part of the iOS 5 experience on the iPhone and iPad. This new feature is built into Safari, and allows you to sync a reading list between all of your iOS devices and Safari on your computer. The free service makes it possible to save a page to read [...]
One of the lesser talked about features that Apple included in its iOS 5 update for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch was the ability to turn on private browsing in the Safari browser. And because it hasn’t been talked about extensively, it’s possible that many of you either haven’t heard of it or have [...]
Tomorrow is a big day in the Android community. Motorola and Verizon will be putting their latest and greatest 4G LTE concoction, the Droid RAZR, up for pre-order with a release slated for sometime before or on November 10th. And while we’ve gotten a pretty good look at the Droid RAZR and given you our [...]
DirecTV has updated its iPad application today and included in the update is a feature that many who use the service have been anticipating since it debuted for the iPad earlier this year. That feature of course is live streaming television. That’s right. Those of you with the DirecTV app can now stream 38 channels [...]
It has been awhile since we heard from RIM’s upcoming BlackBerry Bold 9790. Last time it leaked, it was in a shaky looking photo that was paired along with some specifications including a 1.2GHz processor, NFC support, 8GB of internal storage, and a 5 megapixel camera. It also features both a touchscreen and a physical [...]
College students (and curious minds) who own an iPad are in lucky today as Encyclopaedia Britannica has announced that it has released the iPad version of its popular Encyclopaedia Britannica application onto Apple’s iOS App Store. For those that don’t like spending money on software, there is a free version of the application which will [...]
The brand new iPhone 4S comes with Siri, an amazing personal assistant that can do a lot of things by voice command. Unfortunately, Siri is still in the early stages of development, which means it cannot access your apps and every part of your iPhone. I showed you how to tweet with Siri, and now, [...]
As I’ve been using my iPhone 4S instead of the Canon SD1400IS for my all-purpose point and shoot camera and I’ve noticed something: the camera lens is in the wrong place. Apple introduced a handy new feature with the iPhone 4S and iOS 5 – using the volume buttons as a shutter release. Now you [...]
In the wake of RIM’s massive BlackBerry outage comes word that BlackBerry trade-ins at gadget buyer Gazelle have reached an all-time high. Trade-ins are up 80 percent from the previous record that was set earlier this month. RIM has also had to deal with a flurry of smartphone launches including Apple’s next-generation iPhone 4S, and [...]
Back in mid-September, RIM confirmed that a major software update for the BlackBerry PlayBook would be shown off at this month’s DevCon and be released shortly afterward. Well, sad to say, but that timeline has taken a tumble as the company has confirmed that the BlackBerry PlayBook’s OS 2.0 software will not be rolling out [...]
I’ve had an on again off again affair with MobileNoter. MobileNoter is an App and service that allows you to do a two way sync using your mobile device and your OneNote files. I’ve used it primarily on the iOS platform. Now there is a version available for Android Honeycomb Tablets called MobileNoter SE HD. [...]
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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 [...]
