It has been awhile since we last heard from HTC and Verizon regarding the HTC ThunderBolt Gingerbread update that was pulled but it looks like we might finally have some good news. According to a tweet from HTC’s main account, both companies anticipate the update to make its grand return soon. How soon? HTC failed [...]
There has been a lot of talk about Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and the Galaxy Nexus’ debuts tomorrow in Hong Kong but there hasn’t been much chatter about the current devices that might be seeing the update after the announcement finally goes down. And more specifically, we haven’t heard much about what current Android [...]
OK, I’m the resident Stall Surfing post guy here at GBM. Everytime I post about this phenomenon of mobile tech I got lots of responses that can be summed up with TMI. Well, if you think there’s been too much information about it already, stop reading now. But promise me you’ll wash your hands before [...]
Today is the last day to file taxes for individuals who filed for a tax extension back in April. Ideally, you spent the extra 6 months getting your taxes done and filed, but if not, here are a number of last-minute tips to file your taxes before the end of the day. If you are someone with complicated taxes, you [...]
Just a day after T-Mobile introduced an exclusive no-contract 4G data plan through Walmart, the carrier is at it again and it has announced four more 4G data plans that might interest those of you who aren’t interested in signing a contract with the carrier. The new Monthly4G data plan is available for $60 a [...]
Apple has just started taking in store reservations for the iPhone 4S at official Apple Store locations. This is great news for those of you who didn’t preorder an iPhone 4S in time to get one on launch day, or for those who just learned about the iPhone 4S this weekend. (Read: iPhone 4S Review) Apple Stores are [...]
This weekend at New York Comic Con Rockstar gave attendees a chance to play the version of Grand Theft Auto III coming out soon for smartphones and tablets. It’s the game’s 10th anniversary this week, so what better time to get everyone excited about how sweet it’s going to be? I was able to play [...]
Unless you’ve been taking a snooze underneath a giant boulder, you’re probably well aware that tomorrow is a big day in the world of Android. Not only is Motorola expected to announce the new Motorola Droid RAZR, combining its two iconic brand names, but Google and Samsung are tapped to announce the next incarnation of [...]
While much of the world celebrated the life of Steve jobs on October 16th, I lost my aunt Rosie. Rosie’s life reminds me why the innovation we as consumers love is so damn important. Rosie had developmental disabilities, but didn’t let that stop her from touching thousands of lives and sharing a desire to use [...]
The camera on the iPhone 4S includes some significant improvements. First, it takes less time to open and snap a photo (or shoot video) because now you just hit the home button twice and the lock screen will reveal a camera icon in the lower right corner. Tap it and you have the camera app [...]
Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute have taken the wraps off a new project that projects a hover-capable, motion-tracking, multi-touch interface on any surface, even your own hand. It’s called OmniTouch and it’s a step above anything I’ve seen before.
Earlier today, Motorola launched a full-blown teaser site for its announcement that is set to take place tomorrow in New York City, where the manufacturer will be announcing the upcoming Motorola Droid RAZR. Well, it appears that Droid-Life has been able to pull up an image from said teaser site that essentially confirms the Droid [...]
ColorWare, a company that specializes in painting gadgets, is now ready to turn your iPhone 4S green, pink, yellow, or some combination of dozens of colors beyond black or white. However, for some unknown reason they’re going to need $1500 from you to get that done (if you buy the phone directly from the company). [...]
With the new iCloud and the updated version of iTunes, you can now re-download all of your previously purchased apps, books, music and TV shows. Sadly, it doesn’t work with movies. Apple calls the new feature “iTunes in the Cloud.” You can do this both on your iOS device and computer via iTunes. This doesn’t [...]
Those of you out there hoping to get a glimpse at the iPhone 4S and the Samsung Galaxy S II getting destroyed for the sake of entertainment are in luck because SquareTrade has released a new drop test pitting Apple’s latest iPhone against Samsung’s iconic Android device. A little forewarning though, if you’re like me, [...]
Siri, Apple’s virtual assistant app is an iPhone 4S exclusive, and a big selling point for the new phone. We assumed that Siri is an iPhone 4S exclusive due to hardware constraints, but this weekend, we saw Siri ported to the iPhone 4. In the video demo, you can see that Siri appears to run [...]
Remember the 4-day long BlackBerry outage of last week that affected over half of RIM’s 70+ million customers all over the world? If you’re a Blackberry owner or a RIM shareholder you probably do. In the midst of the outage — caused by server failures and backup server issues — customers were already talking about [...]
Tomorrow is a huge day for Android enthusiasts. Google is set to announce the next major Android update, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich while at the same event, Samsung will be introducing the next Nexus device to the world, a device that is believed to be called the Galaxy Nexus. And while we have a [...]
We’re still not convinced that the Motorola Droid RAZR is going to be able to compete with the Samsung Galaxy Nexus but fortunately, we only have to wait less than 48 hours to find out for sure. Tomorrow, Motorola will be making an announcement regarding a new device, widely believed to be the Droid RAZR/Droid [...]
Last week, we were able to score some hands-on time with the Motorola Atrix 2 at CTIA 2011 in San Diego. We came away pretty impressed with the device and more specifically, the price point that AT&T was going to be offering it at. That being said, those of you looking to get a solid [...]
Beta. Step by step. Baby steps. Slow and easy. Snakebit. Cautious. All of the above can be used to describe portions of Apple’s roll out of iCloud. Of course that roll out is coming into a world where Apple is not only playing catch up to Google, but increasingly is full of consumers demanding instant [...]
The iPhone 4S is ready to go right out of the box, but if you want an optimal experience, there are a number of steps you should take shortly after getting your new iPhone. I already showed you the First 5 Things to Do When you Get your iPhone 4S for Setup and Security, but [...]
Went down to my local AT&T store to swap around the phones on my account since I used my son’s upgrade eligibility to get the iPhone 4S, and saw a deal too good to pass up on the Mophie Juice Pack Air iPhone 4 and 4S case. This deal includes the case, a dock and [...]
Well, this is a fun way to start the week. Google has discovered gravity it seems. If you go to this link, you’ll gravity take effect on the search page. Then do a search and watch the results tumble all over the place. The URL has this listed as a “chromexperiment” but it also works [...]
Well, many, myself included, called it an incremental hardware update. Some thought Apple might have lost its magic touch. That’s history now. Apple has announced that it has sold over 4 million new iPhone 4S devices since the launch on Friday, October 14. For some context the iPhone 4 sold 1.5 million in the same [...]
Throughout the iPhone’s evolution there has been much discussion about the design and the late Steve Jobs’ desire for a clean piece of hardware that had few buttons, no indicator lights and such. In fact there was some speculation that the iPhone’s home button would disappear on the still to be seen iPhone 5 or [...]
We got a chance to play with the recently announced T-Mobile Springboard tablet, an Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet made by Huawei, at CTIA last week in San Diego, California. The tablet, which can be summed up to have a design that marries the best of the iPad’s aesthetic alongside with cues from the HTC Flyer, [...]
Following the leak of an extensive and detailed lineup, T-Mobile USA has finally gotten around to announce the LG DoublePlay Android smartphone. The DoublePlay is a dual-screen smartphone with a split keyboard that will most likely appeal to a younger, text-centric demographic and will be a nice addition to the Samsung-made Sidekick 4G on the [...]
Last week at the CTIA trade show in San Diego, California, Huawei and AT&T reps were on-hand to demonstrate the capabilities of AT&T’s new mid-range Impulse 4G. The Impulse 4G is a mid-range smartphone with an entry-level pricing and comes with support for AT&T’s 4G HSPA+ network. The Android-powered Impulse 4G comes with a 3.8-inch [...]
Last week, at CTIA, Navigon announced that it is the first company to bring an on-board turn-by-turn navigation solution to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Mango platform. While sister company had announced a Garmin app and rival TeleNav has offered a voice-guided navigation solution in the past for Windows Phone, Navigon’s solution doesn’t require an active [...]
Since the iPhone debuted several years ago, consumers have been abandoning the stylus as the preferred input device in favor of finger-friendly capacitive touchscreens, but can the stylus make a come back? Recently, we’ve been seeing more tablets and more interest in inking, handwriting recognition, more accurate input, and digitizer pens on consumer-grade products like [...]
If you turn your iPhone to vibrate often while you’re in meetings then you know that feeling of feeling your iPhone vibrate but you can’t distinguish if it’s that important call or not. In another catch up move, Apple now allows iOS 5 users to set up custom vibrations that are assigned to your various [...]
We have always lived in a world of “we don’t need no stinking manuals.” But every now and then it is nice to have a reference to fall back on, even when it may not give you all you need to know. iOS 5 manuals for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and the iPad are now [...]
You knew it was going to happen. And you knew it was going to happen sooner rather than later. There was going to be some sort of privacy, snooping issue with Apple’s Find My Friends App. Well, a guy bought his wife an iPhone 4S, loaded up Find my Friends and caught her on the [...]
One of the distinguishing factors between the new iPhone 4S and its predecessor the iPhone is the camera. Apple has upped the megapixels to 8 from 5 and also continued to do work on the optics for the camera, which was already an excellent smartphone camera in the model 4. The camera in the iPhone [...]
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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 [...]
