It appears that crowded Android smartphone market might see even more activity in the near future as the Motorola Droid 4 has appeared in Verizon’s systems, a sign that a launch could be as close as December. Just a few weeks ago, we, rather surprisingly, saw the Droid 4 pop up in a photo. We [...]
With Black Friday but a few weeks away, more readers are asking us what to expect from Apple on Black Friday 2011. Black Friday is November 25th, the day after Thanksgiving. We briefly covered Black Friday predictions last month, but now we are taking a deeper dive into Apple Black Friday 2011 plans and predictions. [...]
We know that quad-core processors are on their way to tablets this year and phones in 2012 and today, we have apparently gotten our first look on one of, if not the first quad-core smartphone that will be coming to shelves in the future. Meet the HTC Edge, which will likely be HTC’s first smartphone [...]
We’re busy preparing Gift Guides here on GBM (as if you hadn’t noticed.) I’m working on a couple for Tablet lovers. One glaring omission that I’ve noticed for those who prefer Android Tablets is that there currently is no such thing as a Gift Card option for the Android Marketplace. Google (the proprietor of the [...]
Verizon has announced a trio of 4G LTE smartphones that are set to debut throughout the month of November. The list includes the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Motorola Droid RAZR, and HTC Rezound, all of which look to be solid choices for those looking to get a new Android smartphone. But how do they compare? It’s [...]
One wonders if Amazon hadn’t dubbed the Kindle Fire a tablet if Barnes & Noble would have called the device the unveiled today the Nook Color 2. After all, it’s represents a mostly internal update on the hardware side with software updates that are also coming to last year’s Nook Color. Don’t get me wrong, [...]
While we now have a good idea about how much the Samsung Galaxy Nexus will cost when it hits Verizon in the coming weeks, the release date situation has gotten even more confusing as a leaked road map has indicated that the device will be arriving online for Big Red on November 21st. We had [...]
Robert Scoble, among many things, was once one of the biggest Tablet PC evangelists out there. He worked with NEC and then moved over to Microsoft and did his best to push the cause. That’s history, and then I guess this little voice rant is as well. Scoble is pushing out some audio messages using [...]
It was only a matter of time before manufacturers started confirming the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for more than just a few phones and sure enough HTC has come onto the scene confirming the update for a multitude of phones while suspicions leaving some devices out of the announcement. In a lengthy Facebook [...]
When Verizon announced that it would be carrying the Samsung Galaxy Nexus later on this year, it failed to confirm two items. Its release date and its pricing. Well, it would appear that we finally have the answer to one of those questions, at least for one retailer, as evidence has surfaced indicating that Costco [...]
Nothing lasts forever. Including things we wish would indeed last forever. Accidents happen, things get misplaced. Technology fails. But in the digital age there are ways to give yourself some piece of mind when it comes to storing content that contains memories and things you’d like to hang on to. I’ve always been a pack [...]
Verizon may be offering up a Black Friday deal worth considering — double data allowances without doubling your cost. A leaked document shows a Double Data Promo on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the latter of which lines up with the presumed Galaxy Nexus release date. The Double Data promo would reportedly offer double the data allowance [...]
Barnes & Noble just announced a $50 price drop on the Nook Color, bringing it down to $199. The price drop comes as the company introduces the Nook Tablet, a faster Android powered eReader that will take on the Kindle Fire. The Nook Color remains a good value, and will get many new features like [...]
Barnes & Noble took the book-cover off of a new Nook today at a special event in New York City. The new Nook Tablet looks a lot like the Nook Color, but packs in a speedier components to help you do more on your new tablet/eReader. Like the iPhone 4S update of October, this upgrade [...]
The Sony Ericsson Nozomi, which had been leaked before as a power-house smartphone, was recently caught on camera showing a large display and a rectangular front form factor along with the device’s XPERIA branding. Previously rumored to be coming with Ice Cream Sandwich, the photo shows the device comes with Android Gingerbread on a 720p [...]
Verizon Wireless is updating its Droid Does displays inside its stores to feature room for the upcoming launch of the Droid RAZR, which the company says is coming 11/11/11 at 11:11 AM. Live display models are not yet installed, but the new super sleek and super slim flagship 4G LTE smartphone made by Motorola does [...]
In an effort to target the enterprise market, which has stringent hardware requirements on what a phone or device can or cannot have on-board, as well as the low-end entry level smartphone market, Microsoft is relaxing some of its hardware requirements with Windows Phone 7. The company made a drastic Apple-like shift when it moved [...]
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich may open the doors to even further customizing the software keyboard on your smartphone with native keyboard theme capabilities. Right now, the guys over at Android Central were able to load Android 4.0 on their Nexus S and discovered that there are 6 pre-loaded themes that offer varying degree of [...]
A new bug was discovered on the iPhone 4S–following previous bugs related to battery issues, audio echoing, and speed issues–that prevented its owners from hearing anything on the earpiece speaker when placing calls. Though it appears that the other party can hear perfectly well, iPhone 4S callers cannot hear the people they are trying to [...]
Recently, the Acer Iconia Tab A200 went through approval to get certified by the Bluetooth SIG. Right now, there isn’t much known about the tablet other than the leaked photo. There are several possibilities of how the Iconia Tab A200 will fit into Acer’s Android tablet line-up, which currently includes the A100 7-inch tablet and [...]
Intel is awaiting the arrival of Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich mobile operating system before the first smartphone running the new mobile OS and Intel’s Atom x86 architecture gets released sometime in the first half of 2012. The company, which had previously banked on its MeeGo OS with Nokia, has shifted focus in recent [...]
With the availability of the HTC Vivid and the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket, two of the most advanced smartphones today on the market, AT&T is showing its commitment to making smartphones affordable. Both handsets support the newer 4G LTE network, which is only available in limited markets right now, but can also fall back [...]
Ford has updated the MyFord Touch infotainment system for 2013, with a number of performance improvements, and a cleaner interface. Best of all, this update is entirely based on software, so that means all MyFord Touch owners can enjoy the new system in the near future. The MyFord Touch system is an in-dash touch screen [...]
The first week of NaNoWriMo is at an end and hopefully you’ve reached your word count goals every day (or caught up by now). If you’re attending any of the NYC-based write-ins this week, keep an eye out for me! Riffing off my post from earlier this week on good smartphones for writers, today I [...]
Perfect Photo may not make your iPhone photos perfect, but you can get a step closer with this simple yet somewhat powerful photo editing and sharing app. The attractive interface and useful editing tools, filters and sharing features gives iPhone photographers more control than iOS 5′s built-in photo editing features. Perfect Photo replaces my previous favorite [...]
Who’d a thunk that we’d see a couple of interesting iOS Apps from Yahoo? Both Livestand and IntoNow are just that. I don’t think either App will light a huge fire, but they both offer some interesting user opportunities in the ever evolving App world. Livestand from Yahoo is an iPad only App and essentially [...]
Android or iPhone? The question seems so innocent. But asking it, or sharing your personal opinion on a smartphone brand is asking for a strong and opinionated response — even in response to a well-reasoned statement. We see it here at GottaBeMobile, where the comments explode when we compare the iPhone 4S to the Galaxy [...]
The HTC Radar 4G is a Windows Phone Mango phone from T-Mobile that offers the latest Windows Phone 7.5 goodness and can be found for free with a two year contract right now. But, that doesn’t answer my question, What does the HTC Radar 4G have in common with empanadas? To help answer that question, [...]
Fresh on the heels of news that U.S. Cellular passed on carrying the iPhone 4S comes word that the carrier will be rolling out a 4G LTE network and that devices for said network will be available in the first quarter of 2012. The carrier announced that the initial batch of cities will be located [...]
The Toshiba Portege z830 is a new Ultrabook that will be on store shelves soon. The Portege z830 packs a lot into a very small package, and we have the first hands on with the z830 outside of a controlled trade show floor. The first thing that will strike you is the size of the [...]
In the weeks building up the the launch of the new iPhone, I, like many of you, was excited to see Apple had cooked up for a market that has been flooded with a multitude of intriguing devices. You see, I have an iPhone 3GS. I’ve had it for two years and my contract with [...]
In the past, I have criticized Verizon for its marketing failures. It failed miserably with its first ads for the Motorola Droid Bionic and its 4G LTE network. And while it has since released some stellar ads for both of them, it appears HTC wasn’t about to take the risk of letting them market the [...]
How young is too young for kids to get their first taste of technology? Two years old? Two months old? Is there an app for this? The tech toy market for babies and toddlers is getting more sophisticated every year, but the most genius toys may be the ones that make mom and dad’s expensive [...]
I fired up my Apple TV this afternoon and a new tab labelled “Music” showed up with two options related to the now late iTunes Music Match service. The option to turn on the service returns an error telling you to set it up on your computer in iTunes, which still has the message saying [...]
Speaking at Mashable’s Media Summit today, AT&T’s Senior Vice President of Communications Larry Solomon today confirmed that the carrier would be bringing its 4G LTE network to New York City in the near future. As it stands, AT&T’s 4G LTE network is currently available in a mere five cities across the U.S., a list that [...]
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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 [...]
