Back when the iPhone 4S launched one of the things that disappointed us was the lack of the device on local carriers. But then last month, C Spire (nee Cellular South) announced that they would carry it, sparking hope of other local offerings. However, that trend might not spread. Today, U. S. Cellular — fifth [...]
Asus is going to be officially introducing its Eee Pad Transformer Prime later on this month but that doesn’t mean that information about the upcoming Honeycomb tablet isn’t coming to the surface. Today, benchmarks for the NVIDIA Tegra 3 powered tablet emerged showing off just how fast the device’s quad-core chip is. As you can [...]
PlayUp brings social networking to sports via an iPhone app that lets fans interact live during a game. The app includes most of the major sporting events in the world. Connect with your friends by inviting them from Facebook, email or SMS, and then chat in your team’s hangout inside the app. I enjoy interacting [...]
According to TechnoBuffalo, AT&T’s upcoming 4G LTE handsets, the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket and the HTC Vivid, will both unsurprisingly be getting the update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich at some point in early 2012. As you might know, whenever a major Android update emerges, the weeks afterward play out a little bit [...]
If you have been looking to get your hands on one of the latest Windows Phones and one that just so happens to be running Windows Phone 7.5 Mango right out of the box, look no further than the offer that T-Mobile has going on for the HTC Radar 4G through its deals site. The [...]
Samsung vaguely confirmed the Samsung Galaxy Nexus release date in the U.K. during a conference at the end of October and today it made it official through a press release. The highly anticipated phone will be arriving on November 17th and while that is stupendous news for those who live across the Atlantic, those hoping [...]
The Nook Color isn’t going to the clearance bookshelf to make way for the Nook Tablet. Rather, Barnes and Noble is giving it a price drop and new features so that it can go head to head with the Kindle Fire. Right after we saw leaked specs and details for the Nook Tablet, Android Central shares a document [...]
Smartphones are evolving at a rapid pace, and as CES 2012 approaches, I’m excited to see what manufacturers bring to the event. In just 2 months, we’ll have a look at the devices that will attempt to make their mark on 2012. Sony, Samsung, Toshiba and hundreds of others will flood Las Vegas with new [...]
eBooks and eReaders are big deals these days and about to become a bigger deal with the Kindle Fire and the Nook Color 2 going head to head in mid-November. And don’t forget Amazon has a range of devices to offer. While we’ve been able to read eBooks on digital devices for quite some time [...]
Speaking at the Sprint Open Solutions Conference in Santa Clara, CA, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse proclaims that the company is trying to simplify its business and business model. “We stand for simplicity and value,” Hesse says to a room full of 1,500 developers in attendance. Part of that simplification is eliminating various rate plan options [...]
The eBook and eReader wars just took another step in its continuing escalation. Amazon is offering its customers who have an Amazon Prime account a new service called the Lending Library. Essentially this means Prime customers can get one free book a month to read on their Kindle device. That’s obviously the catch. In addition [...]
Just a week after Nokia had announced the Lumia 800 Windows Phone Mango device, the smartphone is now topping sales charts in France on retailer Phonehouse.Fr, beating out the iPhone 4S, Android, and other devices. Interestingly, the Bada OS-powered Samsung Wave 575 came in second just after the Nokia Lumia 800. It’s still too early in [...]
Meizu CEO Jack Wong has confirmed that the company’s Android-powered M9 and next-generation MX smartphones will be getting Ice Cream Sandwich. The company, initially known for heavily skinning Android to closely resemble the look and feel of Apple’s iOS operating system, recently confirmed on its official forums that the M9 will be getting an Android [...]
After having recently announced the Kindle Fire tablet–a 7-inch Android Gingerbread tablet with dual-core processor and a customized UI layer–Amazon’s second tablet offering is now rumored to have an 8.9-inch form factor and not the larger 10.1-inch display that’s typically common on today’s Honeycomb slates. The 8.9-inch form factor will make the tablet still small [...]
When Motorola had proudly showcased the Atrix 4G earlier this year at the Consumer Electronics Show, the Motorola Atrix received accolades for the features that it packs. Being among the first 4G (HSPA+) devices with a high resolution 960 X 640 qHD display, the Atrix was deemed the most powerful smartphone in the world thanks [...]
As you might know, Verizon is going to be releasing three new 4G LTE devices in the weeks ahead, a list that includes the HTC Rezound, Motorola Droid RAZR and Samsung Galaxy Nexus. All three are tempting but they will all come with an expensive price tag. If you’re not made of money, there is [...]
So, Amazon released a new product scanning device called Flow. You know the idea. You point it at a product or a bar code the camera does a scan or snaps a photo and you get competitive prices back. There are quite a few of these Apps out there for both iOS and Android. Flow [...]
We’re fairly certain that Barnes and Noble will be announcing a new Nook Color on November 7th but just in case you hate surprises, Engadget has spilled the beans on what to expect from the company’s competitor to the Amazon Kindle Fire. In addition to its guts, we now have a unofficial release date to [...]
HTC’s newest Android smartphone for Verizon Wireless has all the qualities of a superstar superphone: fast processor, fast network, and a big display. It’s lightweight, well-designed, feels good in the hand, and has a kickin’ audio system that makes it good enough to be your only MP3 player. This is nothing new from HTC. Though [...]
In an interview with CNET today, Sprint revealed that it is working with Apple in an effort to get to the bottom of connection issues that have been plaguing some iPhone 4S devices on Sprint’s 3G network. The carrier is assuring iPhone 4S owners that it is taking the problem seriously but that there is [...]
Earlier today, we heard that Verizon may have pushed the Motorola Droid RAZR launch to November 11th. Turns out, that’s exactly what the carrier did as a new Droid RAZR teaser video has confirmed the device’s November 11th release date. In addition, it appears that it won’t go on sale, at least in stores, until [...]
Apple rules the tablet market, so much so that many people will just call it an iPad market. In addition to making up a stunning majority of sales, Apple is also setting the price for tablets. How much does Apple rule the tablet space in terms of price? Aside from the sales numbers, surveys show that consumers [...]
HTC has finally announced its latest Verizon-bound smartphone, the HTC Rezound, a phone that we once knew as the HTC Vigor. As expected, the Rezound is going to be powered by Big Red’s 4G LTE network and it will be the first U.S. smartphone to have Beats Audio on board. Unsurprisingly, the phone is exactly [...]
2011 has undoubtedly been the year of the tablet. From the millions of iPad 2s sold, to the fall of the HP TouchPad, to the impending rise of Amazon’s Kindle Fire, slates have dominated technology headlines throughout the course of the year. And while the growth of the tablet market is good for (some of) [...]
Apple has heard the complaints of iPhone 4S users, and is preparing a solution to the battery life woes that had befuddled engineers. Yesterday, Apple sent out a beta of the next iOS 5 update to developers. This new version of iOS 5 is not a major update like the release from last month, which [...]
There are reports on blogs and on Twitter that Siri is experiencing a large outage which is frustrating users. In my own testing it occasionally is a bit slow if you ask for a web search or ask for a restaurant, but it seems to be working after about six tests, so this may depend [...]
Last week, Verizon assured future Motorola Droid RAZR owners that the device would be shipping out by November 10th. We also saw solid evidence that that would be the day it would be released to all channels. However, it seems that Verizon has had a change of heart as evidence has surfaced suggesting the carrier [...]
I’ve been an admirer of Nicholas Negroponte and the One Laptop Per Childe (OLPC) initiative since I first heard about the ideas to place low cost computing devices into the hands of the underprivileged around the third world. Great idea. I’m not so sure about this one though. According to PC Magazine, apparently Negorponte’s latest [...]
Nielsen just released the results of their latest survey of mobile phone users and the results show that smartphone ownership is growing steadily, especially among adults aged 18 to 44 years. Smartphone ownership amongst 25 – 34 year olds is at 62%, and a little over half of 18-24 and 35 – 44 year olds [...]
November is National Novel Writing Month, an annual event wherein writers around the world come together to write a 50,000 word novel in just 30 days. I’ve done this once before, and since I’m under deadline with my latest work in progress, I decided to join in the fun again this year. To write a [...]
The Jawbone Up is a new fitness accessory that tracks your activity and food, reminds you to be active and tracks your sleep. While this sounds similar to the Fitbit, the Jawbone up has the potential to do much more, such as waking you up at the best time, and as an added bonus it is waterproof. [...]
While we should see HTC and Verizon announce the HTC Rezound in just under three hours at an event in New York City, those of you anxiously waiting to see this device be made official will be happy to know that it has shown up in an official image today showing off its front, side [...]
Toss another release date into the hat for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus launch on Verizon as Android Central has conjured up an internal memo that clearly states that the highly anticipated device will hit stores not in and around Black Friday as previously rumored but on November 17th, the same day that it will be [...]
Smartphone fans rejoiced when Samsung announced the Galaxy Nexus last month, which is on the way to Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and other carriers. One of the cool new features on the Galaxy Nexus is the inclusion of NFC technology. Google is highlighting Android Beam, which allows Android users to share information between devices and NFC enabled Google [...]
Yesterday in the post highlighting Jay Greene’s articles on how Microsoft killed the Courier Tablet, I mentioned Taposé. Taposé is a forthcoming App for the iPad that is supposed to provide Courier like functionality. It kicked off as a Kickstarter project, got funding through that method, and is scheduled to debut around Thanksgiving. Obviously I’m [...]
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The Best Way to Beat AT&T’s Data Throttling is to Have Everyone Consume More Data!
We had previously reported that grandfathered unlimited data plan subscribers of AT&T Mobility have begun to receive notices that they are excessively using their data plans with as little as 2 GB of data consumption within the month, and now we’re beginning to hear multiple sources report that they are receiving notices with as little [...]
Samsung Galaxy Note Review: First Impressions and Size Comparisons
How big is it? Just saying the screen measures 5.3-inches diagonally doesn’t really help you picture it. So we compared it to the Galaxy Nexus, Droid RAZR, and Galaxy Tab.
12 iPhone Photography Accessories – Lenses, Stands, Filters and More To Enhance Your Photos
Apple made a lot of shutterbugs happy with the camera upgrades in the iPhone 4S — more pixels and a bigger sensor means an even better “best camera” to carry everywhere. Want to take the iPhone even further than that? With some additional accessories and apps you can turn this device into a mobile photo and video studio worthy of your enhanced skills.
iPhone 4S Battery Case Showdown: 6 Cases Battle For Power
The iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S are incredibly popular phones, but one of the biggest complaints for both devices is the lack of a removable battery and poor battery life. While there are tricks you can use to fix bad iPhone 4S battery life, sometimes there’s nothing better than a bigger battery. If you find your iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S is running [...]
Galaxy S Pen and Holder Kit Mini-Review
If you’re more comfortable using a regular-sized pen, Samsung has an accessory that should please you. The $59.99 Galaxy S Pen and Holder Kit has both an extra S Pen and a Holder that makes it the size of a normal pen. You get the side-button functionality and everything, just in a larger form factor.
Plantronics Marque Review: Small, Affordable, Awesome
If you’re looking for a great bluetooth headset, but you don’t want to spend $100 on a high-end headset, the Plantronics Marque M-155 bluetooth headset. Plantronics makes a number of headsets, including the Plantronics Voyager HD, which we gave a Best of 2011 Award, but not everyone is willing to wear the larger headset out [...]
