The Windows Phone Marketplace is getting better lately. I know I have complained about the lack of niche apps but give it time, the Windows Phone Marketplace is getting bigger and I won’t have anything to complain about eventually. An app that a smaller group of Windows Phone users and potential new users have been [...]
LightSquared, which counts big names like Sprint and Best Buy as some of its partners, is looking to deliver 4G LTE mobile broadband services to both its own customers and to customers of others who may purchase the wholesale service. The company recently made bold statements, promising reductions in customers’ bills for data charges by [...]
Amazon is preparing an update for its recently released debut Android tablet, the Kindle Fire, that will bring performance updates to the device. According to Dieter Bohn of The Verge, a tipster to the site hinted that one such update will improve the performance of the Silk browser on the Kindle Fire, which was highly [...]
In an effort to woo uber geeks to its hardware, Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei has released a demo build of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for its Huawei Honor smartphone. The build being released is still an early build, but is deemed stable. For users who want to get a tasting of Ice Cream Sandwich [...]
The Nokia Lumia 900, though unannounced, has been generating a lot of news lately as it’s anticipated to flagship Nokia’s Windows Phone lineup and be headed to both AT&T’s and Verizon’s 4G LTE networks in 2012. One blog, Geektechblog.com, has claimed that it had gotten some hands-on time with Nokia’s unreleased phone and its report [...]
Motorola’s fourth generation QWERTY slider Android smartphone for Verizon’s network was glimpsed on the carrier’s DroidDoes.com webpage, showing off a form factor similar to the recently released tablet Droid RAZR. The Droid 4will have a 5-row edge-lit keyboard and was rumored to be coming on December 8, though that speculated launch never materialized. The device [...]
Images for Verizon’s successor to the original LG Revolution, which was the third 4G LTE smartphone to launch on the carrier’s fast mobile broadband network, have surfaced. The device is said to be both slimmer and sleeker than the original Revolution, which had a more brick-like appearance. Coupled with a 720p HD display and 4G [...]
The holiday season is a joyous one for gadget lovers like the staff at GottaBeMobile.com. Writing about technology all year long can be tough on our wallets, so it’s nice to have a time of year where we can ask for some of our favorite phones, gadgets and accessories of the year. Below you’ll find [...]
Radio Shack will offer the Apple iPhone 4S starting this Sunday for only $169.99, $30 off the regular price with a two-year contract. The 16GB iPhone 4S will go on sale starting Sunday, December 11 when stores open, according to Boy Genius Reports. Radio Shack will discount the other iPhone models as well with the [...]
ASUS wants to release another convertible tablet with Ultrabook design and specs that will run Windows 8 on Intel’s Ivy Bridge platform, according to Asian rumor site DigiTimes. Can a convertible design succeed in the post iPad world? Intel, Microsoft and ASUS certainly hope so. The combination of a tablet-centric version of Windows and the [...]
Readdle updated their excellent printer app for the Apple iPad and iPhone today making it even easier to print from your iOS device, even if you don’t have an AirPrint supported printer. I have two printers, one that works with AirPrint and one that doesn’t. With Printer Pro, I can print to both of them. [...]
![How College Students Use Smartphones [Infographic]](http://cdn.gottabemobile.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/How-Student-Use-Smartphones-Infographic-150x150.jpg)
If you aren’t aware, college students use their cell phones for about everything. Anecdotally, it is a challenge to get them to stop texting for an entire class, but if you want some statistics to back up the smartphone usage habits of college students, you need to check out the infographic below. You’ll find out more about [...]
Are you constantly running out of power on your smartphones, tablets and eReaders? If you have a 4G LTE smartphone you definitely answered yes. Even if you have an older device, if you are a heavy user, you probably run out of power more often than you’d like. While you could get a special case [...]
Chalk this one up as pure rumor at the moment but according to WMPowerUser, the Nokia Ace has been tipped to be heading to both AT&T and Verizon’s 4G LTE networks in the first quarter of 2012. We had heard that it might possibly be coming to AT&T in the future but this is the [...]
A short time ago, we found out that the Motorola Droid Bionic bug fix update, that should take care of some of the major problems plaguing Verizon’s first dual-core 4G LTE smartphone, was rolling out to members of Motorola’s Feedback Network for testing. However, it seems as though some regular old Droid Bionic users are [...]
Those of us with Android phones are well used to not having many accessories designed specifically to work with our devices. Speaker docks in particular. Philips’ Fidelio line of speakers for iPhone, iPod and the iPad offered really great sound plus playback and clock/alarm capabilities in a compact form factor. Long did I wish for [...]
While we sit and wait for Verizon to announce the pricing and availability of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the latest release rumored to be December 15th, we felt it appropriate to gather up some Verizon Galaxy Nexus videos to help you endure what has turned into a pretty painful wait. What you’ll find here are [...]
Today the Apple Store in New York City’s Grand Central Terminal opened to the public. You would think that this was the first Apple Store in New York — no, the world — the way people lined up to get in the store. You’d also think this location sold a special gold iPad for $99 [...]
Unless you’ve been living under a giant boulder, you probably know that there is a phone called the Samsung Galaxy Nexus that is going to be coming to Verizon at some point in the future. It’s the third Nexus device from Google, second made by Samsung, and the first that offers 4G LTE data speed [...]
If it wasn’t clear that Nokia and T-Mobile’s event on December 14th wasn’t related to a Windows Phone launch, it is now. The Wall Street Journal is reporting, confirming our suspicions and an FCC filing, that the two companies will be introducing the Lumia 710 Windows Phone next week meaning it will likely be the [...]
Barnes & Noble has shipped 1 million Nook Tablets so far. That’s a pretty impressive number, but that doesn’t mean that customers bought 1 million of them, but rather that Barnes & Noble received them from supplier Inventec, the same OEM that made the now defunct HP TouchPad. Unfortunately, that’s often the way these kinds [...]
By now, you have probably heard that the Verizon version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus may have been pushed back to a December 15th release date. And even then, that release date is not set in stone as that date is merely a rumor and not an official date put forth by the good folks [...]
After becoming a convert from iPhone to Android, I wanted a Galaxy Nexus. It looked like a hot phone that had some awesome features. I was using a Samsung Infuse 4G when I made my decision regarding my next phone. I like Android and made the shift away from iOS without too much pain, missing [...]
Yesterday, we learned that the Motorola Droid Bionic bug fix update, the one that fixes a massive amount of issues, is ready to go. And today, it has become apparent that the update is now rolling to members of Motorola’s Feedback Network who will now be testing the update to ensure that it’s ready to [...]
After a more than tortured journey in its life so far, the much loved, but tough to gain traction webOS now has a destination again. HP, after replacing the CEO who killed the short-lived TouchPad with Meg Whitman, has decided that it will turn webOS loose on the Open Source world. The tortured journey included [...]
Great news on the iPhone Jailbreaking front today. The Chronic Dev Team has posted proof of an untethered iOS 5 Jailbreak. In a video shared on Twitter, pod2g shows an iPhone 4 running iOS 5 with an untethered jailbreak. In the video he restarts the iPhone and shows that it is still jailbroken. While there has [...]
We had heard that the release date for the Motorola Droid Xyboard tablets, the successors to the Motorola Xoom, was December 12th and sure enough, Verizon has confirmed that date as the in-store launch date. Thing is, the carrier also announced that the tablets are available online at this very moment which means you can [...]
My favorite news app for the iPad, just got a lot smaller and a lot more addicting thanks to the release of Zite for iPhone. While many of you might be addicted to Flipboard, Pulse or Google Currents, You are missing out on the best mobile news experience — Zite. Zite delivers highly personalized news [...]
The Galaxy Nexus release date has changed more often than a chameleon sitting on a color wheel. Originally believed to launch today, December 9th, on the Verizon 4G LTE network, a brief outage earlier this week could be to blame for a delay. We had heard that the Galaxy Nexus would arrive on December 13th, but that date looks like it [...]
Everybody is talking about the “New, New Twitter.” Of course they are talking about it on Twitter. On the surface, more power to them. They keep iterating. Deep down, Twitter proves once again that they have some fundamental problems. The essence of the big change is encapsulated in how Twitter now gives you four targeted [...]
Ah, the legal battles continue. Apple took a loss in a Mannheim Regional Court in Germany today when a judge ruled in favor of Motorola Mobility. For the moment this means Apple can’t sell the iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad 3G and iPad2 3G, and presumably the iPhone 4S, although it was released after the suit was [...]
Apple just beat their Black Friday deals and every other iPad 2 deal we have seen this holiday season by offering the refurbished iPad 2 for $80 off. While supplies last, and it isn’t going be long, you can purchase the refurbished iPad 2 16GB in black or white direct from Apple for just $419. That is a $30 [...]
We still don’t have a Galaxy Nexus release date, but we do want to share a closer look at some of the accessories you might want to pick up when you purchase the Galaxy Nexus. The Galaxy Nexus on Verizon had been set to launch today, December 9th, but a 4G LTE outage appears to have [...]
This week has seen several updates and some new software to what I call the “roll your own” magazine type software. Google released its multi-platform Google Currents, which is its answer to Flipboard (check out Chris’s post about Google Current here.) Flipboard the reigning favorite (in my view and many others) released an iOS update [...]
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Yesterday, Microsoft released the Xbox Companion for Windows Phone. This app interfaces with you Xbox console. It allows you to control media, browse for videos and music and queue them up to the console. It also allows you to see what your kids are playing on the Xbox too. Maybe that’s not the main function, [...]
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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 [...]
