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Cable TV provider Comcast is looking to expand into the streaming video subscription model that’s being led by Netflix with a service called Xfinity Streampix that may launch with Android support in the coming year. Details for the service are not yet available, but Comcast may be able to offer a competitive advantage over Netflix [...]
For weary world travelers and commitmentphobes, Qualcomm’s Gobi modems have offered somewhat of a reprieve to either expensive unsubsidized phone prices or the untenable thought of having to sign a two- or three-year contract with a local carrier. The chip-maker’s current Gobi chipset, found on the iPhone 4S, allows Apple to create one iPhone model [...]
A new leaked screenshot of T-Mobile USA’s system reveals that the nation’s fourth largest carrier will be getting some new devices. In addition to offering the Galaxy S Blaze 4G, which may be an upper mid-range device with fast 4G HSPA+ network support, T-Mobile is looking to add the HTC Ville and Huawei Prism smartphones [...]
This will be T-Mobile’s second announcement for the Galaxy S Blaze 4G. After having announced the device earlier this year at the Consumer Electronics Show without any details of availability. It seems now the carrier is ready to let the cat out of the bag with the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G and T-Mobile USA [...]
According to a report from the New York Times, Google is on track to selling their head-mounted Android computing devices by the end of the year for the price tag of $250-$600. Rumors of a secret project surrounding the Google heads-up display (HUD) have been circulating in recent weeks, and it is believed that the [...]
In a world dominated by quad-core processors headlined by NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 ARM-based CPU, Qualcomm is showing that there is still life left in dual-core processing technology with its dual-core Snapdragon S4 chipset in the form of the MSM8960. AnandTech, which recently got a version of the Snapdragon S4 chip for testing and benchmarking, posted [...]
In addition to hearing that Nokia may be providing an upgrade path to its earlier Symbian^3 devices, including the venerable Nokia N8, to the next-generation of Symbian OS called Nokia Carla, we’re also seeing for the first time in photo of what Nokia is planning as a hardware successor to the camera phone king. The [...]
It looks like Google may be borrowing a page from Motorola Mobility’s playbook ahead of the completed acquisition of the smartphone-maker. With Android 5.0 Jelly Bean, it is now speculated that Google will be bringing Lapdock-like capabilities with the next iteration of Android with scalable, full-screen apps. In a prior report, there were speculations that [...]
ZTE is targeting the emerging 4G LTE mobile market and the Chinese phone-maker has announced two new smartphones with fast mobile broadband LTE support ahead of Mobile World Congress. According to ZTE, these will be two of many new devices to sport 4G LTE radios in the future. The first device is a more premium [...]
Digitimes is reporting that Amazon has ordered color e-ink panels from E Ink Holdings. The 6-inch color e-ink panels could potentially make it into the next generation Kindle Touch e-readers, which would be the first e-ink readers from Amazon to feature a color display. Though Amazon has the Kindle Fire tablet, based on Google’s Android [...]
Two new promotional videos for the Sony XPERIA S were leaked showing new changes to Sony’s smartphone user interface on top of Android. Called the Sony UXP NXT, the new Sony UI reveals changes to the gallery, music player, and TimeScape. Additionally, there’s a new setup guide, a new lock screen interface, an FM Radio [...]
According to a Digitimes report, Amazon is prepping to launch a 10-inch version of its popular Kindle Fire tablet starting in Q2. The report suggests that Apple manufacturing partner Foxconn has won the manufacturing contract for the 10-inch Kindle Fire slate, beating out current Quanta and Inventec, which are responsible for producing the current 7-inch [...]
ZTE, best known for its more budget smartphone entry, is trying to break the mold and reach for the more premium handset market and the Chinese phone-maker is doing this with the Mimosa X. Announced ahead of the Mobile World Congress trade show, ZTE announced the phone, which will probably hover between the mid-tier and [...]
More information about the Apple’s third-generation iOS tablet is leaking out ahead of the iPad 3′s speculated early March announcement. Blog MIC Gadget is now showing comparison shots of what appears to be the iPad 3 next to the iPad 2, and there are some slight differences in between the two generations. The iPad 2 [...]
Nokia’s Windows Phone portfolio is growing as the company is looking to add even more Lumia devices to its lineup. The traditional Symbian phone-maker is prepping to launch a Windows Phone Lumia 719 smartphone as the device has just gained Bluetooth approval from the Bluetooth Special Interest Group. At this point, other than Bluetooth being [...]
Three new Samsung smartphones were outed thanks to the WiFi certification group, revealing the device’s model number but not much else as far as hardware specs or information. The models cover a Verizon handset, one that may be destined for T-Mobile USA, and another for Sprint’s network. The T-Mobile USA model has a model number [...]
A smartphone by the name of London–not the same as the leaked BlackBerry London smartphone that we’ve seen floating around–will be headed to UK wireless carrier Orange and pack in the Medfield Atom-based processor made by chip-maker Intel. The device is speculated to get an announcement at Mobile World Congress at the end of the [...]
It looks like LG cannot wait for Mobile World Congress to start later this month as the smartphone-maker has already unveiled its Optimus Vu Android smartphone ahead of the Barcelona trade show. The phone, which was previously leaked, has a 5-inch display with an iPad-like 4:3 resolution that would compete in a similar space as [...]
It’s been speculated that Huawei will unveil a new smartphone at Mobile World Congress to tackle the premium Android phone space. That phone will come in the form of the Ascend D1 Q, a quad-core Tegra 3-powered device that will be part of the company’s D for ‘Diamond‘ line. New leaked images for the phone [...]
When Apple introduced the iPhone’s tap to focus camera, it brought with it the ability to take sharp pictures and gave users greater depth of field control over their pictures, similar to a a single-lens reflex (SLR) camera. Lacking some of the software controls to accomplish a similar feat, hardcore camera phone fanatics behind the [...]
Now that the Galaxy Note LTE has begun to become available on U.S. carrier AT&T, early adopters may be looking at ways to protect or accessorize their investment. Some accessories are cheaper on AT&T’s website while others are cheaper on Samsung’s website; Expansys pricing for official accessories seem to generally fall in between AT&T’s and [...]
It looks like Apple may giveth and Apple may taketh, especially when it comes to the hotly anticipated Apple iPad 3 next-generation tablet that’s been speculated for an early March debut. The latest leaks suggest that the iPad 3 will probably debut with iOS 5.1, will come with a higher resolution Retina-like Display for tablets, [...]
With the debut of the Kindle Fire and an affordable $199 price tag, Amazon has carved out quite the market for itself with its first Android tablet that taps into the company’s digital store fronts for music, movies, apps, magazines, and e-books. Despite being late to enter the slate market, the Kindle Fire’s high-end feature [...]
We’ve seen classic board games get ported to the digital world with apps for old school favorites like Monopoly and Scrabble, but sometimes the experience of sitting around a coffee table or floor with close friends and family outweighs the convenience of a digital lifestyle cramped on a 3- to 4-inch smartphone or a 7- [...]
While not a lot of information is known still about the leaked Asus Transformer TF300T, it is now known that the device will be sporting a quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 applications processor. Thanks to NenaMark2 benchmarking service, it appears that Asus or someone in possession of the TF300T has benchmarked the tablet, and we do [...]
On Thursday, Apple gave developers a preview of what it was working on with its next-generation desktop-class operating system known as OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Mountain Lion, as it is commonly referred to, will succeed the current version of the Mac OS called OS X 10.7 Lion. Rather than hosting a larger media event, [...]
We had reported that Google is looking to launch an iCloud and Dropbox competitor in the form of Google Drive, a cloud storage solution that integrates with other Google services, and it looks like the service is now live for some users according to Geek Wire. A user of that site had sent in a [...]
A leaked roadmap of Fujitsu’s planned 2012 roadmap reveals that the company will be making a push into the Android, tablet, and ultraportable computing segment with several new product introductions, including a tablet product that aims to take on the Asus Eee Pad Transformer (and Transformer Prime and TF300T models) with a hybrid transforming form [...]
Apple’s latest battle, to continue Steve Jobs’ declaration of thermonuclear war, against Android, Apple’s latest lawsuit against Samsung Mobile in German court centers around the method to unlock a touchscreen phone that centers around Apple’s patent on slide to unlock among others. As Google hopes to protect and defend its Android ecosystem, it is now [...]
According to leaks, Google is working on its next-generation version of the Android mobile operating system dubbed Android 5.0, code named Jelly Bean, that will succeed Ice Cream Sandwich. Jelly Bean may potentially see a debut mid-year at the Google I/O conference, and it’s unclear if Google intends on debuting Jelly Bean with a new [...]
HTC is hoping to leverage its $300 million partnership with Beats Audio to regain lost ground in the race for smartphone dominance as it is rumored that the smartphone-maker is preparing to launch a streaming music service. Details are scarce right now on how the service will work or what features will be included, but [...]
As Acer had announced that its Iconia Tab A500 will be getting an upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in mid-April, rival Asus has announced that the original Eee Pad Transformer slate will be getting its upgrade in March. The Eee Pad Transformer, launched at the Consumer Electronics Show a year ago, debuted to [...]
While Acer Iconia Tab A200 users have started to see Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrades hit their devices recently, owners of the Iconia Tab A500 will have to wait just a little bit longer. According to Acer Australia and New Zealand, Android 4.0 won’t be available to the original Android-powered Iconia Tab A500 until [...]
Cornerstone is a new hack that brings a more efficient multitasking experience to Android tablets running on CyanogenMod 9 ROMs. While both Google and Apple have made strides with the tablet experience on Android and iOS slates respectively, neither consumer mobile tablet operating systems go far enough to bring true desktop-like multitasking. On Google’s Honeycomb [...]
While AT&T still has not officially announced a launch date or pricing for its 4G LTE-capable Nokia Lumia 900 that debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month, Internet-retailer Negri Electronics is now accepting pre-orders for a white variant of the Lumia 900. AT&T and Nokia had said at CES that the [...]
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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 [...]
