Kevin loves notebooks, tablets, gadgets and photography. He grew up with computers starting out on a Vic 20 and Commodore 64. The first computer he owned himself was an 8086 Compaq Deskpro. His foray into tablet computing began when he bought a Samsung Q1 Ultra. The smartphone market opened up for him with his Palm Treo 600.
While at the dentist today, my son played with my Amazon Kindle Fire. When finished, he set it on a table next to his cup of water and spilled water all over it. Fortunately, my case kept it dry. That was $40 well spent. It got me thinking about case selection. Over the last couple [...]
The Amazon Kindle Fire flew off store shelves and Amazon’s warehouses since its launch last month, and should be one hot gift this holiday season. If you got a Fire or hope to be getting one for Christmas, then be sure to download these apps after you tear open the box. Our staff came up [...]
Since the iPhone 4S is essentially the iPhone 4 with Siri, users have been looking for ways to port the new feature to the older hardware. Up to this point efforts have violated copyright and been impractical. Thanks to what can only be a mistake on the part of Apple, this may no longer be true. [...]
If you’ve ever driven around a densely populated area, like a neighborhood or downtown street, you know that your iPhone or iPad can annoy you to death with silly Wi-Fi network notifications (constantly asking you if ou want to join this or that network). This gets most annoying when you know the available networks in [...]
During the past three weeks Amazon sold over 1 Million Kindles per week. While some places online have reported that Amazon sold a million Kindle Fires, Amazon actually includes all of the various new models in that figure. While Amazon stated that the Fire was the top seller on the company’s website during that period, [...]
Netflix updated their iPad app to version 2.0, and it looks beautiful. However, it also seems slower and crashed a couple of times on my Apple iPad 2. Despite these problems, I love the new interface. It makes finding new content much easier. The interface has a darker, more modern feel. Each row of icons [...]
How would you like to carry around your 21st century tunes (files on your iPhone) in a case made from something originally invented back in the 19th century? The Griffin Third Man 45 (as in 45 rpm records) iPhone 4S Case uses a real 7″ vinyl record, which has been custom-cut and fit into a protective [...]
I had a new favorite stylus for my iPad until I saw an awesome looking Kickstarter project called the LunaTik Touch Pen Stylus, made by the same folks who came up with one of the most elegant and successful iPod Nano watch bands (also branded LunaTik and also sold via Kickstarter). The Dagi stylus that I [...]
The Amazon Kindle Fire should not be left in the control of your kids… unless you want them running up your credit card bill and don’t mind them viewing soft-core pornography. Ryan Kim of Gigaom made this point in a post about parental controls and the Kindle Fire. Imagine this: you pull out your Kindle [...]
I just downloaded Microsoft OneNote for iPad after learning about it on the Microsoft OneNote blog. I haven’t been a OneNote user for quite some time, but I was excited to see that OneNote was available for the iPad. I was hoping to get that great OneNote experience I had when I used it on [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A mailer sent out this week from Verizon advertises a $100 off deal from now till Christmas. The only catch seems to be that you need the mailer in hand to get the deal, and the phone has to be 4G LTE capable device. That means you could score a new Samsung Galaxy Nexus for a [...]
Talk about honesty: Acer’s CEO J. T. Wang came clean with the company’s new strategy to do away with all of the “cheap, unprofitable products” they’ve been selling in favor of Ultrabooks. Ultrabooks look mysteriously similar to one of the hottest notebook products available today: the MacBook Air. Intel designed the spec to compete with [...]
I’m a sucker for cook photography gear and unique iPhone accessories, so the Optrix HD case for the iPhone 4/4S intrigued me. The case turns your iPhone 4/4S into an extreme sports camera which you can mount on your helmet as you go mountain biking, skiing or other death-defying activities. The case is water-proof, and [...]
Apple updated two of its own apps – iBooks and Cards. With iBooks users can read eBooks and documents which they load on their iPhone. The update includes the ability to read in a night-time mode with white text on a black background. There’s also a new full-screen mode that lets you only see the [...]
Your iPad can make fitness and exercise a little more bearable, thanks to Schosche’s fitRAIL, you can mount your iPad or iPad 2 to your exercise equipment and wile away those hours of sweating to some Netflix movies, or while reading an Amazon book. You’ll still have to do the hard work of exercising yourself, [...]
Users of the Amazon Kindle Fire reported in Amazon’s forums that they’ve been having problems with Wi-Fi connectivity issues. The issues could have something to do with the way the Fire uses the Silk browser, which Amazon touted as a revolutionary way to speed up Internet surfing. The browser, unfortunately, hasn’t lived up to the [...]
If you have an iPhone or iPad user on your gift list, you could get them an iPad or iPhone accessory to with their device, or you could give them an app. Doing so is easier than you’d think, so I thought I’d show you how to do it. [See our other 2011 Holiday Gift [...]
Nokia released an app called Air UI for the Nokia N9 or N900. It lets the user control their phone using “simple gestures over the front camera without actually touching the device,” meaning you get Nintendo Wii or Xbox Kinect style control of your phone. When I found out about this through a friend who’s [...]
I love my new Kindle Fire and it seems I’m not alone with between 3 and 4 million Kindle Fires shipped already, according to Digitimes sources. The new Android based tablet from Amazon is expected to ship as many as 5 million Kindle Fire tablets through the holiday buying season and into January. The OEM [...]
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Some gadgets seems really cool when you hear about the concept, but after actually using them you realize that tech has already passed it by. Sadly, I think that’s the case with the Livescribe’s Echo Smartpen for all but a small group of people. The pen records your handwritten notes and audio helping you keep [...]
When I first got my hands on the Amazon Kindle Fire, the Silk Browser disappointed me the most, even more than the overall performance of the Kindle version of Android. Amazon promised us it would benefit from caching content pulled from the web. They’d be caching it at their own Amazon Web Services (AWS), the [...]
While spending Thanksgiving with family, my wife’s aunt asked a question regarding something I took for granted having to do with the location of all of her old Kindle books on the new Kindle Fire. She, like many new Fire owners, collected dozens of eBooks on her old black and white Kindle. When she ordered [...]
As we gear up for Thanksgiving Day, I promise you that the things below fall way down my list of things in general for which I’m truly thankful. My faith, family, careers and health top my list. After things like these plus freedom and friends I would say that technology cracks the top ten — [...]
If you take your chances on Black Friday to brave the wild malls and shopping centers, then you’re indeed either braver or crazier than me. However, if you do so without these useful iPhone apps, then you’re probably just plain foolish. Here are the best apps to help you get through Black Friday to help [...]
Face it, many of the people on your shopping list this holiday seasons have no interest in the geeky gifts that you would love to give them. They don’t want a smartphone and have no interest in a computer, or anything to do with either one of them. However, they might be someone who needs [...]
The Amazon Kindle Touch improves upon the Kindle 4 in two very important ways, making it the best new e-Reader for a very attractive price (yes, even at $20 more than the Kindle 4). It has the best combination of features and price. Which makes it an even better e-ink e-reader than the Kindle 4, which I [...]
As a photo enthusiast, one thing I’d really love to find under the tree would be an awesome photo editing application that helps me turn my average shots into artistic masterpieces. If you too have a shutterbug on your gift buying list consider getting them one of these five applications. The software listed ranges from [...]
Do you have a shutter bug on your buying list for this holiday season? Chances are a serious photographer would rather you didn’t buy them a new camera because they will be very particular about what kind to get, making surprises impossible. However, a great photography accessory will warm their heart and earn you some [...]
The devs over at XDA Developer’s Forum posted a root method for the Kindle Fire within a day or two of its launch, but as we reported it breaks the Amazon Prime video service. I speculated that there’d be a fix soon, and apparently someone already found a workaround until the actually fix shows up. [...]
Camera phones turned the world of lower end point-and-shoot cameras upside down, nearly killing off the business (especially for people like the readers of GottaBeMobile who are more likely to have a great smart phone than not). Yet, not all camera phones deliver crisp, high quality images. And even those that do can be a [...]
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Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE Review: A Worthy Successor to the Original (Video)
When Sprint had debuted the original WiMax-capable HTC EVO 4G nearly two years ago, it was an instant hit on the Now network. Not only was the HTC EVO 4G the first 4G smartphone in the world taking advantage of Sprint’s then speedy WiMax network, but it brought some new features and pizzazz to the [...]
Last year Toshiba waded into the Android tablet market with the Thrive, a 10.1-inch slate that served as the company’s response to what they deemed missing in the then current crop. Thus, it had several full-size ports, a rugged-ish exterior, and a thick chassis to accommodate both. Though a decent tablet, the Thrive didn’t generate [...]
Samsung Shows That It Is a Software Company
As exciting as it has been to talk, postulate, and speculate about the Galaxy S III’s hardware and specs before the third-generation Galaxy flagship smartphone was announced on May 3rd in London, once the device was announced one thing became apparent: Samsung is now a software company. That doesn’t mean that Samsung is shying away [...]
Autumn Dynasty Review: A Great RTS for the iPad
With its large touchscreen, the iPad seems like the perfect platform for Real Time Strategy games, and Autumn Dynasty proves it, mostly. Autumn Dynasty is an RTS iPad game with art that looks like tradition Chinese painting. The story involves quelling a rebellion while solving a mystery of shady noblemen. The story though, just serves [...]
Griffin GuitarConnect Pro Review: Record Your Jams with Ease
The Griffin GuitarConnect Pro interfaces with your Guitar and your iPad or iPhone so you can record your music easily using apps like Apple’s GarageBand. My son Daniel, who’s learning to play guitar, helped me test it out and he loved it. When he gets as good as Jimi Hendrix, I’m sure he’ll steal my [...]
Google Search App iPhone and iPad Update Looks Beautiful (Video)
Google just delivered a beautiful update to the company’s Google Search app for the iPhone and iPad The Google Search app for iPhone and iPad replaced Safari as my browser of choice, earning a spot in the iPhone and iPad dock. It’s faster and offers a beautiful new full screen image search which looks awesome on the [...]
