The Samsung Galaxy S II is arguably one of the best smartphones in history. And if you needed any more proof of that, just take a look at the milestone that the device hit today, just ahead of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The company behind the smartphone has apparently sold a grand total [...]
Google had recently filed a patent for multitouch trackpad gestures, potentially bringing new functionality to Chrome OS and the company’s Android OS. However, another potential, rather than the merely using Android on a laptop or desktop system, would be the trackpad as an application for Google’s scalability feature that comes with the next-generation Android 5.0 [...]
Fujitsu, which has made a name for itself and its Arrows-branded Android smartphones and tablets in Asia, is looking to expand its offerings globally. The outfit has revealed that it intends to bring its smartphones globally, and Europe may be the next destination for Arrows to head to. That said, we’re beginning to hear about [...]
Asus has released a teaser video on YouTube with little information about what the company may be announcing at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona at the end of the month. The video depicts a series of Russian Matryoshka nesting dolls with the phrase ‘Divided we stand. Together we rock.’ The tags for the YouTube video [...]
ZTE has already unveiled a few of its smartphones ahead of Mobile World Congress, but the company just issued a press release stating that consumers should expect to see a total of 8 new devices being announced at the Barcelona trade show later this month. The smartphones being announced will be multi-core devices, and some [...]
LG apparently doesn’t want to leave any of its Mobile World Congress announcements to the imagination as it has outed yet another device today in the form of the LG Optimus 3D Max. The announcement comes shortly after the company officially announced its 5-inch Optimus Vu smartphone and three upcoming Optimus smartphones that will launch [...]
The mobile version of Google Docs has never been all that impressive, though today’s update to the Android app could change that. The new Google Docs for Android brings some of the web features of Google Docs to smartphones and tablets. The update brings rich text editing and collaboration to Google Docs for Android. Now [...]
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We all know that smartphone adoption is growing rather quickly, that should come at no surprise. According to Lookout Mobile Security, by 2016 there will be almost 1 billion smartphones shipped, up from 467 million shipped in 2011. That impressive stat comes from an infographic put together for The Official Lookout Blog. The infographic also shows how [...]
LG has already taken the curtains off of a bunch of the devices it will be officially unveiling at the Mobile World Congress later this month. We’ve seen a grand total of four Optimus smartphones announced thus far, including the company’s competitor to the Galaxy Note, the LG Optimus Vu. However, MWC figures to center [...]
Earlier today, the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G was announced for the second time in two months. Deadly serious. Sammy first announced the smartphone during the festivities of CES 2012 in January revealing little more than a couple of specifications and the fact that it would be headed to T-Mobile USA’s network at some point [...]
LG is expected to have quite a few devices in store for this year’s Mobile World Congress and one of those devices will be the already announced LG Optimus Vu, a device that will feature a 5-inch display and will be the company’s answer to the Samsung Galaxy Note. And while LG has already announced [...]
Android users may not need to wait in line to get their phones like iPhone owners, but Android users are familiar with a different form of waiting — waiting for popular iOS apps to come to the Android platform. The latest missing app is Instagram for Android, but it’s hardly the only app that is Coming Soon™. [...]
In the build up to this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, companies have begun teasing their upcoming announcements. HTC has decided to join the party and has posted an odd teaser on its Facebook page that, well, reveals virtually nothing other than the fact that we’ll probably see a new smartphone announced at the [...]
Asus promised a bootloader unlock tool for the Asus Transformer Prime tablet and the company has delivered on that promise today as the company has made the tool available to those using its Tegra 3 quad-core powered tablet. If you own the tablet and you’re looking to free it from its chains, you can go [...]
One of the minor drawbacks to the original version of the Nook Tablet is that, even though the device has 16GB of internal memory, only about 1GB of it is accessible to users. This is a normal state of affairs for Android devices. Manufacturers partition or split up the internal memory to reserve sections for [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Twitter has gone ahead and released updates for both its Android and iOS applications while also bringing support for the Amazon Kindle Fire. The Barnes and Noble Nook Tablet will get support on February 23rd. It’s also now available for devices running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The iOS application in particular is jam packed [...]
Samsung has yet to divulge any official details in regards to a U.S. launch of its Landscape Dock with 3-pin connector for the Galaxy Nexus but it appears that it may go on sale soon. This according to Droid-Life which has stumbled upon the accessory on Samsung’s website which clearly lists the Pogo Pin Desktop [...]
Apple is presumed to be launching its next iPad sometime in March. While the company has yet to send out invitations to a press event, March 7th is the day that many have circled on their calendar as launch day. If you’re currently an iPad or iPad 2 owner or if you’re just thinking about [...]
LG has already announced one of the phones we knew it was planning for this year’s Mobile World Congress in the Optimus Vu and now it appears the company has pulled the trigger once more as it has announced its new L-Series of Optimus phones which includes three different phones called the LG Optimus L3, [...]
Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, announced a project that will change Android phones forever (in a good way) in the very near future. Ubuntu for Android is a full-fledged version of the desktop operating system that can run on Android phones. Not as a hack or a fun project for the folks [...]
Nearly a year ago, Huawei launched its 7-inch MediaPad Android tablet. And now, finally, it appears that the company is poised to deliver a sequel. A Russian website called hi-tech.mail.ru has outed some photos and purported specifications of the nameless (it’ll likely be part of the MediaPad line) tablet that may get unveiled during the [...]
One of the phones has been out for a couple of months, the other, just a little over a month. Both are now on sale at Verizon Wireless. We are, of course, talking about the HTC Rezound which came out back in 2011 and the LG Spectrum, a phone that we saw get announced in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Getting rid of an Android smartphone? Perhaps you got a new one and want to sell or give away the old one. Or you bought a handset only to find it’s not exactly what you want and you intend to return it to the store or carrier. No matter the reason, you should always erase [...]
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 [...]
Google recently released a beta version of Google Chrome for Android into the Android Market to much rejoicing. Despite the beta tag on the browser many found it good enough to be the main browser on their Ice Cream Sandwich devices. Today CNet published an interview with Google Senior Vice President Sundar Pichai which discussed Chrome [...]
While HTC and LG figure to be the the leaders of the pack in terms of announcements at this month’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, there are also going to be a couple of other familiar companies on hand announcing new hardware. One of those companies figures to be Sony who might be announcing a [...]
We just caught wind of a rumor that states that the next iPhone, presumably called the iPhone 5, won’t be out until either September or October of this year. If true, it would mean that there will be a huge gap to fill this summer in terms of smartphone releases. And one company in particular [...]
Panasonic isn’t a brand that’s typically associated with smartphones if you live in North America or Europe. In its native Japan, however, Panasonic has made mobile phones for years. In fact, Panasonic is one of the biggest mobile phone makers in Japan. Today Panasonic is entering the global smartphone race with the Panasonic Eluga which [...]
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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 [...]
