Motorola’s Sanjay Jha has confirmed the company’s launch schedule for the Motorola Atrix 4G smartphone as well as the Xoom tablet. The company says that the Atrix 4G and the 3G edition of the Xoom tablet will arrive at the end of February. In the Q&A follow-up, despite his confidence in the company achieving its [...]
A YouTube video from The Associated Press shows an HTC phone battery deformed from where it blocked a bullet from entering its owner’s chest. The man’s life was saved, but sadly the heroic phone was not. Please send tweets in lieu of flowers.
Motorola had announced the Motorola Droid Bionic for Verizon Wireless yesterday at a press conference in Las Vegas, NV and we were there to get some hands-on time and a demo from Motorola’s team. The Bionic is the next generation of Droid, and as a Droid device, the “Droid [Bionic] Does” a lot with its [...]
More details are emerging surround Verizon Wireless’s HTC Thunderbolt, which may be released under the Droid Incredible HD brand name as an Android smartphone for the carrier. The device will be larger than the current HTC Droid Incredible on the carrier and will add a 4G radio; the Droid Incredible HD will be Verizon Wireless’s [...]
Recent leaks of the HTC Incredible HD with 4G LTE marking seemingly indicate a launch or announcement at CES. If that wasn’t enough, HTC has created a teaser site that may help to solidify that the company is indeed working on a 4G device of some sort, highlighting a mystery device, the Sprint HTC EVO [...]
With Verizon Wireless getting ready to launch its 4G LTE smartphones at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV in early January, the carrier has already confirmed Motorola for a launch spot. What’s unclear is if HTC will make it in time to be among the first crop of smartphone makers to debut a [...]
I brought my wife to the mall over the weekend to grab a few items and ran across an interesting Verizon promo. Stownstown Galleria in San Francisco has a handful of empty storefronts. Verizon turned one of them into a giant interactive billboard for the holidays. There are a bunch of images and slogans strewn [...]
Ngmoco is publishing Pocket God for the Android platform. The game is incredibly popular on the iOS platform and the lack of it was reason enough for my 9-year old nephew to dismiss Android completely. The conversation went something like this: Nephew: What are Droid phones? me: They’re phones that are kinda like your dad’s iPhone [...]
While Motorola is reportedly targeting AT&T with its rumored Motorola Olympus Android smartphone for an end of January launch, the handset maker is also working on Verizon Wireless with two new Android products–a smartphone and a tablet–that will make use of a dual-core chip solution, most likely the NVIDIA Tegra 2, and will come with [...]
The Motorola Dogz may be a codename for an upcoming Motorola Droid device on Verizon Wireless. The device may be among the first smartphones to launch on Verizon Wireless’s 4G network and should appear early next year. Not a lot of information is known about the Motorola Dogz right now, but it appears that the [...]
Motorola’s Droid Pro will launch come this November 18th but will be available for pre-sale starting November 9th for $180 on a two-year agreement after a $100 mail-in rebate will be targeted directly at Research in Motion and its enterprise grasp with its BlackBerry smartphones. The Android-powered Droid Pro will come with profiles, a pretty [...]
It seems that Verizon Wireless is pushing back the launch date of the Motorola Droid Pro, a business-class smartphone that’s touted as a BlackBerry competitor running the Android operating system and combines the best of a touchscreen and full front-facing QWERTY keyboard, in favor of pushing out the Droid 2 Global. Both the Droid Pro [...]
The Motorola DROID 2 Global found it’s way online for a brief period. The page has been removed from Motorola’s website already, but Droid-Life got some screen captures before it vanished. The DROID 2 hasn’t been out too long and it’s expected to be replaced by this one when it’s released. At least that’s what [...]
Verizon announces today via Press Release that they will be offering the highly anticipated limited edition DROID R2-D2 on September 30th, 2010. It will be available online and in select stores on this date. It will come packaged in a custom box resembling carbonite and will also include a Star Wars media dock and wired stereo [...]
You might be saying to yourselves, “well duh, the HTC EVO is the fastest smartphone with hotspot access: it’s on 4G”. True, but it wasn’t the only 4G phone tested by LAPTOP Magazine, nor is it dominating only on 4G. Also: it seems the newest DROIDs aren’t necessarily the fastest.
First, Verizon backed away from supporting Google’s Nexus One. Then, they proved their search deal with Microsoft’s Bing does apply to Android phones. Now, Verizon is expanding their V CAST app and media store to DROID, competing against the Android Market. Looks Google has been uninvited from the party.
Folks are breathing a sigh of relief today after Business Insider confirmed Microsoft’s Bing will not be the “exclusive” search provider for Verizon’s Android devices. One question: how does Verizon define “exclusive”?
Matt Miller caught my attention today with the headline “Have US wireless carriers gone mad? Samsung Fascinate crippled by Verizon“! He’s displeased with the mobile crapware or CRAPPS on this thing. Unfortunately, there’s likely more madness to follow.
This past weekend I attended a large gathering of my wife’s family set up to serve as a memorial service for her grandmother who passed away earlier this year. The family is mostly located in the Chicago environs but most of them spend their summer recreational time in the lake region of lower Wisconsin. So [...]
Google’s introducing a new feature for Android devices called Voice Actions. With the press of a single button and a few spoken words, Android users can send messages, play songs, call contacts, send email, visit websites, create notes or navigate to a destination. The video demo below is pretty impressive, but your mileage will vary [...]
It’s true: Verizon has fulfilled my worst fear for the Droid – A version of the DROID 2 that everyone will surely call “R2-D2” because it’s actually named after Star Wars’ R2-D2! To quote Darth Vader at the end of Episode III (and please, imagine the exact same voice for this) “NOOOOOOOO!!!1!11!!!ONE!!”
Someone leaked Verizon’s roadmap to BGR. The supposed roadmap includes an Android tablet, an LTE MiFi and a new DROID. According to BGR, the products listed in the roadmap will be launching between now and 2012. One of the more interesting devices is a Samsung Android tablet: Samsung is working on a 7″ screen Android [...]
You’ve likely seen numerous posts on Twitter and Facebook of runners proudly sharing the detailed statistics of their distance workouts. Seeing this information shared over and over prompted me to perform an experiment. What happens when you use RunKeeper while playing ice hockey? I decided to put my Motorola Droid smartphone to the test by [...]
The Android Market, Android’s apps store, is finally featuring applications that are able to compete with and rival those of Apple’s. Like most newborn app stores, the Android Market was weak and tiny during its infancy, but has blossomed into a a full-fledged adolescent with many helpful, entertaining, and polished applications. Although the Android Market [...]
The hype is over and a new DROID phone from Verizon, Motorola and Google is upon us. The HTC Incredible is due for release on April 29th, but the news is better. If you want to pre-order this new phone, customers will be able to starting Monday, April 19th. So, what is the big deal [...]
Now you see it, now you don’t! Motorola has pulled the information they posted regarding their upcoming OTA Android 2.1 update for the Droid. According to their official forums, the press release with full details was premature. The original details page simply says, “There is a release coming, check back soon.” Maybe Motorola actually read [...]
Am I the only person in America who thinks wireless carrier’s plans are purposely difficult to understand and too costly? Data plan caps, tethering, ETFs and a lot of other lingo often prevent folks from considering phones with data plans. I wasn’t surprised during a recent visit to Best Buy when I examined wireless carrier’s [...]
Our Droid was taken out for its first day in the field. Results were mixed. Reception where my wife Tanya works was not good. Streaming music over Pandora worked well enough, but calls were too garbled for her to tolerate. Will need to test further to see how much is the network and how much [...]
I’ve said it once, I can’t say it enough: whether a particular wireless phone service works for you depends greatly on your geographical location. I don’t care if AT&T is the fastest, or if Verizon Wireless has the widest coverage. What I care about is whether a particular service works where I live. Yet, sucker [...]
Guess what I just won. No, not a punch in the face – this Verizon Droid I’m point at! Thanks Corning! Gorilla Glass rules! Name survey! R2-D2, R4-D4 (bad moti vator), or HK-47?
I’ve been rocking my Motorola Droid since the first day it was available to the public. Although it is still a little rough around the edges, the Droid is a different animal from the iPhone and offers an equal amount of impressive and useful features. This list of ten free apps includes a variety of [...]
The recent news of Google’s own smartphone, the Nexus One, has generated a lot of discussion and blurry screenshots. Despite the quality of these low light glimpses into Google’s phone, there are many clear gems coming to us in the future Android 2.1 OS. The Google News and Weather application presents top headlines and forecasts [...]
Our annual Thanksgiving Day celebration is always a whirlwind coming as a brief day off between days of dress rehearsals for the annual Christmas show we open this Sunday at Wayside Theatre, I’m typically the only geek doing anything geeky. That changed this year. At various points this holiday, my kin all whipped out various [...]
Many news sites and blogs are hailing the Motorola Droid’s marketing campaign as a substantial success. It has been estimated that over 250,000 Droid’s were sold in the first week of its launch in early November. NFL games and family sitcoms have been interrupted by commercials showing stealth bombers launching Droids, the Droid’s grit and [...]
To kill or not to kill? That is the question Motorola Droid owners are asking themselves lately. I have been using and enjoying my Motorola Droid since it was released a few weeks ago. While I am happy with the phone, it is a little rough around the edges and reminds me of when the [...]
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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
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
