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 [...]
While the Galaxy Nexus is currently only offered in the U.S. through Verizon Wireless as a 4G LTE smartphone with 32 GB of non-user expandable memory, international GSM buyers of the pentaband HSPA+ smartphone have a choice of 16 GB or 32 GB of on-board non-user expandable memory. It looks like Samsung is now having [...]
At the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook provided some insight into how Apple views the pre-paid phone market as well as the popular and well received Amazon Kindle Fire rival tablet running on a heavily skinned version of Google’s Android operating system. Commenting on the Kindle Fire, Cook recognizes that [...]
HTC may be taking on Apple outside of court as well by introducing a Siri competitor to bring a better voice and speech recognition engine called HTC Speak. Mention of HTC Speak was seen as part of a leaked ROM for the forthcoming HTC Endeavor smartphone, which was previously rumored to be called the HTC [...]
It looks like Sprint may be among the first carrier to deploy the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update to its Galaxy S II smartphone variant. The Epic 4G Touch offers a larger 4.5-inch display, compared to the international GSM version which has a 4.3-inch display, dual-core processor, 8-megapixel camera, and a Super AMOLED Plus [...]
Huawei may be set to introduce a 10-inch version of its MediaPad Android tablet and a quad-core Android smartphone in Barcelona, Spain towards the end of the month at Mobile World Congress. Leaked invitations to the members of the media indicate that Huawei may be kicking off the trade show with a product called the [...]
Though still a niche product with its 5.3-inch screen, the Galaxy Note is making a big splash in the mobile smartphone and tablet world and the AT&T 4G LTE edition is receiving a huge marketing push in the U.S. ahead of launch with a recent Super Bowl commercial. It seems that LG is not one [...]
Last month at the Consumer Electronics Show, Chinese manufacturer Huawei made a big splash with its elegantly refined Android Ice Cream Sandwich-sporting Huawei Ascend P1 S, a slim smartphone that’s even sleeker than the Motorola Droid RAZR. The phone packs a lot of punch into a svelte package, including a dual-core 1.5 GHz CPU, 8-megapixel [...]
After having announced that the third-generation Galaxy S III flagship Android smartphone would miss the anticipated February Mobile World Congress launch in Barcelona, Spain, there were rumors circling that the device may see a March release when Samsung France had sent out some press invitations. Now, it appears that the March date is also off [...]
After having been available on the iPad, Microsoft’s OneNote note-taking application, which is a popular choice among Tablet PC owners, is now available for users of the Android platform. Available for smartphones and tablets, OneNote allows Android users to synchronize their notes with the desktop Windows software, if they are an existing users, and there [...]
LG has posted a teaser video that announces some of the basic features of the company’s new LG Optimus Vu smartphone. The device, which will follow more well-known predecessors like the Dell Streak 5 and the Samsung Galaxy Note, will also have a 5-inch display. What’s curious is that rather than going with a widescreen [...]
There’s been more chatter of a Symbian successor to the venerable Nokia N8 in the camera phone department. The device is said to sport a 12-megapixel camera, 4-inch nHD resolution AMOLED display with a Clear Black Display screen, and Nokia Belle pre-loaded. Additionally, a leaked photo, if accurate, suggests that the Nokia 801 would bear [...]
Sony is now beginning to support Mac users with its Android XPERIA smartphones by making a version of its synchronization software available to OS X customers. Though Mac users can mount their phones as a drive and drag and drop content into their phones, Sony’s new Bridge software will give an iTunes-iOS-like environment where Android [...]
While most camera phones today, including capable smartphones with high-megapixel cameras, can take excellent images in bright conditions, the included LED flash modules on these devices still are not bright enough to light up a picture when taken in a dimly-lit setting, like in a home, restaurant, or bar at night. Camera manufacturers like Nokia [...]
It appears that Motorola and Verizon Wireless are readying a new software update for the Droid RAZR and RAZR MAXX smartphones, which are essentially based on the same software and design except that the latter has a much more capacious battery while retaining a still slim form factor. The software update for both devices are [...]
Once a concept of Middsex University design student Kieron-Scott Woodhouse, the bamboo-clad Android smartphone design will soon be commercialized as the ADzero phone. Rather than plastics, metals, or other materials, the ADzero phone features a natural bloc of bamboo wood back, which helps to add charm to the device as no two phones will be [...]
While originally anticipated for launch at Mobile World Congress this month, Samsung had changed its mind and floated around dates for the successor to the Galaxy S II flagship smartphone. The third generation device, widely believed to be called the Galaxy S III or Galaxy S 3, is now slated for a separate Samsung-specific launch [...]
According to the Norway regional Facebook page for Samsung, the company has announced that the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update will be coming soon to two handsets–the Galaxy S II and the Galaxy Note–before the end of the first quarter of this year. It looks like Norway may be among the first countries where [...]
It’s unclear if Motorola will be bringing the small rugged Defy Mini Android smartphone to the U.S. under AT&T, but an AT&T-compatible model was recently spotted at the FCC for U.S. regulatory approval. The phone would be compatible with AT&T’s 3G/4G HSPA+/WCDMA network. The phone is a smaller version of the original Defy, which was [...]
The previously leaked Sony Nypon smartphone is now speculated to adopt the XPERIA P brand when the phone gets announced, probably at Mobile World Congress in February. The phone was leaked at around the same time that we’ve seen the recent Sony Kumquat leaks, which is now said to be launching as the XPERIA U. [...]
In addition to the much hyped Galaxy S III‘s rumored potential debut at Mobile World Congress in February, it appears that Samsung may also be prepping a Galaxy S Advance smartphone to launch at the same trade show. The Galaxy S Advance bears the model number i9070 and will basically be a dual-core version of [...]
It is speculated that LG may announce the Optimus L3 E400 at Mobile World Congress this year. The phone, which has not been seen previously, was discovered recently as a Swedish retailer is currently taking pre-orders for the device. Dubbed as an entry-level smartphone, the Optimus L3 does have striking good looks. The device will [...]
Though unadvertised and not marketed by HTC nor Verizon Wireless as a global world phone, the Android LTE HTC Rezound may in fact be a world phone complete with a GSM radio. After the device was shipped overseas, a user had inserted a T-Mobile UK SIM card into the advertised CDMA/LTE smartphone and was able [...]
Announced back in 2010, Lumigon has yet to release its high-end, audio-centric T1 Android smartphone. The company’s ware has been dubbed vapor status and now it is looking to change that by releasing an updated render of the Lumigon T1 smartphone, which will run on Google’s Android OS. The device, which was designed in collaboration [...]
Though the rumored Samsung Epic 2 for Sprint never came out, the phone may still be launching as recent leaks suggest. The device was most recently found on the Cellebrite device system and the Epic 2, complete with its sliding QWERTY keyboard, may make its way now potentially to Sprint’s pre-paid brands instead. As such, [...]
There’s a meme going around the Internets these days that goes: “We live in a world where losing your phone is more dramatic than losing your virginity.” That may be overstating things a bit. Still, losing your phone is a big deal and the cause for a lot of cursing, tears, and anger. Especially if you didn’t put any protection on it.
Sony is introducing some new technologies on its XPERIA S flagship smartphone for 2012, including the ability to repel stains and rapidly charge the phone. The former feature is something that manufacturers have experimented with in the past, including HTC with its Teflon coating on the original international GSM variant of the HTC Hero. According [...]
Following Sony’s leaked code names of upcoming devices for 2012, it looks like we’re getting a better grasp of at least two new, unannounced models. Specs and photos for the Sony Tapioca and Sony Nypon smartphones were leaked. At this time, it’s still unclear what the final release names of these smartphones will be. The [...]
After having announced that the company will be introducing fewer smartphone models in 2012 than it had in 2011, Motorola is also revealing some of the company’s strategy ahead of its earnings report. Motorola says that it will be working to refine its Android Smart Actions, a feature that was introduced along with the Droid [...]
The ‘quietly brilliant’ smartphone-manufacturer has begun sending out media invitations to its event in Barcelona for February 26 during the trade show Mobile World Congress. In the past, HTC has used MWC to introduce its worldwide lineup of GSM smartphones with a few of those devices re-branded to reach the U.S. market, and the invitation-only [...]
Amazon’s done it on company’s Kindle e-readers by offering consumers cheaper hardware pricing in exchange for displaying ads on the e-readers. Now, it looks like ads are coming to some Android smartphones by way of the OS’s notification drawer on Japanese carrier KDDI. According to Engadget, the carrier bundles its own third-party app store known [...]
The leaked Sony Kumquat smartphone that we had recently reported on may launch as the Sony XPERIA U smartphone, joining its bigger brothers the Sony XPERIA Ion and the Sony XPERIA S. Still not a lot of information is known about the phone, but Indonesia’s regulatory body, which is the equivalent of the U.S. FCC, [...]
Huawei’s new high-end smartphones, which will be introduced at Mobile World Congress next month in Barcelona, will be part of the company’s new ‘Diamond’ series. The Diamond series, according to Huawei’s chairman Richard Yu, will best the company’s latest Ascend P1 S smartphone flagship, which was introduced just this month at CES 2012. The Ascend [...]
We had reported recently about a recent list of leaked product names from Sony’s XPERIA smartphone camp, and now we may have a clearer picture, literally, of what one of those devices may look like. The Sony Kumquat, which bears the product number ST25i, has been depicted in a new leaked image. The device bears [...]
Enter your email address to subscribe to GottaBeMobile updates
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 [...]
