I bought an HTC Thunderbolt earlier this year for two reasons – I wanted to play with an Android phone and I liked the option of using it as a wireless hotspot with unlimited data, something that my older Novatel 2200 MiFi didn’t offer on the Verizon network. They only offer limited data contracts. Sure [...]
Google pushed a new update to the Maps app for Android that has some thematic resonance with the news we reported earlier about the Zagat acquisition. Maps version 5.10.0 now includes the ability to add photos to the reviews you add through the interface. Also, any places you’ve rated 4 or 5 stars will show [...]
The Droid Bionic is officially on sale today. There are good reasons for scooping it up right now and waiting a little longer, but either way I know many of you will get this phone no matter what. If you’re not an existing Verizon Wireless customer with an unlimited plan, you have a difficult choice [...]
The Motorola Droid Bionic’s 4G LTE speeds are very impressive and will probably lead owners to utilize it more than they might have with slower 3G speeds. However, unless you’re grandfathered into the unlimited plan, you’ll need to keep an eye on your data usage to avoid overages. Verizon Wireless includes a helpful data tracking [...]
A post on the FOSS Patents blog yesterday caused a considerable amount of buzz when blogger Florian Mueller
The Droid Bionic is one sweet phone — a great combination of power and speed thanks to the 4G LTE radio inside. Once you have it in your hands, which apps should you download to take advantage of all the Bionic has to offer? I have a few suggestions below, including one that will help [...]
Digital note-taking systems have evolved to the point where they can truly replace pen and paper, but what if you’re still a pen and paper type of person? Keeping a notebook for jotting down thoughts is a habit that’s hard to break, and even Evernote’s manifold attractions can’t make up for less than elegant phone [...]
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Would you order the upcoming Apple iPhone 5 sight unseen? That’s the question put to me by our own Xavier Lanier and my first reaction was, “Absolutely not!” As I thought about it, that question isn’t so cut and dried, especially when you consider the hypothetical scenario he gave me. The Scenario What if something really [...]
If you haven’t joined the 4G LTE revolution that’s being championed presently in the U.S. by Verizon Wireless and soon to be joined by AT&T, 2012 may be the year when LTE takes off with devices no longer commanding a premium. Right now, with the technology for faster mobile broadband being nascent, smartphones are commanding [...]
Excitement is building for the iPhone 5 launch to the point where we’re now hearing rumors about the commercial for it. There’s nothing inherently exciting about that except for the fact that it means the launch is getting steadily closer. After all, iPhone commercials don’t usually have the same panache as the Mac vs PC [...]
SprintFeed got a tip that Sprint plans to raise their early terminations fees (ETF) from $200 to $350 for smartphones, tablets, netbooks and notebooks. These fees apply when you decide to leave your (usually) 2 year contract with a carrier and is supposed to compensate for the amount your device was subsidized. This new fee [...]
If you’re one of those people who think thinner is better when it comes to phones, this news is for you. According to The Nikkei, a Japanese business daily, NEC Casio Mobile is going to bring the Medias N-04C to the U.S. market following great sales in Japan. The Android handset has one big claim [...]
In the spring I added a second phone to my mobile arsenal, the HTC Thunderbolt on Verizon. When my son broke his iPhone 3GS I took the opportunity to hand down my iPhone 4 to him and replace it with the Samsung Infuse 4G. Unless the iPhone 5 or some other Android phone shows up [...]
Remember back in July when we heard that Sprint would be bringing back mail-in rebates on July 24th? Yeah, that didn’t happen. Unfortunately, it did happen today, August 18th. That’s right, Sprint has announced that it has brought back mail-in rebates with a little bit of a twist. So, this is how it works. If [...]
This morning, Fusion Garage CEO Chandra Rathakrishnan not only introduced a new tablet, but also a new smartphone. The Grid4 (companion to the Grid10 tablet), will sell unlocked for $399 and be available in the 4th quarter of this year. Like the tablet, this phone runs on the not-Android GridOS and comes with the tagline [...]
Think you can escape the tiered, metered data plans from big carriers AT&T and Verizon Wireless? Think again as T-Mobile USA, the nation’s number four wireless carrier, will switch its lowest data offering from a tiered, but throttled unlimited offering, to a tiered and metered data plan with overages. The new plan pricing would go [...]
HTC has just alerted to the world that it will be making a “major news announcement”, their words, not ours, tomorrow morning at 11:30am EST. HTC CEO Peter Chou is going to be making the announcement via live teleconference from Los Angeles and unfortunately, that’s all we know at this point. No specifics were offered [...]
It seems like every day we see dumb criminals caught by mobile security software. A time ago it was a stolen MacBook equipped with an application called Hidden that helped the owner track it down and today, it’s software called GadgetTrak that has helped police capture a couple of dudes that stole from a Sprint [...]
AT&T is scheduled to roll out its 4G LTE network at some point this summer but it appears that Ma Bell won’t be launching a 4G LTE smartphone with it as the mobile carrier confirmed that it won’t be launching an LTE compatible smartphone in the United States until late 2011. If you’re surprised by [...]
In its record-breaking earnings call, Android and Windows Phone 7 smartphone manufacturer HTC had revealed its ambitious plan to release 8 new smartphones in the third quarter in an effort to break its second quarter earnings. The company had released a number of popular flagship devices in Q2, like the HTC Thunderbolt, HTC Sensation 4G, [...]
We’ve already begun seeing the cannibalization of dedicated game consoles–like the Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo Wii, and Sony PlayStation–thanks to the emergence of cheap games on mobile smartphones and tablets that are readily available for consumption by the casual gaming. However, as mobile hardware becomes more powerful, Qualcomm predicts that new smartphones and tablets running its forthcoming Snapdragon [...]
It’s not often that a company can consider losing 50,000 customers in a quarter a success but sadly enough, T-Mobile can do that very thing. Today, the company released its Q2 figures and revealed that it had lost about half as many customers as last quarter. Last quarter, the Magenta carrier disclosed that it had [...]
Way back in May, HTC announced that it would be unlocking the bootloaders on all of their upcoming phones and even on a few of the company’s new ones including the HTC EVO 3D and HTC Sensation 4G. They just didn’t explain how it was going to be done exactly. That is, until last night [...]
Need more evidence that a quad-core powered Asus Eee Pad Transformer might be coming in October? How about confirmation from NVIDIA that Kal-El quad-core powered tablets are coming this fall? That work? Good, because that’s exactly what has come out of the NVIDIA camp today. The company has confirmed the time frame to Android Central [...]
We had heard that AT&T might start throttling heavy data users ahead of the launch of the iPhone 5 and sure enough, Ma Bell has slapped down an official announcement today regarding the new policy which will go into effect on October 1st. AT&T’s new policy is only going to effect those customers who are [...]
It’s not often that you see the entire roadmap for a smartphone manufacturer leak out and that’s what makes the fact that we now know LG’s entire 2011 smartphone lineup so exciting. Pocketnow was able to scoop the remaining seven smartphones in LG’s lineup for this year and there are a couple of phones on [...]
Just recently, T-Mobile brought its HSPA+ 42 Mbps network to 56 new cities. Awesome, except for the fact that T-Mobile currently has one single device out that is capable of reaching those speeds. That device? A laptop stick called the Rocket 3.0. No capable phone, no capable tablet. However, according to a Digitimes report, that [...]
The Samsung Infuse 4G for AT&T went on sale for only $49.99 at Target for a limited time. Samsung released the phone a couple of months ago, so it is not one of the latest phones on the market, but it looks good enough that I am going to replace a smashed iPhone 3GS with [...]
The cost of owning a mobile device can be pretty high and it doesn’t help that the carriers that are supposed to be taking care of you are more often than not trying to take advantage of you. Just recently, we made a bit of a stir with some people after talking about how we [...]
It’s no secret that Android is on a meteoric rise in the mobile world and today’s numbers from Google’s second quarter earnings call only solidify what we’ve already know. The numbers? They are absolutely mind boggling. Google’s Android platform now boasts an army of approximately 130 million devices worldwide and the software is seeing 550,00 [...]
We had originally thought that Sprint was going to be putting an end to mail-in rebates all the way back on May 7th. It’s now July 14th and the no mail-in rebate policy is still going strong. However, there is now some physical evidence from SprintFeed that seems to point to July 24th as the [...]
As our smartphones and tablets get smaller, and we start to carry more devices, it becomes easier and easier to lose them. According to several recent surveys lost smartphones are a common problem. From airports to swimming pools and New York to California, we all have trouble hanging on to our gadgets when we travel. [...]
An infographic from G+ says that by 2014 half of all mobile phones will have the ability to make mobile payments through built-in Near Field Communications chips, or NFC. Split into three parts, the infographic shows where the mobile payments market is going, who is in the race and how NFC works. NFC is quickly [...]
RIM employees both new and old have apparently penned new letters in support of the anonymous open letter written by a RIM employee that detailed the turmoil going on at BlackBerry maker, Research in Motion. Yesterday, we showed you a letter that had been written by an anonymous RIM senior executive who urged the company’s [...]
In a push to stay competitive in the mobile market where smartphones and tablets are getting much of the attention, Intel is outlining its plans to reach that market with new Atom processors. On the smartphone space, to compete against the lower energy requirements of multi-core ARM processors found on today’s Android, Windows Phone 7, [...]
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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 [...]
