Earlier today, Apple introduced a host of new products including new mobile software (iOS 5), they cloud service (iCloud) and they also showed off their latest and greatest Mac software aka OS X 10.7 Lion. Well, if you’re a Mac user, you’ll be glad to know that Apple has posted a fairly thorough introduction video [...]
Steve Job’s World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2011 keynote has come and gone. Just as many suspected, Apple did not announce a next-generation iPhone, bucking a trend that had lasted for three years. The wait for the iPhone 5 begins anew. So, now that we know that Apple won’t have an iPhone in stores this [...]
Earlier today, the new Motorola Droid Bionic leaked out in some photos which gave us a glimpse at its new design and revealed a couple of its features. However, those photos have nothing on a new leak which confirms the Droid Bionic to have a massive 4.5 inch qHD display, new 3D MotoBlur as well [...]
Go to T-Mobile’s website and look for the G2. Can’t find it huh? That’s because it has disappeared completely. It doesn’t even have the “Out of Stock Temporarily” badge stuck to it. It’s gone. The reason? It’s simple. There is evidence that suggests that the G2 is on its last legs and will be hitting [...]
Along with the release date of the HTC EVO 3D smartphone, Sprint also announced the availability of its HTC EVO View 4G tablet aka WiMax HTC Flyer that will be available on June 24th, the same day that the EVO 3D makes its heralded arrival. We had known that the 24th was a likely candidate [...]
There was a nasty little rumor prior to WWDC that stated that iOS 5 would not be coming to the iPhone 3GS. Luckily, Apple has just confirmed that the new software will in fact be coming to Apple’s aging phone and it will be doing so at some point this fall. Prior to the event, [...]
Apple has introduced the latest mobile software coming to the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad and one of the main features that will be coming along with it is PC Free, Apple’s nickname for wireless syncing a feature that Android users are familiar with and iDevice owners have been waiting for for quite awhile. This [...]
Today at WWDC, Apple has introduced the latest version of its mobile software, iOS 5. One of the main features, and one that had been rumored leading up to the announcement at the conference, is the software’s integration with Twitter with features that include single sign-on, integration into apps, contacts and Safari and a lot [...]
Apple has announced that its latest and greatest Mac software, Mac OS X Lion, will be available starting in July and will only be available to purchase on the Mac App Store. In the past, Apple had charged $129 for the software but they are dropping their price considerably making the software available for a [...]
One of the new main features of Mac OS X Lion 10.7 is the ability to perform gestures which Apple’s Craig Federighi described as coming with a “incredible, physical realism that’s never been possible in a PC operating system before.” While there had been gestures on Macs before Lion, Apple has shown off the richer [...]
Many of you have been anxiously waiting to see what the new Motorola Droid Bionic will look like after Motorola confirmed that the one we saw back at CES had been scrapped. Well, today, we apparently have our first images of Verizon’s upcoming 4G LTE Droid smartphone and as you can see, the form factor [...]
Tomorrow is Apple’s biggest event of the year, the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) which will run from June 6th all the way through the week at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. The first keynote from the conference takes place tomorrow at 10AM and there are plenty of rumors regarding the products that Apple has announced [...]
The Motorola Droid 3 has leaked out in a series of tutorial videos and those videos have confirmed a few of the features that will be coming on Verizon’s upcoming successor to the Motorola Droid 2 Global. We had already seen a few features of the Droid 3 leak out and these videos showcase a [...]
It’s not every day that someone like Robert Scoble makes a claim about unreleased Apple software so when he opens his mouth about it, it’s news worthy. Now, Scoble isn’t saying much, but what he is saying is this. iOS 5 is going to be coming with Twitter integration deeper than just photo sharing and [...]
As many of you with Verizon handsets know, smartphones from Big Red come with a bunch of pre-loaded software – called bloatware – that can’t be uninstalled. Well, it appears that Motorola’s Droid X2, which comes with the usual stuff, allows for some of that bloatware to be removed. In the past, Verizon smartphone owners [...]
The Samsung Galaxy S II is an extremely popular device already and it figures to become even more popular when it arrives in the United States. The only problem is, we still have no idea when that is going to be. Well, that is until today when it became apparent that Sprint’s version of the [...]
We have known that it might take awhile before RIM gets the BlackBerry Bold 9900, a phone that it announced at BlackBerry World, out the door. And today, those fears were realized as it has become apparent that the company will likely not get the phone out until sometime after August is over. According to [...]
If you have been looking into getting a smartphone powered by Windows Phone 7 on any of the big four U.S. mobile carriers, then you probably want to take a look at the offer that Amazon is hosting right now through June 30th. Windows Phone 7 devices at the online retailer, some currently as low [...]
In addition to the 4G LTE version of the device that’s up for pre-order in just a few days on Verizon, Samsung also announced a Wi-Fi only version of the tablet which will be available in two sizes and will be out during the month of June as well. Samsung’s Wi-Fi version of the tablet [...]
Yesterday, it became very clear that there was a major issue with the Motorola Droid X Gingerbread update. As you might know, it’s available to all Droid X owners right now. And while most owners are happy campers, it seems like a few others are going through a nightmare. You see, the OTA update has [...]
Verizon has made the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 official which means that Big Red is finally going to have a 4G LTE capable tablet within its stable of devices. While the carrier didn’t acknowledge an official release date for the device, pre-orders for the tablet will begin on June 8th. It’s going to come in [...]
It’s time to get excited Motorola Atrix 4G owners because not only do we have a release window for your boost up to Android 2.3 Gingerbread but we also have a preview video of said update which will show you some of the new goodies that will be coming with your update. BriefMobile was able [...]
Sprint has come right out and confirmed what we all believed to be the official roll out date for the HTC EVO 4G Android 2.3 Gingerbread update, that date of course being June 6th. It also confirmed another little tidbit we believed to be true, that the update would be available for manual installation on [...]
T-Mobile has gone ahead and announced two new Android smartphones, the Samsung Exhibit 4G and the Samsung Gravity SMART with the former bringing T-Mobile an affordable Gingerbread offering and the latter offering customers an extremely cheap Android 2.2 Froyo device. The specifications are pretty much what we expected from both devices. The Samsung Exhibit 4G [...]
Today at the All Things D 9, Microsoft Windows President Steven Sinofsky showed off the company’s highly anticipated new Windows software, Windows 8. While the version that was shown off is still in its infancy, we got a clear look into the future of Windows which seems to be a mix of both Windows 7 [...]
Don’t look now HTC EVO 4G owners but it looks like your upgrade to Android 2.3 Gingerbread is just around the corner as new evidence suggests that the update will be rolling out next Monday, June 6th. As is the case with many of these dates, they are subject to change at a moments notice, [...]
Right on cue, the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer has received its upgrade to the latest version of Android Honeycomb, Android 3.1. Eee Pad owners have confirmed that the update is rolling out over the air, just as we knew it would, and that their tablet is now playing host to newfound USB support, Books and [...]
It’s looking more and more like we might see an announcement from T-Mobile regarding the myTouch 4G Slide aka HTC Doubleshot in the very near future as the device has just passed through the FCC and is now ready for launch. T-Mobile is expected to show off three new HTC devices at an event on [...]
RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet has only been out for two months, the company has yet to even ship their WiMax flavored PlayBook on Sprint and already we are hearing rumors of a sequel that is currently being dubbed, the BlackBerry PlayBook 2. N4BB is citing sources that are claiming that RIM is preparing to release [...]
HP has still yet to give us anything substantial on the HP TouchPad, its webOS tablet device that it announced back in February. Lucky for us, SanDisk was more than willing to show off the new device giving a detailed video tour of the tablet at this year’s Computex conference in Taipei. The video touches [...]
Yesterday, T-Mobile officially announced the HTC Sensation 4G, a beastly dual-core smartphone that will be available at T-Mobile stores on June 15th and through select Walmart outlets on June 12th. However, there was one thing missing in the announcement. The pricing. Fortunately, T-Mobile revealed that to us today. The HTC Sensation 4G is going to [...]
Yesterday it became apparent that the HTC EVO 3D might not be launching in the first part of June but instead, come during the fourth week of next month and now we have some evidence from Radio Shack to back up that notion. Originally, the EVO 3D was thought to be launching on June 4th. [...]
The day that Motorola Droid X owners have been waiting for has arrived. As promised, the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update is finally available to all Droid X owners, not just those involved in the “soak test.” For those of you that have not seen the update, all it takes is a couple of steps before [...]
It looks like that June 8th launch date for the HTC Sensation 4G on T-Mobile was a little premature as the carrier has announced that the dual-core smartphone will be out on June 15th at retail stores and through T-Mobile. It had been rumored that the Sensation 4G might be headed to shelves in early [...]
Over the weekend, some lucky Motorola Droid Pro owners began to see the Android 2.3.3 update available for installation on their device. And while it doesn’t appear to be a full-blown roll out, it’s reminiscent of the Droid X’s current Gingerbread “soak test” which means that an update to the masses should be coming at [...]
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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 [...]
