What do you get when you take BlackBerry Bold 9900 guts and stick them inside Porsche designed hardware? Why, the exorbitantly priced $2,400 BlackBerry P9981, clad with stainless steel materials and leather-wrapped back. Also: An unnecessarily cramped keyboard. A mass consumption device this is not. Forged by the minds of Porsche, the P9981 is meant to

In my years of unboxing videos, never has a phone made me nervous to hold and use. The $2,400 BlackBerry P9981 carries that dubious distinction. Essentially a BlackBerry Bold 9900, this Porsche designed device is crafted with stainless steel materials along with a grippy leather-clad back. It looks high-end, and certainly feels high-end, but I’m

Not to get all curmudgeonly on smartphone manufacturers, but the rate at which “new” Android phones hit the market is getting ridiculous. There was a great Best Buy commercial early last year that perfectly captured my sentiment. Titled Outdated World, the ad shows how quickly electronics become old hat, and the reactions of people who

Once in a while a cause comes along that you simply can’t ignore, and standing up against the threat to the Internet that SOPA and PIPA present is one of those causes. TechnoBuffalo will be  joining the January 18 Internet protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) by going

With AT&T’s 4G LTE rollout currently underway, more devices, like the Pantech Burst, are hopping off the production line. The more, the merrier, we say. As a device aimed at the lower-end market, the Burst packs some pretty impressive specs, particularly at its $49.99 asking price. The Burst comes equipped with a 1.2Ghz dual-core processor,

Having trouble keeping track of Samsung’s ever-expanding Galaxy line of phones? Prepare to add another flash card to your studying.  Earlier today Samsung took advantage of the CES 2012 stage to announce the expansion of their 4G network and the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G.  This iteration of the ubiquitous Galaxy line is packing a 1.5

Some of you may remember that I’m an advocate of the first Titan, even made it my daily driver. Now faced with the new iteration, I couldn’t wait to check out a quick comp. Verdict? Very nice indeed. The II’s soft-touch plastic feels really nice in the hand, the photo-snapping chops are robust (at a

It’s official, the TechnoBuffalo Herd has all pulled into Las Vegas and we’re ready to start rocking CES 2012 with all of the coverage you could want.  Be sure to tune in through out the week for all of your CES coverage needs.  From phones to televisions to tablets, TechnoBuffalo will have you covered.  Be

CES hasn’t officially kicked off yet, and some eagle eyed tipster sent Engadget a picture of an AT&T Branded Galaxy Note poster in the public viewing area of the Las Vegas Convention Center.  Curiously, there doesn’t seem to be an LTE or 4G indicator on the device which appears to have lost it’s one giant

When the Galaxy Note was introduced last September, it was difficult to imagine ever using such a large phone. With a 5.3″ display, the device doesn’t exactly fly under the radar, especially out in public. Out of all the phones I’ve tested, the Note easily attracted the most attention and, after folks saw it in

Envious of our neighbors across the pond? Unfortunately, a lot of quality phones never make it to U.S. shores, meaning most consumers will never get to experience devices like the behemoth Galaxy Note (my current daily driver, which might come here soon, we just don’t know). If you do take the plunge with an unlocked

Droid 4 specs have been leaking out all over the place despite the fact that Verizon has yet to officially announce the device.  Even though there not yet been a formal announcement, we now have something that pretty much cinches the phones existence: A demo unit. TechnoBuffalo just managed to get its hands on a

When the Samsung Galaxy Note was announced a few months back, many wondered whether it was a phone, tablet or something we’d haven’t even heard of. At 5.3-inches of screen, the device absolutely towers over smartphones currently on the market. We got a brief hands-on in September and came away impressed despite its massive size.

There’s been no shortage of tablet devices this year, and Verizon is seeing fit to say goodbye to 2011 by introducing an oddly named Honeycomb line: Xyboard. How the honchos at Big Red ever thought the name would catch on, we’ll never know. In a market dominated by the iPad and Kindle Fire, out comes

When we announced the TechnoBuffalo merchandise store back on December 7, we promised that all the profits would be donated to the American Cancer Society.  We also said that any time we got over $100 in our account we would make a video showing you that we were keeping to our word.  Little did we

To answer your question: Yes, companies do still make QWERTY devices, and the Samsung Captivate Glide is the newest keyboard-toting member in the increasingly disappearing market. While most of the phones we saw in 2011 came sans keyboard, there are still those who long for the physical press of a button in addition to a

Reviewing one of 2011′s most anticipated phones is no easy task. We’ve had our hands on the GSM flavor for over a month now (the Verizon version for about a week), and even that amount of time has left us feeling conflicted. Mostly the Galaxy Nexus impressed as being the best smartphone on the market.

After unleashing a pair of awesome LTE devices in quick succession – Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket and HTC Vivid – AT&T’s next-gen speed lineup has gone relatively quiet. While its 4G LTE network is still in the beginning stages, the carrier has been expanding its reach into more markets across the nation. And wouldn’t

We often get caught up in the hype of what the next flagship smartphone will be, whether its an Apple or Android device. I’m guilty, I’ll admit. Often it’s specs this, screen that, camera, resolution, etc. Working at TechnoBuffalo, I’ve been fortunate enough to test and play with almost all of the top smartphones, past

Verizon Galaxy Nexus owners should enjoy their last few months of carrier exclusivity, as Google’s latest is poised to hit AT&T in late February.  We have confirmed through two independent sources that Verizon’s exclusivity on the Galaxy Nexus is limited to 60 days, with AT&T poised to pick up the Ice Cream Sandwich phone shortly

In what is likely the biggest phone release of 2011 (aside from the iPhone 4S), the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is finally available for mass consumption. No, Verizon customers, you’re not dreaming. If you’ve got $299.99 to spare, you can pick up your very own Nexus today (with two-year contract). It’s been a long, restless road

Best known for its heavily-influenced iPhone lookalikes, Meizu is going legit by launching its first Android powered device. And surprisingly, its specs reveal it to be one of the best Android phones you’ve probably never heard of, at least on paper. Equipped with a A9 dual-core 1.4GHz processor, the Meizu MX has a 4-inch ASV

Does AT&T have plans to flip the 4G LTE switch for folks in southern California? We haven’t heard anything, but while going about our business this morning we discovered a rather welcome surprise: 4G LTE was live! At least for now. We did a video to test out the network’s chops and found that the

You guys have waited patiently, and at long last our much anticipated office tour is here. If you’ve been following TechnoBuffalo over the past few months, you know that the operation has finally relocated from Jon’s home into a nice, open office – chairs, desks, computers and all. If you’ve visited our Minecraft server lately,

In a move Research in Motion hopes will appeal to the younger, SMS-loving crowd, the Waterloo-based company has released its miniature BlackBerry Curve 9360. When we say miniature, we mean miniature. Equipped with a display that measures in at only 2.44-inch, the device touts a single core, 800MHz processor, 512MB RAM, 512MB of internal storage