Todd Haselton has been professionally writing since 2006 during his undergraduate days at Lehigh University. He started out as an intern with MaximumPC Magazine and has since written for Ars Technica, Tom's Hardware Guide, LAPTOP Magazine, The Huffington Post, MobileBurn, Computer Shopper and BGR, with a focus in mobile. When he's not writing, Todd's either trying to get out to the west coast or to the nearest beach. Todd currently resides in New York City.
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Earlier this month we showed you a music video that was filmed entirely with Samsung’s Galaxy S4. Nokia tried the same thing during an Ed Sheeran concert in New York City, when it decided to film a music video for the song “Lego House” entirely…
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Archos just announced its latest Android tablet, the 80 Xenon, which comes with a $199.99 price tag. The device is equipped with a quad-core Qualcomm processor clocked at 1.2GHz, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, built-in support for 3G networks, an 8-inch 1024 x 768-pixel IPS display…
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Google Glass is about to get a handful of new applications, including Tumblr, Facebook, CNN, Ellse and Evernote, TechCrunch said on Thursday. The applications should be available for Glass owners by the end of the day. The Facebook app allows you to post pictures to your…
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Google introduced its new Hangouts cross-platform chat and video application yesterday. But AT&T isn’t allowing video calls from Android devices to be placed over its network, and nobody knows why. It brings back memories of the backlash the carrier experienced when it opened up FaceTime…
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Nokia recently took a photo of two women having a cup of tea together with the Lumia 925, the HTC One, the Samsung Galaxy S4, the Xperia Z and the iPhone 5. The photo was taken in low-light conditions, where Nokia’s camera excels, and shows…
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Verizon’s latest Windows Phone 8 device, the Nokia Lumia 928, is now available for $99.99 with a new two-year contract. We recently unboxed the phone and found that it was a more refined version of the Lumia 920. It offers a similar camera but with…
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Consumers were a bit miffed when the 16GB Galaxy S4 began shipping and they found that almost half of the storage was consumed by Samsung’s own applications. The company said that the space was required in order to deliver more powerful features. It’s not a…
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Earlier this month we covered a rumor that suggested Microsoft’s new and smaller Surface tablet will launch in June with a display that measures between 7-inches and 8-inches. Now, DigiTimes says that it has confirmed with supply chain makers that the new device will have an…
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Yesterday Apple revealed that its customers have now downloaded more than 50 billion applications from its iTunes App Store. The company promised a $10,000 gift card to the winner, and on Thursday it revealed the lucky draw. The winner was Brandon Ashmore, who hails from…
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Android and iOS, if you aren’t already well aware, are dominating the global smartphone market. Research firm IDC recently found that the two operating systems accounted for 92.3 percent of all global smartphone shipments during the first quarter of this year. Combined, 199.5 million units…
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Maybe Google was planning to announce Android 4.3 Jelly Bean yesterday but hit a last minute snag. We’re guessing that only because the Bluetooth SIG recently published a press release that says Android will support Bluetooth Smart Ready and Bluetooth Smart in the coming months. The Verge noticed…
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Several new parts that are allegedly being used for the iPhone 5S spilled to the Internet on Thursday. The new parts including a motor assembly that’s used to power the vibrating mechanism on the phone, a tweaked loud-speaker part, the Wi-Fi flex cable ribbon and…
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Well that was weird. Google just wrapped up its annual Google I/O developer conference where it discusses all of its new projects. We saw a ton of stuff, from Hangouts to All Access Google Music to enhancements in Chrome and redesigned Maps. There were even…
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Google announced its All Access Music subscription service on Wednesday and the application is now available for download in Google Play. It’s simply an update for Google Music, but you’ll now be prompted to try a 30-day trial of the subscription service, which might take…
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Google announced Google Hangouts as its new cross-platform standalone chat application on Wednesday. It allows users with a Google account to chat with one another, video chat or even group chat across platforms, whether it’s on a desktop computer, a laptop, a tablet, a smartphone…
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Google announced new features for Google Maps mobile today, but it’s also “reinventing” Maps for the desktop. Google asked, “wouldn’t it be awesome, if we could build billions of apps, one for every user?” That’s exactly what it says it’s doing: creating custom maps for…
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Google announced at Google I/O 2013 that it will soon sell an unlocked Galaxy S4 Developer Edition, aka the “Google Edition,” for $649 that include a pure version of Android Jelly Bean. Several pundits wondered if this meant that HTC, too, might follow in similar…
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Google took the stage at Google I/O to discuss the progress of Knowledge Graph and Google Search. Search is now smarter than ever and can compare answers to your questions with other answers it think you might ask. If you’re wondering the population of India,…
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Google announced on Wednesday that a new Photos application will now examine hundreds or even thousands of images from a trip, a vacation for example, and will bring up the ones it thinks you’ll want to share with friends and family. The software actually analyzes…
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Google just announced during Google I/O 2013 that it’s introducing 41 new features to Google+. The stream experience will be completely redesigned on phones, tablets and the desktop. Google said it thinks the old design was flat and the new one is about finding depth.…
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Google said during Google I/O 2013 that educators put the task of bringing affordable and practical mobile tech to school systems. Google agreed, and today announced Google Play for Education. A teacher can choose an application and it can be installed on every student’s Android…
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We recently published a gallery that included several photos of Samsung’s still unannounced Galaxy S4 mini. Now we have a few more pictures to add to that batch, thanks to Smartnews.bg. We can’t discern too much from the photos except that it appears the mini has…
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We’re in line waiting to get into Google I/O out in San Francisco, but the company already—perhaps accidentally—let us in on a little secret: the next version of Android that will be discussed today is Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. Like the Google Maps leak earlier…
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Google last night quietly issued an update to Google Play that changes the user interface just a hair. It’s not as drastic as the update that was issued in April, but it tweaks the way the icons for apps, games, movies & TV, music, books…
