By Noah Kravitz |
Verizon’s first 4G LTE smartphone launched with a flash of lightning and a crack of thunder. The HTC ThunderBolt is the first phone to take advantage of VZW’s LTE network, which offers the fastest mobile data speeds in the U.S. if you live and/or work…
By Noah Kravitz |
Happy Major League Baseball Opening Day. While not everyone out there is a baseball fan, or cares at all about the difference between a “suicide squeeze” and “twi-night doubleheader,” we all love our tech. And nothing says love like a day’s worth of themed content…
By Emily Price |
Vintage Buffalo is a new weekly feature here at TechnoBuffalo where we take a look at our old gadgets, why we bought them, and what made us replace them. I’m a bit of self-proclaimed gadget hoarder. While I tend to buy a lot of “new”…
By Sean P. Aune |
Considering the number of handsets being released at any given time in the marketplace that run on Google’s Android operating system (OS), it seems to be a lock that it will become the leading platform this year based strictly on volume. If a forecast released…
By Sean P. Aune |
Move vs. Kinect is the focus of Console Wars Season 2, and in this second round, LP focuses on the precision and accuracy of the two controllers. The Sony Move and Microsoft Kinect were released within just a few months of one another, and that…
By Sean P. Aune |
Summer has come to mean a lot more than cookouts and baseball to tech enthusiasts, it has also come to represent the release of a new iPhone. For the past several summers (at least in the Northern hemisphere), Apple has announced a new version of…
By Joey Davidson |
At this point, these “death” screens are like horribly written jokes. New hardware releases with its own operating system and, almost inevitably, within days the sucker crashes and burns for the entire Internet to see. The 3DS has been available in North American for less…
By Sean P. Aune |
It’s been a month since the Motorola Xoom, the first tablet to feature Android 3.0 Honeycomb, made it’s debut. While we gave you a Xoom review at that time, nothing beats a lengthier real world usage test. How is it holding up after a few…
By Sean P. Aune |
Mark Watson, aka SoldierKnowsBest on YouTube, is back for his 11th weekly news recap since joining TechnoBuffalo.com. Samsung announced the Galaxy Tab 10.1 this week, and it looks like it might be a real contender against the iPad 2 if Apple isn’t careful. The BlackBerry PlayBook is…
By Noah Kravitz |
HTC’s ThunderBolt is Verizon’s first 4G LTE smartphone. It’s one big, bad mamajama. 4.3-inch display, 8MP camera on the back, 1.3MP camera up front. CDMA, LTE and Wi-Fi connectivity. Android 2.2 with HTC Sense. Kickstand! Can it compete with iPhone 4? Does it blow iPhone…
By Sean P. Aune |
A lot has been made of the fact that no tablets in the same size range as the iPad and iPad 2 have been able to crack the $499 price point that Apple begins its models at. With the official announcement of the Samsung Galaxy…
By Emily Price |
Yesterday AT&T announced plans to acquire T-Mobile USA for $39 billion. While the acquisition has been approved by the board of directors of both companies, it has not yet been approved by the FCC. No matter what sort of deal the two companies have worked…
By Noah Kravitz |
Verizon’s first 4G LTE smartphone is big, bad, and blazing fast. I’ve had one in my hands for a few days now, and while it’s too soon to give a full-on review of the device, I have formed a few first impressions. There’s no getting…
By Sean P. Aune |
Mark Watson, aka SoldierKnowsBest on YouTube, is back for his tenth weekly news recap since joining TechnoBuffalo.com. If you’re still waiting to get an iPad 2, you’re not alone. Even the Apple online store has been slipping scheduled shipping dates back to more than a month, so…
By Noah Kravitz |
Verizon’s first 4G smartphone, the HTC Thunderbolt just arrived at my door. Available tomorrow, March 17, for $249.99 on contract, Thunderbolt was first seen at CES in January, and faced at least one delay before finally hitting the store shelves. Comparable in some ways to…
By Jon Rettinger |
Based on iPhone 5 case listings on Alibaba, incremental looks to be the word of the year for Apple. The cases show the iPhone 5 sharing the same exterior casing as the iPhone 4, but donning that purported 4″ screen we’ve been hearing about recently.…
By Jon Rettinger |
The iPad 2 has been teased, announced, launched, tested, and now it’s time to be reviewed. The iPad 2, like all of Apple’s products, is a polarizing device; either you can live within its limitations or you cannot. There is nothing revolutionary found in the…
By Sean P. Aune |
As the news of the devastation in Japan following Friday’s earthquake continues to mount, companies from all sectors are trying to find ways to ease the donation process for people looking to help. As with most natural disasters, the Red Cross is leading the way with offering…
By Sean P. Aune |
Mark Watson, aka SoldierKnowsBest on YouTube, is back for his ninth weekly news recap since joining TechnoBuffalo.com. First up, our apologies for this not going up on Friday, and hence the discussion that starts off this episode about the iPad 2 refers to it being about to…
By Sean P. Aune |
The Apple iPad 2 is officially here, and we wouldn’t be TechnoBuffalo if we didn’t unbox it for you. What’s in the box? Does it feel as light as it should? Is it as incredibly thin as we’ve been led to believe? Lets find out.…
By Noah Kravitz |
Ryan Sarver, a lead member of Twitter’s Platform Team, posted a thinly veiled edict to third parties looking to cash in on the microblogging service’s runaway popularity. The message: Don’t develop any new Twitter clients, ’cause we ain’t gonna let ‘em show Kanye and Charlie’s…
By Sean P. Aune |
With the iPad 2 having been released today, people are still trying to decide if this is the right purchase for them. We understand how nerve wracking it can be to make a financial decision of this size, so to help you out we ran 5 reasons…
By Sean P. Aune |
As the iPad 2 prepares for release, there is an endless stream of people talking about how they plan to buy one, but is there any reason why you shouldn’t? Well, we’ll give you five reasons why this may not be the best purchase for…
By Sean P. Aune |
With the iPad 2 release, we at TechnoBuffalo thought it was the perfect time for a giveaway! Who wouldn’t love the newest shiny gadget without having to spend a penny to get it? TechnoBuffalo loves its readers, and there’s nothing we like more than giving…
