By Jon Rettinger |
Amazon’s Kindle fire HD 8.9 is shockingly nice to hold, finished with a black soft-touch back, and quite beautiful. The standard Amazon achieved with its 7-inch HD felt like a pivotal step forward in the company’s race to stay competitive in the tablet market, and…
By Todd Haselton |
We just had a chance to unbox the brand new Nexus 4 from Google, the first smartphone to launch with Android 4.2 Jelly Bean installed. The device is available (if you can find it) for $299 with 8GB of storage or $349 with 16GB of…
By Jon Rettinger |
It feels like we just unboxed a new 9.7-inch iPad, and indeed we did just this past March. Very few people suspected that there would be another new one a mere seven months later, but behold, the fourth generation iPad had indeed arrived. While it…
By Jon Rettinger |
Apple’s iPad, in its fourth generation as of today, has utterly dominated the larger tablet segment. Many have tried, but few have matched the company’s grace of hardware and software. So the competition thought outside the box, and instead of challenging the iPad head on,…
By Todd Haselton |
We recently received the brand new AT&T Nokia Lumia 920, Nokia’s flagship Windows Phone 8 device. And boy, oh boy is it a beauty. We received the cherry red review unit, along with the wireless charger accessory, and we’re now more excited than ever for…
By Todd Haselton |
We just swung by Best Buy in New York City and picked up the iPad mini to put it through its paces. The store was already out of the 16GB model, so we picked up a 32GB iPad mini in black and just had a…
By Jon Rettinger |
Samsung’s Galaxy Note II is easily one of the best devices — Android or otherwise — available on the market. It’s fast, extremely powerful, and runs the latest (well, Android 4.2 is now the latest) version of Google’s mobile OS — all ingredients, coupled with…
By Jon Rettinger |
Unlike most products we’ve seen this year, Microsoft’s Surface announcement was a bonafide surprise. In a market where tablets were merely playing catch up to Apple’s iPad, the Redmond company deviated from the norm while promising a Brave New World. Several months later and the…
By Todd Haselton |
We just received the LG Optimus L9 from T-Mobile and have a few first impressions as well as an unboxing video to share with you. The Optimus L9 will launch on Oct. 31 for $79.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and with a new two-year…
By Jon Rettinger |
The RAZR HD is beautiful, plain and simple. When the handset was announced back in early September, it was clear that Motorola’s focus was on completely refining the entire experience. The company said 78 percent more pixels were included over the previous RAZR or RAZR MAXX,…
By Todd Haselton |
Sprint’s LG Optimus G lands on November 11 for $199.99 with a new two-year contract. But you know us, we thought we’d jump the gun a bit and bring you a hands-on video and gallery with the new Android smartphone as soon as possible. There’s…
By Todd Haselton |
I wasn’t really expecting to like the LG Optimus G as much as I do. LG’s handsets have been largely so-so devices in the past that, while good, don’t usually go toe-to-toe with the highest-end smartphones. That’s not the case with the Optimus G for…
By Brandon Russell |
For all of Apple’s predictability — iPhone and iPad design, as an example — the company’s approach to the iPod nano has been vastly different. It’s always remained an mp3 player along the way, a stalwart in Apple’s lineup of iPods, but its appearance has…
By Jon Rettinger |
The Galaxy Note II is an immensely imposing figure, both in specs and in size. Samsung has improved the device in every conceivable way over last year’s monster handset, giving it a stature that overshadows everything out there. Yes, even the iPhone 5 — though…
By Jon Rettinger |
If you couldn’t tell during our brief hands-on with the Paperwhite back in early September, we think the device is absolutely great. After falling in love with Barnes & Noble’s Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight, Amazon introduced a more refined step up in quality —…
By Jon Rettinger |
Not everyone was happy with Apple’s seemingly lackadaisical approach to last year’s iPhone 4S. Sure, the device sold in the millions, but it largely felt like it didn’t push the handset forward. There was Siri, an improved camera, and faster internals. Otherwise, what else can…
By Jon Rettinger |
With Apple’s fancy new iPhone 5, the company introduced a new pair of earbuds called EarPods. Weird name, but they’re supposed to be much nicer than what was previously offered. Let’s hope so, because you couldn’t exactly call the older ones “good.” Adequate, yes,…
By Brandon Russell |
One lucky Internet denizen has acquired an iPhone 5 unit early and, as customary for such flagship devices, an unboxing ensued. Unfortunately, this is more of a teaser ahead of the handset’s official launch on Sept. 21 — we’re merely getting a few photos, and…
By Jon Rettinger |
The original Kindle Fire didn’t dazzle with its specs or design. Rather, the headlining feature was its price. For just $199, it undercut Apple’s iPad by double while offering a rival ecosystem to boot. But the tablet market has changed a lot in a year,…
By Todd Haselton |
We just received our brand new and shiny Verizon Wireless DROID RAZR M review unit and we’re excited to give you a quick unboxing and look at the device. Right now, we’re already impressed by the expansive screen, which nearly stretches from edge-to-edge, the phone’s…
By Jon Rettinger |
QWERTY devices are a lost art. With touchscreen handsets literally growing in stature, smartphones equipped with actual physical buttons are becoming that much more scarce. And on the road to extinction, company’s have forgotten how to make a quality device with a usable keyboard. People…
By Jon Rettinger |
When you first pick up Nintendo’s 3DS XL, you’ll immediately understand why the company insisted on making the machine larger. The original 3DS was a sound product, but nothing about it screamed for attention. The 3D aspect was a huge gimmick (it still is) and…
By Todd Haselton |
T-Mobile recently shipped us its budget-friendly $50 myTouch Q and myTouch Android smartphones. Both devices offer a 4-inch display and a single core 1.4GHz processor, which suggests they are pretty low-end, but we were actually really impressed with the hardware design. The myTouch Q offers…
By Jon Rettinger |
The Galaxy Note 10.1 has quietly bided its time in gadget limbo over the past several months, staying under the radar, waiting for the time to strike. We got a brief glimpse at the device back in February, but nothing substantial has hit since. Now…
