By Emily Price |
PayPal unveiled functionality today that allows payments to be sent and received between two Android phones using NFC. Payments require a special PayPal widget, where you choose to either send or receive money. Making that selection and then tapping your phone against another with the…
By Sean P. Aune |
Sprint said the Motorola Photon 4G would launch in July … the last day of the month still counts, right? The Photon 4G will pop into Sprint retail stores on the 31st of the month for $199.99 with a two-year agreement. Sprint Premiere customers will…
By Sean P. Aune |
Do you have a burning question about tech? Well, it’s time to ask Jon Rettinger and hear him answer one of your pressing queries on video. Until 12 PM PST on Saturday, July 16th, leave a comment with your question for him, and then you’ll…
By Sean P. Aune |
Who wants to play a real time Star Wars strategy game on a 20 foot multitouch display that pumps out 8,160×2,304 resolution? Arthur Nishimoto, a grad student at the University of Illinois’ Electronic Visualization Laboratory, came up with this enormous concept project to show off … okay, we…
By Sean P. Aune |
AT&T is on a tear with its tablet lineup right now. Yesterday it officially unveiled the TouchPad for its network, and today they tell us that they will be adding the Sony Tablet S2. The compact Android tablet from Sony will be coming to big…
By Noah Kravitz |
T-Mobile’s latest flagship phone, the MyTouch 4G Slide, goes on sale July 27 for $199 on contract. I was fortunate enough to meet up with some T-Mo reps today to get a tour of the HTC-made device and a review unit. So, of course, I…
By Sean P. Aune |
We first knew it as the ChaCha, but at long last we have “the Facebook phone” in our hands under its new name, the HTC Status. And not only do we have it in hands, but we have it in box with that new phone…
By Emily Price |
A new version of the Android Market is now available. The updated version gives you access to Google Books and Movies in addition to traditional applications. Movies can be rented starting at $1.99 with viewing available almost immediately, and book titles can be purchased just…
By Emily Price |
As of this morning, 1 billion applications have been downloaded from RIM’s BlackBerry App World. The store is now available in more than 100 countries, with around 3 million applications downloaded each day. Developer support is what drives many people away from BlackBerry and to…
By Joey Davidson |
The TechnoBuffalo staff meets and talks a lot. Conference calls of the weekly variety are a constant. The doughnuts promised by a certain Noah Kravitz, however, are not. More than that, though, are all of the interactions that go on every day. We chat with…
By Noah Kravitz |
What started out as an April Fools’ joke is now a $99 retro gaming reality. ThinkGeek teamed up with Ion Audio to make iCade real, and they were kind enough to send one our way for review. If you grew up in arcades or know…
By Emily Price |
If you’re waiting to nab one of Sony’s Android tablets, you might have to head to the UK in order to get one. According to documents obtained by This is my next pre-orders for the S1 are slated to start on September 1 in Sony…
By Jon Rettinger |
That new tablet smell isn’t even off the HP TouchPad yet and already there is an improved model on its way. AT&T took the wraps off a 4G capable version of the webOS tablet this evening at a press event in New York City. While…
By Emily Price |
According to Piper Jaffray analyst Chris Larsen we’ll see the iPhone 5 on Sprint and T-Mobile in addition to Verizon and AT&T. In a research study note issued today Larsen said, “While we remain uncertain regarding the next-generation iPhone’s specs and features, we believe the…
By Jon Rettinger |
Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is heading to AT&T and it’s being shown off here tonight at the the carrier’s press event in New York City. Previously only available in the United States on Verizon, the Playstation phone as most call it will be coming to…
By Adriana Lee |
The HTC Status (known abroad as the ChaCha) has opened for AT&T pre-orders, with in-store stock set for July 17th. On the surface, it looks like a great mid-tier option for featurephoners dallying with the thought of hopping on the Android bandwagon. But it turns…
By Noah Kravitz |
Nobody ever said it’d be easy at the top. Despite accounting for the lion’s share of all Internet traffic in North America, announcing global expansion plans, and signing high profile deals to produce original content, Netflix still has its fair share of issues to deal…
By Sean P. Aune |
We put out the call for questions last week, and as always you had a bunch of them! Jon went through and selected a handful of them to answer, and as with all episodes of Ask the Buffalo now, you can see them first on…
By Emily Price |
Italy’s Android World has managed to pick up a few images (and a video!) of the BlackBerry-esque LG Optimus Pro. According to the site the phone will come running Gingerbread on its 2.8-inch screen, and packing an 800MHz processor and 8-megapixel camera under the hood.…
By Emily Price |
Mentioning “people familiar with the matter” AppleInsider is reporting that new MacBook Airs will be released this week with Sandy Bridge processors, high-speed Thunderbolt ports, and potentially 400Mbps of flash memory. All those rumors are things we’ve heard before – but the site is also…
By Emily Price |
Last week Apple filed paperwork attempting to block the sale of several Samsung devices in the U.S. A little over a week later we’re back to the trenches, with Apple now attempting to block the sale of several HTC devices including the HTC Droid Incredible,…
By Joey Davidson |
Speaking with OXM UK, Microsoft Games Studios Corporate Vice President Phil Spencer discussed the nature of Master Chief and his relationship with Halo 4. Put simply, Spencer claims that Microsoft and Bungie took the story in unnecessary direction with Reach and O.D.S.T. by leaving Chief out. That, apparently,…
By Emily Price |
If you’ve been waiting for an Android smartphone with some impressive camera features and a slide-out keyboard- T-Mobile’s myTouch 4G will be hitting store shelves on July 27. We first heard the myTouch slide would be headed to the US late last month. T-Mobile is…
By Sean P. Aune |
AT&T announced this morning that it is releasing two new 4G LTE devices to help you get connected to all of that high speed data while on the go. The AT&T Momentum will plug into your computer for mobile data while the AT&T Elevate will…
