By Sean P. Aune |
While we were at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) last week in Las Vegas, one thing we couldn’t escape was NVIDIA’s dual-core Tegra 2 processor. It seems that everyone and their brother was slapping this new chipset into their phones and tablets, and considering it…
By Jon Rettinger |
For the spec watchers among us, the Motorola Atrix was one of the unsung heroes of CES 2011. Rocking a dual-core processor and 1GB of RAM, this Android 2.2 device is bringing some serious heat (Full spec breakdown). For all the gory details we got…
By Noah Kravitz |
Back in 2003 I jammed an Ericsson chatboard into the bottom of my Sony Ericsson T610 and tried to use it to write drafts of blog posts during my hour-each-way commute to work on the subways of New York. While the chatboard was awesome for…
By Tom Moccia |
The open source nature of the Android operating system gives users the ability to choose from many apps that may not always operate as the Android developers intended. The big advantage of the Android Marketplace is very little, if any dictation as to what can…
By Jack McGrath |
Though it is easy to fixate one’s attention on Verizon finally getting its hands on the iPhone, one must not forget the fact that AT&T is going to be significantly impacted by the loss of exclusivity. Initial estimates say that between one and six million…
By Jon Rettinger |
Out with one wave of phone rumors, in with another. The intrepid sleuths at Pocketnow have unearthed a Bluetooth filing revealing what appears to be the long rumored Facebook phone. This Android powered social networking featurephone phone is described as the ‘INQ Cloud Touch:’ “INQ…
By Noah Kravitz |
Tablets, tablets everywhere, in my face and in my hair … oh wait, I’m bald. But you get the idea: Tablets were everywhere at CES last week. Besides a first look at Android 3.0 Honeycomb and the rise of the dual-core “superphones,” what else caught…
By Sean P. Aune |
Now that the iPhone has finally come to Verizon, one has to wonder what will happen to its heavy support for the Android operating system. Will they continue to plug ahead with it, or will they toss it to the side like an old girlfriend…
By Sean P. Aune |
Remember how excited we all were when Android 3.0 Honeycomb demoed last week as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES)? Everyone got all worked up and couldn’t wait for it to be released. Pfft, Honeycomb is SO yesterday. Pocket-Lint is reporting that while playing with a…
By Sean P. Aune |
With the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) rapidly fading into the sunset for this year, we wanted to take a look at who the winners and the losers of the show were. It was definitely a mixed bag this year with no one product just leaping…
By Sean P. Aune |
While the Samsung Galaxy Music Player has been out for some time overseas, it is finally making its way to American shores. We got a little hands on time with it here at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) with the player and … well ……
By Jack McGrath |
One of the most highly-anticipated devices coming out of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is the Motorola XOOM, a 10.1-inch tablet running Google’s next-gen mobile OS, Honeycomb, which is targeted specifically tablet devices. Featuring a sleek user interface, it will likely sit next…
By Sean P. Aune |
The new Motorola ATRIX isn’t just another Android phone, but instead can be turned into a laptop via a simple dock. The phone itself is fairly smooth, but not quite as good as the Droid Bionic we’ve seen this weekend. The other drawback? Yep, Moto…
By Jack McGrath |
Though many were disappointed that Sony did not announce the highly anticipated PlayStation Phone that was first seen a few months back, we are beginning to get new details about the device’s technical specifications. The device was originally was seen on a Hong Kong forum…
By Jack McGrath |
Motorola has definitely been inconsistent at best in terms of product quality of their Android-powered smartphones. For every great cellphone that comes out of the handset manufacturer , an even worse one is pushed to market. The original Motorola CLIQ was the epitome of how…
By Sean P. Aune |
We’re live at the T-Mobile demo event, and we’ve just spent a few minutes with the just announced Dell Streak 7 seven-inch tablet. The most immediate thing you notice is the heft of the device. It doesn’t exactly feel “sturdy” in the hand so much…
By Winston Sih |
LG unveiled its new Optimus Black smartphone powered by Android 2.2 Froyo at the Consumer Electronics Show 2011 in Las Vegas. The selling feature of this phone is it’s supposedly the phone with the world’s brightest screen. It claims that the phone has the “brightest,…
By Sean P. Aune |
The Motorola XOOM may be the hottest item at CES this year, and yet none of us can touch it. Introduced yesterday, it is definitely the item I have heard the most people talking about in the halls and in the press rooms. People want…
By Winston Sih |
Verizon announced and previewed LG’s first-ever LTE smartphone. The device is a Google Android 2.2 device, in a 4.3″ capacitive touchscreen body. Features of the device includes a 5MP camera, DLNA, HDMI, HD video and photo capture, Bluetooth 3.0 and Wi-Fi. The phone is DivX…
By Sean P. Aune |
Samsung is going to be releasing an LTE-capable handset for Verizon towards the middle of the year, and we’re hoping by then it may even have a name for it. While we found it rather odd Samsung hasn’t bothered to name its new handset yet…
By Sean P. Aune |
Discussed this morning at the Verizon keynote address, we have now been able to go hands on with the new Droid Bionic. Physically the handset had a good solid feeling to it, and the Android 2.2 installation seemed zippy and responsive thanks to the 1 GHz…
By Winston Sih |
Verizon has announced in partnership with Samsung, that it will be offering the first 4G-enabled version of its Samsung Galaxy Tab, running Google’s Android operating system. A few highlights of the device includes full 4G-LTE connectivity to Verizon’s network, a 5MP rear-facing camera (a 2MP…
By Jon Rettinger |
If you were following our live updates of the CES 200 Verizon press event, you got a chance to see the newest darling in HTC’s lineup, the Thunderbolt sporting the carrier’s new 4G network. As a point of clarification, the presenter was unaware of the…
By Jon Rettinger |
We want you to feel like you are right on the floor with us at CES, and as such we’re going to keep you updated on our (short)comings and goings. Right now we are in line waiting for the Verizon LTE event to start. I…
