By Killian Bell |
Research in Motion has announced a new BlackBerry 10 prototype device, which, like traditional BlackBerry handsets, features a physical QWERTY keyboard. The device is designed to give developers the opportunity to test their BB10 apps with physical keys, with RIM’s original BB10 prototype being an…
By Killian Bell |
When Google unveiled Android 4.2 on Monday, it demonstrated an awesome new keyboard that allows you to swipe across its keys to type. Most of you have probably used third-party keyboards with this functionality — such as Swype — but it’s part of the operating…
By Maximum PC |
Membrane keyboards don’t hold a candle to their mechanical-based brethren, they just don’t. Mechanical key switches offer far superior click action, and thanks to the variety of switches out there, fans of mechanical planks have their choice of loud and obnoxious keyboards, quiet performers, or…
By Todd Haselton |
The Galaxy Note 10.1 might be Samsung’s hot new tablet, but the firm just announced an amazing deal for anyone interested in its smaller, less powerful Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 device. Beginning on August 19th, and for two weeks only, Samsung will sell the Galaxy…
By Killian Bell |
Remember the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze Q, an Android powered slider with a physical QWERTY keyboard that was first leaked by the FCC back in July? The handset’s official press image is now making its way around the web — courtesy of Tmo News —…
By Killian Bell |
Great news if you’re already running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean on your Samsung Galaxy Nexus: SwiftKey 3, arguably the best third-party keyboard for Android, now has full support for Jelly Bean thanks to its latest update. Android 4.1 already has some terrific keyboard improvements, and…
By Killian Bell |
As a Brit, I’ve been able to support all those really great Kickstarter projects that we’ve seen since the crowd funding service made its debut back in 2008, but I haven’t been able to start great projects of my own (not that I have any,…
By Killian Bell |
To those of you clinging onto BlackBerry devices for your dear life, purely for fear of saying goodbye to real keys, meet the new Samsung Galaxy Chat — an Android Ice Cream Sandwich-powered smartphone with a physical QWERTY keyboard. Samsung probably wasn’t preparing to unveil…
By Todd Haselton |
You have to wait until the first quarter of 2013 to get your hands on Research In Motion’s latest BlackBerry 10-powered devices, including one with a QWERTY keyboard, but if you don’t want to wait that long, Samsung reportedly has a new portrait-QWERTY smartphone in the…
By Killian Bell |
Microsoft gave us our first glimpse at Windows Phone 8 earlier this month, but there are plenty of features that the company won’t disclose before the software’s public release. One of those appears to be a curved, one-handed keyboard that has appeared in a leaked…
By Todd Haselton |
I was eating dinner with my uncle last night and he told me he “loved his BlackBerry.” I think Android and iOS offer better solutions for mobile users these days, so I asked him why it was that he still preferred BlackBerry over more robust…
By Killian Bell |
If you’ve managed to stay devoted to Research in Motion’s BlackBerry devices while others are fleeing to the likes of Android, iOS, and Windows Phone, then you’re probably looking forward to BlackBerry 10 a lot. The operating system got its first unveiling at BlackBerry World…
By Killian Bell |
Remember that awesome concept for text editing on the iPad that we showed you last Friday? Just as we expected, hackers have now turned it into a fully functional tweak for jailbroken iPads, and it’s available to download now from Cydia. If you didn’t see last Friday’s…
By Killian Bell |
Typing on the iPad’s virtual keyboard is actually a pretty smooth experience. It’s certainly not something you’d want to use all day every day, but for catching up with emails, sending a quick memo, or simple document editing on the go, it’s almost perfect. Almost!…
By Killian Bell |
Just as promised back in early March, Asus will be launching its Padfone later this month. The Taiwanese company announced this morning that pre-orders for the device will begin tomorrow for a mid-April launch in Taiwan. If you want to get your hands on this…
By Killian Bell |
There’s a huge selection of third-party keyboards out there that are designed to make working on a tablet a more bearable experience, but none of them are better suited to your BlackBerry PlayBook than the official Mini Keyboard from Research in Motion. The device, which…
By Killian Bell |
The last time Sony produced a mobile phone running a Windows platform was way back in 2008 — long before the Windows Phone 7 operating system that we know and love today came along. The Japanese company has chosen instead to use Android to power…
By Adriana Lee |
Lately, I’ve been particularly keen on the idea of an iPad keyboard. I recently traveled with a Bluetooth one, and having physical keys made all the difference when it came to writing on the go. The only problem was that toting a separate accessory wasn’t…
By Killian Bell |
Despite the company’s tremendous success with the iPhone, the iPad, and its latest line of Macs, not every Apple product has been a smash-hit. In fact, some of the company’s forward-thinking gadgets don’t even make it out of Cupertino. In the video above, Matt Pearce…
By Adriana Lee |
For the past year-plus, tablet accessories have primarily focused on the Apple tablet. We’ve seen all manner of crazy cool (or odd) iPad gear — from arcade cabinets, theater seating built all around the tablet, scratch-ready DJ controllers and even gadget sleeves made from Bernie…
By Sage Lane |
Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but did you know that tablets are the future? It is a line parroted by manufacturers and pundits alike, one that announces the arrival of the slate as the form-factor that will dominate the computer landscape for years…
By Noah Kravitz |
Tablets are hot. Laptops are versatile. eReaders are inexpensive. So which is the best fit for your back to school bag? At the end of the day you may well go with the gear that sings to your heart. Let’s face it, a lot of…
By Mike Perlman |
I feel like the black sheep in the Tablet herd, questing to find meaning within this gadget’s baffling existence, but always strolling away with a sprinkling of pros and a bushel of cons. Let me spew more diesel onto the incendiary spectacle by adding this…
By Adriana Lee |
iOS users, are you jealous over how some Android users get to enjoy Swype? The keyboard-swiping text entry method seems to have a divided response — some people adore it, and miss it like crazy when they move to an iPhone, while others just can’t…
