Verizon took to the stage this morning at the Las Vegas Hilton this morning to discuss their success of the past year, and what is to come in 2011. The rumors of the seemingly inevitable addition of the iPhone to the company’s line-up hung thick in the air to be sure. Through out the pre-show you could hear the handset’s name being mumbled through out the entire gathered audience. ...
While there is varying opinion about what qualifies as 4G (4th generation mobile connectivity) data, the reality is, it is here (or so the PR folks would like you to believe). This explanation will hopefully shed some light on what is sure to be the biggest tech buzzs word of 2011. LTE, meaning Long Term Evolution, is the variety Verizon has been touting for a while and AT&T just...
We are live from the Palms hotel for the AT&T keynote. What do we expect to hear about? Lots of Tegra 2. Stay tuned, we’ll be updating live. 9:00 We are still sitting, some classic rock is blaring. Get ready to hear ‘Dual Core’ quite a bit. Maybe some 4G info? 9:02 Announcer just came on, told us the party is starting shortly. 9:05 Lights went off music got louder. Please...
Considering the fact that Vizio is the most successful manufacturer of television sets in the United States, it was only a matter of time before the company attempted to have a piece of the mobile pie. The organization announced both an Android-based phone and a tablet device, certainly jumping the CES gun in doing so. Both of the devices are to be shown at the expo this week. It comes...
We brought you a story yesterday of how IBM was predicting cell phones with holographic technology by 2015. It seemed like fairly wild speculation at the time, but leave it to Apple to make everyone rethink that possibility. According to The Telegraph, Apple has been granted a patent for a new type of display that is populated by pixel sized domes that will reflect an image...
It’s sometimes easy to forget that IBM (International Business Machines Corp.) once ruled the computer landscape. If you look back at the 1984 commercial from Apple, the face on the screen was all blue, and IBM’s nickname at the time was “Big Blue”, so there is some evidence of its former computer prowess before upstarts like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates set the computing world on its ear...
With innovative mobile applications and shiny hardware practically being released daily, cell phones seem to be bursting at the seams with features. It is this oversaturation in the market today that has led many to forget what a cell phone is actually meant to do. To put it bluntly, a cell phone is meant to make calls. Why has the quality of calling remained prehistoric in the quickly...
Smartphones have been a boon to many retailers in terms of sales. As more and more consumers flock to phones with more features, and higher price points, they have seen their sales rise, but have they unwittingly also aided in damaging their bottom lines as barcode scanning applications become all the rage? If you go into the iOS App Store and do a search on “barcode”, you will find...
Google has announced that Android users can expect to see an update to the Marketplace to be rolled out over the next few weeks. One of the biggest complaints Android users have had about the open source operating system has been the poor user interface of the application Marketplace. While developers have been getting more excited about the platform due its growing adoption, the...
As we noted yesterday, Verizon was having their press conference today to make the official announcement about the launch of 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) this afternoon, and as of Sunday, Dec. 5th, you'll be able to walk into a company store and get yourself some of that sweet, sweet mobile speed. As much as people desire faster mobile speeds, there are a few caveats to this...