Kyle Wagner

Microsoft Just Scored 12 Million Wi-Fi Hotspots for Windows Phone

Microsoft just hammered out a deal to get Windows Phones access to 12 million Wi-Fi hotspots from its new partner Devicescape. WP8 users can access the hotspots by using Data Sense, the new feature that helps limit your network usage (and thereby helps keep you under your data cap). You’ll be launched into a Bing…

Yep, Microsoft confirmed it’s moving its 100-million Messenger users to Skype next year.

America: People Are Googling “Who Is Running for President” Right Up to the End

America, the Great Republic, is holding her elections today. And her voters, you voters, are, uh, still frantically Googling to find out who’s running for President. That’s a Google Trends chart above, showing how often people in the United States have searched for “who is running for president”. As you can see, it’s spiked heavily…

Is Google Voice Sending Your Text Messages from Random Numbers?

Reports are coming in from the Google Voice help forums that SMS messages sent through Google Voice are being sent from random numbers. There are multiple complaints, including for voice SMS, claiming that the incorrect numbers are random, and different for each message. There’s an update coming to Google Voice prior to Android 4.2 being…

Report: Microsoft’s 7-inch Tablet Is Xbox Surface

According to the Verge, Microsoft has a 7-inch, gaming-centric tablet coming called the Xbox Surface, and its hardware is close to being finalized. Microsoft recently entered the tablet and PC manufacturing game with the Surface RT and forthcoming Surface Pro, and a smaller tablet makes total sense. Seven-ish inches has been popular enough that even…

Here’s a Map of Everyone Who Insisted on Using Foursquare While They Voted

It’s election day! Which means a deluge of godawful social media updates about politics. But along with the insufferable comes some sorta-cool-and-not-quite-totally-insufferable, like this map of everyone who checks in to Foursquare with #ivoted for an I Voted badge. [Ivotedmap]

Report: Apple Might Ditch Intel Chips for Its Own

According to a report form Bloomberg News, Apple is considering switching away from the Intel chips that have been powering Mac computers for years, in favor of chips designed in-house, like the A6 and A6X powering the new iPhone 5 and iPad 4. Apple’s shown a renewed interest in chip building recently. In September, it…

Dell XPS 12 Review: Beautiful Screen, Flimsy Frame

Among all the Windows 8 convertibles coming out, the Dell XPS is unique. Because it’s insane. It’s a full-on, regular laptop, with a trapeze artist screen that flips on an axis to convert into a slate. Is that something you’d actually want? What Is It? A 12.5-inch touchscreen laptop that converts into a slate tablet.…

Verizon’s finally shutting down its App Store, starting in January and finishing up by March 2013. Good riddance!

Windows RT Takes Up Half of the 32GB Microsoft Surface’s Storage

So this is surprising, and kind of dumb. Microsoft just put a final figure on the storage numbers for Windows RT: 16GB on the 32GB model, and 18GB on the 64GB model. That’s even bigger than the already hefty 12GB estimates that had been around before. That large of an imprint for an operating system…

Android Turns Five Years Old Today

Android turns five today! It doesn’t seem like all that long ago that BlackBerries ruled the world, the iPhone was brand new, and the Open Handset Alliance showed everyone its new open source software standard called Android. These days, Android phones make up a huge portion of all the world’s smartphones—75 percent of shipments last…

Microsoft Is Killing Off Windows Live Messenger for Skype

The Verge is reporting that Microsoft is trying to nix its Windows Live Messenger client in favor of Skype. That’s definitely for the best, and something we’ve seen coming for a while now. But it also smacks of some missed opportunity for Windows 8 and Windows Phone. The plan, according to the Verge, is that…

Confirmed: Fleshlight Is STILL Developing an iPad Case You Can Have Sex With

You were getting worried, weren’t you. It’s been the better part of a year since we confirmed that the iPad sex toy case was going to (probably) be a real thing. I was worried. So we checked in with Fleshlight, who told us, Yes!-This is still going to be a thing! A Fleshlight spokesman told…

Google Wallet Looks Like It’s Getting a Physical Credit Card

We’ve been hearing on and off that this might happen, but Android Police just got a pretty real-looking tip from a leaked build of the Google Wallet that seems to confirm it: Google Wallet is getting a physical credit card. But what does that actually mean? According to the report, the card will use the…

iOS 6.1 Beta’s Biggest Change So Far Looks Like Bug Reports for Apple Maps

The very minor iOS 6.0.1 update came out just a bit ago, and Apple already has the beta for the hopefully more substantial 6.1 ready to go. We’re combing through the update for new stuff, but for now, the funniest thing that stands out, as pointed out by 9to5mac, is this big, giant button for…

iOS Update 6.0.1 Is Out, and It’s Mostly Bug Fixes

Apple just pushed out an update for iOS. Great! It’s almost all bug fixes. Uh… still great, sort of. Here’s the list: Fixes a bug that prevents iPhone 5 from installing software updates wirelessly over the air. Fixes a bug where horizontal lines may be displayed across the keyboard. Fixes an issue that could cause…

Lenovo Yoga Review: This Is How You Build a PC/Tablet Freak Machine

I’ve got a bunch of Windows 8 PCs sitting around the office and my apartment. I use them all throughout the day, but when I need to actually get something done or test out a feature, I find myself using the Lenovo Yoga, without a second thought. That’s probably a good sign. What Is It?…

The Only Place in this NYC Neighborhood with Cell Reception

As we’re slowly getting back to normal in New York, cell service is still spotty (though better than feared) in a lot of areas. And apparently the only place in Alphabet City (the east side in southern Manhattan) to get service is this ONE corner. It’s like a wireless internet watering hole, just without the…

HTC 8X Review: Windows Phones Are Finally Getting Good

Nokia has been alone on the vanguard of worthwhile Windows Phone hardware for a while now. But that’s no longer the case. Here’s HTC’s 8X. And it’s got enough firepower to go toe-to-toe with anything on Android or iOS. What Is It? An HTC phone built for Windows Phone 8. Who Is It For? Anyone…

Windows Phone 8 Review: You’re Not Perfect, But I Like You Anyway

Windows Phone 8 is better. Better than the auspicious mobile reimagining Microsoft trotted out in 2010, and better than the bag of promises it delivered last year. Those felt like betas compared to Android and iOS, a half-baked platform long on promise. https://gizmodo.com/windows-phone-7-review-ladies-and-gentlemen-we-have-o-5668738 Has Windows Phone finally grown up? Well… sort of. Why It Matters…