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Is This Really the Motorola Xoom 2? (Updated)

Sources with Droid-Life claim to have images of the yet-to-be-announced Xoom 2, and they might just be right. Without much to go on, it does kind of resemble Motorola’s earlier mock-up and even a shot leaked last week. Curiouser and curiouser. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-slips-up-and-reveals-a-dick-tracy-watchphone-5807291 The source notes that it’s got a similar build to the current Xoom,…

Tech News Kwame Opam Sep 24

Megapad Is the 23-Inch, Android-Based Tablet/All-In-One Hybrid Nobody Asked For

One adventurous DIY-er pieced together his own 23-inch touchscreen device that runs a non-Honeycomb version of Android and only cost $600 to build. Existing somewhere between a tablet and an all-in-one PC, Martin Drashkov thinks the Megapad could go mainstream. The technology is built on and around a standard computer monitor and behaves more or…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 21

AT&T’s Getting the Galaxy S II On Oct. 2

Two days before iPhone 5 day, AT&T Will get the excellent and uber-powerful Galaxy S II on October 2nd. It’ll be available for $200 with a 2-year contract. Sprint customers still need to wait. [Seth Bloom] https://gizmodo.com/rumor-oct-4-is-iphone-5-day-5842416

Tech News Kwame Opam Sep 21

Android Grows, but Apple Still Dominates Airport Wi-Fi Networks

If you’re in an airport and using the public Wi-Fi, chances are you are reading this post on your smartphone or tablet. And for 83 percent of you, this mobile device is either an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. According to data compiled by Boingo Wireless, the company behind 60 airport hotspots and over 400,000…

Tech News Kelly Sep 21

Logitech’s Harmony Link: Tablets and Smartphones Get Full Control Over Home Theaters

Logitech understands that in the age of the of wi-fi and touchscreens, remote controls are heading the way of the Dodo. The Harmony Link is their attempt to bridge the gap between traditional IR components and the smart devices in our hands. The $100 Harmony Link is not unlike the Peel iPhone remote that came…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 20

HTC Rhyme Hands On: Don’t Call It a Lady Phone (Or Do)

Droid phones on Verizon are pretty butch. Lots of cold black metal and sharp angles. While the HTC Rhyme isn’t “girly”, per se, it’s definitely got a closer balance of masculine/feminine… buuut then those accessories tip it over the edge. The Rhyme is a mid-range phone for Verizon. It’s not going to blow anybody away…

Tech News Brent Rose Sep 20

Could This Be a 7-Inch Motorola Tablet?

This Is My Next just got a leaked image of what MIGHT be an unannounced 7-inch Motorola tablet. It looks nothing like the Xoom; it’s much thinner and curves up at the ends. Will Moto make a statement soon? [This Is My Next]

Tech News Kwame Opam Sep 19

Sprint Epic Touch 4G Lightning Review: Yeah, It’s the Best Android Phone You Can Buy

The Galaxy S II we’ve fawned over has finally arrived on Sprint as the Epic Touch 4G with a bigger, 4.52-inch screen. Long story short: It’s the best Android phone you can buy. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-a-first-draft-of-your-next-android-5818202 Like The Epic Touch 4G absolutely screams. It’s faster, brighter, bigger, thinner, lighter and more powerful than any Android phone to…

Reviews Adrian Covert Sep 16

Belkin’s Got a Crazy Half-Off-Everything Sale Today (Updated)

Networking and accessories vendor Belkin is about to make your Friday spendtastic. Today only, Through September 30, you can get 50% off everything at Belkin.com with no minimum purchase. Just use coupon code “FB50” when you check out and you’re set. Belkin offers a full line up of accessories for laptops, iOS devices, and Android…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Sep 16

Propeller May Be A Social News Reader From Google

Google is finally make strides in the world of social. Google + is gaining traction and the company is supposedly working on several new apps including a social news reader known as Propeller. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-google-changing-all-of-information-sharing-5816311 Propeller is supposedly a tablet application that’ll run on Android or iOS. A few people have seen the app in action…

Tech News Kelly Sep 15

If You Already Hate Windows 8 Then You Hate Technology

I hate the term fanboy. It’s a pejorative meant to denigrate someone’s opinion. A conversation-ender. After applying it to someone, really there’s nothing left to say. But seeing the reaction to Windows 8, I get why people use it. Very many people who have never used the new early prototype Windows tablet have been shitting…

Tech News Mat Honan Sep 15

Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner Hitches Its Star to Android’s Wagon

Boeing’s decided to stick a little green monster in its long-awaited, recently-certified 787 Dreamliners. All 787s currently in production are being fitted with Android servers and touchscreens, which will be available in economy through first class. https://gizmodo.com/at-last-the-boeing-787-dreamliner-is-now-certified-to-5835356 But not all of the screens will be touchscreens: some of them will be big enough and far…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Sep 15

Archos’ G9 Android Tablets Have Superfast Processors and… Hard Drives?

Archos Android tablets. Typically considered also-rans, but these things do have a 1.5GHz dual-core processor and up to 250GB harddrives. The 10-inch G9 “Turbo” is packing Texas Instruments 1.5 GHz dual-core OMAP 4 processor, and Archos claims that will make page loading 50 percent faster than competitors tablets (which typically run 1GHz dual-core Nvidia processors).…

Tech News Brent Rose Sep 15

Google Goggles Now Works Automagically on Your Android Phone

The latest version of Google Goggles will kick into action without your lazy ass doing a thing. All you have to do is enable a setting that allows Goggles to work in the background each time you take a photo. If Goggles recognizes something, it will send you a notification. If it doesn’t you’d never…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 14

This GPS Navigation Device For Cyclists Will Murder You Dead

Somewhere, right now in Holland, a well-intentioned team of inventors are trying to kill you. They don’t want to kill you. They want to save you. But while it’s just a concept, if this device ships it could kill people. The Oh Music Where Art Thou (great name) team has cooked up a novel navigation…

Tech News Mat Honan Sep 14

HTC’s Sensation XE Is the First Beats Audio-Certified Smartphone

HTC’s Beats Audio deal is seeing its first fruits come forth with their Sensation update, the Sensation XE. It’s sure to sound great; it even has its own pair of Beats by Dre headphones. On the inside, it’s inherently the same phone as the original Sensation, just a bit better-fied. It’s got a new 1.5GHz…

Tech News Kwame Opam Sep 14

Firefox for Android Tablets Is Open for Testing

Mozilla has made the latest nightly builds for Firefox for Honeycomb ready for download. It’s already optimized for the tablet real estate and Android’s quirks, and will let you use Firefox Sync to share data with your desktop. [Mobiputing] https://gizmodo.com/mozilla-brings-the-best-of-honeycomb-to-firefox-for-tab-5836060

Tech News Kwame Opam Sep 13

Motorola Droid Bionic Review: It’s Superfast, But…

It’s funny, the way that Motorola keeps awkwardly scraping away at the future of computing. The Atrix was a phone with a dual-core processor-like your laptop!—that also turned into a laptop. The Droid Bionic is the next step—a dual-core transforming thing of a phone, but it pulls down real internet from the sky. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-atrix-review-great-phone-weak-netbook-5765852 Why…

Reviews Brent Rose Sep 13

Android and Intel Are Together at Last

Intel’s gushing about a pretty huge team-up: in the near future, every single release of Android will be optimized for x86 chips. Intel processors in Android phones. Intel processors in Android tablets. This is big. Intel showed off a mystery Android tablet running on their Atom processor—a pairing we should expect to see a lot…

Tech News Sam Biddle Sep 13

The Best Ways to Kill Your SMS Plan

Your phone company is screwing you on text messaging. SMS messages cost them next to nothing, yet they charge you up the yin-yang. So how’s about sticking it to the phone company with some viable alternatives to SMS messaging? https://gizmodo.com/at-ts-new-text-plan-overcharges-you-by-10-000-000-perce-5832245 Decent Alternatives Kik Platforms Supported: iOS, Android, Windows Phone Cost: Free What’s Good: It’s totally…

Tech News Brent Rose Sep 13

Is This Really the Motorola Xoom 2? (Updated)

Megapad Is the 23-Inch, Android-Based Tablet/All-In-One Hybrid Nobody Asked For

AT&T’s Getting the Galaxy S II On Oct. 2

Android Grows, but Apple Still Dominates Airport Wi-Fi Networks

Logitech’s Harmony Link: Tablets and Smartphones Get Full Control Over Home Theaters

HTC Rhyme Hands On: Don’t Call It a Lady Phone (Or Do)

Could This Be a 7-Inch Motorola Tablet?

Sprint Epic Touch 4G Lightning Review: Yeah, It’s the Best Android Phone You Can Buy

Belkin’s Got a Crazy Half-Off-Everything Sale Today (Updated)

Propeller May Be A Social News Reader From Google

If You Already Hate Windows 8 Then You Hate Technology

Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner Hitches Its Star to Android’s Wagon

Archos’ G9 Android Tablets Have Superfast Processors and… Hard Drives?

Google Goggles Now Works Automagically on Your Android Phone

This GPS Navigation Device For Cyclists Will Murder You Dead

HTC’s Sensation XE Is the First Beats Audio-Certified Smartphone

Firefox for Android Tablets Is Open for Testing

Motorola Droid Bionic Review: It’s Superfast, But…

Android and Intel Are Together at Last

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