Smartphones

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

How RIM Could Save Itself

RIM just reported earnings that were even more miserable than expected. We’ve already said why the company is cooked. But is there any way it can be salvaged? Well, just maybe there is. https://gizmodo.com/ten-reasons-why-blackberry-is-screwed-5812832 You ready, RIM? It’s time we had a talk. Stop Leaning on Enterprise You know who made BlackBerry popular? Companies, who…

Tech News Brian Barrett 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

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

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

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

QNX BlackBerries Being Rushed Out (YES!) Without Real Email/Calendar (NOOOOOO!!)

BlackBerry sales have been in the toilet, so RIM has been scrambling to get their much-anticipated first QNX-based phones to market. Very smart. But they may be pushing them out without BES/BIS email/calendar calendar support. That would be unfathomably stupid. This morning, an article in Mobile Magazine had this little poo-nugget: It turns out that…

Tech News Brent Rose Sep 12

Samsung Galaxy S II Has More GPU Firepower Than Any Android Device

Anandtech benchmarked Samsung’s refreshed Galaxy S II phone over the weekend and discovered that its Mali-400 quad-core GPU contained within its EXYNOS chipset is not only powerful, but nearly 2x faster than any other Android device—phone or tablet. The Samsung Galaxy S II was tested using GLBenchmark 2.1, and scored a 42.5. By comparison, the…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 12

Better Than a Pacifier, But Not by Much, Fisher-Price Offers iPhone Apptivity Case for Toddlers

I know many deluded parents will get their toddler the Fisher-Price Laugh and Learn Apptivity Case thinking it’s the first step toward raising a millionaire App developer, but come on. Gut check. The kid just likes the shiny shiny, right? Besides, he or she is just going to gum it up and use it to…

Tech News Jack Loftus Sep 11

Rumor: Sprint Will Offer the iPhone 5 with an Unlimited Data Plan

According to Bloomberg, Sprint will not only sell the iPhone 5, they’ll have an unlimited data plan to go with it. If true, it will be huge for Sprint because neither AT&T nor Verizon offer unlimited data anymore. From the Bloomberg story: Sprint, the third-largest U.S. wireless carrier, plans to begin selling the device in…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 9

Amazon Should Buy WebOS

If there was one company that could rival Apple, Google and Microsoft, it’s Amazon. It has devices; it has a content marketplace. But what Amazon doesn’t have is its own platform. webOS could be the final piece in its puzzle. webOS has largely been a dud of an OS, but that’s not because of the…

Commerce Adrian Covert Sep 9

Eric Schmidt Confirms Rumors of a Fall Release for Ice Cream Sandwich

Eric Schmidt was at some conference for enterprise business stiffs talking about nonsense involving incentivizing vendors to increase marketshare or something. But he let a juicy bit of info slip: Ice Cream Sandwich is coming in October or November. Previous rumors had suggested that Ice Cream Sandwich would come in October and Schmidt himself said…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 7

Will Windows 8 Run Windows Phone 7 Apps?

NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang seems to think that Windows 8 will run Windows Phone 7 apps in some capacity. While there are parts of Windows 8 that appear very similar to windows 7, could this really be the case? From Cnet’s interview with Huang: ARM processors hold a strong advantage because a majority of mobile…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 6

The iPhone 5 Rumor Roundup Redux

A lot’s happened since the last time we put all the iPhone 5 rumors in one place for you. So here’s an up-to-date look at what we’re expecting from Apple’s next iPhone. https://gizmodo.com/the-iphone-5-rumor-roundup-5811488 We’re going to tackle the iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S rumors separately, since they’re often at odds with each other and very…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Sep 3

Sony Ericsson Reboots Xperia with Arc S, a Phone That Miiiiiiight Actually Matter

Sony is going full-tilt today, dropping more toys than a drunken toddler covered in Crisco. They’re giving the Xpreria Arc—their hallmark smartphone—an S as the end of its name, and beefing it up. The biggest change is that the processor has been ramped up to 1.4GHz (single-core), which has gotta get pretty hot in your…

Tech News Brent Rose Aug 31

Sprint Nearly Doubles Early Termination Fee—Just Like Verizon Before the iPhone

You used to be cool(er) Sprint. Now we’re hearing that you’re raising your pro-rated ETF (Early Termination Fee) to $350 from $200. Just because AT&T and Verizon are charging $350 doesn’t you need to raise yours. Sure you’re the carrier that offers real unlimited data unlike your rivals and maybe you’re getting the iPhone this…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Aug 31

The Government Probably Just Killed the AT&T/T-Mobile Merger

Uncle Sam says no to AT&T eating up T-Mobile: The Department of Justice has filed an antitrust suit against AT&T, Bloomberg reports. Things just got real. https://gizmodo.com/at-t-is-buying-t-mobile-to-become-the-biggest-carrier-i-5783766 The US says “AT&T’s elimination of T-Mobile as an independent, low- priced rival would remove a significant competitive force from the market.” Yep, pretty much. AT&T’s efforts just…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 31

Samsung Galaxy S II Hands On: Say Hi to Your Next Android Phone

If you are going to get an Android phone any time soon, this is it. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-bestest-android-phone-is-finally-coming-to-amer-5835969 Let’s get this out of the way: These things are fast. They haul all kinds of ass, thanks to a 1.2GHz dual-core Exynos processor and 1GB of RAM in its guts. I did everything I could to try to…

Tech News Brent Rose Aug 30

The New Bestest Android Phone Is Finally Coming to America: The Samsung Galaxy S II

The Samsung Galaxy S II is the blueprint for the next generation of Android phones. And now it’s finally coming to the US, on AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-a-first-draft-of-your-next-android-5818202 Only Sprint’s announced the price and date so far, and they’re first out of the gate: Sept. 16 for $200 (with 2-year contract). AT&T’s saying Septemberish…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Aug 30

The HTC Holiday Will Be First to AT&T’s 4G LTE Table

Engadget has shots of the upcoming HTC Holiday, which is ready to be one of the first to run on AT&T’s 4G LTE network. It’s got a 4.5-inch qD touchscreen, 8MP camera, and 1.2GHz processor, and will ship with the latest Gingerbread update. Only thing is it might get renamed the Waikiki. …Why? [Engadget]

Tech News Kwame Opam Aug 27

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

How RIM Could Save Itself

Google Goggles Now Works Automagically on Your Android Phone

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

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

The Best Ways to Kill Your SMS Plan

QNX BlackBerries Being Rushed Out (YES!) Without Real Email/Calendar (NOOOOOO!!)

Samsung Galaxy S II Has More GPU Firepower Than Any Android Device

Better Than a Pacifier, But Not by Much, Fisher-Price Offers iPhone Apptivity Case for Toddlers

Rumor: Sprint Will Offer the iPhone 5 with an Unlimited Data Plan

Amazon Should Buy WebOS

Eric Schmidt Confirms Rumors of a Fall Release for Ice Cream Sandwich

Will Windows 8 Run Windows Phone 7 Apps?

The iPhone 5 Rumor Roundup Redux

Sony Ericsson Reboots Xperia with Arc S, a Phone That Miiiiiiight Actually Matter

Sprint Nearly Doubles Early Termination Fee—Just Like Verizon Before the iPhone

The Government Probably Just Killed the AT&T/T-Mobile Merger

Samsung Galaxy S II Hands On: Say Hi to Your Next Android Phone

The New Bestest Android Phone Is Finally Coming to America: The Samsung Galaxy S II

The HTC Holiday Will Be First to AT&T’s 4G LTE Table

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