Archive for September, 2010

The year of the tablet will be here in only a few months and everyone wants to make one. Apple will most likely be releasing its iPad 2, Research In Motion (RIM) will be debuting the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, and even HP will be releasing its own PalmPad tablet with Palm's WebOS. So many choices. ...

  Google really wants you to buy an Android smartphone. After all, smartphones are its next big growth industry. It already controls most of the web searches on PCs, and now it wants a big share of the phone market. That's fine, since more competition means we get better phones. To promote its Android OS and ...

Sprint, Motorola and Microsoft have all teamed up to create a new smartphone. Called the ES400S, it runs a new operating system dubbed 'Windows Embedded Handheld'. The new phone is targeted at enterprise users and packs quite a punch. Here's the standard quick overview of what it delivers (from Sprint's press release): 3” VGA touchscreen 3.2 MP camera ...

Verizon Wireless is betting that you are fed up with AT&T. So fed up in fact, that you want to switch to Verizon's network. But what to do with your current smartphone that you paid a handsome price for? These thing don't grow on trees now do they? (I wish they did.) That's why Verizon ...

  The new Nokia N8 might be shipping, but customers in the United States are in for a rude surprise. The N8 won't be available until the end of October here in the States. Nokia might still be holding the title of the most used smartphone in the world, but its market share in the US ...

Motorola is working on its Cliq 2 'Begonia' for T-Mobile and fans of the original will not be disappointed. Rumor has it that the new smartphone will be launching November 1st but no word yet on pricing. Don't worry though, it will be shipping with Android 2.2. While much is not known yet about actual technical ...

 Research In Motion (RIM) might just end up using the still in development BlackBerry Tablet OS for all of its smartphones in the future. The Wall Street Journal already hinted at the possibility from information it gathered from its sources last week, and now RIM's senior vice president of the BlackBerry Platform—Alan Brenner—has hinted at ...

Best Buy, the huge tech retailer, wants to sell the BlackBerry PlayBook when it hits the market. Its CEO was quoted as saying that, “we'll be happy to offer it to our customers.” What is especially interesting about the PlayBook is that the first available model won't have cellular network capabilities. To get online you'll ...

The Apple iPhone 4 might be the most popular smartphone in the world right now. Ignore the actual market share numbers for a moment, I'll get back to those eventually here. Consider this instead: 100,000 iPhone 4s were sold in China in the first four days it was on sale. It is sold out now ...

AT&T has announced that it is getting the BlackBerry Curve 3G and the Pearl 3G as well. This should come as no surprise as AT&T and Research In Motion (RIM), the maker of the BlackBerry, have already partnered up designing the Torch 9800. AT&T is also the second largest cellular carrier in the US after ...

Fans the Mozilla's FireFox web browser can rejoice. No, Mozilla isn't making a mobile browser for smartphones. However, it is bringing more functionality to its FireFox Home app for iOS and has both BlackBerry and Symbian versions in the works. First, let's take a look at what FireFox Home actually is. It is a mobile helper ...

The CEO of QNX Software Systems—Dan Dodge—has been talking on the official BlackBerry Developer's Blog regarding the new OS his company has developed for Research In Motion (RIM) and its coming PlayBook tablet. Remember, QNX was purchased by RIM to develop the OS. Here is a quick summary of what he said about it. First off, ...

So if you have picked up a Sprint Epic 4G you are most likely really satisfied with your purchase. From what I understand it is a pretty amazing device. Good old Android 2.1, Super AMOLED, 1GHz processor,  5MP camera, 720p, upload speeds of 150kbps…what? Yes, if you own an Epic 4G and have ever attempted ...

Clearwire is a service provider that is indeed tied into the Sprint moniker. Clearwires network is essentially what enables the amazingly fast 4G coverage that Sprint is boasting –but not implementing. Recently I have had offers to joining Clearwire’s 4G service for in home internet. The speeds that they are clamoring about surely have me ...

Nokia is in the midsts of launching their delayed N8. The N8 was announced awhile back and was set to implode on the world in a short period of time after the official launch. This has yet to happen, however, Nokia has not hesitated showing off the power of the device. The N8 sports the Symbian ^3 ...