If you’ve got an employer, well first of all congratulations, who’s been hip enough to let you use a non-Blackberry device as your company phone or tablet but since you and the other brokers went on that coke and hooker binge while snapping and emailing pictures the other night which made the cover of the … Read more
Something impressive is brewing in XDA (as usual), basic voice recognition that does not require you to be online in order to relay your speech and its transcription to and from Google in order to do whatever you tell it to do. I’m struggling to come up with many scenarios in which you’d want to … Read more
So in the pursuit of journalistic integrity (I was wearing a suit and had just gotten a really nice haircut (yes, including a double dose shampoo massage) I dropped by a Verizon dealership on Madison and 43rd today and then AT&T’s flagship store in the JPMorgan building up another few blocks to ask, starting with … Read more
In case you’ve fallen in love with Priority Inbox, have a phone with an HTML5 browser (Android, iPhones) and don’t mind checking your mail with the browser rather than an app, if you’ve got it enabled using your desktop, fire up gmail.com on your phone and see what happens. I didn’t say it was that … Read more
Just when I thought Android was starting to get brand loyalty, a poll comes out and reports that 44% of Android users on Verizon are very or somewhat likely to switch to the iPhone when it’s released. That’s a pretty high number. Even more shocking (for me at least) is the reason to switch. Between … Read more
I was taking a Sunday stroll through XDA and came across a disturbing post by dazbradbury, author of NameBuzz which assigns unique vibration patterns to incoming callers and texts so you get the text to speech-like identification of who’s blowing up your phone without having to whip it out and look, minus all the noise … Read more
Up for review this week, we have one of the newest Android devices, the Nexus S by Samsung. Featuring a 4” AMOLED display, a 1 GHz processor, and the latest version of Android (Gingerbread), the Nexus S is a great device for Android fanatics, as well as those entering the smartphone market for the first … Read more
So another one of these number crunchers questioned a bunch of people and cranked out a report, the highlights of which include Apple store-like campouts/line-ups for their iPhone on the 10th, that 29% of AT&T subscribers who intend to switch from whatever they have to the Verizon iPhone intend by any means to get the … Read more
I just don’t understand commercials anymore. If I were making a commercial to air during the second quarter of Super Bowl XLV, I would not have a skinny kid with the XOOM Tablet in a subway using Google 3D Search to find a florist while surrounded by a bunch of sheep all wearing white. Me, … Read more
Samsung now offers a new updated app that allows you to use your Samsung Galaxy S smartphone and Galaxy Tab as a TV remote in lieu of the traditional TV remote. The TV app uses Wi-Fi to connect with the TV. · You can use the remote’s on-screen QWERTY keyboard to input necessary information for … Read more
So we have seen two Motorola ATRIX 4G companion accessories so far. The first is the Laptop Dock which we have been posting about ever since CES. A clone laptop with no memory or processor, AT&T is going to offer it bundled with the ATRIX 4G for $499.99 with a two year contract and after … Read more
Even though we are still upset over the ridicules pricing released on the Motorola ATRIX 4G’s laptop and HD Docking station accessories yesterday, we are still pretty impressed with the device. The ATRIX 4G looks to be the first dual core smartphone hot rod released here in the United States and with the 4.0 inch … Read more