How Many Ways Can AT&T Charge You For Data? Here’s Another.

Just when you thought it was safe to pay wireless data plan from AT&T, here is yet another spin on how they are going to charge you for data consumption. If you are like me, you have less (cough) than satisfactory cell phone reception in your home. Actually, I have no cell phone reception in … Read more

HTC Tells Shipped-ROMs Website Cease And Desist

Many saw it coming, but the real bet was how long would it last. Popular XDA Developer Conflipper just posted on his website that he has been ordered by HTC to Cease and Desist immediately from hosting his massive collection of Shipped ROMS. In a letter written to him by HTC, that Conflipper has posted … Read more

Sprint HTC EVO 4G Overclocked at 1.267Ghz!

Before I even start, please do not go over to XDA and try to Overclock your EVO unless you 100% read the thread and know what you are doing. Overclocking your device can dramatically shorten the lifespan of your device! Okay, so enough of that, XDA Developer coolbho3000 has created an overclocking/undervolting patches that have … Read more

A Rant And Poll Concerning Digital Cameras vs. Camera Phones

DavidK wanted to do an article about the death of point and shoot cameras with the rise of decent camera technology in newer smartphones.  I was of the dissenting opinion that, despite having high mega-pixel ratings for camera phones, they still fall very far short of traditional camera designs for several reasons.  We were too lazy to duke it out but we did want to know what the readers thought.  To do an overall comparison between the two products we wanted to narrow it down to several categories for overall product value and not just performance.  The rundown will go like this: Price, Connectivity, Quality, Ease of Use, and Convenience.  Some of these categories will be a little more or less important than others, but I’ll try to keep the tech jargon to a minimum to get my point across.  I’ll run a poll after the breakdowns so you can tell us who was right or at least less wrong than the other.  Read on for perspective. 

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Android Climbing Real Fast

another original shop job by yours truly

Hey, you in the mood for a mobile OS web consumption market share stat shot? Yeah me neither but I’m low on writing ideas. Anyway since September, according to Quantcast, Anrdoid’s has been occupying more and more consumer hands, if you’d agree that sales is a function of web data consumption, every single month whereas … Read more

HTC Aria Comes to AT&T on June 20th

AT&T is annoying me to no end, they’ve got their heads so far up Apples (-you know what-) that they can’t give us anything that’s actually decent anymore in terms of phones. Ever since they paired with Apple for the iPhone and now of course the Magical iPad, they’ve forgotten what it’s like to be a cell phone company it seems.  The second Android offering is the HTC Aria and it’s truly unimpressive with it’s measly 600Mhz processor. I’ve got the Motorola BackFlip and it has a 528Mhz CPU, and it sucks, it’s slow, gaming is horrid for the most part and battery life is horrendous. I can’t get through the day without recharging the phone, and that’s a day where I don’t even use it, I get other phones for review all of the time and use those most of the time and the BackFlip will just sit on my desk and the battery will die. What happened to you AT&T? You used to give us the latest and greatest phones, but now everything is about that damn piece of fruit.. Apple should just buy AT&T and get it over with truly, then they’ll have their own little cell phone company and we could go to another company that actually gets new and decent phones, like Verizon for example, they get the best phones anymore. I can tell you first hand actually as they send me the stuff as soon as it comes out and sometimes before, and they‘ve got some good phones on their network and of course they don’t have to worry about the iPhone killing their network either. I think it would be a very bad idea for Verizon to get the iPhone honestly.. Verizon has become what AT&T once was, a good cell phone company that actually cares about giving their customers what they want in terms of the best phones, and their service is excellent as well. Anyway, back to the HTC Aria it’s a mediocre phone, actually it’s more low-end with that CPU in it, I’m sure it will perform as bad as the BackFlip does, but then again HTC knows how to make a phone so maybe they performed some magic and made it better, but I doubt it… So at this point in time we’ve got two crappy Android offerings on AT&T, but they’ve got the iPhone 4 ! Blah… continue on for the full HTC Aria PR if you want..

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Motorola Droid Xtreme Photo Leak

Goes to show you that no matter how hard you try, you can never keep a good thing hidden for long. Such is the case for Motorola trying to keep the Motorola Droid Xtreme under wraps until it finally lands on Verizon sometime at the end of June if the rumors are correct. The Droid X, will sport a 4.3 WVGA Screen and is said to have IPS Technology as well. Android 2.1, HDMI Out, and a very unconfirmed 750Mhz TI OMAP3630 processor, but we were thinking it would be 1Ghz. The Droid X will also come with a new version of Moto Blur. Pretty much that’s all I got except for a ton of pictures after the break. Let me pay the bills first and then enjoy the leaked goodness of the Droid Xtreme!

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Who else hates Rapidshare? Chefs take note.

Anyone who’s tried to download ROMs and software from forums like XDA will most likely curse those bandwidth squating bastards.  Well luckily we have a NEW SOURCE for hosting all these ROMs with direct downloads and BitTorrent distribution for backup to ensure when NRG puts out a new ROM and crashes the servers (he stresses the multiple … Read more

Earloomz Announces Pre-Sale of Lakers & Celtics Bluetooth Headsets

Bluetooth headsets have never been considered “cool.” They’re a necessity, required by law in many states.  But no one likes conformity. Launching on July 4, 2010, Earloomz Bluetooth headsets will feature more than 400 different designs of licensed art, pop culture icons, entertainment properties, cartoon characters, sports teams, and original commissioned artwork. There will be … Read more