If you are looking for a deal on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android powered tablet, then have a look at Best Buy’s Deal of the Day. Best Buy has some refurb units for $100.00 off the normal price. $399.99 plus free shipping. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is a WiFi only unit that has 16GB … Read more
There was lots of speculation about what the Google-Motorola Mobility merger would mean. Would they get an strategic advantages? Would other OEMs get hurt? Well we have some answers thanks to a Google internal presentation from the Oracle lawsuit. The answer is: Yes and Yes. Here is the Google document: Foss Patents speculates as follows: … Read more
Motorola is back with the third version of their very successful Droid family of devices. They kicked off the series with the original Droid that had a physical keyboard and D-Pad for easy navigation. The second version dropped the D-Pad and ushered in a larger keyed physical keyboard that still only had 4 rows of … Read more
The T-Mobile pipeline is going to be filled with high end Android smart phones which will make determining a flagship device near impossible. We already know that T-Mobile will be rocking out the Samsung Galaxy S II, and now HTC is lining up their hot rod, the HTC Ruby, which will now be called the … Read more
If you were lucky enough to have ordered one of those $99 HP Touchpads in the fire sale last week, chances are it has arrived in the mail and you’ve eagerly unboxed it only to find it’s not quite the tablet experience you were hoping for. Out of the box, the Touchpad just doesn’t feel … Read more
Well earlier today we got news that the ITC was considering a ban of HTC phones into the states. To be more accurate, HTC Android phones, which have already been found guilty of violated a couple of Apple patents. The spicy part of the story is that Apple is basically pushing for the court to … Read more
Damnit I was wrong and Simmons apparently was doing fine without those meds. Here’s the deal, according to Tech Crunch (who was hands on with it) the Amazon Kindle is…drum roll please…essentially a Nook Color. It’s a 7” color touch screen running Android that’s said to look just like a Playbook. It’s multitouch but possibly … Read more
One irritation I get when sifting through our Google Analytics to size up how heavily trafficked my articles are relative to the other guys in an effort to try to feel briefly better about myself is that, when pulling up a given day’s visited URLs, right up in the top two or three articles is … Read more
This product seems like a great idea, but what’s the point when all of our phone companies are going with limited data plans now. Even the supposedly ‘unlimited’ plans really aren’t unlimited. I guess you could use this over your home network, but what’s the point? If I’m home I’m not going to use my … Read more
Why oh why can’t these devices get some carrier support? The Sony Xperia Arc brings a lot of great features and specs to the table but remains in the shadow of other high end Android manufacturers like HTC, Motorola, and Samsung. Powered by a 1.4 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255, the Arc S should have no … Read more
Today comes an article that basically says that Google didn’t do its homework (do they have a Beta Legal Team too?) and spend out the nose for some pretty useless Motorola Mobility patents and a sliding business. It is interesting that every Android OEM toed the company line and basically issued a Google-penned statement of … Read more
Everyone knows that I am a current iPhone owner. Not a fan boy though. After owning the iPhone 4 since December I have never been labeled as one, but I really like the device. But I also own other devices. If you follow my writing, you would know that one is the Dell Streak. I … Read more