Let me start off by saying that I am not only an unabashed Android fan, but have also not kept it a secret that I’m a lover of Motorola’s Droids. I still have my original Droid, got my wife a Droid 2 when she took the plunge into smartphone space, and now have a [...]
RIM isn’t just against the ropes right now, they’re down on one knee. Device shipments are down, margins are down and announced today, headcount is going down. As I listened in to the earnings conference call yesterday I was almost taken back to a point in time where my now grown son had to admit [...]
At an event held amidst the sweltering heat in New York City this afternoon, Sprint and Motorola announced their new partnership, and took the wraps off of its two newest Android devices. I was one of the lucky invitees who braved record-breaking Manhattan temperatures to attend this conference. Although there was much initial displeasure [...]
I’ll say right up front, it certainly is an interesting question, but should Google pull the trigger? Research In Motion is in total disarray and another bad comment or two from one of their co-CEO’s could cause RIM to drop in to a total free-fall. Some in the press have declared RIM to be already [...]
Tegra 3 is ideal for Ice Cream Sandwhich Google’s Nexus development cycle has been spot on with the previous two Nexus devices and its a pretty good way to predict the release of the next addition to the “Google Experience” line of products. That being said we have known for quite some time now that [...]
How Many Cores Do you Have? Tablets these days are going for more and more power. And that power is coming directly from the system-on-chip they use. In short, the processor really makes all the difference when it comes to Android tablet power. To give you an example, the Motorola Xoom is running off a [...]
Looks like Sprint users will be getting more than the HTC Evo 3D this sumer as Infosyncworld is reporting that the HTC Kingdom that was leaked not long ago will infact be Sprints version of HTC Incredible S/Htc Incredible 2. The HTC Kingdom will more than likely be advertised as the lesser brother to the [...]
Samsung is a busy bee this month. We know they are already having their event with AT&T today to possibly unveil the Samsung Infuse 4G. Now they have announced their own event on May 24th for debut something new. We can only speculate at this point, but a few ideas do come into mind. Could it [...]
Qualcomm gives us what we want, “More Power” Qualcomm is going to make us all say “More power” in are best Tim the tool man voice. The MSM8660 is simply incredible and they have some video to show you just how much more power the dual core processor will offer. Two words for you, “a-synchronous [...]
Acer seems to making big plans to add to its tablet line-up. We have seen several tablets from Acer in the recent past and it seems we can expect to see more and soon. From the looks of it Acer will be releasing a 7-inch version of the A500 Android based tablet in June. This [...]
Addicted to Facebook? Is your Xoom lacking some nifty accessories? Well Motorola has answered your call. Motorola has now opened their Facebook store open to all users, and is offering 25% off of Xoom accessories from now to May 6th. When you are processing your order make sure to add in the promo code, Facebook, to get [...]
More Laptop Docks On The Way The Motorola Atrix 4G introduced an entirely new form factor with the release of its laptop dock functionality. The first iteration came with a nice list of features including a full desktop browser which oddly was Mozilla Firefox instead of Google Chrome and the ability to use all of [...]
If you have been a Motorola Atrix 4G fan you will know it can have a few exciting dock features… If you’re willing to pay the outrageous price. Seems with all the tablets getting keyboard accessories though (mainly the Asus Transformer) Motorola feels the need to price its Lapdock more competitively. Thanks to a leak from [...]
Google TV and its partnership Google unveiled its plan for Google TV last year the I/O Conference. Since the beginning, Logitech stood by Google and acted as a partner in the Google TV endeavor. Releasing the Revue Google TV set-top box, hopes were high that this would bring in a lot of profit for the [...]
NFC is on the way Bright Side of the News reports that at a recent press event, a HTC sales manager who wishes to remain anonymous, mentioned plans to release a new handset in Q3 that will be “positioned slightly above the recently announced Sensation”. The new secret super phone will have an NFC chip [...]
Motorola Q1 Earning Call Today Motorola held their Q1 earnings call and spoke directly about the delays to the Droid Bionic its improved features and gave details about the Xoom’s 4G LTE upgrade. Also discussed were actual number of Xooms thats have shipped and their plans for the summer. It’s some pretty interesting news so lets get [...]
Samsung is officially launching the Galaxy S II today and expects to ship the Galaxy S II on over 140 carriers in 120 countries worldwide, though UK sales of the dual-core Android smartphone did kick off in the UK yesterday. The subject of a huge Media Day in Korea this morning, There’ll be various NFC [...]
Motorola Tegra 3 Device? The pictured Motorola phone is a brand new device that looks a like a departure from what we have come to expect from the Droid family. It has a silver rounded shell in stark comparison to the all black designs of the Droid X², Atrix, and Bionic. The angles and lighting [...]
Motorola to open the doors with unlockable bootloaders Android is open source. This is a fact that most Android users are very aware of and they love it. Open source means a more democratic process when it comes to the devices on the platform and it theoretically means users should have more say so as [...]
Sony Ericsson Sees Android as Solution to its Woes Sony Ericsson had a miserable quarter with sales off 19% year over year, but net income fell a staggering 48% to €11 million over the same period. It’s OK though, CEO Bert Nordberg had this to say: (SE) will continue its shift towards making (Android) smartphones [...]
A rumor has been reported on DroidLife about two planned devices from Motorola. The big news is that they will be powered by the quad-core Tegra 3 SoC, the bad news is they aren’t scheduled until Q1 2012. Nvidia has already previewed the Tegra 3 which should be up to 5x faster than the Tegra [...]
Meizu Coming to the US Meizu is an up-and-coming smartphone manufacturer that intends to release their Android devices in the US market. Jack Wong, the CEO of Meizu, recently stated his plans to start an office in California, but did not give a timetable for the move. This would mean the M9 pictured and the [...]
So, Apple is taking another company to court: Samsung Recently Apple has filed a lawsuit against Samsung, a well known Android phone maker. Apple claims that Samsung has infringed on patents regarding the look and feel of their phones. Apple states that the latest Galaxy line of phones is a direct copy of many iOS [...]
The folks over at Androidguys have gotten a pretty reliable source that gives some insight about Samsungs bootloader policy. According to their source Supercurio, Samsung will not used locked bootloaders on their future devices unless Google specifically required them to. Supercurio was also able to give a bit of info regarding if the bootloaders would be [...]
Apple Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Samsung Over its Galaxy Series of Phones and Tablets The history of the smartphone has been one of extremely rapid advances in technologies and usability. But this story of progress has also been peppered with an endless stream of legal actions between rival manufacturers and developers, each claiming infringements on their [...]
Motorola Asked Facebook Fans What They Wanted. Surprise! Facebook has a new feature where anyone can start a poll, and if you don’t like the answers already provided, you can add in some of your own. Up to 100 answers can appear in these new Facebook Questions. So what do you think happened when Motorola asked [...]
Sony Ericsson Launches its own App Channel on Market As most of us know, when we open up the Android Market we have Apps, Games, and your carrier’s app channels right under the featured scrolling apps. Well Sony Ericsson is now the first manufacturer to distribute their own channel in place of the carrier channel in the [...]
Bootloaders: Locked or Unlocked Over the last few months, there has been talk about bootloaders for Android phones. Some companies think they should be locked down and some think that they should all be unlocked (I won’t mention any names). Well there is one company that is changing their mind on this issue, and it [...]
Latin America Slated for Motorola Xoom, Motorola Atrix 4G Here in the States, we’ve already have been basking in the warm glow of the Motorola Atrix 4G and the first Android OS 3.0 (Honeycomb) tablet, the Motorola XOOM, for some time now. Now all the Android fans down in Latin America will have their prayers [...]
The newest smartphone version of Android 2.3 Gingerbread has been out since the start of this year. It is four months later and we have yet to see a phone feature this OS except for the Nexus S. At this rate by the time most phones begin to receive the update the newer version Ice Cream will [...]
Waiting Long Enough for Mobile Intel? Could it be? Finally after all these long months (years?), could it be that Intel is finally ready to release a processor into the mobile space? Thats the word coming from Intel themselves as they start releasing its first tablet based processor codenamed Oak Trail. According to PC World, [...]
The Samsung Galaxy S2 Will Be A Monster You know it, I know, even your local crazy old technophobe knows it. It seems though that Samsung thinks a 1 GHz processor is not good enough. Gsmarena have reported that the companies Estonian office confirmed through there Facebook page that the dual core processor will run at [...]
Dual Core 1.5 GHz Qualcomm MSM8x60 Looks like Anandtech (the lucky so-and-so’s) got quite the treat from Qualcomm at MWC; they got to take home one of the latter’s Mobile Development Platforms (MDP)! This phone exists to showcase and test Qualcomm’s latest and greatest chipsets. The star here is the dual core 1.5 GHz processor [...]
HTC are to hold as press even tin London this month, April 12th for what is yet an unannounded device. We’re hoping it will be the HTC Pyramid, and UK customers will be hoping the Evo 3D will be announced for them, it’s on it’s way to France so no reason why the UK can’t get it, [...]
Motorola: I Canz Lock Ur Bootloader? It seems that no one in 2010 tried harder to lock down their phones than Motorola. While the company has indeed provided some good hardware, the locked-down nature has annoyed a lot of Android fans, and there was only so long they were going to take it lying down. [...]
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