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Blackberry Playbook Hands-on Review: Pros and Cons
The iPad and iOS has had its coverage. Android tablets like the XOOM are getting more popular. Enter Blackberry, and their new foray into the tablet market, the Playbook.
Out of the box, the Playbook is different. As a smaller, 7-inch tablet, it has an over-large edge. It’s hard to ignore and makes the playbook screen feel too small. This makes the screen seem immediately smaller and explains...
Review: HTC Thunderbolt – Verizon’s First 4G Phone
HTC Thunderbolt 4G smartphone
After a few delays, Verizon finally released their first 4G handset, the HTC Thunderbolt. I had the pleasure of testing this new smartphone. Both the phone and Verizon’s 4G network are incredulously fast! Using the Thunderbolt, it’s hard to figure out what’s faster – the 4G network or the Thunderbolt!
Setup and First Impressions
Out of the box,...
Google Cloud Connect Makes Going Google Even Easier
Google Cloud Connect For Microsoft Office
If you’ve used Google Docs before, you may already understand its conveniences. While it has both its up sides and its down sides, Google Docs has its core features and is, for many people, a viable low-cost alternative to Microsoft Office. However, for long time MS Office users, switching over has been a bit hard to do. Recently, Google broke down some...
A Hands-on Review with the Motorola Xoom
Motorola Xoom Tablet with Android 3.0 and 4G LTE
Thanks to my friends at Verizon Wireless, I received a week-long hands-on evaluation of the Motorola XOOM. The XOOM is Motorola’s 10-inch tablet that is going to try to stack up to Apple’s iPad and iPad 2 products. It is the first tablet to run Google’s newest version of Android, version 3.0, nicknamed Honeycomb.
For the impatient: it...
Microsoft Concedes to Apple, Discontinues Zune
Microsoft will no longer be producing Zune devices. Once thought to be a product by which Microsoft could beat Apple’s iPod, demand has died down and Microsoft will be focusing on developing other devices, reports Bloomberg.
While the hardware is being discontinued, Microsoft will still keep the Zune software alive, including it into mobile phones and future Windows releases. Of course, Zune...
HTC Thunderbolt – Verizon’s First 4G LTE Phone Available March 17th
HTC Thunderbolt 4G LTE Verizon Smartphone
It is confirmed…Verizon will have the HTC Thunderbolt available for sale this Thursday, March 17th. The Thunderbolt is more than an incredibly fast phone…it’s also the first 4G LTE phone offered by Verizon.
The Thunderbolt has been broadly compared to the HTC EVO 4G, Sprint’s first 4G phone. The devices are similar in size. Both have...
4G – What It Is; What New Phones Use It
4G smartphones
Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon have been running 4G commercials for a while now. AT&T is just now starting a campaign that 4G is coming. But all 4G isn’t the same – it’s not comparing apples-to-apples – and the fallback network when 4G is not available are different, too.
So what is 4G, exactly? Simply put, 4G means the 4th generation of wireless communication and is...
Verizon Gets the iPhone 4
After months of speculation and rumors, it’s ture: the iPhone has come to Verizon. No longer is it an exclusive product of AT&T. In a press conference with the usual air of pomp and circumstance, Verizon chief operating officer, Lowell Mcadam and Apple COO Tim Cook stepped on stage together to make the announcement official. Pre-orders begin February 3rd and they will be available in the Verizon...
Year in Review: Mobile Gadgets
If your eyes were closed in 2010, you will be hard pressed to ignore the mass overload of mobile gadgets that will be coming your way in 2011. Technology is moving off the desktop, cutting the wire and (trying to be) right next to you. If you don’t know a pad from a pod from a droid, or didn’t care with the he-said, she-said of the Google-Apple war of words and devices, here’s the quick recap...
