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Inside the iPad2: 5 Weeks of Owning Apple’s Newest Tablet
Minutes after it went on sale in the U.S., I was walking out the door of my local Best Buy with an iPad 2 under my arm. So, I’ve been using it for as long as any non-Apple employee—about five weeks when I wrote this review! The following describes my “long term” road test of the new iPad.
Thinner and lighter than the original
The new iPad is slightly thinner than the original and weighs only...
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...
iPad 2: The Next Generation Tablet from Apple
iPad 2 The Next Generation
The 2nd generation iPad is here and there is a lot to be excited about. Let’s take a look at the more significant enhancements of the new iPad 2.
Front and rear-facing cameras
When the iPad was introduced a year ago, many complained to Apple about the lack of a camera. Apple listened, and the new iPad has two of them. The iPad 2 sports a front-facing VGA camera and a rear-facing...
Cable TV… Without the Cable
CNN Android App
This week, I saw not one, but two Android apps for cable TV. CNN has launched a phone app in addition to their tablet-optimized app, and HBO has announced they’ll have a streaming app available in May.
CNN’s tablet-optimized app has been in the Android Market for months, but those of us with just a plain ol’ smartphone have felt slighted. No more! It includes the news and video...
Asus Eee Slate EP121: The Most Powerful Tablet
Asus Eee Slate EP121
With its large multi-touch display and Intel Core i5 processor, the ASUS Eee Slate EP121 delivers the ultimate combination of performance and portability in a tablet design. Powered by Windows 7 Home Premium, the Eee Slate runs the same software as any desktop or notebook PC, so it’s perfect for mobile users who need to run resource-intensive applications.
The Eee Slate EP121...
New Honeycomb Tablets Will Set the Market on Fire
The Slow Selling Motorola Xoom
Everyone loves the Motorola Xoom tablet, with a faster dual core nVidia Tegra 2 processor, full Flash 10.2 support, front and back hi-res cameras, and the “designed for tablets” Android 3.0 Honeycomb, the Xoom was designed to compete and win against the iPad and the latest iPad 2.
The only problem anyone had with the Xoom is that Motorola introduced the most expensive...
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,...
Using Technology and Social Media to Grow Your Business
Chances are if you have a smartphone and run a business you are utilizing social media as a way to market your business and gain new clients. If you aren’t using social media outlets, such as Facebook and Twitter, you are missing an opportunity to find, reach out to (and perhaps retain) existing and new customers.
When you consider that more than 500 million people use Facebook (worldwide)...
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...
Verizon iTunes users: Welcome to iTunes… Welcome to Chaos
Verizon iPhone 4
Millions of new users are joining the iOS ecosystem, thank to the Verizon iPhone, and for many it will be there first introduction to iTunes and the App Store. Those of us who have lived with an iPhone for years take many things for granted, but I thought I’d point out some of the idiosyncrasies in iTunes for our new friends.
First, you cannot sync wirelessly. Yes, three years...
