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SmartPhone Year-End Recap & 2012 Outlook
Samsung Galaxxy Nexus w/Android 4 “Ice Cream Sandwich”
Last year (2011) was another banner year for smartphones. Apple’s rolled out three sizes of its flagship iPhone 4s,
selling over 152,000 collectively. Google’s Android also enjoyed another banner year with several new models appearing every month in the United States and weekly world-wide.
Sprint made a big stand, hosting the HTC...
Simple Home Automation Controlled Via SmartPhone or Tablet App
Belkin WeMo devices uses your Wi-Fi and allows you to control household appliances anywhere remotely via your mobile device
Belkin has recently launched WeMo (www.belkin.com/wemo), a line of simple, modular home automation products that allows household electronics to be controlled from anywhere using a mobile app on a smartphone or tablet. Consisting of two initial products, the WeMo Home Control...
Android Voice Control With Vlingo
Vlingo is about as close to Siri as you can get on Android, and lets you do anything from sending texts to searching for nearby venues, update your status, check in on Foursquare, or launch apps
Siri for the iPhone 4S is a pretty nifty feature, and a pretty big deal, but it’s not the only product out there. There are several available for Android that do more or less what Siri does. The voice control...
New Droid Razr Android Smartphone
New, Ultra-Thin 4G LTE Smartphone By Motorola is Encased in Kevlar, Aluminum and Gorilla Glass
Say hello to the jaw-dropping new Motorola RAZR. UNBELIEVABLY thin at 7.1 millimeters with sexy curves to boot, this beauty boasts a gorgeous sculpted glass face, diamond-cut aluminum accents and a hyper-vibrant 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Advanced display for incredibly vivid images. Motorola RAZR also sports...
Smartphone & E-Reader Picks For The Gift Giving Season
It’s that time of year again when we all have to evaluate what the best tech toys to buy for the geek who wants all the greatest, newest gadgets. For all the gadget enthusiasts on your holiday shopping list, here’s some gift ideas I’ve come up with that I know will make your techie excited.
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iPhone
The ever-popular iPhone is now available on Sprint’s wireless service. If it’s iPhone...
An In-Depth Look at iOS 5 From Apple
After using iOS 5 since it’s debut, I found a lot I like and some things that could be improved upon
Steve Jobs introduced iOS 5 at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WDC) in June, 2011, and I’ve been running the beta version on my iPhone 4 and iPad 2 ever since. As an iPhone app developer, I’m under Non-Disclosure, so in my iPhone Life article in the September- October 2011 issue, I had to...
New iPhone 4S Offers 8MP Camera, Cloud, iOS 5, Voice Control
To much fanfare, Apple released their newest iPhone, and it wasn’t the iPhone 5. The new smartphone is an upgraded version of their 15-month old iPhone 4, dubbed the iPhone 4S. The reviews are mixed, ranging from overjoyed fans to skeptical naysayers with a dash of confused fence-sitters who were waiting for the next big thing from Apple. While it wasn’t everything that many were expecting, it...
New Lady Gaga iPhone 4 & 4S Cases Made in Rochester
Rochester-based LuxMobile Offers Lady Gaga Licensed iPhone Cases
In addition to iPhone cases, LuxMobile also offers cases for iPads, laptops, and BlackBerry phones.
There are a lot of case makers out there, but there’s only one Lady Gaga. And Rochester-based LuxMobile has licensed her images and designs for their line of cases.
No strangers to luxury licensing, LuxMobile also offers cases with Ed...
Google Voice & Talk: How To Get On Board & Their Differences
Google Voice vs. Google Talk- How-To
If you haven’t tried Google Voice, you may be confused as to what Google Talk does vs Google Voice. It seems that if they were re-created now, the names should be reversed – but they’re not. To add to this, they can be used together to create something that seems even better! Let’s go through this and see what we can do to make sense of it.
What you...
What Google is Doing Wrong with Android
I’m a huge Android fan (or I wouldn’t be writing a column or website named “Droid Lust!”), but there are some things that Google simply is not doing as well as (*gasp!*) Apple.
I love my Android devices, but I also have a day job, and I’m supporting iPads. And there are some things that Apple does that are just a lot better than what Google is doing. Most of them involve education or the...
