Gartner: Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Fell in 2012 By Davey Alba Published 13 February 13 Global mobile sales fell 1.7 percent in 2012 because of "tough economic conditions, shifting consumer preferences and intense market competition," said industry research firm Gartner in a report relea...
Verizon to Charge $30 for New Phone Upgrades Starting April 22 By Davey Alba Published 11 April 12 Verizon Wireless has announced that starting April 22, customers will be charged a $30 mobile device upgrade fee. The U.S. carrier's reason for implementing the fee is supposedly to "continue to provi...
Loop Technology Gives You Remote Access to your Smartphone on a Tablet (Video) By Davey Alba Published 10 May 12 Until fairly recently, when someone spoke of "sharing" something using tech, that automatically meant using traditional data cables, DSL or an Internet connection. Nowadays, we have such solutions as ...
Galileo Robotic Stand Lets You Pan and Tilt an iPhone Remotely By Davey Alba Published 13 June 12 Video communication using an iPhone is tricky since, when mounted, the device usually limits your view to a stationary frame with no context of the elements outside of the shot. That's where the Galil...
Adobe: Flash for Android 4.0 By Year's End, But No Flash for Android 5.0 By Davey Alba Published 21 November 11 One of Android's biggest draws used to be that it could run Flash on its devices, but now all that's changing. This past weekend, Google told Slashgear that Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) would not ...
UK Judge Orders Apple To State that Samsung Didn't Copy the iPad By Davey Alba Published 18 July 12 How's this for setting the record straight? A judge in the UK has ordered Apple to publicly state that Samsung did not copy the iPad, according to Bloomberg. A UK court ruling from July 9th pronounced...
Kyobo eReader, First Device with Mirasol Color ePaper Display, Shown on Video By Davey Alba Published 16 December 11 Mirasol prototypes have been floating around for a couple of years now (our first hands-on with the tech was back in CES 2010), but it was only recently that Qualcomm managed to strike a deal to brin...
Sprint 4G LTE Set to Arrive in the First Half of the Year By Davey Alba Published 6 January 12 Some good is on its way towards Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, and San Antonio. At the annual Citigroup Entertainment, Media, and Telecommunications Conference held today, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse announced th...
10 Best Entertainment Tablet Apps By Davey Alba Published 6 March 12 Your tablet is great for responding to priority emails and reviewing important documents, but you should use it to de-compress too. And not just with our list of the best tablet games. Each of these e...
Events-Discovery App Ravn Lets You Know What's Going On in Your City By Davey Alba Published 10 March 12 Doing the same things over and over for fun can get boring, too, after some time. But what choice do you have when there's no way to stay on top of everything happening in your city? Ravn—an app we ...
Upcoming LTE-Advanced Devices Will Likely Be Bigger and Bulkier By Davey Alba Published 8 February 13 No one can deny the attraction of LTE-Advanced, the next super-fast iteration of LTE technology that guarantees download speeds of 100 Mbps or greater. But in an article posted yesterday, MIT Technolo...
5 Great Translation Apps for a Worldly Adventure By Davey Alba Published 28 November 12 If you venture into an exotic pocket of your hometown — perhaps to Chinatown for authentic dim sum — it’s likely that a bilingual patron or employee can help with translations. But if your work ...
Use Rice to Dry Out a Wet Phone By Davey Alba Published 16 May 12 Using a hair dryer on a cellphone can fry the electronic. Instead, try a bow of uncooked rice.How it works:Quickly remove the battery.Remove the SIM card (if you have a GSM carrier).Do not shake your...
Snapseed Review By Davey Alba Published 29 March 12 $4.99 Editor's Choice We review Snapseed, a $5 photo editing app for the iPad that brings some serious competition to existing photo editing apps.
10 Outdated Gadgets You Can Still Buy Today By Davey Alba Published 19 April 12 Obsolescence is a measure of tech progress. That’s why the gadgets we couldn’t imagine living without ten years ago – that old Walkman, your black brick of a beeper, and camera with multiple r...
Report: Google and ASUS To Unveil Nexus Tablet at Google I/O By Davey Alba Published 25 May 12 If you're desperately wondering about what's in store for the imminent Google I/O conference, here are some reports to satiate your curiosity. Yesterday, DigiTimes published a rumor that a collaborat...
HTC Evo V 4G for Virgin Mobile Available May 31st for $299, $35 for Unlimited Data By Davey Alba Published 8 May 12 No-contract networks rarely boast handsets with lofty specs, but the new HTC EVO V 4G is an exception. In line with Sprint's plans to get its sub-brands on 4G using its legacy WiMAX network ahead of t...
Analyst: T-Mobile Needs iPhone More Than Ever, Dish Could Come Calling By Davey Alba Published 23 February 12 T-Mobile USA, the nation's fourth largest wireless carrier, disclosed plans earlier today that it would finally roll out an LTE service to subscribers by 2013. However, according to Avi Greengart, an ...
Lenovo IdeaTab S2109 Tablet Lands in June, Brings SRS Speakers for $349 By Davey Alba Published 30 May 12 Lenovo has just announced that a new slate will soon be making its way Stateside: the IdeaTab S2109 tablet. And though it's almost as if Android devices are released every other Tuesday, this tablet i...
Acer Shows Off Iconia Tab A110, Sub-$200 Quad-Core Tablet By Davey Alba Published 6 June 12 At this year's Computex trade show in Taipei, amidst little fanfare, Acer took the wraps off a sub-$200 quad-core Ice Cream Sandwich tablet -- the Iconia Tab A110.At first glance, this may not seem li...
Nokia Manager Says Windows 8 Tablets Are Coming in June 2012 By Davey Alba Published 16 November 11 Nokia's French general manager has divulged that a Nokia-based Windows 8 tablet is in the works, and will be out by June 2012.Paul Amsellem said in an interview with French newspaper Les Echos Tuesd...
Nokia Announces Exclusive Lumia Windows Phone Apps at CTIA By Davey Alba Published 8 May 12 In terms of apps, Windows Phone might be profoundly lagging behind both Android and iOS, but Nokia is helping the platform along. At CTIA Wireless 2012, the company announced a barrage of new app part...
Next Issue Launches 'Netflix for Magazines' Newsstand Service By Davey Alba Published 4 April 12 Despite the availability of multiple magazine titles on the tablet, subscribers have met the offerings with lukewarm reception at best. It's been two years since the iPad launched, yet digital represe...
Tech21 Launches Impact-Absorbent Smartphone, Tablet, Laptop Cases at CTIA (Hands-On Video) By Davey Alba Published 9 May 12 "Impact absorbent" is hardly a new claim in mobile accessories, but Tech21 believes its products are a cut above the rest. This week at CTIA Wireless 2012, the company has been demoing the impressive ...
Google Drive for iOS Hands-on: Worth the Download? By Davey Alba Published 2 July 12 At last week's Google I/O conference, the company launched a native Google Drive app for iOS devices. In a related update, it also introduced offline editing for Google Docs -- certainly a long-await...