Archive for the ‘Mobile’ Category

Did Samsung make a 3-megapixel mistake with the Galaxy Nexus?

Oct 18 by Connor Livingston | 3 comments

As the buzz surrounding the iPhone 4S fades a little (it’s been a week, after all), Samsung unveiled the most anticipated Android phone of the pre-holiday season with the Galaxy Nexus. Armed with the first installation of Android 4.0 Ice Cream more »

At 7.1mm-thick, Motorola Droid Razr is world's thinnest smartphone

Oct 18 by Rocco Penn | 4 comments

Smartphone season unofficially started last week with the release of the iPhone 4S. As Android phone makers try to capture their share of the lucrative Christmas market, the volleying for differentiators takes different angles to be as appealing more »

The "Blackberry Down" compensation is an apps package, not cash

Oct 17 by Connor Livingston | 2 comments

In lieu of a refund or cash considerations, Research In Motion (RIM) is offering an apps package normally valued at around $100 to compensate for the most major outage the company has ever had. The three-day+ outage likely presented major challenges for the business-heavy more »

Television time is smartphone or tablet time for 40% of American owners

Oct 13 by Scarlett Madison | 1 comment

It has been speculated that home entertainment would meld with online and app-based engagement more and more over time. Today, Nielsen revealed that 40% of tablet and/or smartphone owners use them while watching television. As people continue more »

Cali. Gov. Brown to allow police to search phones without a warrant

Oct 11 by Connor Livingston | 4 comments

Despite heavy support from both parties and an outcry of the people, California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a bill passed by state legislature that would have banned searches of smartphones by police without a warrant. The ban would have prevented more »

If Microsoft fails in the mobile phone industry, it will be for lack of confidence

Oct 10 by JD Rucker | 3 comments

Here’s a quote from the head of the Windows Phone unit at Microsoft: “So, I think that what our strategy is is to put things in place that allow us to leapfrog, and I think that’s how we’ve gone from worse browser to the best browser, and I think more »

Sprint is sprinting towards disaster

Oct 7 by Rocco Penn | 3 comments

There are two signs that point to a company entering into “desperation mode”: big cuts and big investments. Big, risky investments often signal prosperity at large companies, but they can also mean the exact opposite as companies try to buy more »

Sprint iPhone 4S pre-order starts Friday

Oct 5 by Connor Livingston | 2 comments

The big gamble starts October 7th. Sprint just updated their website with an advertisement for pre-orders on the iPhone 4s. Eyes of the tech world and Wall Street will be watching the pre-order numbers closely as Sprint has “bet the farm” on the iPhone; their more »

Will unlimited data plans give the Sprint iPhone enough for conquest sales?

Oct 5 by JD Rucker | 2 comments

There is little doubt that when Sprint begins servicing iPhones, current Sprint customers will switch to it. The real question that must be answered to determine Sprint’s long-term future is whether or not they’ll get conquest sales from Verizon and AT&T. Rumors have more »

A single voice matches the sentiment of a nation regarding mobile data plans

Sep 22 by JD Rucker | add comment

The trends are heading in different directions. As devices become more mobile-data capable and applications push towards a mobile internet, service providers are shrinking, throttling, and increasing the prices of data plans. In  three more »

Full disclosure is becoming a normal thing in social GPS tracking and check ins

Sep 20 by Connor Livingston | add comment

While the privacy war wages on one end of the spectrum with people, companies, and even governments going after Facebook, Twitter, and Google about how they handle the information that people give (or do not give) them, the other end of the spectrum more »

MadPad helps make music... even at the hardware store

Sep 18 by Scarlett Madison | add comment

With about a million iPad apps and a billion iPhone apps available, finding good ones isn’t hard. Finding ones that stand out from the crowd often is. If you like making music but don’t necessarily have “skills” with instruments, MadPad is an more »

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