Wondering if you should grab a Google Nexus One or a HTC Droid Incredible as your next Android phone? If you want a Google Nexus One, the only official carrier option is T-Mobile. Google recently started pushing the HTC Incredible to any potential customers interested in a Verizon Nexus One. So, the decision is as…
Samsung Monte Iron Man 2 special edition on O2 on May 1
What do you get when you mix a social-networking touchscreen handset with one of the hottest new movie releases of 2010? You get Samsung’s new Monte Iron Man 2 special edition kinda-smartphone on the O2 network. To celebrate – or, more like leverage the movie’s popularity – Samsung has announced a special edition version of…
BMW ConnectedDrive integrates BlackBerry email and text messages into BMW dashboard!
BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) announced a few fairly impressive BlackBerry smartphones and showed off a preview of their upcoming BlackBerry 6 operating system at WES 2010 this week, but the coolest thing at the conference was a demonstration of the BMW ConnectedDrive system. The next-generation of BMW cars will offer an option to integrate…
Latest Verizon ‘Droid Does’ commercial shows off Incredible features
Verizon’s “Droid Does” advertising campaign is nothing short of impressive. The ads are emotive and perfectly targeted to Android-loving geeks – mostly male, to be sure. The latest in this line of commercials showcases the Verizon HTC Droid Incredible. Or, to be more precise, it lists the Incredible’s high-end features, but falls short of actually…
Verizon Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus get minor webOS update (webOS 1.4.1.1)
If you’re like us, you’re probably a little distracted by HP’s late-Wednesday announcement that the company will be buying Palm for a cool $1.2 billion dollars. So distracted, in fact, that you may not have noticed that Verizon is pushing out an update for your Verizon Palm Pre Plus or Palm Pixi Plus. The webOS…
Apple shipping iPad 3G a day early?
Apple’s official ship date for the iPad 3G – the iPad model that can connect to AT&T’s 3G wireless data network – is set for Friday, April 30. But, it seems Apple may be shipping the 3G-enabled iPad to users a day early. At least one lucky Apple fan got his iPad 3G ahead of…
AT&T outlines iPad 3G data service costs and other details
By now, it’s fairly well known that Apple and AT&T are again in cahoots to provide 3G data service to iPad customers. AT&T will be providing Apple iPad 3G + WiFi units with 3G data service on its “Nation’s Fastest 3G Network” starting April 30th, when Apple drops the 3G iPad on the the US.…
South Korea follows Israel, allows iPads into the country
Just days after Israel announced that they will now allow the import and entry of Apple iPads into the country, the iPad has gained access to another market on the other side of the Eurasian landmass. South Korea has just announced that they too will be allowing the iPad into their market. The Korea Communications…
iPad App Preview: iBrite – The light-up toy from childhood is all grown up
If you’re old enough to remember, you probably have a soft spot in your heart for those old-timey Lite Brite toys from years gone past. Before there were high-powered gaming consoles, the Internet, or even smartphones, children entertained themselves with analog toys like this. Well, what was old is once again new with the Apple…
Facebook enables iPad-friendly video playback!
There are a good number of websites that are now running HTML5 video players that will run stream embedded videos to the iPad without kicking you out to the YouTube app. Facebook is not one of this websites. Well, we should clarify by saying that Facebook is not using the HTML5 video player, but it…