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The Nexus S, made by Samsung, drew some initial praise for its slick Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS and its unique NFC (Near Field Communications) capabilities, but it’s so far been limited to the T-Mobile USA network. Sprint is changing all that with their own Nexus S 4G, and, as you might have guessed by the…
We’re live at Samsung’s CTIA 2011 press event, where we’re looking forward to seeing what the smartphone maker is unleashing on the US market. The obvious announcements today are the Samsung Nexus S 4G and the Galaxy Tab 8.9 Android tablet. We’ll be starting shortly. Stay tuned to this post for live, up-to-the-second updates from…
We’re live at CTIA 2011 in Orlando for the Day 1 keynote address, which is expected to include a roundtable face-off between the CEOs from the Top Four carriers in the US – AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile. Of course, this takes on much more meaning now that AT&T plans to buy T-Mobile and the…
When Motorola launched their Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet, the Motorola XOOM, they hadn’t yet blessed the device with support for Adobe Flash web content. Now, all that has changed. Motorola and Adobe have made good on their promise of rolling out Adobe Flash Player 10.2 to the XOOM – as well as Android 3.0 Honeycomb,…
AT&T brought a bunch of COWs to Austin, TX. to keep their network up and running at the annual South By Southwest (SXSW) 2011 festival – and no, they’re not milk-making cows, they’re Cell On Wheels mobile cell towers that help boost network capacity and performance when existing cell sites are overwhelmed. So, naturally, we…
What’s the first thing you think of when you hear “Mike Tyson” and “game” in the same sentence? If you’re at least in college right now, chances are good that you’ll be thinking of the original Mike Tyson’s Punch Out game on the Nintendo NES gaming console. Well, the controversial boxing champ is back at…
The SXSW 2011 festival in Austin, TX has been overrun with group messaging apps from every corner of the world. The mobile technology trends we’re seeing out here are being fueled by personal recommendation apps and grilled cheese sandwiches (seriously), but the biggest trend, by far, is the group messaging trend. So, when we ran…
If you’re lucky enough to be one of the first kids on your block with a Tegra 2-powered Android device in your pocket or on your lap, you’re probably itching to put that dual-core processor to good use. Well, it turns out NVIDIA has been working with game developers to create high performance versions of…
If your work requires you to use a BlackBerry to ensure secure information transfer, chances are good that you carry two phones – your Android or iPhone as your personal phone, and another BlackBerry as your “because my company said so” phone. Well, a new startup, called Enterproid (Enterprise + Android, get it?) is launching…
By now it’s clear that tablet devices are no fad and that the legion of Android-powered tablets aren’t going to let Apple and its iPad hog the burgeoning tablet market any longer. The Samsung Galaxy Tab proved that an Android tablet can give Apple reason to worry, but the Verizon-bound Motorola XOOM is the first…