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On the heels of the Garmin software announcement, we have another navigation company unveiling the updated offering. It’s NAVIGON, which is owned by Garmin and which unveiled few details about its upcoming apps for iPhone and Android smartphones. The new applications, set to be released later this fall, rock several neat features, including: New map…
Verizon Wireless announced that the Motorola Droid 2 will finally get an update to Android 2.3 Gingerbread and all its glory. The carrier didn’t announce a specific date for the roll-out to commence, so Droid 2 owners should be on the look-out for an over-the-air software update. Android Gingerbread will bring a lot of new…
Those words will echo throughout households of the future. The new LG Roboking VR680VMNC (did you get all that?) robotic vacuum is set to debut in Korea this month, showcasing the company’s effort to add advanced tech to appliances. It features three different cameras plus sensors galore to move around the house efficiently and has several…
To no one’s surprise, Toshiba just unveiled its latest Android tablet offering, the Honeycomb 3.2, 10.1-inch AT200. When we describe this tab as ultra slim — we mean it. The new Toshiba tablet measures in at a remarkable 7.7 mm thick, the Toshiba AT200 comes in as one of the thinnest Honeycomb slates yet, making…
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about tablets lately and I’m genuinely curious: What’s your favorite tablet and why? If we’re going by sheer sales numbers, I’d imagine many of you would say the iPad, as it has sold more than 22 million units and pretty much kickstarted this whole category. The original iPad…
Nielsen just released the latest statistics on smartphone usage in the United States. Slowly but surely, smartphones continue to take over the entire mobile phone industry. As of July 2011, 40 percent of all mobile phones in use are smartphones. The other 60 percent are feature phones, but that number shrinks with every day that…
Samsung and its carrier partners are looking to bring the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update to all of the Galaxy S versions. One of the devices from the group which still waits to get that treatment is U.S. Cellular’s Samsung Mesmerize, which is a CDMA-version of the Galaxy S, like the one Verizon offers (Fascinate). Unfortunately…
Motorola DEFY+, which is an updated version of Moto’s rugged Android smartphone, is heading to the UK, where it will land later this month. We don’t have the exact launch date, nor which carriers will get to offer the DEFY+ and can only hope the wait will be over in the next couple of days.…
Today at IFA 2011 in Berlin Samsung announced two devices that, from a hardware perspective, are practically the same. Both the Galaxy Note and the Galaxy Tab 7.7 have a dual core 1.4 GHz processor, both have 1 GB of RAM, and both have screens with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. Now let’s…
HTC’s recent $300 million purchase of a majority stake in Beats Audio, a company that offers headphones that are markedly more expensive than your average set of cans, yet sound only marginally better, has been heralded by many as a huge waste of money. Similar to how everyone knows you have an Apple product due…