Nexus and Galaxy. The two brands represent opposing ends of the Android spectrum. Nexus devices have always been Google’s pure, untarnished vision of its platform. Samsung’s wildly-successful Galaxy devices, meanwhile, still use Android, but also threaten to overshadow it. What happens when you put the best of each side-by-side? Read on, as we compare the [...]
Amazon Could Drop Kindle Fire HD Price to $99
March 20, 2013 | Posted by
Amazon may be considering a 7- inch model of its Kindle Fire HD tablet that could retail as low as $99, according to new reports. The low price would undercut Google’s Nexus 7, which sells for $199. TechCrunch reports that the model is already in production and would release before the end of the year, [...]
Twitter To Shut Down TweetDeck to Android, iPhone Users
March 5, 2013 | Posted by
Twitter wants you to know that TweetDeck is its most powerful weapon — and you can’t have it. You can’t have it, that is, if you’re using an Android phone or an iPhone — or if you for some reason prefer the old version of TweetDeck that was built on Adobe’s resource-hogging Air platform. Twitter announced via a [...]
Anticipation For Samsung Galaxy S4 May Not be Only Thing Heating Up
February 26, 2013 | Posted by
It seems like it was only yesterday when Samsung enthusiasts and industry experts alike were so excited with the release of the Samsung Galaxy S3. The anticipation and excitement may not have even died down yet and here is the Korean manufacturer gearing up to launch the latest smartphone to hit the market, the Samsung [...]
Affordable Samsung Galaxy Camera on The Way
February 20, 2013 | Posted by
Samsung on Tuesday announced a Wi-Fi only version of its Android-powered Galaxy Camera. The device is equipped with a 4.8-inch 720p HD display, a 1.4GHz quad-core Exynos processor and a 16.3-megapixel sensor with a 23-millimeter wide angle lens that is capable of 21x optical zoom. It also includes 1GB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage, a microSD [...]
HTC Newest Smartphone Details Leaked
February 17, 2013 | Posted by
Either HTC has the worst corporate security known to humankind, or it is intentionally showing off its brand new smartphone on the sly before it officially introduces it to reporters next week. HTC has invited the media to attend an event in New York City on Feb. 19. The company is expected to reveal its [...]
Review: New Oppo Smartphone, Pricey and Unconventional
February 15, 2013 | Posted by
If top-line handsets from Samsung, HTC, or Apple don’t thrill you, perhaps a walk on the smartphone wild side is in order. For a sky-high sticker price approaching $700, the unconventional Oppo Find 5 offers a quad-core processing punch, massive 5-inch 1080p display, Android Jelly Bean, plus a striking and modern design. The unlocked device [...]
Polaroid iM1836: New Android-Powered Camera
February 11, 2013 | Posted by
Polaroid recently announced the first and only Android-powered compact interchangeable-lens smart camera, the 18-megapixel Polaroid iM1836, which will hit store shelves in the first quarter of 2013. Polaroid iM1836 Specs The iM1836 camera features the Android 4.1 “Jelly Bean” operating system. For all those Android junkies out there, this is definitely the camera to have. [...]
Apple Top Dog in Smartphone Sales
February 7, 2013 | Posted by
There’s been indications that Apple staged something of a comeback in the U.S. during the fourth quarter, owing partly to an iPhone 5-related spike. ComScore’s smartphone share data for December appears to bear that out. It estimates that Apple claimed a 36.3 percent slice of the American market in the last month of 2012: that’s a noticeable boost from [...]
Mobile Operating System ‘Ubuntu’ Close to Launch
February 7, 2013 | Posted by
According to the Wall Street Journal, Canonical is claiming that its new Ubuntu OS will be with developers by late February — ready for phones to launch in “two geographically large markets” this October. The Wall Street Journal doesn’t explain which company will be making the first Ubuntu phones, but Canonical claims that it will be easy [...]
