When Heavy Machines Crash They Make a Terrible Noise [Heavy Hardware]
March 10th 2010
Tags: Crash, Crashes, Hardware, Massive Crane, Nbsp, Smartphone
ComScore U.S. Data Shows Android Leaping Over WebOS
March 10th 2010
ComScore today released research on the U.S. smartphone market and if you follow the market, you won’t see any surprises. Research In Motion, Apple and Google are still on the upswing, while Microsoft and Palm market share is down in the October 2009 to January 2010 time frame. ComScore points out the numeric market share [...]
Android Surges While the iPhone Stalls Out [Smartphones]
March 10th 2010
Tags: Google, Iphone, Smartphone, Subscriber Numbers, Three Months, Treading Water
The Zune HD2 will be the iPod Touch of the Windows Phone 7 line
March 10th 2010
The success story of the iPod Touch should be of interest to all gadget makers. It’s Apple’s biggest seller in the iPhone OS line and does almost everything that the iPhone does… it just doesn’t have phone guts inside. That may seem like an obvious way to do things now — good smartphone OSes are [...]
Nokia patents “piezeoelectric kinetic energy harvester” for cell phones
March 9th 2010
Keeping your gadgets juiced is a perpetual problem, and as gadgets become more and more power hungry, one that seems ever more intractable.
It’s not a big deal to plug in a gadget, of course, but when your smartphone only lasts five hours at a time, the added inconvenience becomes maddening. Various companies have played [...]
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Motorola Devour Hands On Review
March 4th 2010
Motorola is the phone maker that has not rested since jumping on the Android train. It is almost as if they want to keep up with the frantic pace that Google is setting with Android development. Motorola’s latest member of the Verizon Android family is the Devour, a big smartphone with the MotoBlur feature. Will [...]
Augmented Reality v0.1 [Image Cache]
March 3rd 2010
Tags: Augmented Reality, Confines, Entire World, Image Cache, Smartphone
How Much 3G Data Is Your Smartphone Using?
March 3rd 2010
I don’t often look at my cellular phone bills, but I happened to glance at the latest one from T-Mobile. My first full monthly billing cycle didn’t show anything out of the ordinary, but the monthly data usage happened to catch my eye. I thought I chewed up more than 437 MB of mobile broadband, [...]
Motorola Backflip Review: Not For Us, But Maybe For Them [Review]
March 2nd 2010
Tags: Amp, Motorola, People, Smartphone
Microsoft Employee Shows Off Prototype Windows Phone 7 Series Smartphone From LG [Windowsphone7]
February 27th 2010
Tags: Consumer Experiences, Engadget, Lg Phone, Microsoft, Microsoft Employee, Microsoft Phone, Microsoft Windows, Mobile Division, Nice Surprise, Prototype, Smartphone, Windows Phone
Do You Wi-Fi on Your Phone?
February 24th 2010
It wasn’t that long ago that phones did what they were designed to do, connect to phone networks. Having Wi-Fi on a phone was a pipe dream, and why would you even want that? Then phones started to appear with integrated Wi-Fi, and everyone took notice. Formerly the domain of laptop users while on the [...]
SugarSync Adds Email Attachment Uploads, 500 GB Plan
February 24th 2010
As a long-time SugarSync user, I’m happy to see the file synchronization service continue to add new features. The latest one might not sound like much on the surface, but it’s one of those functions that creates simplicity in a product. New to SugarSync as of today is support for email uploads — just shoot [...]
BlackBerry Buzz: Waning Storm; Super Apps
February 23rd 2010
It’s Tuesday and that can only mean it’s time for our weekly feature, the BlackBerry Buzz. Rumors have surfaced that a major telco, most likely Verizon, is canceling orders for the Storm in preparation of dropping the phone from its lineup. The Storm has not been without its detractors, but if this holds true it [...]
Why Worldwide Smartphone Sales Figures Matter to You
February 23rd 2010
Gartner today reported its worldwide smartphone share findings and it’s more of the same for those watching the numbers. For months we’ve seen smartphone stalwart platforms like Symbian and Windows Mobile lose out to the relative upstarts. Research In Motion’s BlackBerry, Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android operating systems all gained ground. Palm’s rejuvenation with webOS [...]
Software Breaks the Driving While Smartphoning Addiction
February 19th 2010
I used to be one of those folks checking email, Twitter or my text messages while driving. After viewing some public service type announcements and having one close call to many, I decided to put the phone in my pocket before entering a vehicle. Even if I’m stuck in traffic these days, I still resist [...]
Google Shopper for Android — Product Info in Hand
February 19th 2010
Having a smartphone connected to the web can be a useful thing, if it’s leveraged correctly. The web is a vast fountain of information, and having the right tool on a smartphone to zero in on that one nugget of information is priceless. It is especially priceless if it is free, like Google Shopper for [...]
Apple, RIM face trade commission investigation over Kodak patent
February 18th 2010
Apple and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) are receiving some competition from an unlikely source. Believe or not it’s Kodak. Now I don’t mean Kodak plans to come out with their own smartphone. Instead, Kodak is applying some marketing pressure to the two companies over a patent it owns related to image previewing. The [...]
LogMeIn Coming to Android. Will it Help Sell Tablets?
February 16th 2010
Just last week I was pondering the thought of using remote desktop software on Apple’s upcoming iPad. Sure, you could say the iPad is an oversized iPod Touch, but adding the power to virtually “run” a desktop operating system on the larger display adds a whole new dimension to the device. Of course, you’re not [...]
All the Smartphone OSes: A Beginners’ Guide [Smartphones]
February 16th 2010
Windows Phone Series 7 is here, and it’s like nothing we’ve seen from Microsoft—or anyone else—before. But how does it measure up? And where does every other smartphone OS stand?
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Tags: Iphone, Mdash, Microsoft, Phone Series, Series 7, Smartphone, Windows Phone
The Changing Smartphone Landscape
February 16th 2010
Smartphones are in a tremendous growth period, with adoption by mainstream consumers fueling sales. As phones become more like handheld computers, the operating system that powers them becomes more important. In spite of the number of smartphones in the marketplace, until yesterday you could count the number of significant OSes using just a few fingers. [...]