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Android
by Stephen Schenck | March 12, 2014 11:19 AMRead OnThe formidable momentum driving forward all these HTC All New One leaks is not showing any signs of slowing down or even pausing as we hit the two-week home stretch before the smartphone's anticipated launch. Following up a big day of leaks yesterday, we get to check out some carrier branding on the handset, with a pair ...
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by Joe Levi | March 12, 2014 7:10 AMRead OnI like watches -- perhaps "quality timepiece" is a more accurate term. From the Gobots watch that I wore through most of my elementary school days, to the Casio calculator watch that adorned my wrist through junior high, my watches always had something "techie" about them. I wore two iterations of watches sporting ...
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by Taylor Martin | March 12, 2014 7:01 AMRead On
Both of Google's Nexus 7 have been renowned for being such great bargains. The current-gen Nexus 7, made by ASUS, retails for a staggeringly low $229, yet it features pretty impressive specifications and performance, all things considered. Samsung is no stranger to the small tablet category, but the real question is: ...
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Windows Phone
by Adam Doud | March 12, 2014 7:00 AMRead OnAcross the pond at MWC, Microsoft had a few things to say about its upcoming and much anticipated Windows Phone 8.1 update. In addition to nine new hardware partners all taking a bite of the Windows Phone pie, and Android dual-booting goodness, it was also announced that Microsoft would no longer be requiring hardware ...
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Android
by Anton D. Nagy | March 12, 2014 6:27 AMRead OnEver since we heard the first mentions of a future possible F-series from Samsung, there have been a lot of rumors regarding this alleged "premium" series of phones from South Korea. The chatter became even hotter after the Galaxy S 5 announcement, where some of the fans (and not only) were disappointed by the general ...
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Android
by Anton D. Nagy | March 12, 2014 2:27 AMRead OnWhether this ... thing ... you're seeing above is a phone or a phablet is unknown, but we understand if you wish this patent, recently granted to Samsung, will never materialize. The patent has been granted for "the ornamental design for a mobile phone, as shown and described", and we're looking at a mobile device that ...
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by Jaime Rivera | March 11, 2014 11:00 PMRead On
Watch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about how AT&T is now teasing the Asus PadFone X, and what this means for the product in the US market. We then talk about the all-new HTC One, and what to expect from its special dual cameras. Que focus later on the Snapdragon 800, and how a developer figured out how to ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | March 11, 2014 8:00 PMRead OnAbout a year back, we were talking about the possibility of Google maybe opening up some retail locations of its own, much in the way Apple and Microsoft have their own stores. Just as we are now, back then we were waiting for the pending commercial launch of Google Glass, and this idea of a retail store was put forward ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | March 11, 2014 7:17 PMRead OnWith last year's G2, LG managed to turn a few heads. Sure, the phone had its issues, but looking just at its design, there was a lot to be pleased with: we saw that incredibly narrow side bezel, and LG experimented with moving the handset's power and volume buttons to the middle of its back. We've seen that rear-mounted ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | March 11, 2014 5:31 PMRead OnOften times in this industry when we're talking about one company following in the steps of another, it's trying to duplicate the earlier firm's success: just look at Microsoft's current efforts to deliver its Cortana voice assistant, in the wake of Siri and Google Now. But then there's odd occasion when the company ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | March 11, 2014 4:35 PMRead OnIt's not quite to the point where we can set our watches by it, but the incessant pace at which leaks detailing HTC's All New One have been arriving has been beating away like a metronome, punctuating the days until the Android smartphone finally goes official. Earlier today we got a really great one, featuring some ad ...
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Android / iOS
by Jaime Rivera | March 11, 2014 4:09 PMRead OnWe've seen the ongoing drama by two of the biggest smartphone partners in the industry, since hey, Samsung builds a ton of parts for Apple's mobile products. These two companies continue striking at each other with patent litigation, being Apple the biggest bully that claims that Samsung copied the iPhone, and Samsung ...
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iOS
by Jaime Rivera | March 11, 2014 3:57 PMRead OniOS 7 was launched to a certain degree of polarization in the industry. Some hated it, and others loved it, but there was one feature that was generally praised, and it was the fact that Apple removed its limitations to how many apps you could hold in one folder. That being said, not many knew that there was a cool bug ...
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Multi-Platform
by Jaime Rivera | March 11, 2014 3:42 PMRead OnEven though a lot of famous technology gurus, Steve Jobs included, considered that the whole concept of music streaming would never work as according to him, people want to "own their music", lately the reality is different. Obviously at the time when Jobs said this, we didn't even have 3G data speeds to make it ...
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iOS
by Jaime Rivera | March 11, 2014 2:23 PMRead OnApple has just launched iOS 7.1 to the public yesterday, and even though this was just a major bug fix to the problems that many complained about with iOS 7, it's clear that any future changes that come to iOS will be focused on polishing what already exists. We know that the previous version of Apple's mobile operating ...
