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Android
by Stephen Schenck | March 11, 2014 12:28 PMRead OnSlowly but surely, new information about the OnePlus One CyanogenMod phone has been arriving. Last week we saw the company divulge the details behind its choice of SoC, with the promise that full specs on the phone would land sometime this week. Rather than dumping everything all at once, we've instead seen OnePlus ...
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by Michael Fisher | March 11, 2014 12:03 PMRead On
Even at launch, there was nothing humble about the HTC HD2. With the largest screen ever grafted onto a smartphone, the first-of-its-kind Qualcomm Scorpion SoC, and the heaviest skin ever crafted for a Windows Mobile device (here called "HTC Sense" for the first time), the HD2 was a behemoth – the biggest spec beast ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | March 11, 2014 11:43 AMRead OnVoice control for smartphones really started hitting the mainstream with the introduction of Siri, and since then we've seen it expand to address new platforms (like the forthcoming launch of Cortana for WP8.1) and offer new abilities, like the Touchless Control always-listening mode offered by Motorola's Moto X. While ...
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Windows Phone
by Stephen Schenck | March 11, 2014 10:58 AMRead OnYesterday we shared with you word that Microsoft appeared to be in the final stages of preparation for introducing the LTE-enabled version of last year's Surface 2 tablet. Supposedly shipments of the tablet were already hitting stores, and photographic evidence existed, but it just hadn't yet been made available. Today, ...
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Android
by Anton D. Nagy | March 11, 2014 9:48 AMRead OnThe purpose of dual cameras on the upcoming HTC One has been a topic of debate ever since we first heard the rumors, and seen the leaks depicting the imaging system and arrangement on the back. Some were betting on 3D, while others, including us, were convinced that HTC will try to improve on overall image quality as ...
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Android
by Joe Levi | March 11, 2014 7:10 AMRead OnAs you might recall, Nokia showed off its first "Android" phones at MWC this year. Why the "air quotes", you ask? Because the Nokia X family aren't real Androids, at least not in the traditional sense. If you disagree with that statement, you're not alone. Over 150 comments were left on that article either telling us ...
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by Taylor Martin | March 11, 2014 7:01 AMRead On
Apple, whether it admits the iPad is a tablet or not, is the tablet market share leader by a rather wide margin. Samsung currently holds about half the market share Apple does, and it's slowly gaining ground. Its tablets continually get better with each generation, to boot. At CES in January, Samsung announced its ...
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by Jaime Rivera | March 10, 2014 11:14 PMRead On
Watch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Apple's release of iOS 7.1 to compatible devices, and all the list of changes. Then we talk about Google and its plan to launch a new Android SDK that can support wearables. Then we go through the future of the Google Chromecast and how we'll most likely see it ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | March 10, 2014 8:05 PMRead OnSlowly but surely, Intel's been making headway back into the mobile device market, and after the past couple years of seeing Intel SoCs pop up here and there, 2014 finally feels like the year when Intel might make its impression felt on mainstream smartphones and tablets. The company had some big announcements to make ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | March 10, 2014 7:05 PMRead OnSmartphone users absolutely love customizing their handsets. That desire extends from the outside, with cases or even Moto-X-style custom hardware, all the way to the phone's software, setting personalized wallpapers or ringtones. That's just all the surface-level stuff, though, and some users will take things much ...
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Windows Phone
by Michael Fisher | March 10, 2014 5:58 PMRead OnOf all the rumored improvements Windows Phone 8.1 will bring, perhaps none is as important as Cortana. Not that a fully-featured voice assistant is a make-or-break qualification for a platform's success; rather, Cortana symbolizes a more important shift in Microsoft's priorities. With its leaked "Notebook" ...
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Android
by Stephen Schenck | March 10, 2014 5:09 PMRead OnGoogle's Chromecast is an incredibly easy and affordable way to start enjoying streaming content on your HDTV, and while its initial smartphone integration was limited to a handful of select apps, the new Cast SDK could start greatly expanding upon how many apps support the accessory, and we've even seen progress ...
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Windows Phone
by Stephen Schenck | March 10, 2014 4:15 PMRead OnWe didn't really plan for it, but today we find ourselves taking a trip down memory lane to last year's Windows 8 tablets. First we checked out some evidence suggesting that Nokia's Lumia 2520 might miss out on a couple of the color options that had been initially teased at launch time, and now we jump on over to ...
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Android
by Michael Fisher | March 10, 2014 4:04 PMRead OnI've had some wonderful experiences with Android tablets. Loading CyanogenMod on the HP TouchPad, an activity I documented in my first-ever video for Pocketnow, filled in some crucial capability gaps left open by the TouchPad's native OS. Carrying a first-gen Nexus 7 for a week in 2012 taught me just how compelling ...
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iOS
by Stephen Schenck | March 10, 2014 3:37 PMRead OnApple's iOS 7.1 is now upon us, delivering fixes, new features, and ruining the latest jailbreak – all the stuff we expect a significant iOS release to do. But along with the functionality it delivers, it also holds a few secrets, and one of them sure seems to suggest that Apple's got a couple new hardware variants in ...
