We recently talked about smartphones, brand names, and saturation of the major players in the mobile arena, and the fact that handsets powered by Android make up over 50% of the market share. It may come as somewhat of a surprise to learn that when it comes to corporations, Android comes in around 26% -- second to iOS at 37%. Samsung doesn't like that is has a plan to do something about it. They're calling it SAFE -- "Samsung Approved For Enterprise" or "Samsung For Enterprise" for short. SAFE is built on "four pillars": enabling workers to access their corporate email, calendar, and ...

Those of you who are regular readers probably remember that my "old" Nexus 4 met with what I like to call "premature end-of-life" caused by a "gravity-event". Many of you probably have an old smartphone laying around like I did. Switching back to it while I waited for my replacement was fairly simple: pop the SIM out of the broken phone and into the old one, boot up, and done! For my temporary phone I opted for my (very) old T-Mobile G2 running Gingerbread. It wasn't terribly fast and it wasn't very pretty. It was a bulky brick, but it did virtually everything that I needed it to. That ...

The latest update to Android 4.2 Another Flavor of Jelly Bean has started to roll out to select Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 7, and Nexus 10 devices. Suspiciously absent are reports of an update for Google's latest flagship device, the Nexus 4. This version, 4.2.2, is a 0.0.1 update to the operating system and weighs in around 46MB (depending on which device you're installing it on), so to say it's a "minor update" is a bit of an understatement. The code hasn't yet hit the AOSP, so custom-ROMs based on it aren't being developed just yet. In the meantime, if you own the GSM variety of the Galaxy ...

I love my Nexus 7. It's one of the best tablets on the market for the money. Recently, Google updated it to Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean and brought with it irritating lag! That lag presents itself at the worst times. Another issue I wanted to address was battery life. Although the battery on the Nexus 7 isn't small, in my use I needed another hour or two of use. Investigating solutions that would address both lag and battery life, some of our readers recommended Franco Kernel, a replacement kernel, kernel updater, and settings control panel all-in-one. It won't work with every device, but if ...

Way back in the Windows Mobile days, the sweetheart devices were made by HTC. Power users could do so much with devices made by HTC. Even today, the most-hackable, least brickable device is arguably the HTC HD2. Over time, HTC started to lose that crown and, for a while, Samsung picked it up and ran with it. Why is the crown so important? Sure, we'd all like a phone that we can hack, but some will downplay the ability to do so and say "hack friendlyness" shouldn't be a measure of a device's appeal. Maybe they're right in that regard. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your ...

Manufacturers have been teasing us with flexible displays for years. You'll be hard pressed to find a trade show anywhere in the world that doesn't have some booth with a thin sheet of plastic being twisted and flattened over and over. The Future, they say, will be made up of these  displays, built-in to everything from bracelets to automotive displays. What they're not telling you is that although the display may be flexible, and the futuristic mock-ups are intended to be twisted and rolled, that's not the real intent -- nor is it their real advantage. Yes, it looks cool, high-tech, and ...

The cat is out of the bag and the new BlackBerry -- the company -- is here. For whatever reasons, the market didn't seem to take the news very well and BlackBerry stocks dipped notably. Hopefully the tech world won't be quite as harsh as Wall Street. Most of us will agree that competition is both good and healthy for the mobile industry. Everyone seems to feed off each other's successes and learns from the competition's failures. The end result (ideally) is a better device for each of us, regardless of which platform we've adopted in our personal and business lives. The new BlackBerry -- ...

If your phone or tablet is in Google's Nexus family you can quickly and easily restore your device to the latest, stock image. If you've already applied a custom ROM and don't want it anymore, want to force an update to the lastest version of Android, or even convert your YAKJUxx Galaxy Nexus to a TAKJU or YAKJU version for faster OTA updates, this is how you do it. Before we get started, following these instructions will wipe what's on your device, and anytime we talk about flashing there's a risk (albeit slight) that your device may never wake up again. Proceed at your own risk. Next, ...