Time and time again, I've found myself defending the technology of years past as it catches a second wind and starts to make inroads upon the smartphone landscape: I adore the return of the stylus on devices like the Galaxy Note (except for those big, blunt, generic capacitive styluses which rightly deserve to die in a lake of fire), I think an infrared transceiver is a versatile, inexpensive addition any phone could benefit from, and I wish FM radio tuners were as ubiquitous as Bluetooth support. There's one thing, though, right on the cusp of making a big comeback, that I just can't get ...

Nostalgia is a funny thing. Sometimes it creeps up on you, and tickles you at the edge of your senses without you even realizing it. One minute you're sitting there and you catch of whiff of roast beef mixed with stale beer and blammo, you're thinking about Cindy Pepperstein who firmly but gently turned you down for the senior prom. And sometimes nostalgia hits you in the face with a shovel, which is the situation I found myself in not long ago. I started thinking, as I admittedly often do, about webOS. About what could have been. (--Insert Harp Music Here--) The TouchPad Go is what could ...

Here at Pocketnow we're always striving to not only bring you quality content, but to also come up with new and original ideas, which we often times, after turning them inside-out and upside-down, transform into a regular feature. Pocketnow VIP is our newest show, based off of the popular and successful Pocketnow Live. Pocketnow VIP is a monthly show where we'll have the pleasure of being joined by the most outstanding personalities from the industry. As such, in our first episode we had the pleasure of being joined by TechnoBuffalo's Jon Rettinger.  ___ Format and guest In case you ...

A couple weeks back, at the Google I/O keynote, Google confirmed rumors that there would be a very special Nexus-like edition of Samsung's Galaxy S 4, getting all the AOSP software and speedy-update-goodness we've come to expect from the smartphones that are nearest and dearest to Google's heart. Even with the (maybe too) expensive $650 price tag, users were understandably excited about news of this handset: with a full HD display and Snapdragon 600 processor, we were looking at the most powerful model to date to join the Nexus family (even if only as a cousin). But then a new rumor ...

Try to remember the first computer you ever used. It would be awesome if you could share your first experience with a computer in the comments. The first computer I ever used was an old clone PC that my father bought for the family business back in 1992. It ran DOS 4.2, and yeah, I was really good at memorizing all the commands needed to keep it running. That was its biggest problem though. All you had was a black display with a cursor, and unless you knew the commands, all the cursor did was blink at you. There was nothing intuitive about it, and the user manual was very big. As a result, ...

Up until Motorola and Google co-released the XOOM tablet, Apple dominated the tablet arena. Various manufacturers attempted to "shoe-horn" the smartphone version of Android onto tablets with much larger screens, and actually did some with some measure of success. Google politely asked manufacturers to hold off while they put together a version of Android that was designed specifically for the larger screen sizes that are what make tablets so much different than smartphones. Android Honeycomb was born... and everyone hated it. Honeycomb was a necessary evil to get us "over the hump" so apps ...

Topic Jolla unveiled their first phone this week, together with "the other half", which brings an interesting concept to the mobile world. HTC's executives are leaving the company which makes us wonder whether this is a good or a bad things. Samsung officially sold 10 million Galaxy S 4 units through its global channels and unofficial sources talk about 5 million HTC One devices being sold. All this in a context in which Microsoft downgrades its YouTube app for Windows Phone in order to comply with Google's requirements. If any of the above is not an interesting enough topic for you then ...

Google introduced some very cool things at I/O 2013, primary among them was a renewed focus on services. In addition to talking a lot about new Google Play Services which will bring a whole new set of features and functionality to every Android handset and tablet from Froyo on up, we were also shown "Auto Awesome" and Hangouts (the replacement for Talk). Auto Awesome "Auto Awesome" is a set of utilities built in to the latest version of Google Plus -- the website, not the app. It can automatically select the best pictures from your vacation and organize them into a scrap book for you. It ...