Technology has been improving by leaps and bounds in recent years. Processors have gotten faster, RAM has become more plentiful, graphics processors and screens today are outstanding. We even have megabit data connections in our pockets -- which is amazing if you stop and think about it. What hasn't changed much? Batteries. I've seen the future of technology... and battery life still sucks! Honestly, it should come as no surprise, we've been complaining about battery life for as long as we've had consumer electronics. While improvements have been made, let's face it, none of us are ...

A number of us here at Pocketnow are big fans of the Pebble smartwatch, and while we've shared some pretty neat things you can do with the device, anything really cool has been a little "hacky" so far. When putting together a list of things we were hoping to see from the Pebble, a big one was the presence of a solid selection of apps – for as nice as it is, it would be a lot better if it could just do more. Luckily for us, and all you other Pebble enthusiasts out there, apps should be on their way, with the company today releasing the Pebble SDK. In the coming weeks and months, we hope ...

It's been almost a month since I've been wearing my own Pebble smart watch. Make no mistake, despite a few short-comings, this is the best watch that I've ever worn. It gets notifications pushed to it from my Nexus 4. I don't have to constantly pull my Nexus 4 out of my pocket to check and see if that alert I just received is important or not. Most of the time it's not. Even still, just having that information readily available is a huge help for me! Those of you who are thinking to yourself "why not just pull out your phone" need to try a smart watch to truly appreciate its value and ...

Around here, we're no strangers to wrist-worn smart devices. From bare-bones Bluetooth sport watches to full-on smartphones condensed to wearable size, we've seen them all. Problem is, we haven't been all that impressed by what we've seen. Whether by halfhearted design or a misguided quest for all-encompassing functionality, most of the intelligent watches we've strapped on have very quickly found themselves retired to the novelty drawer. Last year, a company named Pebble -formerly Allerta- burst onto the scene with aspirations to change all that. Pebble's halo product: an e-paper-based ...

I have always have a fascination with tiny, supplementary gadgets that change the way we interface with staple devices. The S Pen, for example, is a controller for the Galaxy Note series that unlocks tons of functionality. To this day, while using the Nexus 4 as my daily driver, I miss using the S Pen. And other styli simply can't compare. When the inPulse Smartwatch by Allerta was first announced in late 2009, I could't help but swoon. At the time, I was was die-hard BlackBerry fan (to the point I refused to own anything else) and could not wait to get my hands on this revolutionary piece ...

This year's Consumer Electronics Show from Las Vegas has come and gone. As usual, we've been both on-site bringing you coverage from events as well as the show floor, and here on Pocketnow, keeping you up to date with what's going on in the mobile world. For some the show has been excellent; for others it has been a letdown. We can't compare CES to a specialized mobile event like MWC (maybe with IFA); still, our experience from past years has taught us to expect certain things to happen at CES. They might or might not have happened in a straightforward way but there was a lot of innovation ...

I'm all about convenience -- and I'm a terrible judge of time. My smartphone (and PDAs before that) helped me keep track of appointments, contacts, and stuff that I need to get done, but they were never terribly convenient for checking the time and date. My watch, on the proverbial "other hand" only told me the time, date, and day of the week. For as long as I can recall I've wanted to combine the two -- well, sort of. We've seen PDAs and even cell phones crammed into wrist watches before, but they've never succeeded at really marrying the two technologies. Various manufacturers tried ...

We've been excited about the Pebble smartwatch for the better part of last year, and after seeing the watch hit the FCC late last month, we've been anxiously awaiting word of just when if would finally become available. At the CES today, the company finally revealed just when we'll be able to get our hands on the Pebble. The first Pebbles will ship to those customers who backed the company's Kickstarter campaign, and will start going out on January 23. Pebble hopes to get watches out to all those backers over the following six to eight weeks. The 144 x 168 pixel screen isn't an electronic ...