If you’ve got Bluetooth speakers, add a display stand to amp up your iPad movie-watching. Zerochroma If you don’t have $150 to toss around for the Altec Octiv Stage iPad dock and speakers, there are other, cheaper ways to milk the iPad’s 10-inch screen for its home theater potential. If you’ve already got Bluetooth speakers, …
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With all the millions of dollars that manufacturers and mobile operators pour into advertising their flagship smartphones, you’d think more commercials would be hits. But we all know better than that. For every poignant or entertaining ad there are five more duds that fail to entertain, or elicit any sort of emotional response. Take 2010, for instance. There have been …
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The Motorola Flipside is a new messaging phone for AT&T. The $99 price tag isn’t bad at all for this midrange Android 2.1 handset, which sports a 3.1-inch HVGA touch screen, a 3-megapixel camera, and a 32GB-capable expandable memory card slot. It has the full range of rock-solid Android apps, but also some only arguably useful preloaded programs and the …
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It’s not every day we see a prepaid phone at the AT&T R225’s rock-bottom $20 price. Even the simplest phone tends to cost more off-contract since they’re not receiving any subsidies the carriers hand out in exchange for your two-year service agreement. So if you’re in the market for an inexpensive phone just for making calls, feast your eyes on …
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BlackBerry-maker RIM has just promoted its free BlackBerry Traffic app from beta status to a general software release. Now that its available in the BlackBerry App World beginning today, BlackBerry Traffic could threaten competitors like Waze. BlackBerry Traffic is a driving tool that estimates the real-time distance between you and your destination. The app sources a combination of historical traffic …
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There’s no shortage of AT&T quick messaging phones, but relatively few of them boast touch screens. The compact (almost too compact) Samsung Solstice II has a 3-inch touch-screen display, just like its predecessor, the Samsung Solstice. While it does get some touch-ups, the Solstice II adds very little and even does away with a small feature. Be sure to read …
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LTE received another teammate in the tug-of-war between WiMax and 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology yesterday when Cellular South announced its intentions today to build out a 4G mobile broadband network. The regional carrier has declared that it will build out its spectrum in the lower 700 MHz band, but not anytime soon, unlike Verizon. Cellular South has the …
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When Google announced Google Voice for iPhone earlier today, we wasted no time putting the telephony app through its paces. Google Voice for iPhone (download) delivers much of what we expect from a native Google Voice app. In an absolute sense, it’s a terrific app because it brings much-needed native Google Voice management to the iPhone. However, considering it took …
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Raise your hand if your iPhone 4 has ever flashed the 20-percent-left battery warning at a most inopportune time, with no usable or practical outlets in sight. Yep, me, too. I’ve been the girl scanning cafe walls, poking at ambiguous hinged metal floor plates, and scouring airline gates in the hopes of finding a power source more times than I’d …
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Mobile browser-maker Skyfire may have had a disastrous launch day of Skyfire for iPhone due to shaky bandwidth, but now that the Silicon Valley company is disclosing some numbers, there are several tidbits we can glean about the Flash video-streaming browser. 1. Skyfire grossed almost $1 million: Skyfire sold about 100,000 copies of Skyfire for iPhone during the first five …
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