Corporate types are kissing their company-issued BlackBerry smartphones buh-bye. And Ask Maggie is here to help the newly liberated choose a smartphone of their own. Companies large and small are recognizing the benefits of allowing their employees to bring their own smartphones into work rather than issuing them devices. Additional on-device security features and productivity …
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Not seven months after its debut, the Asus Eee Pad Transformer is consistently one of the most popular tablets on CNET. So, it came as a surprise when I heard that Asus was preparing a follow-up tablet so soon after the original. On Tuesday, Asus officially unveiled the Eee Pad Transformer Prime. Touted as the world’s first tablet to house …
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The Amazon Kindle Fire vs. the Barnes & Noble Nook Color. Amazon Update (11/07/11): You can find a comparison between the Amazon Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet on CNET’s Android Atlas. The following piece compares the Kindle Fire to Barnes & Noble’s older touch screen reader, the Nook Color. In the aftermath of Amazon’s Kindle Fire announcement, …
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Is there such thing as too much of a good thing? Verizon comes out swinging with superphones galore, we take a look at the next generation of Windows Phone handsets, and we have a good old-fashioned rant against a very very weird phone. All that and more on today’s Dialed In. Now playing: Watch this: Dialed In 198: Too many …
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It’s been a couple of weeks now since we first glimpsed the Nokia Lumia 800, one of the first two of Nokia’s brave new Windows Phone world, just after it was announced at Nokia World. This phone had promise: a 3.7-inch WVGA AMOLED screen, a 1.4GHz processor, a singular design in crazy bright blue and magenta, and a fancy 8-megapixel …
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Google’s ebook store has finally launched in Australia, with its own local store and partnerships online with Dymocks and iRiver. (Credit: Google) From today, avid ebook fans can access Google’s ebook platform via books.google.com.au, where they can download the Google Books app for Android, iOS and the web. Google’s ebooks are also compatible with any e-reader that supports Adobe DRM. …
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To tie in with the carrier’s impending Droid Razr launch on 11:11 a.m. on 11/11/11–aka Friday–Verizon Wireless will launch a promotion that doubles the amount of monthly data allotment for 4G smartphone owners. Starting Tuesday, any customer who has a Verizon 4G smartphone will be eligible to get double the data for the same price. For example, someone who subscribes …
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Having just come from the unveiling of the latest Nook e-readers, I’m feeling more than ever that the future of reading will come in tablet form. I’m already “that guy”: I read all my latest books on my iPad via iBooks or the Kindle app. And yet, there’s something big–something obvious–that e-readers are missing. It’s something that magazines, newspapers, DVDs, …
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Nowadays, everybody has to work with developers. Just ask HTC. Not content to build Android and Windows Phone smartphones, the company in June launched a developer-outreach program, HTC Dev. The goal: to give developers access to some of its products’ niftier features while drumming up support for the company. “Android and mobile in general is so competitive, developing mindshare is …
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The HTC Sensation, Sensation XL, Sensation XE and Evo 3D will all be getting an upgrade to Android 4.0, aka Ice Cream Sandwich early next year. Welcome news for fans of those phones, but what about the HTC Desire series? And indeed, the recent HTC Rhyme? A bunch of US-only phones have also been confirmed for the ICS update (stateside …
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