Today, Asus launched its 7-inch MeMO Pad Android 4.1 Jelly Bean tablet, which appears to resemble the Google Nexus 7 at first glance. While the two devices look similar, the MeMO Pad isn’t as feature-packed as the Nexus-branded tablet. The MeMO Pad sports a 7″ LED Backlight 1024×600 display, 1GHz VIA WM8950 processor, 1GB...
Continue Reading »
Google has selected ASUSTeK Computer to manufacture the second-generation Nexus 7 Android tablet, according to a source close to the situation. Google must be quite content with Asus’ first attempt at a Nexus-branded tablet to continue business with the Taiwan-based manufacturer. That’s not too surprising considering the first-generation Nexus tablet was often sold out...
Continue Reading »
Apple surprisingly announced a new 9.7-inch iPad alongside the headlining 7.9-inch iPad mini during today’s press event in San Jose, California. The announcement of the 4th generation iPad comes just 7 months after the release of the iPad 3, which was dubbed “new iPad” prior to today. The timing is even more perplexing when...
Continue Reading »
AT&T has flipped the 4G LTE switch in a couple new areas of Texas and Arkansas. Customers in Waco, Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers and Bentonville can now access lightning-fast LTE data speeds. While AT&T’s coverage of 53 total markets easily trumps Sprint’s soon to be 19 markets, it doesn’t exactly measure up to Verizon’s latest...
Continue Reading »
AT&T announced its Mobile Share plans in mid-July with a tentative launch time-frame of August, but now the second largest wireless carrier in the U.S. has set an exact availability date. The new plan options will go live starting August 23rd. Similar to Verizon’s Share Everything plans, AT&T customers under the same plan can...
Continue Reading »
Today, AT&T announced its new Mobile Share Plans which will allow customers to share data across multiple smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices starting this August. Similar to Verizon’s Share Everything plans, AT&T customers on the same account can get unlimited voice/texts per line while sharing a limited amount of data between up to...
Continue Reading »
After adding 46 new markets and expanding in 22 other markets today, June 21, Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE network now covers 304 total markets in the United States. That equates to over two-thirds of the U.S. population and more 4G LTE coverage than all other carriers combined. Verizon plans to cover more than 400...
Continue Reading »
After a disappointing 2011, Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC shifted their strategy by concentrating on quality over quantity. We’ve seen evidence of their efforts in the form of fewer devices, primarily the HTC One Android series, which includes the One X, One S and One V. So, how does the smartphone-maker feel about their tactics...
Continue Reading »
Today, Verizon Wireless announced Share Everything Plans that they claim will “forever change the way customers purchase wireless services.” The idea is simple, family members get unlimited voice/texts and share a limited amount of data between up to 10 smartphones/tablets. Also, the Mobile Hotspot service is included at no additional charge. The Share Everything...
Continue Reading »
Qualcomm put together a YouTube video to promote the thermal efficiency of their Snapdragon S4 processor, the same chip inside the U.S. variants of the HTC One X and Samsung Galaxy S III, compared to the competition. To be fair, the two competing devices in the video seem to be the Motorola Droid Razr...
Continue Reading »
We know Sprint will first launch their 4G LTE network in markets like Baltimore, Kansas City, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio by mid-2012. We also know Sprint plans to complete LTE deployment in 2014, but how will that translate in terms of nationwide coverage? Well, at the RCA Expo yesterday, Sprint revealed a...
Continue Reading »
Apple took a cheap shot at Samsung during “the New iPad” press conference yesterday when they used a Galaxy Tab 10.1 to negatively show how poorly the official Twitter App looks on Android tablets. Now, Samsung is fighting back by putting out their own infographic thats point out what the third generation iPad is...
Continue Reading »
One of the key features of the new iPad is its Apple A5X dual-core processor with quad-core graphics. While introducing the third generation iPad to the world, Apple claimed its A5X chipset offers 4X the graphics performance of rival Nvidia’s Tegra 3 quad-core processor, which will power an army of Android smartphones and tablets...
Continue Reading »
Apple announced the third generation iPad today, so we though it would be interesting to compare it to its predecessor and some upcoming high-end Android Tablets. Below, you will find a comparison table for the new iPad, iPad 2, Asus Transformer Pad Infinity 700 series, and Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1.
Continue Reading »
Motorola put out a video pitting Siri on the iPhone 4S against Google Voice Actions on the Motorola Atrix 2. The first thing that came to mind while watching the video was, “how many hands does this woman have?” Then, we realized Motorola conveniently left out some useful scenarios that would have made the...
Continue Reading »