Mark writes: My HTC Evo 4G from Sprint has the worst battery life that I ever experienced from a smart phone. I have to manually stop running programs and applications in my application settings to conserve battery life. How can I further extend my phone’s...
Remember Palm? The legendary mobile company built one of the original, pre-iPhone smartphones, the Treo, and made some serious waves a couple years back with its gorgeous but slow-selling Palm Pre. Well, Palm is no more—it got gobbled up by Hewlett-Packard last...
Marjorie writes: Somebody at work was going on about how information is now going to be stored in clouds. I’m not a total idiot so I realize he did not mean the fluffy white cumulus kind. But I’m enough of an idiot to not really know what this is all...
Boasting a roomy display, a slim profile and the tablet-friendly version of Google’s Android OS, Samsung’s new Galaxy Tab finally has a price—$499 for the 16GB version, or 32GB for $599—and a release date: June 17, with a single Best Buy store in Manhattan...
Rumor had it last week that Microsoft had a tablet version of Windows 8 up its sleeves, and it turns out that the buzz was half-right. Yes, the upcoming Windows revamp will be right at home on a tablet, but rather than deliver a specific tablet-friendly version of the...
Jumbo 4.3-inch display? Check. Dual-core processor for speedier, more efficient multitasking? Check. Support for 4G networks? Yep. The latest version of Google’s Android OS? You betcha. Meet the HTC Sensation 4G, a new Android superphone that’s slated to...
Picture this: You’ve just ordered a tasty “$5 Footlong” at Subway and it’s time to pay up. But instead of pulling out your wallet or fishing around for the debit card floating around in your purse, you simply whip out your smartphone, type in a...
That’s an unofficial number, mind you (Apple is only saying “over 350,000” for now), but still—impressive. Nipping at the Apple’s heels: Google’s Android Market, which in March had an estimated 250,000 apps and (rapidly) climbing. Source:...
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