Archive for July, 2011
Google Enhances Search For Tablets
Google announced, in a small blog entry, that they’ve started to optimize the Google search experience for tablets. This revamp includes making things bigger, and easier to tap. The newly optimized Google search for tablets includes a search box which provides quick access to image, video, places, news and shopping results. They’ve also increased the [...]
Samsung Galaxy S II Page Has T-Mobile, Cellular South, US Celluar, And Metro PCS In Drop Down
All of the rumors coming out about the Samsung Galaxy S II have featured Sprint, AT&T and Verizon Wireless. It’s been reported that either T-Mobile wouldn’t get the Samsung Galaxy S II at the time of launch, or T-Mobile would get it’s own totally different variant, possibly the Hercules. There are a couple of reasons [...]
Droid Charge Discounted To $99.99 At Amazon
Those guys at Amazon Wireless always have the best deals and today that’s no different. Amazon has discounted the Samsung Droid Charge 4G/LTE phone to just $99.99 on a new two year contract. The Samsung Droid Charge was the second 4G/LTE phone released on Verizon Wireless as well as the second 4G/LTE Android device on [...]
HTC Droid Incredible 2 Coming Soon In Silver
If you’re one of those people that just has to be different and a different color back to your phone helps you distinguish yourself from the crowd than we have some good news for you. Our friends at Pocketnow have found that the Droid Incredible 2 (or Droid Incredible S overseas) is getting a special [...]
LG Thrill Delayed Until August 21?
LG had a monstrous concert event with Jane’s addiction earlier this week in NY’s Hell’s Kitchen. All in anticipation of the upcoming launch of the Optimus 3D/LG Thrill. The thrill was repeatedly scheduled for release August 7th and had already gone on pre-order at Radio Shack. Android Central got a leaked internal Radio Shack memo [...]
Houston We Have A Problem: Chamillionaire Cites Employee Education For Android Frustration
We’re going to get this out of the way in the beginning of the story this time: Chamillionaire was invited to attend his second TechCrunch CrunchUp event yesterday. Why? Not because he is rap star but because he is a tech entrepreneur. His credits include investing in Y-Combinator start-ups including Disqus (which we use for [...]
AT&T To Throttle Some Unlimited Customers Starting 10/1
AT&T said in a release Friday that they are taking steps to manage the “exploding demand” for mobile data. As a result they will start throttling their heaviest unlimited customers. Although AT&T was the first to convert to tiered data plans, those who were grandfathered into their existing unlimited data plans and fall into the [...]
Buy A Verizon Smartphone Get $50 Off A Connected Tablet Starts August 1st
Verizon Wireless is doing away with their free tablet activation promo at the start of next month, which is Monday. Did you even know there was a free tablet activation promotion? Well whether you did or didn’t is irrelevant. Monday starts a new and exciting promotion at Verizon Wireless. Buy any smartphone on a new [...]
Tech Savvy Rapper Chamillionaire Disses Android Big Time
Although it seemed our good friend Chris Chavez over at Phandroid dismissed Chamillionaire as just another rapper it’s very important to point out that Chamillionaire is very active in tech groups in houston and other areas in Texas. Chamilionaire was spotted several times at the tech portion of SXSW this year and also paneled at [...]
Samsung Galaxy S II Sign Up Page Is Live
Writing about Android for the past few years we’ve used the words “most sought after” together to describe a device many many times. After all, when you look at it, at the time of release, a lot of Android hardware is nothing less than incredible. We are all doing things with our phones today that [...]
Get Jar Gets 2 Billionth Download
Our friends at Getjar have just reached a hefty milestone. They just had their 2 billionth download (billion with a “B”). Getjar is the largest independent app store around. They serve apps for all operating systems and have had some pretty big exclusive launches this year including Angry Birds and Cut The Rope. 2 billion [...]
App Spotlight: MightyText
The more our lives get wrapped up in technology, the harder it is to keep track of everything. Some things are on your phone, on your computer, in your personal email, in your work email–everything is somewhere. Sometimes it’s just easier to sit down and use one device to do everything. However, one thing that [...]
Google Music Beta Finally Allows Users To Invite Friends
At Google I/O 2011 Google unveiled their new music service: Google Music. The service was launched without the labels, in a private beta. This meant for those who weren’t at Google I/O receiving the rest of the gadgets, an invite would be something you had to patiently wait for, in the same way products like [...]
