CES was packed to the gills with solar powered battery chargers and portable backup batteries. It is that time in tech evolution where we tend to do more longer than our devices can run for. While battery backups are a great solution, they still need to be charged too. If you are planning a week-long [...]

During last years Mobile App Showdown, our very own Simon Walker, helped to add his two cents during the judging. During that event, DriveSafe.ly 2.0, took home the trophy based on audience applause and Line2 took the gold from the online ballot, raking in over 50,000 votes.  With a new year comes a new Showdown and [...]

At CES every company does something a little different to set themselves apart from the other companies.  One of my favorite displays (and booths for that matter) was LG’s.  They had a group of tables set up, each one had a group of screens.  LG announced the Optimus 2X, Optimus Black, and the Optimus Revolution. [...]

In Part One of a series of articles, I mentioned the TOTAL absence of NFC enabled cell phones at CES 2011.  In this article I am going to look at Infotainment/Car Audio/Car Navigation systems.  This was not a complete wash, as we found the Parrot Asteroid, Phandroid found the Foryou/Adayo and Nvidia had a Fujitsu [...]

One of the most notable technologies missing happens to be Near Field Communications technology or NFC. On December 16th, 2010 the Nexus S was released with a Near Field Communications technology (NFC).  According to numerous sources NFC is set to explode. A recent article was posted by iSuppli with the title: In 2014 220.1 million NFC [...]

HTC announced three new models this year at CES, and in a private event we got our grubby little mits on all three. This one is the Inspire 4G heading to AT&T later this year on their recently renamed 4G network. The Insipre 4G is a rebadged Desire HD with all of the same features [...]

One of the things mentioned the most during CES was the need for better battery technologies for smart phones. While we haven’t seen any new technologies to give us a weeks worth of use for our Android devices, we did run across a booth that has a solution that will work now. Voltaic Systems gave [...]

Today we had a 1:1 meeting with the guys at nVidia and we walked through the nVidia Tegra Zone , as well had some cool demonstrations of the Motorola Atrix, all showing off the commitment nVidia has to the Tegra2 platform. The Motorola Atrix 4G is the first Motorola phone to feature the nVidia Tegra2 [...]

Today we witnessed a showdown of epic proportions, the Mobile Apps Showdown sponsored by NetShelter and Living In Digital Times. Our very own Simon Walker was one of the judges selected to help narrow down the playing field to ten apps that were then voted on by not only voters online, but also the audience [...]

Parrot ASTEROID, the latest offspring from Parrot — one of the leaders in wireless peripherals for mobile phones — is a car receiver combining advanced hands-free telephony, connection to web services, access to innovative applications and multi-source music listening. Design: On the front you will find two sections, on the left a detachable plate with [...]

As we all know battery life is an ongoing issue when it comes to Android phones.  Most of us happen to be thrilled when we make it through a complete day and have something left over.  There are the exceptions – Optimus S, Nexus S and MyTouch 4G running on cyanogenmod 7 (alpha);  all seem [...]

Our friends over at BloomWorlds have arranged a meetup in Las Vegas for the Android Family, and tonight is the night.  This is just a friendly reminder to RSVP if you are interested in going.  Please come and meet one of the startups of the Android Family. We met them while at the Big Android [...]

The LG Revolution is the only Android phone LG announced for a particular carrier this week at CES, but during our hands on time with LG we noticed something a little strange. LG is stating they can’t tell us who is getting their other two super phones, the Optimus Black and Optimus 2x, but a [...]

Samsung teamed up with AT&T to bring us a monster sized phone.  The Infuse 4G comes with a 4.5″ SuperAMOLED plus screen. SuperAMOLED plus comes with 50% more sub-pixels 12 instead of 8 which Samsung is touting will perform even better outdoors as well as helping to make text and images more crisp. Before the [...]

By now you are all aware of the Motorola Xoom coming to Verizon.  If you aren’t fully aware of what it offers, here are the specs.  I am going to put a few items in bold. To bring up in after the specs. OS: Android 3.0 Honeycomb Processor: NVIDIA® Tegra™ 2: 1GHz dual-core processor Camera(s): [...]