After all the waiting and seeing the international version be available for months the AT&T branded Samsung Galaxy Note is finally available now for those interested. Powered by AT&T 4G LTE and a huge, vibrant 5.3″ AMOLED HD screen this oversized phablet can be all yours for just $299 in carbon blue, or ceramic white. If this smartphone is any interest to you then you’ve probably already read all the details and know everything … [Read more...]

LG has officially revealed the LG Optimus Vu, the company’s new flagship for MWC 2012 next week and its stylus-toting challenge to Samsung’s Galaxy Note. Based around an iPad-matching 1024 x 768 resolution, 4:3 aspect display, the 5-inch Optimus Vu “phablet” uses a 650 nits IPS LCD panel for better outdoor visibility, and comes with a stylus for annotating documents, drawing sketches and making handwritten notes in … [Read more...]

Many questions come to mind with the Galaxy Note. Is it too big? Is the stylus S-Pen necessary? Is the screen real estate worth the loss of portability and more. I’ve been using it for about a week and have some thoughts regarding these questions. With a huge and vibrant 5.3″ Super AMOLED HD display and a dual-core processor this thing should be amazing — and it is. The biggest concern for many is probably the screen size so … [Read more...]

It’s time to rehash the entire weeks top stories and bring everyone up to speed before next week’s big MWC event in Barcelona, Spain. First up, specifications of the HTC One X, set to be their new ‘hero’ device, surfaced early Wednesday morning. The One X has also had its ROM leak to the public, which made a later Android 4.0 port to the HTC Sensation a reality. The port sports HTC Sense 4.0, yet they’ve had to … [Read more...]

Good news, Motorola modders: the root method developed for the Motorola DROID XYBOARD 10.1 and DROID XYBOARD 8.2 should work on just about every current Motorola device out there. The developer of the XYBOARD root method (among many, many others) Dan Rosenberg said that the exploit, which he calls “Motofail”, should work on Motorola devices running Gingerbread and Honeycomb. Since that encompasses pretty much every Motorola device … [Read more...]

Americans aren’t all that familiar with the Arnova line, a family of tablets that’s even cheaper than Archos’ (already cheap) main line of Android tablets. The latest member is the Arnova 8b G2, a slight update to the 8 G2. This one still runs Gingerbread on an 8-inch screen, but it goes without physical buttons – an indication that it may be getting a sweet software upgrade sooner rather than later. In the meantime, … [Read more...]

A lot of Android developers have been looking at the BlackBerry PlayBook as a new revenue platform, since RIM has developed a set of tools that make porting Android apps to the PlayBook OS a piece of cake. That interest only increased when RIM started literally giving tablets away to Android developers who joined the program. There’s a hitch in the process, however: according to GigaOm, a RIM representative has stated that apps ported using … [Read more...]

As we approach March the NFL season is long gone and wont be back for a while. Seems odd that Verizon would be updating the official NFL Mobile app now, but hold on because we have good news. The season ended with the Giants winning the Super Bowl (YES!) and while we didn’t get many app updates this season one is now available bringing official NFL blog news and more. When the season ends I know I start playing Madden more than usual to … [Read more...]

ASUS has just issued another over the air update to the popular Transformer Prime quad-core tablet. The software is pushing out now to devices and users should be receiving it as we speak. It is extremely small and brings us to build 9.4.2.14. Once again this update is aiming to fix the random reboot issue some are having. ASUS just pushed an update a few days ago back on February 8th but apparently they missed something because this minor … [Read more...]