Mobile Lifestyle
Five Great Phones That Aren’t Smartphones
Check your pockets. Aside from some gum, keys, and your wallet, what cellphone are you carrying these days? If you’re like the majority of Americans, it’s probably not an iPhone or Android. According to the Pew Internet Project in July 2011, only 35% of American adults own smartphones. This means that of the 83% of [...]
When Not to Use Your Smartphone
We’ve become a society of smartphone users. If we’re not staring at a big screen attached to our desktop or laptop, we’re often staring at a little 3-4″ screen. A smartphone is a great way to stay connected to friends, family, and coworkers, but there are times when you just need to put it down [...]
Books Vs. E-Books
Gadgets such as the Kindle and Nook have changed the way we think about books to a great degree. It’s been said that less and less people are reading books as the result of the content-rich environment we live in courtesy of sites like YouTube and social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. To [...]
What’s So Ultra About the Ultrabook?
We’re pretty well on into the 21st century, and while we don’t live in domed cities on Mars or have personal jetpacks to propel us to work every day (yet!), we do have portable, personal computers galore. Like our favorite pair of shoes, it’s hard for many of us to imagine leaving home without some [...]
Five Reasons Android Might Not Be for You
Android is the popular competitor to iOS in the mobile computing market. In addition to being incredibly open-ended and featuring some very cool UI options where iOS is more locked down, it also comes with its share of challenges. To start, I’d like to state that I’m a big fan of Android. While I use [...]
How to Update Your Facebook and Twitter with Siri
I recently got an iPhone 4S, and as soon as I turned it on, the first thing I did was figure out all the awesome ways I could use Siri. While the built-in uses like setting alarms, getting directions, and finding food are super useful, of course my next mission was to figure out ways [...]
Will webOS Benefit from an Open Source Copyright?
When HP announced that it will be releasing webOS under an open source license, many people cheered for the survival of webOS, saying that the move would revitalize webOS and re-introduce it as a major player in the mobile world. Will it really do that, though? “Open source” is a vague phrase. Android and Linux [...]
Tablet or E-book Reader: Which Should You Buy This Holiday Season?
When ’tis the season to be jolly, consumers can be left with a difficult decision as they struggle to answer the question of how best to spend their ever-shrinking dollars and on which products. One such product could very well be an Amazon Kindle reader, most of which have now dropped from a high of [...]
Renewed Hope for an iPhone on T-Mobile
When I wrote about the grim outlook of the AT&T/T-Mobile merger deal in my previous guest post, I brought up an interesting bit of rumor. If the deal had gone through, T-Mobile would have essentially gone away, and its 33+ million customers would either end up with AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, or one of the smaller, regional [...]
AT&T’s T-Mobile Buyout a Washout?
Speculation over the implications of AT&T’s buyout of T-Mobile has been dinner table conversation among the mobile industry’s movers and shakers for a few months now. But has the deal completely fallen through? Eddie Ringle reports: Late last night, AT&T announced that it had withdrawn its T-Mobile takeover applications to the FCC. While both AT&T [...]
