A few weeks after Apple dropped its latest smartphone, the iPhone XS series, Google spent Tuesday introducing its new phone, the Pixel 3. It comes in two sizes, one of them has a notch, and it’s got some features that are going to make the phone awful appealing. But there was so much more. Let’s
The wait is over. The P stands for Pie, Android Pie. Yep, Google’s new operating system is called Pie, or as Google will tell you, Android 9. The systems latest features concentrate on battery life and tech addiction. That’s right, tech addiction. Google (and Apple) want us to believe the company doesn’t always want you
Apple, Samsung and a few other manufacturers seem to have the cell phone game locked down. Yet, there are a handful of companies that have challenged all of the high-priced, must-have phones with low-cost phones which do the same for less. Ok, maybe not exactly the same, but close. Isn’t the main function of a
The folks at Verizon were nice enough to send us the latest HTC smartphone for review and the M8 doesn’t disappoint. In fact, we find it to be the best Android smartphone your money can buy. The phone was launched last spring as the successor the HTC One, which was the best selling smartphone in
In today’s USA Today, columnist Michael Wolff takes a detached look at the fortunes of Apple. We offer our own look, if a bit sarcastic one, here. Wolff notes that what he calls the “Age of Apple” began just seven years ago when its stock price was $35. And like many pundits he notes a
OK, the iPhone 5 is out and the universe is still working as it did before the release of Apple’s cash cow. Jeeeez. It’s not that I don’t like Apple, I do. I’m a diehard Apple user. I’ve owned three of its computers, including the laptop on which I’m typing. I’ve only needed three because
When I pulled the Samsung Galaxy SIII smartphone out of the box recently, I immediately noticed two things: 1. It was packed in there really well, with no wasted space. A little like Apple handles its iPhones and iPads. 2. It was gorgeous, thin and, well, very large. The Sammy Galaxy S3 or SIII is
I was excited when the Verizon folks in Greenville, S.C., sent me the new Droid Incredible smartphone this week. As many Android phones are nearly five inches big now, and probably too big for many consumers to use with one hand effectively, here we have a return to yesteryear (or in smartphone years, a return
Amazon announced its getting serious about mobile gaming today with the launch of GameCircle, which will allow gamers using Kindle Fire and Amazon services on the computer to track high game scores, invite others to play and track achievements. Another feature of GameCircle will be “Sync,” which will automatically save a players’ in-game progress to
Calling it the “Nexus Nightmare,” Bloomberg reports today that Apple actually is going to release the long-rumored iPad Mini, a 7.85-inch device that is a cousin of the 9.7-inch full size iPad. Bloomberg said we can expect it before Christmas. Pricing rumors have been rampant with most people settling on somewhere between $199 and $299.
