Samsung’s Note9 is unboxed. Do you want it? Should you want it? Maybe. The new Note9 is very similar to the Note8, but with upgrades. Slightly seems to be the best way to describe the new Note. It’s slightly larger, has a sightly larger screen, is slightly heavier, has a slightly better camera and is
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
Android phone users are eagerly awaiting the next operating system, no matter what it’s called. Soooooo, what will it be called? For now it’s Android P. What the P stands for is anyone’s guess. Some of the guesses are really interesting. More on that later. The new OS will launch in the fall. You can
At its annual developers conference Monday, Apple announced a feature that fans of its streaming TV box have long waited for. Apple is bringing Dolby Atmos sound to the Apple TV. What is Atmos? If you’ve gone to a newer movie theater lately, you may’ve already heard Atmos — fuller, more robust, almost like the
It’s really hard to walk into the TV store nowadays and stare at the row of impossibly then sets and not stop on a Samsung 4K TV. Whether really big or somewhat big or even curved, the Samsung TVs are stunning (especially when set on the brightest mode possible for the store environment, eschewing any
After spending a few months with a Samsung 4K disc player I have come to the conclusion that blu-ray is no longer enough. There, I said it. Yes, folks, watching 4K movies is a much more immersive experience than watching my favorite films on Blu-ray. No there isn’t a lot of content, but what’s out
More U.S. consumers are now using smartphones for shopping than personal computers. A new study from Demandware, an e-commerce software provider, shows smartphones accounted for 45.1 percent of web-shopping traffic in the first quarter of 2016. Computers were a tick behind at 45 percent. The company projects that the smartphone will account for 60 percent
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
Like your 1080p television? Good, It’s obsolete and it’s not 3D, it’s 4K HD that’s the culprit. Yes, as I write, the first sets are available on line and at select retailers. It has a resolution four times that of 1080p sets, or so says the folks who make them. It’s hard to really tell
