QWERTY Lives! Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G Slider Headed to T-Mobile By Brad Chacos Published 6 September 12 Samsung's latest entry in the Galaxy line is designed to take a trip to the business world, powered by a bevy of BYOD-friendly features that could make it an appealing choice when the device touches d...
Facebook for iOS Gets Instagrammy By Brad Chacos Published 6 November 12 Mere days after rumors of Twitter's desire to add photo filters to its camera function first surfaced, Facebook has beaten its rival to the punch, merging the myriad image filters found in its stand-a...
ASUS Unleashes a Flood of Windows 8 Hybrids at CES By Brad Chacos Published 7 January 13 Not content to let its rivals steal the spotlight at CES, ASUS has unveiled a flood of touchscreen-enabled Windows 8 devices to counteract the torrent of announcements made by Lenovo on Sunday. Virtua...
Google's New Field Trip App: a Tour Guide in Your Pocket By Brad Chacos Published 28 September 12 Cities are more than just gridded streets to be navigated via a mapping application; they're living, breathing places chock full of restaurants, shops and landmarks that make every town unique. Field ...
Dell Outs Business-Friendly Windows 8 Tablet, Ultrabook and AIO By Brad Chacos Published 20 September 12 Dude, it's a Dell. Actually, it's three Dells; with the Latitude 10 Tablet, Latitude 6430u Ultrabook and Dell OptiPlex 9010 All-in-One, Dell is covering its business bases with a trio of Windows 8 dev...
Sprint Considering High-Dollar Counteroffer for MetroPCS (Reports) By Brad Chacos Published 5 October 12 The deal might be signed and sealed, but until T-Mobile's shares in the new combined company with MetroPCS are delivered, the multibillion dollar merger is far from final. The companies still need to ...
What Annoys Users the Most in the Very Best 7-Inch Tablets? By Brad Chacos Published 18 December 12 Small slate lovers have more reason to cheer than ever before, with a quadruplet of top-notch 7-inch tablets to choose from: the Google Nexus 7, Amazon's Kindle Fire HD, the Barnes & Noble Nook HD...
Samsung's 10-inch Nexus Tablet Boasts iPad-Beating Display (Report) By Brad Chacos Published 9 October 12 When a filing in the Apple vs. Samsung court case suggested that Samsung has plans torelease an 11.8-inch tablet with a Retina-slaying 2560 x 1600 resolution display, people's ears perked up. Now, an ...
Apple Adds iPhone 4S to Recycling Buy Back Program By Brad Chacos Published 30 August 12 The torrent of coincidental information pointing towards the impending launch of the iPhone 5 continues; AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile have all made moves suggesting a September 21st launch date, whi...
Australian Electronics Dealer Starts Charging 'Internet Explorer 7 Tax' By Brad Chacos Published 14 June 12 Do you use an older version of Internet Explorer? If so, be aware that a sizeable minority of the Internet thinks you're behind the times. Microsoft itself has a site dedicated solely to watching IE6 ...
Upcoming Gmail App for Android 4.2 Brings Pinch-to-Zoom, Swipe to Delete By Brad Chacos Published 12 October 12 The Android version of Gmail is already one of the better email apps around, but a couple of new additions in the upcoming Android 4.2 version of the app promise to make Google's messaging service mor...
Nokia Lumia 920 Landing November 9th at AT&T for Just $99 By Brad Chacos Published 6 November 12 Nokia isn't pulling any punches with its flagship new Windows Phone 8 handset. The company stuffed the stunningly designed Lumia 920 with appealing and forward-thinking features like wireless charging...
Leaked BlackBerry 10 Slides Reveal Video Chat, Screen Sharing By Brad Chacos Published 28 December 12 In a shareholder meeting this summer, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins said the company was thinking about adding video chat to BBM when BlackBerry 10 hit the streets. Newly leaked slides seem to suggest the fe...
Apple Expected to Move 10 Million iPad Minis This Year (Report) By Brad Chacos Published 8 October 12 It's been less than a week since the the iPad mini reportedly shifted into the full-blown manufacturing stage, and a new report by the Wall Street Journal reveals just how massive that mass productio...
Encryption Corruption Could Be Causing Updated iOS and Mac Apps to Crash By Brad Chacos Published 5 July 12 Have your iOS and Mac apps been behaving badly in recent days? You aren't the only one. The Verge claims that the super-stable Apple App Stores may, in fact, not be so stable at the moment after hea...
Rumor: Facebook To Buy Face.com For $100 Million By Brad Chacos Published 29 May 12 Facebook has been on a big buying spree over the past few months -- you have to do something with all those billions, after all -- and TechCrunch says the trend is set to continue with the social medi...
13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Highlights Busy September for Apple, Analyst Says By Brad Chacos Published 24 July 12 If you're drawn like a moth to the jaw-dropping Retina Display on Apple's 15-inch MacBook Pro, but want your high-resolution beauty a form factor that's a little more discrete, you may just be in luck...
T-Mobile and MetroPCS Agree to Merger By Brad Chacos Published 3 October 12 The failed merger with AT&T hasn't stopped Deutsche Telekom's wheeling and a-dealing with T-Mobile, and this morning, the company announced that it struck a deal that should be much more palatable...
Panasonic Shows Off AX-Series Foldable Ultrabook Hybrid By Brad Chacos Published 3 October 12 The Windows 8 hybrids just keep on coming. At CEATEC, Panasonic's showing off its new AX series Ultrabook, a foldable laptop that transforms into an impromptu touch-powered all-in-one, sports a distin...
AT&T Stops Offering Subsidized Tablets By Brad Chacos Published 20 August 12 Subsidizing hardware prices in exchange for signing a two-year service contract may be the status quo for smartphones, but it hasn't carried over well to the tablet market, where far more people buy W...
A Surface Phone? Microsoft Testing Self-Made Design By Brad Chacos Published 2 November 12 Move over, Apple: Microsoft's foray into home-grown hardware may not begin and end with the impressively designed Surface tablet. A new report claims that the Redmond company could be setting its sigh...
Windows 8 Adoption Rate Reportedly Worse Than Vista By Brad Chacos Published 2 January 13 It's still early, but the numbers don't look so good for Windows 8, Microsoft's bold new touch-friendly operating system. Net Applications' stats show Windows 8 with just 1.72 percent of the market a...
Nokia Said to be Prepping a 10-inch Windows RT Tablet for February By Brad Chacos Published 19 December 12 Nokia may not have tossed its complete lot in with Windows Phone, after all. The Finnish company is reportedly in talks with Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Compal Electronics to develop a 10-inch Windows RT...
James Bond's Sony Xperia TL Headed to AT&T With License to Thrill By Brad Chacos Published 1 October 12 Sony's been bulking up its Xperia smartphone line in anticipation of the holiday rush, and its newest addition, the Xperia TL, just happens to be James Bond's phone in the upcoming Skyfall movie. Whil...
iPhone 5 and iPad Mini Launch Set for Sept 12th, Report Says By Brad Chacos Published 30 July 12 Have you put off buying a new handset in order to wait for the looming iPhone 5? You may not need to wait for long if a couple of new reports are true. This morning, the iLovers over at iMore reporte...