by Ian Lim on January 8, 2013 · 0 comments
in Android related, iPhone, iPad, iPod, News, Windows Mobile
What do you use on your smartphone: iOS, Android, Windows? Well if Ubuntu has its way, it’ll become another major player in the smartphone market as well. It’s a pretty long video, but well worth a watch (the best phone interface info is between 6:20 and 13:45). What do you reckon? I think I want
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Tagged as: Android smartphone, iPhone, Linux, Windows Phone
by Ian Lim on December 15, 2012 · 1 comment
in Android related, News
From Russian company Yota Devices, the YotaPhone (confused you must not get ) is a dual-screen Android phone. One side is a normal high-resolution 4.3″ 1280 x 720 LCD screen that you can use to watch videos or play games; flip it over and the other side has a 4.3″ E Ink screen to read a [...]
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Tagged as: Android smartphone, e-Ink device
by Ian Lim on August 24, 2012 · 2 comments
in Android related, News
We tend to cover quite a few screen protectors for various devices here on The Gadgeteer, however most of them are made of some sort of soft and flexible PET film. The Fantom screen protector for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus from XGear takes it up a notch. Made of shatter-proof tempered glass, the Fantom is only [...]
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Tagged as: Android smartphone, Screen Protector
by Ian Lim on August 23, 2012 · 0 comments
in Android related, News
Another fair dinkum Aussie deal. Need a cheap and cheery smartphone but missed out on the cheap LG Optimus Spirit? Woolworths has the Telstra pre-paid Samsung Galaxy 5 currently on sale for 1/2 price at $49.50 With a 600 MHz processor running Android 2.1 (Eclair), a 240 x 320 pixels, 2.8 inches screen and an included [...]
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Tagged as: Android smartphone, Australian Deal of the Day
by Janet Cloninger on July 11, 2012 · 0 comments
This is another Kickstarter project. The Cube: Home for Your iPhone + Android is a cup-like charger and dock for your Android smartphone or iPhone. You simply insert the device’s charging cable through the bottom of the Cube, and it will be held securely in place to make docking/undocking easy. The shape of the cup [...]
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Tagged as: Android smartphone, charging dock, iPhone
by Janet Cloninger on July 10, 2012 · 4 comments
At only 3.25″ X 2″ and weighing about an ounce, the DigiPower ChargeCard is small enough to fit in your wallet. This emergency power supply from Mizco is available in iPhone and universal smartphone models. The cards have a leather-like finish and are available in black, red, or white. They have a fold-away cable, and [...]
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Tagged as: Android smartphone, External battery, Smartphone
by Ian Lim on July 4, 2012 · 0 comments
in Android related, News
New to the Google Play Store, My Android Apps makes app management on your Android devices so much easier. As you can see above, you can now manage each device’s apps separately including the ability to update and uninstall apps all via your web browser. Not only that, if you lose your device and have to replace it, [...]
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Tagged as: Android app, Android smartphone, Android tablet
by Janet Cloninger on June 22, 2012 · 0 comments
in Android related, News
To celebrate their new Domino’s app for Android that lets you create and order pizza right from your smartphone, Domino’s Pizza is offering you a new Android phone. There are conditions, of course, such as you’ll need to sign up for a new 2-year plan with data, and the phones don’t appear to be on-the-leading-edge [...]
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Tagged as: Android smartphone
Using a web-based interface called on{X} allows you to easily control your Android smartphone by programming “when this happens, then do that” rules using a set of Java APIs and pushing those rules down to your Android smartphone. These rules or “recipes” can then be published for other people to use, and they can be [...]
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Tagged as: Android smartphone, Microsoft
by Bryan Sherman on May 16, 2012 · 43 comments
I recently spent two weeks with the Droid RAZR MAXX by Motorola. This phone runs on Verizon’s 4G LTE and its claim to fame is battery life. It is very similar to the recently released RAZR, just thicker to accommodate the larger battery. I can’t tell you how excited I am that someone finally designed a phone [...]
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Tagged as: Android smartphone
by Ian Lim on May 13, 2012 · 15 comments
in Android related, News
If you’re like me you’re probably sick of all these US only Deal of the Days on The Gadgeteer, so here’s a fair dinkum Aussie one and it’s actually not just for the day. If you’re after a cheap and cheery Android phone, Coles has a special Flybuys deal on the LG Optimus Spirit (P690) [...]
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Tagged as: Android smartphone, australia, Deal of the Day
by Mark Adkins on December 19, 2011 · 2 comments
in Android related, News
It was finally time to upgrade my wife’s smartphone, and we had a few challenges to deal with. The biggest ones are that she is a ‘slow adopter’, the apartment she uses when at work in a different state has poor reception, and we use the Sprint network. After some research, I had narrowed it [...]
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Tagged as: Android smartphone, Sprint smartphone
by Craig Froehle on December 16, 2011 · 16 comments
The newest member of Google’s Nexus family of smartphones — the Galaxy Nexus by Samsung — has finally arrived on Verizon with 4G LTE. While Julie will be posting a full, in-depth review here soon, these are my impressions after spending a day with this latest incarnation of Android.
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Tagged as: Android smartphone
by Craig Froehle on October 31, 2011 · 5 comments
Just about a month ago, Samsung announced that its Galaxy S II family of Android phones had surpassed 10 million sales globally, a blockbuster number by any metric. In the US, Sprint is the exclusive carrier for the Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch. The Galaxy S II Epic, as its name suggests, is bigger than [...]
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Tagged as: Android smartphone
by I Yarom on October 24, 2011 · 0 comments
in Android related, News
The dual-screen Kyocera Echo didn’t have much success in the market, and Nokia abandoned the split keyboard design they had with the Nokia e70 and the Nokia 6800 family. Unlike the Echo and the e70, the DoublePlay from LG, exclusively available from T-Mobile, will have a 3.5” main display and a split sliding keyboard with 2” display. The 2” [...]
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Tagged as: Android smartphone, Gaming gear
by Janet Cloninger on June 6, 2011 · 0 comments
in Android related, News
The ruggedized Casio G’zOne Commando Android smartphone is tough enough for any situation. It meets military standards for water, shock, and dust exposure. It’s tough on the inside, too. With Exchange Active Sync, you can ensure that confidential information stays that way by setting up SSL data encryption, device password policies, remote wipe options, and more. [...]
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Tagged as: Android smartphone, Ruggedized smartphone
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