More Smartphones Opinion
- 12 April 2012
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Opinion: Samsung's $250 Galaxy Tab 2: The Pros and Cons
Samsung is entering the cheap Android tablet fray with the 7-inch Galaxy Tab 2, available April 22 for $250. The new tablet puts Samsung in close competition with Amazon's Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet, which both cost $200.
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Opinion: The Opena Case turns your iPhone 4/4S into a bottle opener
The $40 Opena Case for the iPhone 4/4S is a hard-shell case with an integrated slide-out bottle opener built right into the design. Available in white or black, the Opena Case is more than just a gimmick—it is a fully functional and carefully designed protective case for your iPhone that also happens to be a bottle opener, too.
- 10 April 2012
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Opinion: AT&T Starts Unlocking iPhones: Customers Gripe Over Long Delays
Want to unlock your off-contract AT&T iPhone to use with competing GSM carriers such as U.S. Cellular and T-Mobile? As reported last week, now you can, the only hitch is it may take up to a week for AT&T to process the request even though AT&T claims it only takes minutes.
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Opinion: Nokia Lumia 900 Bug Nixes Data Connections
Maybe Nokia spoke too soon when it said the "smartphone beta test is over."
- 09 April 2012
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Opinion: Dry a Wet Phone, MP3 Player, or Camera with a Bheestie Bag
I can think of few hassles as devastating as dropping your cell phone into the potty. Or the swimming pool. Or letting it take a tumble in the washing machine. Heck, maybe it got a little too sweaty at the gym.
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Opinion: Will Google Tablet Sales Frag or Defrag the Android Market?
For consumers who don't live and breathe Android, the market can be confusing. There are dozens of phone models, many running different versions of the Android operating system.
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Opinion: Microsoft Hands Out "Free Time" in Windows Phone Stunt
What do Kourtney Kardashian, Vernon Davis, and Stephanie Izard have in common: They're all shilling for Microsoft as part of an usual marketing stunt running today only, Monday, April 9, to frame recently launched Windows Phones like the Nokia Lumia 900 as simpler and faster than the competition.
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Opinion: Sync Browser Bookmarks Between Windows and Android
JimH443 asked the Web Browsing and Email forum how to keep the same browser bookmarks on his PC and his Android phone
- 08 April 2012
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Opinion: Online Privacy Debate Heats Up
Online privacy concerns are real, but users of Facebook, smartphone apps and the Internet at large are best protected when they are careful what they post and understand the degree to which their personal data is a commodity.
- 07 April 2012
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Opinion: Google+ Numbers Show Social Network is Growing
Google+, the smaller rival to Facebook, shows signs of gaining traction by exceeding 100 million users, but when those users log on to the social networking service they are spending less time at the site than previously.
- 06 April 2012
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Opinion: AT&T Finally to Allow Unlocked iPhones for Out-of-Contract Users
AT&T's long-standing policy against unlocking iPhones will come to an end this Sunday, allowing users to take advantage of cheaper service when traveling abroad.
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Opinion: Advertising in Free Apps Saps Your Smartphone's Battery Life
As much as 75 percent of the energy spent by some popular smartphone apps, such as Angry Birds and Fchess, is spent on marketing and advertising aimed at you.
- 05 April 2012
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Opinion: Samsung Says No 3D in Galaxy S III
Samsung wants to make one thing very clear about its upcoming Galaxy S III smartphone: it won't have a 3D display--thank goodness!
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Opinion: Facebook Security Hole Found on iPhone, Android Devices
A security flaw in Facebook’s mobile apps can be easily tapped by thieves searching for personal information about you.
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Opinion: Google's Project Glass Eyewear: Next Big Google Flop or Hit?
Project Glass is Google's dream to mass produce hybrid glasses that act as a miniaturized smartphone wired with hands-free access to a micro display, cameras, microphone, Web browser, and speech recognition. It's the type of jaw dropping innovation the tech elite love.
- 04 April 2012
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Opinion: HTC Evo 4G LTE Gets Official: Sprint's Latest LTE Phone Makes Its Debut
Our prediction that HTC and Sprint were going to reveal an EVO-branded HTC One phone was correct: The HTC Evo 4G LTE made its debut this afternoon in New York City. The Evo 4G LTE will go on sale sometime in the second quarter of 2012 for $200.
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Opinion: HTC Evo One Details Leaked Before Today's Sprint Launch
At Mobile World Congress last month, I got an early look at HTC's new One line of smartphones. The best of the three, the One X, is rumored to be coming to Sprint under the carrier's Evo brand of phones. So, when Sprint and HTC announced that they would be holding a joint press conference this month, I had a pretty good idea of what would be announced.
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Opinion: 5 Hot iPhone Apps that Android Still Lacks
With Instagram's arrival on Android, some snobbish iPhone users are making their disdain known for the new users who they claim are crowding and disrupting the Instagram social order.
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Opinion: Why BlackBerry Mobile Fusion Is the Future of RIM
RIM is most known for its iconic BlackBerry smartphones, but one of the driving forces behind the success of RIM—and one of the reasons it’s still as pervasive as it is today—is the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) infrastructure. Now, RIM has introduced BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, which extends BES to manage Android and iOS devices as well. While marketed as a value-add for BlackBerry customers, BlackBerry Mobile Fusion may very well be the core product for RIM moving forward.
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Opinion: Find Tablet-Friendly Android Apps with Tablified Market
If you're among the growing number of owners of Android-powered tablets, you may have experienced some frustration with app selection on Google Play (formerly Android Market).
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