While the Kindle Fire tablet may get a lot of the attention when it comes to Amazon’s Kindle brand, its dedicated eBook readers are doing quite well for themselves as well. In fact, around the announcement of the Kindle Fire, Amazon also released a new device complete with a touchscreen dubbed, you guessed it, the [...]

Despite their massive popularity and critical acclaim Apple products have been known to be highly scrutinized over the years. However, with Apple’s 2 most recent iPhone releases this scrutiny has been taken to a new level. If you’ll remember following the release of the iPhone 4 problems arose not long after in regards to the [...]

While Americans are anxiously awaiting news regarding the release of the Galaxy Nexus those across the pond in the UK have already been able to get their hands on the highly sought after device. However, while everything suggests that Android 4.0 is the greatest Android release to date not everything has been perfect. For example, reports have [...]

Ubuntu, the open source operating system that has proliferated over the past few years as one of the most popular Linux distros, is making an official push into the smartphone and tablet market. At the Ubuntu Developer Summit, one of Ubuntu’s heads, developer Mark Shuttleworth, announced that Ubuntu will be coming to a variety of [...]

Here is a quick question to those out there who are rocking to smartphones that rely on nothing but a touchscreen display for input – how do you find it so far? Do you wish you had a physical QWERTY keyboard to play around with? I can answer that question easily, even in the face [...]

The Samsung Galaxy S has long been regarded as one of the best Android powered smartphones but it is not without its flaws. Surrounding its release was a problem with the GPS chip that saw some users seeing improper reception. Following that the device was plagued with a notoriously delayed release schedule for the the [...]

Thanks to the fact that smartphones of the modern era are essentially handheld computers whenever a bug arises it’s quite easy for software developers to push out updates that fix whatever bug is in question. Of course, there are some faults to this system as seen with Android where the software developer is ready to [...]

It’s getting to be that time of year when everyone starts thinking about going outside–at least, here in the Northern Hemisphere, where the interminable winter is rapidly giving ground to spring, which can no more resist it than I can resist a pizza buffet. And since it’s Thursday, it’s back into the App Stores in [...]

The various application stores associated with the various mobile platforms are virtually what secures said platforms future or not. Prime examples of this can be seen with both iOS and Android who have their own vibrant application stores in the form of the App Store and Android Market, respectively. However, when something is as valuable [...]

As we tell you quite frequently Google is very good at getting updates out for their Android mobile platform. The problem arises when it comes to manufacturers actually getting the latest updates pushed to their devices. A prime example of this would be Google’s latest Android ‘Gingerbread’ 2.3 which, despite being out for quite some [...]