| How To Buy… A Tablet PC (Part 1) |
| At present, the tablet ecosystem is heavily tilted in favour of the Apple devices, which make up the vast majority of the market, but there are plenty of alternatives. When you’ve decided whether you want to be an Apple drone or a free spirited Android user, you then need to decide whether you prefer a device to have a larger screen, more storage or better software. And more importantly, you need to decide how much you’re willing to spend. |
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| Has Apple Maps improved? |
| When iOS 6 was announced, Apple's own mapping software was lauded as one of the key improvements over iOS 5. The company's own marketing spiel boasted that "Maps take a whole new turn", alluding to the turn by turn spoken directions alongside a “stunning” Flyover feature, and a beautiful vector based interface. |
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| Bing Maps - Accurate Driving Directions |
| Not one to be outdone, Microsoft's own web mapping service comes under the Bing banner, and Bing Maps now uses Nokia's back-end services for its mapping and traffic results, following the agreement signed between the pair. |
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| Google Maps – It’s Pretty Much Perfect In Every Way |
| With the mobile side of things covered, the browser based Google Maps remains one of the very best around. If you want to experience a more visual version, you can try MapsGL, a beta version of Google's mapping technology, which offers flyover views, 3D photo tours of landmarks and better 3D views generally. |
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| HTC Windows Phone 8X - The Best-Looking Windows Phone 8 Handset (Part 2) |
| Similar to sound, 8X also inherits from picture technology that brings HTC’s success on One series type running on Android. HTC 8X also has 8 megapixel camera Back-side Illuminated sensor with f/2.0 aperture while iPhone 5 or many other different high-ranking smartphones only have f/2.4. |
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| The Most Attractive Popular Cellphones In 2012 |
| In the past, when we mentioned to popular telephone, people would think that it only had 2 functions: answering and calling. At present, cellphone’s price is more and more decreasing and smartphone is also similar. |
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| Windows Phone 8 Operating System Review – Part2 |
| The app is quite visual and friendly when user can go through QR bar code, text contents in web pages to perform search or even translate with 1 clicking. This is such handy for travellers. |
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| Windows Phone 8 Operating System Review – Part1 |
| By the end of 2012, while Microsoft has been struggling with shocking decreases in income and completing Windows Phone 8 (WP8), Apple announced the appearance of iOS 6 and Android were busy with its new versions. |
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| Sony Xperia Tablet S |
| Sexier, faster and nearly as Foldy as the previous Tablet S, the Xperia Tablet S has ditched the bulk, kept the IR blaster and DLNA sharing, and shrugged on an all-aluminium body. Should we welcome this svelte slate into our living rooms? |
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| The Great In-App Purchase Rip-Off (Part 2) |
| The freemium model has also disturbingly wormed its way into children’s apps. Take Sesame Street Workshops Elmo Calls as an example. On paper, this is an app that allows your kids to take a call from the little red furry fella himself, call him up and generally interact with every child’s favourite puppet. For any young child, this is the stuff of dreams. |
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| The Great In-App Purchase Rip-Off (Part 1) |
| Racing games are regularly promoted in Apple’s advertising campaigns for the iPad, so I naturally wanted to see what all the fuss was about in the form of the highly rated CSR Racing, also shown off at one of Apple’s keynote conferences earlier in the year. |
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| Smart Shopping: Sleighful Of Bargain-Tracking Apps |
| Picking up any old iPhone case for a present hardly shows off your imaginative side. Another app from Sculpteo, 3DPCase lets you 3D print an iPhone sleeve designed by your own brain. Custom prices start a $26 and face it anything’s better than that leopard print case you got them last year. |
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| Sony Xperia J Review - Offers Some Good Features |
| Sony’s mid-segment smartphone comes in various color options and retains a nice design from Arc S. The device runs on Android 4.0 but its specs are lower than from rivals in the same segment. |
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| Nokia Lumia 920 - Super Smart, Super-Size Handset |
| The latest version of Windows didn’t just bring a fresh new look for desktop PCs, laptops and tablets; Microsoft also released its new version of Windows Phone, heralding a host of new handsets, the first of which is the stylish Nokia Lumia 920. |
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| LG Optimus L7 - Reflective Screen And Sluggish Performance |
| Taking LG Optimus L7’s back up is the most difficult thing in testing process. It doesn’t have any slot, except for micro-USB gate, so it is the thing that I used. It uses normal SIM. This thing seems to be unusual to big smartphone. |
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| Motorola Droid Razr M - Big Performance From A Small Smartphone |
| Being cheaper option than other leading smartphones, $99.99 Motorola Droid Razr M is very strong. And although it has a big 4.3 inch screen, it does this by using the shape coefficient that is small enough to use with one hand or put in a pocket comfortably. |
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| Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 3G |
| Once Barnes & Noble introduced Nook Simple Touch With GlowLight, eBook reader device based on the first E Ink with edge lighting technology, time is the only matter before Amazon responds. That is 3G Kindle Paperwhite, an edge lighting version of Kindle Touch last year. |
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| iPhone 5 Decoration |
| Your iPhone 5 is an investment, so why don't you protect and improve it? Here are some best cases you can find for Apple's new smartphone. |
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| Google Nexus 10 Review – Part 2 |
| Nexus 10 is equipped with 5 megapixel camera in the back and it can supports to take photograph with 2,592х1,936 pixel maximum resolution and 1.9 megapixel camera ahead that can make image’s quality rather good. Images are rather sharp; however, some details on the background are faint. |
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| Google Nexus 10 Review – Part 1 |
| Nexus 10 uses processor with dual core Samsung Exynos that clocks 1,7GHz and 2GB in Ram memory, 10,5 inch Super PLS screen, 2,650x1,600 pixel resolution. Its price is about $399 for 16GB version. It is cheaper than iPad 4 that have the same capacity with $95. Nexus 10 also has 32GB version with $495. |
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| The next Nexus (Part 2) |
| Each user of the Nexus tablets will be able to customize it so that the home screen, apps, games, backgrounds and widgets are individually tailored for them when they log in. |
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| The next Nexus (Part 1) |
| Although Android devices do not seem to attract the same level of interest nor the numbers of queues as smartphones and tablets produced by Apple, there is no doubting the power of Google’s operating system and the gadgets on which they run. |
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| Transphone – The Budget Phone And Tablet Combo |
| The Asus Padfone caused quite a stir when it was first unveiled. A two-devices-in one product that saw a phone clip into a larger shell to become a tablet was the height of innovation. However, Asus had real difficulties bringing the product to market and while it did finally go on sale in small numbers in Taiwan, the company has now launched version two without us ever seeing it on the shelves in the UK. |
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| Kindle Fire HD - Amazon’s Kindle e-Reader |
| The Kindle Fire HD has a 7" colour touchscreen (note: not an e-ink screen like the standard Kindle), 16 or 32GB of SSD storage, 1GB of RAM and a TI OMAP 4460 CPU, which is based on the ARM Cortex-A9, similar to the Tegra 3, but dual rather than quad core. |
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| Versus Touchpad 9.7 - Attractive Pre-Loaded Software |
| Versus makes a wide range of electronic products and the Touchpad 9.7 isn’t its first venture into the budget tablet market. Unboxing the tablet shows an uninspiring, but familiar black slab. Within the wide bezel that encompasses each side of the device, there are minimal features to note. |
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| The Fourth-Generation iPad Review |
| iPad 4 owns a 9.7in Retina screen, iSight 5MP camera featuring handling speed twice as fast as iPad 3. The device uses A6X dual-core chipset (1.4GHz clock rate) and PowerVR SGX554MP4 quad-core graphic chip. |
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| Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 - The Most Elegant Name Around |
| It might not have the most elegant name around, but the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 is one of only a few devices (along with the Kindle Fire) that can give the Nexus 7 any real competition. Unfortunately, it's not putting up a wholly convincing fight. |
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| Dell Streak 7 - Delivers A |
| Originally released running Froyo (which dates it somewhere in the Paleolithic era) the Dell Streak is an Android tablet with the dubious honor of having the worst name in a field of technology beset by routinely terrible names. Specs wise, don’t expect anything too impressive - after all, it’s getting on for two years old now. |
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| HTC Desire X - Reasonably Good Mid-Range Android Phone |
| The mid-range smartphone sector is bursting with handsets: some good, some bad. It’s the most difficult segment into which to release a new phone. There’s none of the attention-grabbing highlights of the flagship models, or the cheap thrills of the budget world. |
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| HTC Flyer – A Bit Overpriced 7-inch Tablet |
| HTC's smartphones have always been original and reasonably impressive, but their sole entry into the mini-tablet world was an atypical outing for the company: fairly tentative and middling. Featuring the company's trademark Sense UI and a stylus, there's a lot about the HTC Flyer that was good, but over 18 months after release, it can't help looking stagnant and overpriced. |
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| Samsung Galaxy Note II - True Hybrid Smartphone/Tablet |
| Samsung's Galaxy Tab might be doing its best to look as much like a Kindle Fire or Google Nexus as is physically (and, er, legally) possible, but one of its alternative devices - the Galaxy Note II is blazing a trail that's all its own, almost to the point of stubbornness. |
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| Motorola MotoSmart - Low-Cost Handset |
| Motorola’s MotoSmart costs just over $150. At that price you can’t expect great things, but some budget manufacturers do decide to give you a few headline features. Motorola does this up to a point, with some software goodies in the shape of its Social Graph and Activity Graph widgets. |
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| Motorola RAZRi - Excellent UI Skin |
| Motorola’s RAZRi brings with it two new features of note. One is Intel’s new mobile processor, first seen on the somewhat obscure Orange San Diego, and now appearing in a mainstream device for the first time; the other a near edge-to-edge display. Both have a major impact on the device. |
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| The Xperia T - Remarkable In How Unremarkable It Is (Part 2) |
| The Xperia T runs Ice Cream Sandwich, with an update to Jelly Bean promised for the first part of next year. Sony’s tweaks to the user interface have always been among the more well considered, and indeed some of the features it was first to introduce on its Gingerbread devices, such as being able to create folders of apps simply by dragging one on top of another, found their way into subsequent versions of the full OS. |
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| The Xperia T - Remarkable In How Unremarkable It Is (Part 1) |
| If smartphone design has become stuck in a rut over the last year or so, the Sony Xperia T is almost a parody of that rut. It is, for want of a better description, a black rectangle. The front is almost featureless, save a couple of logos and the speaker at the top. |
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| Push Your Phone To Its Limits (Part 3) |
| Most Android phones come with the manufacturer’s custom skin which contains additional software and functions over what you would get from the Vanilla build of Android. While these skins often add useful features they can also be quite large and demanding on the phone’s resources and cause it to be slowed down. |
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