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App Review: GeoBeagle
Geocaching is a high-tech treasure hunting game played throughout the world by adventure seekers equipped with GPS devices. The basic idea is to locate hidden containers, called geocaches, outdoors and then share your experiences online. Geocaching is enjoyed by people from all age groups, with a strong sense of community and support for the environment.
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Best Buy Mobile Offering 5 Android Under $100
It’s a great time to be shopping for Android handsets. Best Buy has announced that they will be carrying five Android powered smart phones at $99 for the holidays. They’re making it hassle free for your convenience with instant rebates as opposed to carrier mail-in …
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Why I Won’t Be Rooting My Droid…For Now
Let me begin by giving my experience this past year with rooted or “jail broken” Android phones. I used the standard Android image doled out by T-Mobile for seven long months before I took the plunge and gained root access to my G1. And after …
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App Review: WallSwitch
Have you ever set up your home screen just the way you like only to find you’re already bored with it? Do you have a hard time choosing just one image to use as your wallpaper? Time to check out WallSwitch. I’m constantly taking pictures …
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Flurry Pegs Droid Sales at 250,000 in First Week
We previously reported that first weekend sales figures for Verizon’s Droid were somewhere in the 100,000 units ballpark. Those figures were based on an analyst at Broadpoint AmTech Inc.’s estimates. Is there anything to substantiate that claim? As it turns out, there is one report …
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Leaving T-Mobile Behind for Verizon Droid
Anyone following the invasion of the Droid can see a plethora of reviews on PhoneDog, Gizmodo, Boy Genius Report among others. So I will spare you the redundancy since those guys do reviews for a living and are much better at it than I. What …
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An Open Letter to Droid Owners
Welcome Droid Owners. It’s great to have you here. You might be reading this on your home computer or possibly on your 3.7-inch touch-sensitive display with a resolution of 854×480 pixels, 16 million color depth with a physical screen size of 45.72 mm by 81.34mm. …
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App Review: Astraware Sudoku
Astraware’s Sudoku for Android is an app for true “Sudokuphiles”. I say that not to imply that only a true Sudoku fan would agree with the $4.99 price tag it bears on Android Market, but because a true fan will appreciate the wealth of features …
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The Too-Fast Aging G1
I like my G1. It is, by far, the best phone I have ever had. I love how it feels in my hand, not too light or too heavy; it fits just right! I even got used to the keyboard. At first, I didn’t like …
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T-Mobile’s Cole Brodman Talks Android at Summit
Cole Brodman, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer for T-Mobile, gave a keynote speech today at Open Mobile Summit where he confirmed the company’s investment in the Android platform. The final tally of Android handsets will sit at 4 this year – Motorola CLIQ, Samsung Behold …
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Verizon to Charge $15 for Exchange Access on the Droid? [UPDATE]
Verizon, a name that is synonymous with the phrase “nickel and dime,” is at it again. Wired has picked up on the reports that Verizon will charge Droid owners $15 for access to Microsoft Exchange’s ActiveSync. That $15 will be charged on top of the …
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Holdin’ Out… For a Real Hero
The release of the highly anticipated and much praised HTC Hero on Sprint left me nothing but underwhelmed. After writing my post about making a decision between Sprint’s first two Android offerings (see The Great Debate), I came to the agonizing decision that I just …
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Wireless Tether: A Love Story
This is more of a personal recommendation than it is an application review. Anyone who does work on the go nowadays knows just how essential “all over” internet access is. But wireless data-only plans are often expensive and require another piece or two of hardware, …
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