Last year, the OnePlus One shook up the Android phone market in a big way by showing us that premium phones didn’t need to cost $600 to $700 unlocked. That phone dazzled with high-end specs at $300, making a lot of people wonder why they should shell out so much for the other flagship phones […]
Motorola officially announced their next generation Moto X yesterday, and as it turns out, it’s getting split in two — kind of. Both the Moto X Style and Moto X Play will be hitting the market soon, but if you’re in the United States, you’ll only be seeing the Moto X Style. Both phones take […]
How quickly things change. The once ubiquitous flip phone has been consigned to the dumpster of history, replaced by the now ubiquitous non-flippy smartphone. Fortunately, we believe in recycling here in the 21st century, and that means nothing stays in the dumpster of history too long before getting dug out. So today, we have LG […]
We’re big fans of the ZenFone 2, Asus’ low-cost phone that doesn’t fall too short of a flagship. The ZenFone 2E doesn’t pretend to be anywhere near a flagship, but at an even lower price, it’s looking like another great value. The ZenFone 2E is smaller at 5″, but still runs Android 5.0 like the […]
Samsung has refreshed their premium tier tablet today with the announcement of the Galaxy Tab S2. The new tablet will build on last year’s Tab S launches, getting thinner and lighter while increasing the processing power inside. The Galaxy Tab S2 will come in 9.7″ (389 g) and 8.0″ (265 g) models, both housed in […]
The smartphone market is a tricky one to navigate. The duopoly of Apple and Samsung in the flagship race has led to a boom in budget Android phones from companies looking to carve out a niche among first-time buyers or enthusiasts disappointed in the giants moving away from features like Micro SD card slots or […]
After bringing free versions of their Office apps to Android tablets in January, Microsoft only needed to bring Android phones into the fold to give Office a truly cross-platform, cross-device presence. They’re taking that step today, releasing free versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Android phones. The apps existed in preview form for the […]
Android Wear, Google’s smartwatch operating system, has really racked up the custom watch faces over its relatively short existence. Now sitting at over 1,500 watch faces available on the Google Play store, Google is adding 17 new faces this week, including the Hello Kitty face we’ve been waiting for since pretty much the beginning. Watch […]
With the high-end smartphone market in the United States narrowed down to a duopoly of Apple and Samsung, more and more manufacturers seem content to concede that race, instead pushing low-end devices in an effort to carve out their own piece of the first-time buyer and budget market, where at least one giant, Apple, isn’t […]
After hitting stores in some parts of Asia earlier this year, the Asus ZenFone 2 is officially coming to North America, and it’s coming soon—you’ll be able to buy it tomorrow. Asus chairman Jonney Shih announced the North American release of the ZenFone 2 at a press conference held in New York earlier today. While […]
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We all know the problem with vacation pictures—we take so many that no one really wants to look through them all afterwards. It’s the same deal for action cam videos—that five-hour hike up the mountain was pretty awesome when you were living it, but your hike was not as exciting as the extended version of […]
If you’re in the U.S.A., you may not be familiar with the Alcatel OneTouch brand, but they are really big in Europe where they are a top handset maker when it comes to budget phones. And whether you know it or not, they have also been producing phones in the U.S. for years with carrier’s […]
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Unlike Apple and Google, which have come to use their developers conferences as major press events for new announcements, Microsoft’s Build conference more or less kept things strictly about the developers, with a lot of discussion about new coding tools and backend software that shows off Microsoft’s still-formidable behind-the-scenes prowess. But, there was one big […]
Another flagship Android phone officially joined the fray today, with LG announcing the G4, a technical powerhouse that delivers premium specs along with a couple of design choices that could make it more attractive than its Android competitors. And, just like everyone else in 2015, LG is out for style points, earning them with optional […]
The 2-in-1 market is really heating up, with excellent veterans like the Lenovo Yoga line and the Microsoft Surface Pro line mixing it up with promising new devices like the Asus Transformer Book T300 Chi. Now, Dell has their on take on the 2-in-1 market, and it’s breaking from its competitors in one major way—operating […]
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Microsoft launched Office Lens last year on Windows Phone to much acclaim. The app uses your phone’s camera to scan documents and convert them into document files, but was a little more feature rich than even many of the paid third-party options out there. Now, Android and iOS users get to see what Office Lens […]
One of our favorite budget tablets from last year is getting a little bit better in 2015. The Asus MeMO Pad 7 is getting an LTE model and an exclusive AT&T launch on April 10, when you’ll be able to get it on a prepaid or monthly plan. Other than LTE connectivity, this is the […]
HTC has a new flagship phone and it has been released just in time to go head to head with the Galaxy S6. So it will be interesting to see how these two high-end Android phones battle it out. In any case, the M9 improves on the HTC One M8 by stepping up the ante […]
Ever since Lenovo bought Motorola, we’ve been wondering what Lenovo has planned for the future of the Motorola brand. As we’ve seen, acquisitions of big names don’t always mean those big names will be kept around—after a honeymoon period, Microsoft has phased out the Nokia name from their Lumia line of devices, all but killing […]
Lenovo is taking cues from the Samsung Galaxy Camera and introducing the Vibe Shot, a mid-tier smartphone loaded up with a better-than-usual camera. In other words, if you want to avoid the usual smartphone photo disasters, you should definitely consider something like the Vibe Shot. Unlike the Galaxy Camera, which adopted a point-and-shoot form factor, […]
At CES 2014, Lenovo debuted the Vibe Z, their crack at a 5.5″ smartphone. Here in 2015, they’ve waited until MWC to unveil their next attempt. The A7000 looks to be a more affordable entry, in line with the budget market smartphone makers will be chasing this year. Instead of the 1920 x 1080 display […]
