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Republic Wireless tries to change the game with VOIP and Android

Raise your hand if you love your wireless carrier. Anyone? Consumers fed up with spotty service and limited terms have been complaining for years about lack of transparency and competition, and on November 8th, they might just have a next-generation alternative to the likes of Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile. Republic Wireless is a new Mobile [...]

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Motorola DROID RAZR confirmed for November 10th retail release

We know that those of you who pre-ordered the Motorola DROID RAZR will have it shipped out to you “no later than” November 10th, but the company has been mum on when Verizon customers would be able to but the phone at retail. Until now, anyway: Verizon has confirmed that the DROID RAZR will be [...]

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Department of Defense approves Dell Streak 5 for high-security networks

Better late than never, I suppose. The United States Department of Defense had added its first Android device to its list of officially supported handsets and tablets: the 5-inch Dell Streak. The phone/tablet made it through an extensive gauntlet of testing for security and comparability, performed by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). This means [...]

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SHADOWGUN Multiplayer in the works and coming soon

Whoa this came out of no where although is nothing new. SHADOWGUN, a game I recently reviewed and loved, is apparently set to receive some multiplayer action from the awesome developer MadFinger Games. Being able to play this graphic intensive and awesome game on my NVIDIA Tegra 2 tablet as a multiplayer game would truly [...]

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Google TV 2.0 update hitting Sony devices now, Logitech Revue coming soon

We have seen plenty of the new and improved Google TV (Android 3.1 Honeycomb) in the news lately and users have been patiently awaiting this update. Today it appears Sony Google TV hardware has finally started to receive the over the air update to Google TV 2.0 just like we expected. Get ready for some [...]

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Pantech Vega LTE commercial shows off hands-free gesture controls [Video]

Who needs touchscreens and slide to unlock features says Pantech. This latest commercial shows just how 2010 touchscreens and slide to answer features really are because they have introduced hands-free gesture based controls for swiping through pictures and even answering phone calls. Apple may have recently received their patents for slide to unlock, but lets [...]

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HTC Rezound gets unboxed and handled on camera

The unreleased and still not fully confirmed HTC Rezound for Verizon Wireless has just been unboxed — sort of. While we have a plain white box and what is surely not anything official and merely a pre-production unit. We do have all the wrapping paper, cables, chargers and what looks to be what will come [...]

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Happy Halloween: Behind the scenes with the Google Doodle 1,000 pound pumpkins [Video]

Google went big this year with the Halloween Google Doodle. This time around the Doodle went heavy and they got a few 1,000 pound pumpkins and started carving them right on their front lawn. The doodles are pretty famous and have been going on since forever. Today we have the behind the scenes video of [...]

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HTC Rezound shows up in Verizon store ads

HTC has a New York City event scheduled for this Thursday, November 3rd, wherein the Rezound is expected to make its much-anticipated first appearance. It looks like that’s being corroborated by at least one Verizon Wireless store, which has posted a digital ad featuring the Rezound next to its carrier predecessors, the LG Revolution and [...]

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Motorola RAZR comes to Rogers on November 4th

An internal document from Canadian carrier Rogers says that the Motorola RAZR, the international model of Verizon’s DROID RAZR, will be coming to the Great White North this Friday, November 4th. Significantly, that’s a week earlier than the November 10th date that Verizon has set to ship DROID RAZR phones to United States customers who [...]

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