Gadget Accessory Style Tips

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Do you want the inside scoop on the newest must-have gadget accessories? From Kate Spade iPhone cases to Dolce & Gabbana laptop bags, Sarah and Rebekah Austin have got you covered! Don't you want your gadgets to have a little style? Well check out these tips and you'll soon have the most wanted accessories around!

New Android Smartphones Arrive to AT&T's Portfolio

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New Android devices are coming to AT&T. These include, the Motorola ATRIX 2, Samsung DoubleTime, Samsung Captivate Glide, Pantech Pocket and AT&T Avail. Learn about the features offered by each new of these new Android mobile devices.

Samsung Galaxy Note review -- Engadget

Samsung Galaxy Note review -- Engadget: "Remember the display on your first mobile phone? If you've been chatting on the go for as long as we have, it was probably barely big enough to fit a complete telephone number -- let alone a contact name or text message. And your first smartphone? Even displaying scaled-down, WAP versions of web pages was asking a lot. Now, those mobile devices we couldn't live without have screens that are much, much larger. Sometimes, though, we secretly wish they were even bigger still."

Shoebox app turns phones into photo scanners

By Athima Chansanchai via MSNBC.com



A new app released by a "memory sharing" site makes converting photo prints to digital a little easier by turning an iPhone into a mobile photo scanner.

Shoebox, the first app released by 1000memories, gives iPhone users the ability to scan and share large collections of photos and documents on Facebook and Twitter, as well as on 1000memories.

While it seems like it's impossible there was ever a time when cameras weren't digital, many of us have ample evidence there was such a thing as film and photo prints. Albums — and shoeboxes, as the video below shows — bursting with dusty images remind us that we used to spend time sitting down and reliving those moments with others, rather than solo clicking and commenting.

HTC TITAN - Unlike anything you've ever held before

No more squinting at small screens for you. With a massive 4.7" screen and an ultra-slim 9.9mm unibody contoured design, the HTC TITAN feels great in your hand. It's unlike anything you've ever held before.

Motorola DROID Bionic Hands-On

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Aaron takes a first hands-on look at the Motorola DROID Bionic, the next Android phone in Verizon's "DROID" lineup. It's a high-end, feature packed device, with a 1 GHz Tegra 2 dual-core processor, 4G LTE connectivity, 4.3-inch display, Android 2.2, 8-megapixel camera, and front-facing camera. It's one of many next-generation Android devices.

This phone is available at Verizon beginning 9/8.

NerdBoyTV #115 - Review of Mugen Power Battery for HTC Thunderbolt

In Episode #115 of NerdBoyTV, Ryan Yee reviews the Mugen Power extended life battery for the HTC Thunderbolt smartphone. The battery easily stays charged from 12–20 hours! AWESOME!

For other batteries, go to: http://www.mugen-power-batteries.com.



Mugen Power is the worldwide leading brand of high performance batteries for portable electronic devices. Mugen Power means Performance and Quality.

Mugen Power batteries have better performance (higher capacity) and reliability (longevity & safety) than other brands. The superior performance improves run time, often doubling that provided by the original brand replacement. The superior quality results in longer battery life and better protection of the powered device.

CLICK to see the Mugen Power Battery for the HTC Thunderbolt.

The Best Android Phones

By Wendy Sheehan Donnell, PC Magazine

It's hard to believe that it's been just three years since Google's open-source Android mobile operating system hit the scene. When the first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1, was released, the mobile landscape looked very different. Most people carried simple handsets that focused on making calls. If you were lucky, you could listen to music or play games on your mobile phone.

Back then, you didn't have to have a smartphone that ran thousands of apps to let you, in the palm of your hand, do many of the things your computer could do. Apps weren't even a thing yet. Apple had only released the iPhone 3G and launched its groundbreaking App Store a couple of months earlier.

It was the introduction of Android that helped propel the app-based smartphone to what it is today. The thing Android offered, which Apple's iPhone couldn't, was choice. Since it was an open-source platform, several hardware manufacturers could use the OS on their handsets, and a variety of wireless carriers could offer those phones—and they did.

A year after Android was released, in the U.S. there was a single Apple iPhone on a single carrier, but there were eight different Android handsets with varying form factors available on three of the four major carriers. Today, you can find a variety of Android phones on AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless. Even the little guys like Cricket and Virgin Mobile offer Android options. According to Comscore, Android enjoys 33 percent of the U.S. smartphone market today.

That's a lot of phones to choose from. To come up with our list, we've chosen two winners for each of the four major carriers, one for each of four smaller carriers, and, if you're contract-phobic, the best unlocked handset. If you've settled on Android as your mobile platform, these phones are your best bets—for now, that is. At this rate of growth, we can assure you that there's another great 'Droid right around the corner.

Samsung Galaxy S II Review by MobileBurn.com

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The Samsung Galaxy S II is the second generation of Samsung's massively popular Galaxy S flagship smartphone line. It features a large 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus touchscreen display, a dual-core 1.2GHz processor, and HSPA+ 21Mbps download speeds. We tested a UK model in this video, but AT&T will be releasing a similar device with a larger 4.5-inch screen called the Infuse soon. More info, click MobileBurn.com.

Windows Phone 7 Mango beats iPhone iOS!

I really DO wanna give Windows Phone 7 a chance. I think their interface is intriguing. Watch this head-to-head speed test.

The Top 10 Places People Lose Their Smartphones

BY AUSTIN CARR OF fASTCOMPANY.COM

"Can you call my phone?"

How many times have you been asked this question in the last year? Losing your phone, whether between your couch cushions or (like most Apple employees) at a bar, is a common headache. But finding your phone is another story, one that usually requires a bit of serendipity or the kindheartedness of a good Samaritan.

Today, mobile-security startup Lookout, which specializes in Android smartphone protection, released an infographic on the lost-phone phenomenon--namely, the 10 worst places to lose your phone, and the top U.S. cities for smartphone loss or theft.

According to Lookout's data, the No. 1 city for cellphone loss, based on the percentage of its population, is Miami. No doubt that season of the Jersey Shore factored into the outcome. (Who could've possibly been sober in the MIA during the weeks the MVP were present?) New York City comes in second, followed by Los Angeles, and Phoenix. Philly, Dallas, and Chicago are all in the bottom half.

As for the top 10 worst places to lose your phone, based on chance of recovery, a restaurant or bar isn't such a horrible place, coming in at No. 9 (chance of recovery is fairly high, at 80% to 95%). The car roof comes in at No. 8, with a 25% to 75% chance of recovery. Unsurprisingly, public transit makes up a big part of the top 10. Airport security, buses and subways, airplanes, taxis--all these areas are prime spots to lose your phone.

The worst location to have your phone go missing is the swimming pool, which has a 50% to 75% chance of recovery--but your sopping-wet phone, even if retrieved, has less than a 5% chance of ever working again.

READ article on FastCompany.com.

myTouch 4G vs iPhone 4 - Browser Speed Test

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This is a browser speed test that compares the T-Mobile myTouch 4G with the Apple iPhone 4. For the best prices on the myTouch 4G, visit WireFly.com.

10 Androids That Outmuscle the iPhone

10 Androids That Outmuscle the iPhone - Yahoo! Shopping: "Apple's iPhone had a good run atop the smartphone league, but 10 Google Androids aim to bury the tuckered-out leader this year.

Motorola Mobility, Samsung, HTC and LG have promised to deliver supercharged, ultra-thin, 4G Android devices in the coming weeks and months.

But not always. Before the mobile phone industry got all busy with design makeovers and tummy tucks, there were -- and still are -- some delightfully hideous phones that represented the other side of the beauty trend. The Street has gone back through the past decade to dig up some of the best examples of designs that make you wince and stare in disbelief. The clueless stylings, the flights of fancy into odd shapes, the obsession with square versus rounded -- it is a wonderfully colorful history.

The giant Android attack features bigger screens, better cameras, faster processors and speedier 4G connections than the upcoming iPhone.

The Android's phone screens, for example, start at 4 inches and go to 4.5 inches, advancing the size standard for this generation of touchscreens. By comparison, Apple's next iPhone is expected to have a 3.5-inch screen.

The new Androids are 4G phones either on AT&T HSDPA-Plus network or Verizon's LTE network, and four of the 10 will come with dual core processors.

Apple, on the other hand, is expected to upgrade to a dual-core processor this year, but the 4G LTE iPhone has been delayed to 2012, as first reported.

The presumed delay of the next iPhone from June to September, and the decision to wait a year on 4G LTE upgrade highlight just a few of the areas where Apple has been lagging behind the leaders in the Android pack.

'The processor and display quality improvement in the Android camp is proceeding at such a clip that Apple will be under a lot of pressure to deliver a substantial jump in iPhone specs next autumn,' MKM Partners' analyst Tero Kuittinen.

'It's not clear how Apple can battle the rapid Android evolution,' says Kuittinen, 'unless it picks up the pace of its iPhone launches.'

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SHOW #107 - NerdBoyTV: Flying Fatress iPhone App

In this episode of NerdBoyTV, Ryan Yee interviews 15-year-old entrepreneur, Connor Rodriguez, who developed a popular iPhone game app called "Flying Fatress." Connor demos the game that's available for $0.99 on iTunes. http://AppsByConnors.com.

SHOW #105 - NerdBoyTV: Amazon Penny Sale

In this episode of NerdBoyTV, Ryan Yee discusses Amazon.com's "Penny Sale" on smartphones for Mother's Day, Amazon's $0.69 mp3s, an iPhone app for kids called "Animal Phone," and the Top Five Viral Videos of the week on YouTube.

Power to the pocket: The next generation of superphones

Power to the pocket: The next generation of superphones - Yahoo! Shopping

"These up-and-comers from the smartphone world will redefine the boundaries of mobile computing with full HD video playback, dual-core processors, and more.

We’re sick of the iPhone, too. Despite antenna issues, Draconian app store rules and an engineered inability to run Flash content, Apple’s flagship smartphone has done to the smartphone market what the Romans once did to Europe.

The good news: Now a marauding horde of smartphone manufacturers under the flag of Google Android are back for their turf, and they’re not just cobbling together iPhone-wannabes anymore. From the world’s first dual-screen smartphone to a phone with all the processing power of a laptop - and a dock that turns it into one - these next-generation smartphones will all bring something totally unique to the battlefield when they arrive soon.

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Nokia, Microsoft in pact to rival Apple, Google

Nokia, Microsoft in pact to rival Apple, Google - Yahoo! News: "Technology titans Nokia and Microsoft are combining forces to make smart phones that might challenge rivals like Apple and Google and revive their own fortunes in a market they have struggled to keep up with.

Nokia Corp., the world's largest maker of mobile phones, said Friday it plans to use Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Phone software as the main platform for its smart phones in an effort to pull market share away from Apple's iPhone and Android, Google's software for phones and tablets.

The move marks a major strategy shift for Nokia, which has previously equipped devices with its own software. Analysts said the deal was a bigger win for Microsoft than Nokia, whose CEO Stephen Elop in a leaked memo this week compared his company to a burning oil platform with 'more than one explosion ... fueling a blazing fire around us.'

Nokia said the partnership would 'deliver an ecosystem with unrivaled global reach and scale.' However, it warned that the new strategy would also bring 'significant uncertainties,' and said it expects profit margins to be hit by strong competition from rivals.

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Smartphone fees to spike?

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Rumor: Facebook phones are coming!!!

Technolog - Rumor: Facebook phones are coming!!!
By Wilson Rothman

"UPDATED - HTC is slated to unveil not one but two Facebook phones in February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, according to City AM, a UK news site. They will be 'high-end smart phones,' running Android with Facebook 'branding and colors,' says the site. Their purpose will be to make life easier for Facebook addicts by featuring Facebook messages on the home screen, and integrating calling and e-mailing using Facebook friend info.

Let's see, an Android phone that features Facebook messages on the home screen, and uses Facebook to get friends' contact info? Isn't that, like, every Android phone? Truth is, Facebook's mobile strategy is so good these days, pretty much any phone in your pocket is a Facebook phone, even dumb ones. So what gives?

My guess would be that it's got to do with apps and games. Facebook is making bank hosting the masterworks of Zynga ('FarmVille,' 'CityVille') and Playdom ('Social City'), and is getting cozy with traditional publishers like EA and Popcap. Why let Apple and Google reap the mobile gaming spoils?

City AM's rationalization is a little more vague: 'Facebook has aggressively pushed mobile versions of its social network,' says the site, 'and industry insiders see this as an attempt to consolidate its position as the world’s leading social network.'

OK, so how much stock do we put in this rumor? On one hand, the most realistic Facebook phone rumors surround devices that would be released in Europe and Asia (but possibly not in the United States), and this does follow in the same groove. And HTC would be a great candidate for a Facebook vanity phone, especially based on the Android operating system, which they've worked intimately with since the beginning.

City AM's reporter may have reported on the existence of the second Google Nexus phone, as Mashable points out. But in this piece, he misidentifies HTC as the manufacturer of it. (Correct answer: Samsung.) So really, when it comes to credibility, they're kind of a mixed bag.

We've reached out to HTC and Facebook for comment, and have yet to hear back.

UPDATED at 3:39 p.m. ET: A Facebook spokesperson replied to our inquiry, sharing a tantalizing non-denial that sounds awfully familiar:

'Facebook is not building a mobile phone. As we've long said our mobile strategy is to enable people to not only have access, but also a great Facebook experience from any mobile phone they choose. We're working across the entire mobile industry with operators, hardware manufactures and app developers to bring Facebook to mobile phones in a variety of unique and exciting ways. Some of these include deep integrations of Facebook within the device, but are not 'a Facebook phone' as they sometimes are referred to by commenters.'

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Mobile phones helping improve people's lives

This video (courtesy of MSNBC.com) shows some very cool ways that smartphones and apps are helping people improve their lives.

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