Invoke your God's Eye
Not currently available for civilian use (check back around the end of the Mayan calendar or a city under Martial Law nearest you), the Motorola’s LEX 700 Mission Critical Handheld puts military-grade situational awareness and command and control into the hands of first responders. With the LEX 700, police, emergency medical services, and firefighters benefit [...]
Scandinavian Champion
The Nokia Lumia 800 is the first overwhelmingly positive result born from two mobile underdogs. It’s essentially Nokia’s gorgeous N9 on the hardware side, packed finally with a mobile OS (Windows Phone 7) whose tombstone isn’t already chiseled. Its curved, 3.7-inch, 12.1mm-thick polycarbonate frame and ClearBlack AMOLED display looks and feels almost like the iPod [...]
Giddily Gutted
Oh the torture! Our Pavlovian anticipation for a new iPhone every 12 months has been pushed to the limits this go around, especially after being teased earlier this summer about what to expect from iOS 5 (which, FYI will be available to all current iPhone 4 owners October 12th). Now the news is out and [...]
Souped Up Super AMOLED
About a year ago, the Samsung Galaxy S created a stir on the Android block when it pranced out with its 4-inch Super AMOLED display. While there’s plenty of tech chatter surrounding its successor, the Samsung Galaxy S II, the Samsung Infuse 4G ($200) is essentially the same phone, and it’s coming to AT&T on [...]
Bold(er)
The recently announced BlackBerry Bold 9780 may not generate the buzz of other handsets considering it’s quite similar to the 9700, but for BlackBerry addicts in love with the portrait QWERTY form factor, the changes should still be welcomed. Aesthetically its pretty much par for the Bold series course, but internally its camera has been [...]
Worthwhile Upgrade If You Just... Can't... Kick... BBM
The BlackBerry Torch 9800 is a sleek-looking QWERTY slider that sports a 3.2-inch, 480 x 360 touchscreen (which is the same resolution as the Bold for you handset geeks), 512 MB of RAM, a 5 megapixel camera, and 4 GB of on board memory with a 4 GB microSD card thrown in gratis. Additionally, it’s [...]
Is this the Droid You've Been Looking For?
If you didn’t already bite on the Motorola Droid or the HTC made Google branded Nexus One, then your patience might have just paid off. Announced yesterday as coming to Verizon, the HTC Droid Incredible falls in line with the new slew of high powered Android smart phones storming the market. It will run Android [...]
Android Meets "Super" AMOLED
Samsung isn’t the first company to think that by tacking the word “super” to their products, it would enhance their appeal. Think “Super Nintendo”, “Super Soaker”, “Super bowl”…etc. Combine that with the word “Galaxy” in the name and you’ve got yourself a device that’s positioned to rock the world Segway Style, or at least that’s [...]
The Best Business Phone on The Market? We'll Have to Wait and See.
In the realm of electronics, PR hype has no bounds. Kempler & Strauss heralding themselves as “a world-leading designer and manufacturer of innovative mobile devices and wireless technology” is no exception. Released on October 7th, the BillionAir 7′s claim to fame is that it’s the first GSM quad-band 3.5G phone based on the Microsoft Windows [...]
A Mobile Email Fiend's Dream Come True
You knew it would only be a matter of time before Blackberry would jump into the world of mobile applications. Looks like time’s up. By Gear Patrol Reader Kirk Ward: BlackBerry introduced the BlackBerry App World in early April and has been adding new applications at a constant clip. While many of the best applications [...]
Gunning for the iphone, Danish Style With the release of the N97 yesterday and the announcement of the 5800 XpressMusic hitting US markets in early 2009, it seems the world’s leading mobile phone supplier is finally wading into the battle for global smart phone domination. Take a quick look of each at both of their [...]
3 Carriers, 3 Phones, 1 Winner Grab yer partner do-si-do. It’s a Gear Patrol phone-down. 2008 has been an amazing year for cell phones. The masses have spoken and features once considered highly advanced such as: touch screen technology, internet connectivity, and email access, are now becoming standard in any smartphone worth its silicone weight. [...]
It’s Available And Worth It. If You’re A Palm User. Depending on how much time you waste trying to keep up with the latest gadgetry you may or may not know about the Palm Treo Pro. Either way, it’s out and shipping as of this past week. You Palm faithfuls holding out for the next [...]
Knock Knock. Who’s There? G1, Yo. The speculation has ceased, the first Google powered cell phone has finally arrived. Dubbed the T-Mobile G1, this new open source (think: not Apple) rebel will hit retail stores October 22 and cost a reasonable $179 with a two year voice and data agreement. This compared to Apple’s $199 [...]
The Benefits Of A Home Phone On Your Cell Phone Technology promises to solve many of the world’s major problems and plenty of its small ones. Take for example, the act of using your cell phone as a main phone line at home, which I know many guys do. Unfortunately, the sleek and compact traits [...]
