It’s a bonus, non-Amazon edition of SnApp Judgments! I’m here to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I’m all out of bubble gum, because the first chapter of Duke Nukem 3D is available in the Android Marketplace for free. If you’ve never played Duke Nukem 3D… then you just made me feel really old. Suffice […]
What exactly defines a tablet? Is it the large touchscreen? Is it the operating system? Is it the ability to run apps? What separates a tablet from a PC, curated e-readers from tablets, and junk from quality hardware? This question has been recently relevant in the introduction of the Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire to […]
On Thursday, I was the first person in line at the Verizon store in Culver City, CA, to pick up the Galaxy Nexus. The Nexus is the latest phone from Samsung featuring the latest build of Google’s Android operating system, 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). This is particularly exciting for me, if only because I haven’t […]
See the original story here. After mysteriously disappearing from Sprint’s official lineup this week, there has been much speculation surrounding the LG Marquee. No official response from Sprint, however, the device has returned to Sprint.com as of today. It is currently listed as “out of stock”, and e-chat representatives have told customers there is a supply […]
Lenovo’s ThinkPad Tablet manages to bring a few different things to the party, and this pleases me greatly, as seen in this video. [yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGBt8q4uhaQ’] The ThinkPad Tablet may not be the thinnest or most eye-catching tablet out there. It has some real heft to it compared to the Galaxy Tab or iPad 2. I’d […]
UPDATE TO THIS ARTICLE HERE. The LG Marquee, a new budget smartphone from Sprint (and one that we recently wrote about), has suddenly gone missing from their website without warning this week. This happens barely two months after being launched. Third party stores like Radio Shack and Best Buy still offer the device, and there […]
In a post-Fire world, even the smallest differences can push the average consumer into a decision between Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Barnes and Noble’s NOOK Tablet. One of the main advantages the NOOK Tablet had over the Kindle Fire had been twice the storage space (16 GB vs. 8GB) as well as twice the RAM […]
Any good (fictional) spy uses biometrics as authentication – Bond used fake fingerprints, Charlie’s Angels copied someone’s retina scan, and Chuck’s intersect has facial recognition technology. Yet as companies have implemented biometric-based authentications, it’s been laughably easy to beat. Fingerprint locking technology was once thought to be the gold standard in security. Fingerprint sensors popped […]
