MetroPCS has a great agenda: affordable smartphones that don’t require a contract. Unfortunately, driving a phone down to $149 or $199 without subsidy often requires manufacturers to make cutbacks, especially to fit in LTE (complete with metroPCS’s fledgling coverage). Huawei did this maneuver with the Activa 4G I’ve been testing the last few weeks. This […]
This has been an impressive year for smartphones. Indeed, with units like the RAZR MAXX, Galaxy Nexus, and HTC’s One line, I think we’re seeing a real transition to superphones. Then there’s the LG Viper, a far more mild-mannered option. Despite being the first LTE phone released on Sprint (by a whole day), the Viper […]
I’m a diehard webOS user. My TouchPad is my daily workhorse, and I love the thing. Until a few weeks ago, I was still using my Palm Pre+ (hacked to run on Sprint). However, a recent contract change added Sprint’s $10 data access fee. As much as I love my Pre, I am not not […]
You’re not alone if you read the headline and wondered “Who the heck is Alcatel?” The handset maker is a bigger name in non-US markets. Here, however, the Venture seems to be their only handset on the market, which I hate to say, is a good thing. The Venture should be right up my […]
Some of us are still waiting for Sprint’s “any day now” Galaxy Nexus. The current Google reference phone is more than a neat bit of hardware — it represents Sprint’s first shift from a high-speed WiMax network to one based on LTE. While Wimax continues to work for those who picked up earlier 4G Sprint […]
Gather round, children, and let grandpa tell you about the olden days that we called the 90s. Times were dark, then. We didn’t have smartphones. Instead we had PDAs — personal digital assistants. The leader of the field was a company called Palm, and their operating system was a little thing called PalmOS. One of […]
From the perspective of a device manufacturer, one of the big pluses of the Android operating system is the adaptability. You can use it as a code base and completely customize the appearance (ie, the Nook Tablet and the Kindle Fire). Samsung and HTC have always been firm believers in this philosophy, dating way back […]
While Techcitement has given a glowing, if quick, review to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, one feature we only touched on is the operating system. Because I’ve been shopping around for a new operating system ever since HP decided to ditch the phone business, this is a good time to put Android 4.0 a.k.a. Ice Cream […]
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As much as I love my HP TouchPad, I’m not a huge fan of touch-typing on the screen. While I honestly think webOS has the best onscreen keyboard of any tablet I’ve used, there’s still something to be said for the feel of real keys under one’s fingers. Recently I’ve been using a basic tablet […]
As I’ve mentioned ad-nauseum in my cellphone reviews, I’m not a huge fan of device manufacturers’ “skinning” of operating systems. While much of that can be chalked up to personal taste, there’s also the demonstrated fact that they directly impact future updates. Sony’s RachelUI kept the Xperia x10 from getting Android 2.3.4 (Gingerbread) until fairly […]
