Motorola has long been one of the strongest Android phone makers. While Samsung may get higher numbers and HTC a bit more of the mind share, Motorola’s original Droid for Verizon is arguably the phone that made Android take off as more than just “not iPhone.” The line is so successful that many users dub […]
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Review: Lenovo IdeaTab A2109A Fits A Specific Need
Sometimes a 10-inch tablet is too large and a 7-inch tablet is too small. For those Goldilocks circumstances, the few 9-inch tablets on the market can make due. The Lenovo IdeaTab A2109A fits the bill, capable of both content creation and media consumption in a smaller, relatively light, and somewhat cheap package at only $299. […]
Tech Companies And Good Samaritans Step Up In Aftermath Of Superstorm Sandy
I drove from Boston to Queens, NY today so that my family and I could be part of my wife’s nephew’s bar mitzvah. The ceremony was originally supposed to take place in his own community of Long Branch, NJ, but the family was forced to move it to my wife’s parent’s synagogue in Queens because […]
Tune In To The First Techcitement Podcast!
Get ready for the first of episode of the Techcitement podcast. In it, we’ll talk about all of the week’s big announcements, from the iPad Mini to the Microsoft Surface to whatever Google is announcing on Monday. Tune in live, Tuesday October 30 at 10 PM EST, right here at Techcitement!
How Could You, Apple?
A new iPad just eight months after the last one. How could any company treat its loyal customers this way? Apple is the rising star of the tech world. The company with the largest market cap in the world, valued at over $800 billion. It has legions of fans, feverishly purchasing every new iProduct at […]
Google And Apple Step All Over Poor Little Microsoft
Microsoft can’t catch a break. Everyone keeps stepping on the company’s news cycles. First, the Surface tablet finally got pricing and availability details Wednesday. Magically, Apple announced its iPad Mini event the same day, absorbing enormous amounts of the press coverage Microsoft wanted for the official launch of Windows 8. Rumor has it, pre-orders for […]
Why Google Maps May Not Find Its Way Onto iOS
Not happy with Apple’s new iOS6 maps? Miss the old Google Maps that you used to have built in? Looks like you may be out of luck for the foreseeable future. According to Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt, Maps won’t come to the App Store anytime soon. The Google Maps application that came baked into previous versions was removed from […]
My Recent Jetpack Moment
My friends like to joke that they’re bitter because it’s the 21st century and we don’t have our jetpacks. The 21st century is damn different from how it was portrayed in the media of our childhood; The Jetsons have a lot to answer for. However, “different” doesn’t mean bad. I made a recent long […]
Google And Motorola Want You To Meet The RAZR Family
I love branding. Samsung has a winner with the Galaxy (and is hoping for one with ATIV), HTC has the One, and Nokia has the Lumia line. Motorola is now joining the party, going all in on the RAZR line by introducing three new phones as The RAZR Family. This is a smart move […]
Review: Does The Lenovo IdeaTab S1209a Sound Like A Good Deal?
The Lenovo IdeaTab S1209a is quite obviously Lenovo’s answer to Apple’s iPad. The IdeaTab has a 9.7 inch screen with a resolution of 1024 x 768, identical to the original iPad and iPad 2. Lenovo’s tablet is sleek at a thin 0.35 inches and a light 1.3 pounds, lighter than Apple’s new iPad and on […]