In addition to our ongoing personal fitness goals, the wife and I have decided to take up a new hobby...photography. We both have been interested in it for a while now and we're always taking pictures with our smartphones and point-and-shoot cameras. We have a couple of iPhones in the house and I have a [...]
Today, Nokia officially announced the Nokia Lumia EOS, now called the Lumia 1020. It has a unibody design, similar to the previous Lumias. On the front is a 4.5-inch AMOLED PureMotion HD+ display 1,280 x 768 pixel display. Nokia's also promised that the Gorilla Glass 3 display works well with gloves and is still readable [...]
T-Mobile held a press conference today to reveal their "boldest move yet", which turns out to be their JUMP upgrade subscription program. JUMP stands for Just Upgrade My Phone, and for $10/month, you can upgrade your phone up to twice a year at the new customer price. You can enroll as early as this Sunday [...]
Our friends over at PocketNow wrote an interesting article this morning that talks about Android brand recognition and the terms that are flying around out there like Droid and Galaxy. In their article, they talk about how the common consumer refers to these phones based on their individual brands, not the operating system they run [...]
Nokia has announced its upcoming subscription-based Music+ app, which will be coming within the next few weeks. The video below has been released, which demonstrates some of its features. The subscription is €3.99/$3.99 a month (also rumored to be $3.99/month for those in the US), and it will give you unlimited offline caching of stations, [...]
Kaspersky Labs has discovered a new malware that targets members of governments, political groups, and research institutions, called Red October, or Rocra. This malware mostly targets Eastern Europe, former USSR members, and central Asia, with a few sightings in North America. The malware is sent via a spear-phishing email which, according to the firm, targets [...]
For those of you that have been disappointed in Apple Maps for the iPhone 5, last night, Google released the much anticipated Google Maps app. Nokia released their Nokia Maps app a while ago, which felt rushed to the market. The new Google Maps isn't like the old built-in maps app that Apple had before. [...]
Last week I reported that Google was putting the finishing touches on their Google Maps app for Apple devices. Today, Nokia has beat Google to the punch and has released their version of Here Maps with features including live traffic information, public transportation data, voice-guided walking navigation and more. Features: • Map views – Pick [...]
According to CNet, the much anticipated Google Maps app for the iPhone is nearing completion and is in the final stage of testing. We all know how bad the Apple Maps app got with iOS 5, so this will offer much relief to those iPhone users still needing a reliable navigation app. The reports even [...]
Also announced today was Windows Phone 8 by Microsoft. Last week, they announced Windows 8 and their new Surface tablets, and today comes the phone version of that. I've been a Windows Phone user for a while now and even though I switched off to Android and the iPhone in between, I still came back [...]
