You have probably heard it already: Google just announced that they are going to buy Motorola’s Mobile division, Motorola Mobility. The official press release on Google investor relations confirms that Google will pay $40.00 per share for a total sum of about $12.5 billion US Dollars which is a 63% premium “to the closing price [...]

Categories: Google

Friday and Saturday have uncovered some pretty interesting things about the new contenders entering the tablet market. Both Sony and Motorola are apparently rushing towards new releases, and while both are expected to appear on the market by fall, information on each is scattered. Reports about Sony’s upcoming tablet(s) are quite literally all over the [...]

Categories: Hardware, Notebooks

I’ve got a keen interest in smartphones and tablets. I think they’re just both so brilliant for what you can do with them. For instance, being able to store spreadsheets and important documents in the cloud and update them on my phone is just amazing, and being able to use custom apps on a device [...]

Categories: Hardware

I’m going to come clean, I’m not a fan of Google’s Android operating system.  I just don’t think that a desktop / icons approach is appropriate for either a smartphone or a tablet.  That said I’ve now seen the demonstration video for Google’s forthcoming ‘tablet’ version of the operating system, codenamed Honeycomb and I’m quickly [...]

Categories: Google

Okay, so we have more rumors about the Motorola Motus. We have specs, features, a new name and also a very shaky picture. I mean it looks like it the camera was attached to the hull of a small fishing boat on the Bering sea or something! Nonetheless, now that it looks so close to [...]

Categories: Gadgets, Mobiles

Okay folks, the Droid is finally out now. Through all the iPhone-bashing and the creepy ad campaign, it has made its way into our minds and hearts (sort of). At the very least it has forced people to take a look at it and decide what it’s really like. Overall, the reviewers have liked it [...]

Categories: Gadgets, Google, Google Android, iPhone, Mobiles

Before I even start, looks like it’s time to start using the new and official name for this phone as suggested by this spy shot. But we have all gotten so used to the code name that it is sticking to us like a bad habit. So here we have a rumor round up for [...]

Categories: Gadgets

Non-standard phone chargers are one of the most annoying things of cell phones. The lifecycle of a cell phone is usually two years. That’s when the contract ends and a new cell phone is offered as an incentive to stay with the cell phone provider for another two year period. Cell phone manufacturers use their [...]

Categories: Mobiles

Microsoft published a beta of their newest product Microsoft Phone Data Manager which is tool to synchronize and backup data from a supported mobile phone. The contacts data can be synchronized with Windows Live Contacts while the media, the music, videos and pictures, can be saved in a local folder. Microsoft Phone Data Manager is [...]

Categories: Mobiles, Software