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Facebook Home: Gorgeous but useless [REVIEW]
The big technology announcement last week was a new Facebook phone. Turns out though, it’s not really a phone made by Facebook. Instead, it’s a phone manufactured by HTC called the HTC First that runs Android and has an overlay on it called Facebook Home. Facebook Home takes over the home screen on your phone and replaces it with a visually appealing slideshow (called Cover Feed) of your friends’ Facebook photos and comments. And a simple double-tap on any one of them “likes” the photo or post (cough
Save money (and hassle) with the USB Sock-IT Plug-In Outlet [REVIEW]
If you have even one gadget in your house that charges via a USB cable, you owe it to yourself to check out this campaign on Indiegogo. The campaign is for a USB Sock-IT Plug-In Outlet that is one of the coolest charging products I have seen in a long time. I know this because I recently interviewed Mark Provo, the president of the company, for my Tech Talk radio show. If you missed the interview, you can listen to it use the player/link below: If you can
Samsung Galaxy Camera puts the camera first [REVIEW]
Fewer and fewer people carry around digital cameras any more. It’s too darn easy to leave the digital camera at home and just take a few shots here and there with your smartphone’s built-in camera. I mean why carry around two devices when your smartphone can do everything you want in one device? Here’s the problem. Smartphones take really poor photos when compared to a standalone digital camera. It’s just too difficult to fit all the “stuff” needed to take good pictures into a smartphone. So we’re left
MOVband tracks how many moves you make in a day [REVIEW]
A benefit of doing my Tech Talk show is that I get introduced to all kinds of interesting technology companies. One of the latest is MOVABLE, creators of the MOVband and the MOVchallenge. SEE ALSO: Using technology to achieve your fitness goals [TECH TALK] The MOVband is a watch-like gadget you wear on your wrist. The actual device is quite small and snaps into the wrist band meaning you can swap out different color bands as often as your fashion sense dictates. You can also use it to
MOGA Mobile Gaming system converts your smartphone into a game controller [REVIEW]
I grew up playing (and loving) Pac-Man. Ok, ok, I admit it. I was actually more of a Ms. Pac-Man player than a Pac-Man player but the point is this. I loved these games because they were so simplistic in nature. One joystick nudged either up, down, left or right was all you needed to control the game. Fast forward 30 years and you can now download Pac-Man straight to your smartphone in just a few seconds. But here’s the problem. It’s just not the same playing Pac-Man
Samsung Galaxy Stellar has a decent set of features at an unbeatable price [REVIEW]
I think I finally found the perfect smartphone for people who don’t want (or need) a giant display. It’s the Samsung Galaxy Stellar. Right off the bat, I noticed that the Galaxy Stellar has the same look and feel interface of its big brother smartphone, the Galaxy S III. Of course it doesn’t have all of the features of the Galaxy S III but that’s kind of the point with this phone. See Also: Samsung Galaxy S3 Review (without all of the techie talk) For example, the Galaxy
Yes, the Samsung Galaxy Note II is big but it’s packed with features [REVIEW]
I’m going to start this review with a small dose of honesty. I didn’t think I would like the Samsung Galaxy Note II, mostly because I thought it was too big. The Galaxy Note II has a whopping 5.5″ display which qualifies it as a hybrid phone/tablet or as some people like to call it, a phablet. But after only 15 minutes of playing with the Galaxy Note II, I was hooked. And my new found love of it had nothing to do with the screen size. It’s
LG Spectrum 2 packs nice features in a reasonably-priced smartphone [REVIEW]
When I first started using the LG Spectrum 2 smartphone, quite honestly it felt like every other Android-based smartphone I’ve tested. But when I started digging into some of its unique features I found some things I really liked. But first things first. The LG Spectrum 2 is an Android-based (4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich) 4G LTE smartphone that runs on Verizon Wireless’s network. It has a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor which puts it right on par in terms of speed with other smartphones on the market. It has
Belkin NetCam may not be the best, but it’s the easiest to use [REVIEW]
It used to be that watching surveillance cameras from a hand-held device was the kind of stuff reserved only for James Bond. Now pretty much anyone can do it (if you still want to call yourself 007 that’s fine with me). The most recent camera I tested is the Belkin NetCam which was given to me by Verizon Wireless. Simply stated, the NetCam is a wireless camera (wireless communication that is, you still have to plug it in) that allows you to monitor whatever the camera can see
JAMBOX puts a new twist on a portable speaker [REVIEW]
One thing we can all agree on. The built-in speakers on our smartphones are never good enough. Same goes with any music capable device like the iPod touch. My sons were constantly complaining that they couldn’t listen to music on their iPod touch with their friends. Well, they could—it just didn’t sound good enough. So I bought them these portable speakers. They did the trick but they definitely have limitations. For starters, you have to plug in the speakers to your device. They also run off alkaline batteries