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Our first Windows tablet to hit the SomeGadgetGuy Test Bench! We never did get our hands on the first Surface, but Surface 2 is ready to go! We’ll playback some movie and music samples to see how it stacks up to phones and bluetooth speakers! The audio level for our tablet tests is normalized to …
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In all the Instagram hub-bub there was another huge service which released a Windows Phone app. Navigation sweetheart Waze is now available for those of us using Live Tiles! Using the service, it feels very much like Waze on Android, which is a good thing. Those making the switch wont have to re-learn much. The …
Each generation of smartphone ushers in improvements to the cameras on the backs of our handsets, and now they’re starting to rival what we can do with traditional point and shoot cameras. I’ve even seen some claim that our phones now compete with SLRs, so I felt it was time to take a look at …
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When I started writing about tech I made a promise to myself that I would try my hardest not to just bag on products. That I would take a second to use something, figure out who it might be for, and whether it could live up to the claims of the company who manufactured it. …
The cold war between these two tech giants is heating up fast. Google is taking an extremely aggressive stance towards Windows Phone. None of Google’s services are currently officially available for Microsoft’s mobile operating system, and Google has been very vocal about not developing for the platform. Recently Google forced Microsoft to remove a nice …
It was always the ultimate irony. The line of phones from Nokia featuring some of the most advanced camera optics were denied access to the world’s most popular social photo and video services. No longer. Announced this morning in Abu Dhabi at Nokia World, official Instagram and Vine apps are finally on their way to …
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And no fights broke out… I might just start doing this for all launch day activities. The folks at AT&T were kind enough to open a store early for me to check out the iPhone launch. I got hands on with the iPhone 5S, and got to see a store in action on one of …
I think we’re at a tech crossroads. I’m not sure which road we’ll travel down. There’s a problem with how we talk about news in this industry. I’m complicit in that problem to a degree, and around me I’m watching the foundation of this market start to crumble. At its core, we tech journalists are …
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