Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com At Gadget Lab we’re system-wiping fools. With new smartphones and tablets coming through the office every week, we’re religious about doing complete system security resets whenever we send products back to manufacturers. It’s not just common courtesy. It’s a hedge against releasing private emails and photos into [...]
RIM's battle is a long and tiring one against the predominant mobile platforms in the industry. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Nokia CEO Stephen Elop put it best: “The industry has shifted from a battle of devices, to a war of ecosystems.” In other words, a smartphone or a tablet is only [...]
Hands eagerly pawed all over Windows Phones at CES 2012. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS is often criticized for lagging far behind iOS and Android, the other major operating systems in the mobile space. But on Thursday, a leaked description of Microsoft’s next big mobile OS, Windows Phone [...]
Apple's iPhone 4S helped boost it up the ladder of mobile-phone market share. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired Apple has moved past LG in the worldwide rankings of mobile-phone unit sales. According to IDC, Apple is now the world’s third largest mobile-phone manufacturer, behind Nokia and Samsung. Apple jumped two spots over [...]
Apple is purportedly working on its own TV set, rather than just a set-top box like Apple TV. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Rampant speculation says Apple has a full-fledged, big-screen TV project in the works — an iTV, if you will. Now Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster says Apple has been [...]
runMobileCompatibilityScript(‘myExperience1423509842001 ‘, ‘anId’); brightcove.createExperiences(); This week on the Gadget Lab podcast, the gang talks record Apple revenues, takes a look at the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx, and riffs on what leaders in the hip-hop community have to say about their namesake headphone offerings. Reviews editor Michael Calore and Gadget Lab [...]
The Galaxy Note has a 5.3-inch screen, making it almost tablet size. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com The Samsung Galaxy Note is a beast of a phone. The Note’s gigantic 5.3-inch, Super AMOLED display makes it the largest “smartphone” we’ve seen so far. It’s practically a mini-tablet. In fact, a 5-inch touchscreen [...]
Imagine a world where your iDevice is tethered to a MagSafe-style connector. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired My only wish for the next iPhone and iPad: that Apple’s signature 30-pin dock connector be replaced with something like the Mac’s masterful, magnetic MagSafe connector. Although it may not show up in iOS devices [...]
The iPhone 4S bolstered smartphone sales for AT&T as well as Apple. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired Fourth quarter 2011 saw smartphone sales take off in a big way, heavily influenced by the introduction of Apple’s iPhone 4S. In AT&T’s best quarterly smartphone performance ever, the carrier saw 9.4 million smartphone sales [...]
It's Android versus Apple, and Android manufacturers aren't looking so hot. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com It’s a good time to be a smartphone manufacturer. That is, if your name is Apple. The company’s financial momentum is, in a word, insane. Apple far surpassed shareholder and Wall Street expectations during its quarterly [...]