Archive for February, 2011

  • I know a few people have been heading out and getting that nice new XOOM. But if your waiting for pay day or still on the fence from all the rumors and uncertainty, then these facts should help. Verizon does NOT require a contract. You can choose to pay full retail ($800) and use month to month data. Best Buy is informing people that an activation is no longer required. It was rumored that contract or not you would have to pay for 1 month of data and an activation fee to use WiFi on the device. Best Buy will not however meet the price that Verizon is offering on...

    Purchasing a XOOM? Here are some tips.

    Posted on February 24, 2011 | View Comments
    I know a few people have been heading out and getting that nice new XOOM. But if your waiting for pay day or still on the fence from all the rumors and uncertainty, then these facts should help. Verizon does NOT require a contract. You can choose to pay full retail ($800) and use month to month data. Best Buy is informing people that an activation is no longer required. It was rumored that contract or not you would have to pay for 1 month of data and an activation fee to use WiFi on the device. Best Buy will not however meet the price that Verizon is offering on...

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  • Android is a powerful force, but how powerful? Well if you take a peak past the break (and have a nice techno song playing) you’ll see a Google produced video that shows the growth and domination of Android over the last two year. Its the whole world, then broken down to continents. Watch the upper-left though and you’ll see countdowns for major phones. Look what happens to the US when the Motorola Droid launched. iOS, your argument is invalid.

    EPIC WIN: Android Activations Per Day. Domination. [Video]

    Posted on February 24, 2011 | View Comments
    Android is a powerful force, but how powerful? Well if you take a peak past the break (and have a nice techno song playing) you’ll see a Google produced video that shows the growth and domination of Android over the last two year. Its the whole world, then broken down to continents. Watch the upper-left though and you’ll see countdowns for major phones. Look what happens to the US when the Motorola Droid launched. iOS, your argument is invalid.

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  • Its that time again, Apple has closed their online store and we are pretty sure this is for the new MacBook Pro refresh. So if you have been waiting, I would come up with about $2200 fast. We’ll let you know whats new. Source: Apple. ~Zephaniah Washington Editor-in-chief.

    QUICK HIT: Apple Online Store Closed. New MacBook Pro’s.

    Posted on February 24, 2011 | View Comments
    Its that time again, Apple has closed their online store and we are pretty sure this is for the new MacBook Pro refresh. So if you have been waiting, I would come up with about $2200 fast. We’ll let you know whats new. Source: Apple. ~Zephaniah Washington Editor-in-chief.

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  • Its about time, well not really considering were still a few hours form the 24th. Verizon has gone ahead and made the Motorola XOOM available for purchase right now! You can head into a store or just add a new line and order on the web. As we found yesterday, the prices are $799 off contract or $599 on a two year. We have yet to see the WiFi only version, but Engadget is suggesting that we should see it around the 25th but we know not the price. We will go hands on as soon as ours reaches the door. So, will we see you in line? Update: We...

    Motorola XOOM Available Now Through Verizon!

    Posted on February 23, 2011 | View Comments
    Its about time, well not really considering were still a few hours form the 24th. Verizon has gone ahead and made the Motorola XOOM available for purchase right now! You can head into a store or just add a new line and order on the web. As we found yesterday, the prices are $799 off contract or $599 on a two year. We have yet to see the WiFi only version, but Engadget is suggesting that we should see it around the 25th but we know not the price. We will go hands on as soon as ours reaches the door. So, will we see you in line? Update: We...

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  • Thank you for listening Verizon. Thank you for not making us get iPad 2. Thats right, Verizon has just announced the pricing and availability for the Motorola XOOM. We will see the Android 3.0, LTE capable tablet on February 24 with some decent pricing. We are looking at $599 on a two year contract or $799 at full retail, no contract. Were not sure if 1 month of data is still required to unlock WiFi on the $799 model but you can assume that it is. I can say that I will be standing proudly in line on Thursday handing over my cash. You? Press release after the break.

    Official: Motorola XOOM Feb 24 for $599 On Contract or $799 Off.

    Posted on February 22, 2011 | View Comments
    Thank you for listening Verizon. Thank you for not making us get iPad 2. Thats right, Verizon has just announced the pricing and availability for the Motorola XOOM. We will see the Android 3.0, LTE capable tablet on February 24 with some decent pricing. We are looking at $599 on a two year contract or $799 at full retail, no contract. Were not sure if 1 month of data is still required to unlock WiFi on the $799 model but you can assume that it is. I can say that I will be standing proudly in line on Thursday handing over my cash. You? Press release after the break.

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  • We have been covering some really depressing news in the Android world as of late, just look at the home page. Now our mood has changed. Why? I Am Android. Is a site that launched about a week ago and its all Android lovers all the time. Created by an Android staple, Eric Richardson (richie681), their is a lot you can do. The site runs very much like Facebook, but with some major differences. The color scheme is green and charcoal, with very sharp edges. It screams Android. You set up your profile with your pictures and you can choose to interlink with Facebook and Twitter. If you allow it,...

    The Social Network: For Android Enthusiasts. I Am Android.

    Posted on February 21, 2011 | View Comments
    We have been covering some really depressing news in the Android world as of late, just look at the home page. Now our mood has changed. Why? I Am Android. Is a site that launched about a week ago and its all Android lovers all the time. Created by an Android staple, Eric Richardson (richie681), their is a lot you can do. The site runs very much like Facebook, but with some major differences. The color scheme is green and charcoal, with very sharp edges. It screams Android. You set up your profile with your pictures and you can choose to interlink with Facebook and Twitter. If you allow it,...

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  • I guess Verizon has been sensing our frustration and thought it was time to release a nice sixteen second ad for the Motorola XOOM. Were all still a little angry, so keep trying Verizon. $800 and no flash is not helping, and don’t get me started with the Thunderbolt. Knocking $300 off would probably sate us. ~Zephaniah Washington Editor-in-chief.

    QUICK HIT: Verizon’s New XOOM Ad.

    Posted on February 21, 2011 | View Comments
    I guess Verizon has been sensing our frustration and thought it was time to release a nice sixteen second ad for the Motorola XOOM. Were all still a little angry, so keep trying Verizon. $800 and no flash is not helping, and don’t get me started with the Thunderbolt. Knocking $300 off would probably sate us. ~Zephaniah Washington Editor-in-chief.

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  • As we get closer and closer to the end of February we keep expecting to see the Motorola XOOM come out. Well Verizon is confirming that February 24, 2011 will be the launch date of the XOOM. They are still failing to state if the tablet will be subsidized or not, but they are managing to state something else with their nice little web page. In the lower right of the webpage we see “Adobe Flash expected Spring 2011″. Wait, what? Thats right, the worlds first Honeycomb tablet, the iPad killer, will not be capable of displaying any flash content until a Tegra 2 version is released. Now I could...

    Verizon Launches XOOM Home Page. With a nice little note.

    Posted on February 21, 2011 | View Comments
    As we get closer and closer to the end of February we keep expecting to see the Motorola XOOM come out. Well Verizon is confirming that February 24, 2011 will be the launch date of the XOOM. They are still failing to state if the tablet will be subsidized or not, but they are managing to state something else with their nice little web page. In the lower right of the webpage we see “Adobe Flash expected Spring 2011″. Wait, what? Thats right, the worlds first Honeycomb tablet, the iPad killer, will not be capable of displaying any flash content until a Tegra 2 version is released. Now I could...

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  • 2011. The year Verizon finally snapped. CES came around, and the HTC Thunderbolt was announced as well as the Motorola XOOM. In the first two weeks of 2011, it looked like this was it, this was the year Verizon would really leap ahead in the market. But, they made the catastrophic mistake. They decided to get the iPhone 4, and now, we can speculate that that is the reason why everything is happening the way it is. (Zephaniah wrote his rant on the Thunderbolt, so I will not get into that as much) The Thunderbolt looked to be the most amazing thing that anyone had ever seen in terms of...

    Rant: Verizon, Really?

    Posted on February 21, 2011 | View Comments
    2011. The year Verizon finally snapped. CES came around, and the HTC Thunderbolt was announced as well as the Motorola XOOM. In the first two weeks of 2011, it looked like this was it, this was the year Verizon would really leap ahead in the market. But, they made the catastrophic mistake. They decided to get the iPhone 4, and now, we can speculate that that is the reason why everything is happening the way it is. (Zephaniah wrote his rant on the Thunderbolt, so I will not get into that as much) The Thunderbolt looked to be the most amazing thing that anyone had ever seen in terms of...

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  • When HTC showed us the Thunderbolt at CES, our hopes and dreams seemed to be all wrapped up in one device. We had been tracking it for weeks and months prior to official launch and unveil, but in recent it just been painful. We began noticing that many things about the phone were uncertain. Dates and prices all rumors, all changing. Delays and major features not working. We decided to just drop coverage until some concrete news became available. Well it looks like some news is breaking about the 4.3 inch, 4G LTE phone. To tell the truth, it just makes us furious. When semingly official pricing broke we saw...

    Thunderbolt: Its Just Sad. [Rant]

    Posted on February 20, 2011 | View Comments
    When HTC showed us the Thunderbolt at CES, our hopes and dreams seemed to be all wrapped up in one device. We had been tracking it for weeks and months prior to official launch and unveil, but in recent it just been painful. We began noticing that many things about the phone were uncertain. Dates and prices all rumors, all changing. Delays and major features not working. We decided to just drop coverage until some concrete news became available. Well it looks like some news is breaking about the 4.3 inch, 4G LTE phone. To tell the truth, it just makes us furious. When semingly official pricing broke we saw...

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