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If you are in the mar­ket for a smart­phone, and have been eye­balling the Droid Incred­i­ble or the Droid 2, today might not be a bad time to shop. Best Buy has added the Droid Incred­i­ble to its Free Phone Fri­day pro­mo­tion. Fur­ther, accord­ing to Droid-Life.com, the Droid 2 will join the Fri­day Fee­bie party, […]

Google just announced some really nice updates to it’s Maps appli­ca­tion for Android devices.  The first addi­tion is Walk­ing Nav­i­ga­tion. Like nearly all releases by Google the nav­i­ga­tion fea­ture is  tagged as “Beta.” Now, you have the abil­ity to get walk­ing direc­tions within the Maps app. As with the computer-based Google Maps, the Maps app […]

The Sam­sung Fas­ci­nate will be released tomor­row, but a quick stop by the Ver­i­zon Wire­less site revealed a Buy-One-Get-One-Free (BOGO) offer. Now I am sure that Ama­zon and some other retail­ers will offer steep dis­counts on the Fas­ci­nate for new cus­tomers. (The T-Mobile Vibrant recently was offered for just a penny.) How­ever, if you’re an […]

Rumors have been fly­ing around for a cou­ple of months about a dual-radio device com­ing to Ver­i­zon. If you’re not famil­iar cel­lu­lar fre­quen­cies in the US.  Ver­i­zon and Sprint use a CDMA net­work, and T-Mobile, AT&T, and just about every­where else in the world usesa  GSM net­work. By pro­duc­ing a dual-radio device, the HTC device […]

You may have seen this ad in the past cou­ple of days. Well, the “com­ing soon” time­frame has been clar­i­fied. Verizon’s ver­sion of the Sam­sung Galaxy S device,  the Fas­ci­nate, will be released this Thurs­day, Sept. 9. How­ever, pre-orders are cur­rently being taken at Best Buy, and on Wednes­dayVer­i­zon will begin sell­ing the Fas­ci­nate online. Ver­i­zon Wireless […]

Just stop it! Pic­ture above is the Dell Aero, which will be sold through AT&T for $100. The spec sheet for the Aero was look­ing decent, for a mid-level Android device. 3.5″ capac­i­tive touch­screen 5 megapixel cam­era 2GB of inter­nal stor­age with a MicroSD slot that can take up to 32GB cards WiFi (b/g) Blue­tooth 2.0 Then you […]

Tablet-style com­put­ers have been around for some time, but, as they did with mobile phones, Apple took the tablet cat­e­gory to a com­pletely dif­fer­ent level with this beau­ti­ful piece of hard­ware. Sub­se­quent to the release of the iPad, other com­pa­nies indus­try has been, rather trans­par­ently, scram­bling to pro­duce a com­pet­i­tive, com­pelling prod­uct. HP appeared to be […]