Consider for a moment, your smartphone’s screen. First of all it has a resolution of, let’s say, 1920×1080. That’s maybe about 260 pixels per square inch. That means in a space of about 3″ x 4″,…
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Finally, someone closes the gap. It’s true that not everyone needs to boost all five major frequencies used by cell providers. Not everyone needs to boost 4G, AWS, and LTE. For those who do, however, there’s…
This review is available in PDF format for your mobile device! Download it now! One tool from soup to nuts. And please, make it fit in a pocket. Not every job requires bringing around dozens of pounds…
It’s official, I have no idea what is going on in their heads. I’ll admit to having been critical of Sprint over the years. As a long-distance company, they were all right, but it’s been…
Let’s face it… technology today is driven by apps. It used to be software, and for some users, software is still important. But when you’re dealing with tablets, and phones, and even software to some extent,…
It’s déjà vu all over again. –Yogi Berra Oh, and how we thought we were done with the most overhyped and ultimately annoying story of 2013. Softbank “won,” DISH “lost,” and Sprint went on to…
Marty Silbernik is the author of I’m Too Old To Do This, a tech blog for folks who remember when none of this stuff existed. This article appears with permission. I’ve always been one of those who…
Right up front we’ll admit to being huge fans of DIRECTV’s tablet apps. DIRECTV started with a decent scheduler, added a super-remote plus the ability to access tens of thousands of on demand and live streaming…
It was the year that wasn’t. 2013 turned out to be a mostly evolutionary year for handset manufacturers, while people’s tastes solidified with just a few major players. Let’s take a look back. The players on…
OK, not everything. You won’t be able to surf or text below 10,000 feet. You won’t be able to make phone calls, period. But, if your device has an “airplane mode”, if it’s smaller than a…
In Apple’s latest product reveal, there was a little bit of mention of iBeacons. You probably missed it if you were as frustrated as I was. iBeacons are a low-power technology that is designed to deliver information…
It wasn’t so much what they showed, it was what they said. Our friends at zBoost (formerly Wi-Ex) brought a lot of near-production-ready gear to the 2013 CEDIA Expo and all of it points in…
Seriously? Colored plastic and gold metal? Seriously, that’s what the world has been waiting for from an iPhone? When iOS 6 hit with a massive THUD last year you’d think that Apple would learn its lesson. Apparently not,…
For a generation raised on ever-smaller devices, the “phablet” craze doesn’t make any sense. Didn’t we leave gigantic cell phones behind in the 1980s? Younger folks are snapping up these half phone, half tablet devices in…
It’s here! It’s here! Only a week after the release of DIRECTV’s iPhone app, too! You’re looking at DIRECTV’s revised Android phone app, now updated to version 3. It’s a major change and brings the iPhone and…