- Push e-mail. Turn off the “Push” feature, and set it to Manually instead (in Settings->Mail, Contacts, Calendars->Fetch New Data), then your iPhone checks for e-mail only when you actually open the e-mail app. Your battery goes a lot farther. - GPS checks. In Settings ->General->Location Services, you’ll see a list of all the...
Read more »
RIM (Research in Motion) unveiled two new BlackBerry Bold smartphones and BlackBerry 7 OS on Monday. On paper, the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 smartphones look like the most competitive offerings RIM has had in years. RIM has upgraded the aging processor on existing Torch and Bold phones to 1.2 Ghz, added 8 GB...
Read more »
Apple finally announced that the white iPhone will go on sale Thursday, and in a perfect world that would be fresh news. Not earth-shattering news, but an informative story for the folks who have been waiting for this oft-delayed gadget, assuming those people still exist. So here we are. The white iPhone 4 is...
Read more »
Android, That openness has been called into question recently, as Google has yet to release the Honeycomb source code to all developers and manufacturers. Honeycomb is Android’s first tablet-optimized software release. Android chief Andy Rubin cites the difference in form factor between tablets and phones as the reason Google hasn’t released Honeycomb’s source code...
Read more »
Kyocera Echo, The closest thing Android has had to a dual-screen phone was the Samsung Continuum, which didn’t really make much of a splash. Kyocera has done much better with the Echo, but the lack of 4G and a dual-core processor might hurt its chances of being a real threat in the smartphone world....
Read more »
