Samsung’s Galaxy Note series has been the most popular BIG phone since it was first released a couple of years ago. The Galaxy Note 2
The Galaxy Gear wants desperately to be the vanguard of a new era of wearable computers. But while it promises more than the rest of the pack, if anything it makes absolutely clear that the future’s still a long ways off.
Last month was spent in a state of upheaval. After seven years in New York I was heading back to the opposite coast, which had led me to go though of the hundreds of pounds of accumulated junk one accidentally collects in boxes over the years.
LG G2 Review: A Braindead Hercules
Posted in: Today's ChiliYou could put a helicopter engine on a motorcycle and fill it with rocket fuel, but if you put a toddler behind the wheel, it’s not going anywhere. The same is true with phones; you can turbo-charge the processors and hardware, but if the software is stupid and terrible, you’ve got a stupid and terrible phone on your hands. This is that phone.
TomTom (the GPS so nice they named it twice) has decided to get into the crowded-but-plenty-of-room-for-improvement running watch game. The company has been making GPS devices for cars for years, so you’d think it’d be able to make a pretty good running watch. And, for the most part, it has.
For all the gazillions of wireless speakers out there, Jawbone’s Jambox is almost certainly the best-known. Last year the company introduced a Big Jambox
Hey, look at this phone, I say to my girlfriend. That’s not a phone. That’s a tablet, she says. Exactly.
When I Actually Wear Google Glass
Posted in: Today's ChiliSo far most of what’s been written about Google Glass has been united by one commonality: It’s been written from the perspective of someone who had to wear Glass. Because they were going to write about it. But here’s when you’ll actually want to wear it. Or at least, when I do.
You can yell, "Beam me up, Scotty!" all you want, the only thing that will happen is you’ll elicit a bunch of bemused stares from passersby wondering if you’ve bonked your head recently. The sad fact is human teleportation devices don’t yet exist in 2013, and even if they did, the tremendous lag would make it extraordinarily impractical. Such is the reality of science that it doesn’t always mesh with our fantastic visions of fictional futures filled with flying cars and other implausible technologies. In other words, reality sucks compared to what we’ve grown up watching on television.
We have a feeling the new Moto X from Motorola/Google is going to be a hit