When I first started using my Moto X, one of the many features I was looking forward to was the ability to use the built-in NFC chip along with Google Wallet, so I could use contactless payment systems.
Category: iPhone
The Epic Smartphone Decision of 2014: Apple and Google Setting Up for Climactic Year-End Battle
Wow, Apple. You had me with the “the mother of all releases,” Extensibility and 4,000 new APIs. I loaded up the iOS 8 beta on my iPhone 4s and began counting the days until the likely September release of the…
Amazon’s Fire Phone will be fantastic at separating you from your money but not much else
I don’t know about you, but I was actually looking forward to Amazon’s Fire Phone. In advance of its introduction to the world, I followed all the news and leaks. And I hoped. Even if I had no serious plans…
WWDC 2014 Quick Hits
These are my quick and dirty thoughts after Apple’s keynote from WWDC 2014. I’ll give my full thoughts after I’ve had time to sift through all the details. Tim Cook alluded to this being the mother of all releases, and…
The Epic Smartphone Decision of 2014: WWDC preview
My smartphone contract runs out in December. I’ve been an iPhone owner for four years, my only smartphones the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4s. I’ve experienced the incremental pleasures of semi-multitasking, home screen folders, Siri, Notification Center, Control Center, a…
Will WWDC give us iPhone 6 facts instead of rumors?
WWDC is next week, and iPhone 6 and iOS 8 rumors are flying faster than ever. Before Monday’s keynote scheduled for 1 p.m. EST in San Francisco can destroy all the rumors with actual facts, here’s a roundup of the…
Google Drive for Android gets Offline Editing (sort of)
Not too long ago (like 3 days ago) I was complaining on Google+ about Drive for Android’s lack of offline capabilities. I found it odd, that my Chromebook, which is widely considered (incorrectly so) to be useless without an internet…
The perfect smartphone: The Google iPhone
I have a boss who amusingly called his smartphone an Android iPhone for months before realizing that “iPhone” was not a synonym for “smartphone.” That kind of mashup of a device will probably never happen, but I think I’ve created…
The week in iPhone: Leaks, peeks and deals
It’s been a strange odds-and-ends sort of week for iPhone news. We’re still dealing with the possibility of Apple jacking up the price of the iPhone 6, alleged pictures of the iPhone 6 faceplate have surfaced (as well as the…
The Amazon 3D smartphone really does exist
Today, we get our first look at Amazon’s smartphone debut. Courtesy of BGR, we now have photos of the company’s first handset, albeit a prototype wrapped in a protective shell to keep prying eyes from seeing its true shape or…