AT&T and Samsung recently released the the Samsung Focus Flash, the spiritual (and literal) little brother to the Focus S. The phone’s size and price have shrunk, but should your attention also shrink away from it? Find out in the review below.
By way of full disclosure, I am an Android user of over 3 years, and this is my first experience with a Windows Phone 7 device. I’ll try to keep this review mostly to the phone itself, and I’ll tackle my views on the Windows Phone 7 OS after I’ve spent some more time with the phone, and the HTC Titan.
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There is a lot more to eating healthy than simply cooking food at home compared to eating fast food every time your stomach grumbles. The food you cook needs to be healthy, and, though your list of grocery items make look healthy at first glance, not all jars of pasta sauce are created equal.
This is where Fooducate, an iPhone an Android App that helps you make selections between between the dozens of options available on your grocery shelf. Rather than selecting food based on commercials you have seen or colorful packaging, Fooducate enabled you to find and buy the healthy option.
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I am now into my 3rd day of using my HTC Titan and I must tell you it has been an absolute pleasure. Prior to Black Friday, I had been using my Samsung Focus Windows Phone since it launched a little over a year ago. I have been very pleased with my Focus and had planned to purchase the new Samsung Focus S however, once I held the HTC Titan in my hands at the Windows Phone Inner Circle event in Washington D. C., I knew this was the device for me. Since that day, I have been anxiously waiting for AT&T to release the HTC Titan and now that I have it, the Titan has not disappointed.
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Episode #94 of the SMRpodcast, It Is Like Sifting Through Sewage, has been recorded, posted online, and is ready for download. This week we talk Football antics and Thanksgiving dinner. The conversation shifts into Blackberry Playbook sales and a nice debate over rooting the Playbook and the security implications. Finally we talk about Microsoft’s phenomenal Xbox sales, Nokia’s press event and their new device.
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- Recorded: November 30th, 2011
- Published: December 1st, 2011
- Duration: 01hr 17min 00sec
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One of the many goals of a parent is to teach our children effective ways to communicate. Because infants and babies haven’t yet developed the ability to speak, it can be difficult, at times, to understand what they need or want.
Sign Language, on the other hand, is a skill, that children as young as six or seven months old can use effectively and My Smart Hands for iOS and Adroid is an app that can help children communicate with their parents long before they start to master verbal communication…
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The Samsung Galaxy S2 has been making the headlines for the last several months. AT&T’s latest variant, the Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket, is now available, and is one of AT&T’s first 4G LTE capable phones. Does it live up to its predecessor’s hype? Find out in the full review below.
By way of full disclosure, this is the first Galaxy S2 (GS2) variant that I have tested. The folks at AT&T were kind enough to send this to us and I have been using it over the holiday break, and my experience thus far has been favorable. Let’s get down to it then.
Kevin Wheeler a frequent listener of the SMRPodcast was kind enough to take pictures of the Black Friday lines at the Microsoft Store in Tysons Corner Mall, VA. He saw over 200 people lined up waiting to get Samsung Laptops, The Xbox, and Windows Phone devices. Microsoft was giving away all Windows Phone devices for free with a 2-year contract.
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Episode #93 of the SMRpodcast, I Guess I Will Be Eating Ham, has been recorded, posted online, and is ready for download. This week we welcome special guest Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast podcast back to the show. In this episode we talk Kindle Fire which is selling lot hot cakes, although, reviews have been a bit less than stellar. To compete with the sub $200 price tag, Research in Motion, for a limited time, has dropped the price on the BlackBerry PlayBook to $199. We also talk a bit about the HTC Titan.
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- Recorded: November 22nd, 2011
- Published: November 23rd, 2011
- Duration: 01hr 11min 00sec
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It is amazing how easy it is to get a good friend to review technology when you hand them the product to play with. I had Kim review the BlackBerry Playbook weeks ago. This time around I had her review the Amazon Kindle Fire. This will be the second tablet she has played with and she does not currently own an e-ink eReader. Brent and a somewhat harsh opinion on the Kindle Fire, lets see what Kim thinks.
I love a book. I really love a good book. I love turning the pages, feeling the weight of the book in my hands and hearing the sound of the spine cracking when you first open it. What I do not love is what happens TO my books. My children take my book marks, they un-dog ear my pages (something that probably makes my former English prof very happy), they ruin my dust jackets and they hide my books. Well, they will not have the opportunity to do that any longer. I have fallen in love with the Kindle Fire. As long as they don’t figure out how to get into my books (ha ha), I’m in the safety zone.
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After what seemed to be years, however in actuality only a few weeks, we have finally received the HTC Titan. As far as Windows Phone 7 devices goes, the Titan is one of the best devices available. When you grab the phone, hold, and feel it, you quickly feel why HTC earned the sentiments reviewers are giving it.
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