After weeks of rumors and speculation, Amazon finally officially announced details on their new eReader/tablet, the Amazon Kindle Fire, which can be pre-ordered now for $200 and will be available on November 15th. As a bonus, everyone who pre orders the Kindle Fire will receive one month of Amazon Prime for free.
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It is difficult to look at the iPad and not see the potential to take a Bamboo Stylus, launch Noteshelf and take handwritten notes with digital ink. The iPad, unlike the HTC Flyer, lacks an active digitizer which allows you to rest your hand on the tablet as your write, without confusing the application accepting the input. Leave it to clever developers like the makers of Noteshelf to add a palm detection feature in the software which only accepts input above a certain point, thus ignoring your resting palm. Noteshelf is not the only application to adopt the palm detection feature, but it is one of our favorite apps when taking notes on the iPad.
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One of the things that most excited me about Android was the thought that my phone could be my personal, portable, media/entertainment hub with my games, movies, and music all at the ready. If you’re like me, though, you’re likely very disappointed with Google’s native video and music players. After much searching, however, I’m pleased to show you what I feel is the best player for watching videos on Android; Moboplayer!
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The Motorola Droid Bionic is not just another Verizon LTE device. Rather, it’s one of the most anticipated Android devices ever, due to the dual core processors. The device announced back in January and 10 months later we finally have our hands on the device that makes you think about Lee Majors as the Bionic Man. We wanted to avoid having a rushed review. Here are out thoughts of the device after our 2 weeks of real world usage.
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I received a call from a friend saying, “When I launch bridge email on my Playbook the screen keeps flashing and the email never loads.” In my time using the PlayBook I never saw this issue so I asked for a video the make sure I understood exactly what was happening. We have not resolved the issue but are trying to uninstall to un-pair the devices and reinstall the Bridge client on the phone. If you are wondering calendar, contacts, and other Bridge features work fine this issue is isolated to the email app.
Has anyone had this issue on the BlackBerry Playbook. You can see the video after break.
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A few weeks ago I wrote about how you can easily take screenshots on your Android phone without an app or rooting. That has been a life-saver for me as I have started writing for this blog as screenshots can be extremely illustrative in a post. I have always been somewhat annoyed, however, at the necessity of needing a cable to transfer those files onto my PC. It is a wireless phone, so why can’t I do it wirelessly? It seems that others have shared this same frustration and someone finally decided to do something about it. If you’re still with me, read past the break and I’ll explain exactly how you can do this for your self in a few relatively simple steps.
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I thought that it might be worthwhile to show how my battery usage went after my first full and long day on the road, using the Droid Bionic. This included a very early start (5 am), 2 canceled flights, a change of airline carrier, 7 hours sitting in an airport, 90 minutes of travel through heavy city traffic and dinner with colleagues before I hit my hotel at 11 pm. You will note that I got about 1 hour of recharge time during the cross-city drive by plugging into the convenient USB port of my rental car. The lowest my battery got was somewhere between 25-30% remaining. I could easily see that that was not going to get me through the evening.
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