Technologizer

Droid Arrives Next Week

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Verizon has stopped teasing us about its upcoming Android-based Droid phone and made it official: The Motorola phone goes on sale a week from Friday. It runs Android 2.0, has a slide-out keyboard and a 5 megapixel camera with flash, and comes bundled with a 16GB MicroSD card. It also has a beta version of [...]

The Droid Revealed, Sorta

Monday, October 19, 2009

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Phone ubersite The Boy Genius Report has its hands on Verizon/Motorola’s upcoming Droid phone–in non-final form–and says it’s not only the most impressive Android phone to date but also the most impressive new phone since the iPhone. The site hasn’t posted a review, but it’s got a photo gallery up. Like many (most?) smartphones, the [...]

Droid Attacks iPhone

Saturday, October 17, 2009

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Verizon Wireless, which recently announced it was hopping on the Android smartphone OS bandwagon big time, has started whetting our appetite for its first Android phone. It’s launched a TV ad for the phone, the Droid, and a teaser site. And so far, it’s mostly promoting the phone by bashing the iPhone, with pseudo-Apple text [...]

More “Details” on the Apple Tablet

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

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iLounge has a story with what it says are ten new details about the impending Apple tablet device. None of them are shockers, and most repeat tidbits that have already been out there: The site says that the gadget has a 10.7″ screen, runs iPhone OS, will be available in 3G and non-3G versions, has [...]

Best Buy, Verizon Team on New E-Book Reader

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

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Move over, Amazon Kindle. Best Buy and Verizon have unveiled a new e-book reader Wednesday that will sell for $399 and is built by iRex Technologies. The reader like the Kindle would be able to purchase content over the 3G network, and will be sold in about 100 of Best Buy’s locations by October. Barnes and [...]

The End of the Line for Landlines?

Thursday, September 17, 2009

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Ivan Seidenberg thinks that more and more people are going to decide that they simply don’t need a landline telephone anymore. Which is an interesting take on things given that he’s CEO of landline giant Verizon. Over at the New York Times, Saul Hansell has posted a story in which Seidenberg says he thinks the [...]

TiVo Loses More Customers, Sues AT&T and Verizon

Thursday, August 27, 2009

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TiVo’s quarterly call was a bit more dramatic than usual. While they continue to lose customers and innovate “at a very unhurried pace,” TiVo seeks a repeat DISH Network performance in going after AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) for infringement. Basically, TiVo’s current business model appears to be ad sales and patent trolling. Unlike TiVo’s successful [...]

Take Back the Beep!

Thursday, July 30, 2009

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My friend David Pogue of the New York Times is a man on a mission. He’s become irate over the time that cell phone company voicemail systems spend playing a recorded message telling you to leave a message, explaining how to send a page, and suggesting that you hang up when you’re done leaving the [...]

5Words for Wednesday, July 22nd 2009

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

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Apple-Verizon tablet rumor. Again. Plastic Logic e-reader’s AT&T connection. MySpace getting its own Webmail. Chinese iPhone worker suicide drama. Ugly Palm Pre sales estimates. Like 5Words? Subscribe via RSS.

The BlackBerry Storm Gets Cheaper

Monday, July 20, 2009

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So much attention is being lavished on Apple’s iPhone 3GS that it’s easy to forget that the old iPhone 3G is quite a deal at its new $99 price. And even if you never buy an iPhone, you may benefit from Apple’s price cut, since it’s inexorably going to lead to lower prices for competitive [...]

Verizon vs. Sprint vs. AT&T

Monday, June 29, 2009

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Sprint claims to have “America’s most dependable 3G network.” Verizon says it has “America’s largest and most reliable wireless network.” AT&T says it has “the nation’s fastest 3G network.” With wireless, in other words, everybody’s a winner–if you ask the carriers themselves. Which is why I admire what Mark Sullivan and my other PC World pals [...]

5Words for Friday, June 12th 2009

Friday, June 12, 2009

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Friday? Already? That was fast… New iGoogle for phones. Twitter verified accounts: really verified? Will Palm’s Pixie ever ship? Why’s Snow Leopard so cheap? Goodbye analog TV, old firend. Pre gets Missing Sync utility. And Evernote’s cool note taker. Verizon Pre in January. Maybe. Itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny display. 11 million Safari 4 downloads.

5Words for Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Thursday, June 4, 2009

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Special Palm Pre-free edition! Does Hulu want your money? A radio for next iPhone? Tony La Russa’s suing Twitter. Cheapest MacBook outperforms pricier version. Sony Ericsson’s green cell phone. Verizon’s 3G BlackBerry flip phone. Remember Apple’s cybercafes? Loved ‘em! Microsoft had a good E3. Eee PC’s 11-hour battery? Your favorite celebs’ iGoogle pages.

5Words for May 13th, 2009

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

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Sorry, Twitter, you goofed here… Twitter tweaks @replies, dumbs down. Firefox: beating IE in 2013? Twitter vs. Fake Kanye West. Google’s Japanese photos: take two! Verizon tippytoes out of landlines. Microsoft patches up PowerPoint holes. Intel is out $1.45 billion. Early Windows Mobile 7 details?

5Words for April 27th, 2009

Monday, April 27, 2009

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Lotsa Android-related news today: Second Android phone finally arrives. Samsung announces an Android phone. Here’s the first Android netbook. Mouse Factory ready to Hulu. Countdown to Kumo (Bing, Hook)? So long, tax-free Internet. Flip HD videocam with HDMI. IBM computer to play Jeopardy. Sling: “optimistic” about iPhone SlingPlayer. Rumor: Apple, Verizon talk iPhone.

5Words for April 16th, 2009

Thursday, April 16, 2009

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Greetings to you from Malta… Please, Apple, approve iPhone SlingPlayer. TwitPic glitches frustrate, alarm users. Should Apple fear Zune? Maybe. Windows Mobile Zune? Also maybe. Acer’s ultraslim, fairly cheap notebook. Digg bows to DiggBar critics. Non-Apple Mini DisplayPort monitors. Hands on: Verizon’s Hub 2.