HTC has had several hurdles in their race to launch their latest (and best ever) flagship, the HTC One, into the wild. Parts shortages and delays are the name of HTC’s game currently, and it could have happened at a worse time. Samsung is set to release their now announced Galaxy S 4 as a follow-up to the highly successful Galaxy S III. It’s pretty much a commonly regarded belief that Samsung is going to destroy HTC’s One in terms of bulk number of units...

Happy (almost) Spring! For those of you looking at sub-freezing temperatures, well, stick it out. Your reprieve is coming soon(ish). In the meantime, if you happen to fall in one of the cities listed below, making it through seemingly endless cold might come a bit easier now that you can at least browse the wide world web via faster LTE speeds. Connecticut: Meriden and Waterbury Florida: Sebring Georgia: Augusta and Macon Tennessee: Cleveland, Dryersburg and...

Apple’s implementation of app switching and “multitasking” has been redesigned and conceptualized many times over, some not so great, others downright awesome. This latest iOS switcher concept from Twitter user @jessehead95 (JesseHead.co) shows one of the nicest yet simple tweaks Apple could introduce to the app switching action in future versions of iOS. What’s nice about joost’s concept is that it takes the full-window previews to a much...

Google last redesigned their mobile app front in 2012 when rebranding from the well known “Android Market” to a more encompassing “Google Play”. Since then, things have been pretty quiet with only a few tweaks here and there. But last night, while most of the world was making preparations for their daily ~7 hours of unconsciousness, screenshots of the new Google Play 4.0 leaked. As you can see from the images above (more available at DroidLife),...

In the phone world, there is a ton of competition in the Android sandbox. Samsung, LG, HTC, Motorola and many more companies are pumping out countless new Android devices each quarter. And while Samsung is the only one making any meaningful progress (and money), there’s no shortage of options for consumers. On top of all the great 3rd party manufacturer hardware there’s Google’s own Nexus line, which while lacking some custom baked-in functionality,...

Image Credit: SammyHub The theme at this year’s CES was 4K 4K 4K! 4K ALL THE THINGS! We were on site and certainly wowed by the various 4k panels floating around. But the champ in all the 4k madness in our opinion was Samsung. They had some of the nicest displays showcasing their 4k hardware not to mention the most unique hardware (easel-like TV frames). The most crucial piece of the puzzle (price) wasn’t divulged. Now, it’s not rocket science to assume...

It’s completely normal for smartphone manufacturers to pick fun at their competitors’ products, highlight their faults and simultaneously talk up their own products. But it only really “works” when some common sense is used, too. That said, Microsoft has a new Lumia 920 ad floating around that goes on the offensive at Samsung’s latest and greatest year old Galaxy S III. To some degree it’s understandable why – the Lumia 920 was...

NetCast Studio, one of the leaders in providing family-friendly online audio and video content, have released a new podcast and internet broadcast directory – Two Thumbs Up Media. Let’s quickly talk about the benefits of this new directory. “Discovering new podcasts has alway been a challenge” says Steve Lee, founder of Netcast Studio. For those visiting Two Thumbs Up Media for the discovery of new audio, video, or Internet streaming content, there is...

Image Credit: CNET While many politicians and internet providers talk plenty of talk in regards to internet expansion and speeds, Google is the only walking the walk, albeit a slow walk. After launching their highly publicized gigabit fiber network in Kansas City last year, the company is now working on deploying their second market in Olathe, Kansas. Located about 20 miles south west of Kansas City, Olathe is allegedly one of the fastest growing cities and fifth most...

EA’s launch of Sim City (and subsequent implosion of servers) has been a text book case of what not to do during massive product launches such as Sim City, as well as how to respond. While EA still is being rather ridiculous in certain aspects (offline mode anyone?) there are…finally…making a good faith effort to appease the legions of pissed off Sim City players. That’s right. EA is giving you some free games – and not just bottom of the...