We first heard about the BoostCase Hybrid at CES Unveiled this past Sunday and we were crazy impressed. We’ve used so many different battery cases in the past and to be falling in love with one now seems whacky to us. After seeing the Hybrid and meeting with the reps at the booth on Sunday, I decided I would spend the majority of my walks through the CES Halls looking at the battery case competition. I wanted to see if what I was excited to learn more about would stand…

CES blasted into full swing today as the convention opened to the masses. We started our day at the Samsung booth with a nice tour and some hands on time with a couple of the new devices Samsung has on the market. The main reason I wanted to walk through the sea of people at the Samsung booth (read: city) was for the Note. Samsung crushes the smartphone competition with a gorgeous 5.3″ HD Super AMOLED that will please the tablet and smartphone users alike. My first…

Polaroid hasn’t been on our (and probably a good number of peoples’) radar for quite some time. The once innovative company has seemingly fallen into stagnant state, unable to produce the once great products of years past. But this year is different thanks to a “smart camera” in the SC1630 — a 16 megapixel point-and-shoot camera powered by Android. We got our clammy paws all over Polaroid’s latest and greatest. Hop past the break for the…

Android phones are a dime a dozen it seems. Hardware specs don’t mean much anymore as everyone and their mother uses virtually the same few platforms, allotment of RAM, and screen size. Sadly, as much as we hate to admit it, software apps/skins are what differentiates the multitude of Android devices. However, there are some exceptions to that rule. One such exception: the LG Spectrum. Hop past the break for Gadgetsteria’s official hands on and initial…

Nokia used CES as the launchpad for the North American push, and what a push it was. While the Lumia 900 is more or less a slightly larger, but nearly spec-for-spec copy of the Lumia 800, it intrigues nonetheless. The downright sexy hardware of the Lumia 900 is a testament to the fact that despite being down and beaten repeatedly over the last couple of years, they still know how to design a beautiful piece of hardware. At CES 2012, Nokia and Microsoft are beating the war…

Twitter’s acquisition of popular power user app, Tweetdeck, hasn’t exactly been well received by most. While on the desktop side of things Twitter did manage to get rid of the stodgy Adobe Air format for a more palatable HTML5 variant, they stripped a ton of features and functionality while managing to add back in instability issues and bugs. Today a fresh version (v1.2) was released sans changelog. The only clue as to what is contained in the latest Tweetdeck…

You can only do so much to a hard drive to make it unique — up storage capacity, use some new fancy type of memory, or simply shrink down the tech to unbelievable levels. Or you could be like Seagate and something truly “out there” such as stuffing an LTE modem inside of an external hard drive’s enclosure. The as of now unnamed prototype also features a battery tucked away inside that reportedly allows for up to 5 hours of 802.11b/g/n…

The Droid RAZR MAXX we talked about yesterday lacked one very critical detail: battery size/life. While we’re still waiting on official word from Motorola whether by way of email confirmation or later today on the CES show floor, it appears Droid-Life has already scooped the number. Are you ready for this…3,300 mAh! The figure is allegedly straight from a Motorola rep’s mouth. If it is in fact accurate, that’s an insanely large battery for a…

ASUS’ infamous Transformer Prime tablet has officially been blessed with ICS. The update began rolling out late yesterday to throngs of impatient users. We have yet to actually see said device actually running ICS, though hope to quickly remedy that situation beginning with the official launch of CES 2012 today. So we gotta ask: If you upgraded to ICS on your Transformer Prime, how’d it go? All hype and no substance? Drop it in the comments after the…

Exactly as rumored before the start of CES, TV turned tablet maker Vizio announces their new line up, which includes the all-in-one PC. Where form meets function, we can now have a computer that’s just like us. That’s how Vizio is touting their iMac-like personal computer, stylish and minimalist. While the computer looks great, there is no word on specifications, or screen sizes (we’ve seen 24″ and 27″ mentioned), but there is a vague release…