Microsoft Patent Expands Upon the Asus Transformer Concept

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Now here’s a cool concept – Microsoft has a new patent (filed back in June of 2010) that may change the way you think a dock should work. Asus has been relatively successful selling their Transformer and Transformer Prime Android tablets. If you’re not familiar with this product, it’s basically a tablet that has a [...]

Vonage Goes Mobile – And We Go Hands On!

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Given the explosion in mobile over the last 5 years, it shouldn’t be much of a surprise that companies are doing everything they can to jump on the mobile bandwagon, and VOIP providers are no exception. While the regulars have been playing in the mobile space for a while, nobody took it too seriously until [...]

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich – Not Very Intuitive

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I made some comments on Twitter a little while back, and a couple people who clearly thought I was crazy, asked for a little clarification. For the record, my comment was a supportive retweet of someone else’s comment, and while it wasn’t my words, I still agree with it. So what was the comment? Well, [...]

MWC 2012: Skype Enters Beta for Windows Phone

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One of the big announcements at Mobile World Congress so far from Microsoft is that Skype is now available in Beta on Windows Phone. With 200 million users, Skype for Windows Phone is a key element in building a successful platform. The Windows Phone client is very different than any Skype client you’ve seen before, [...]

The Nokia Lumia 900 Heading to Rogers

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Back at CES 2012, Nokia announced the Lumia 710 would be launching on Rogers very soon. At that time, the general feel was that the larger and more powerful Lumia 900, may also be coming to Rogers. And as it turns out, that’s just what has happened. Today, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, announced at Mobile [...]

Helpful Tips and Tricks for Taking Better Pictures with your Windows Phone

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We’ve all attempted to capture those special moments with our smartphones camera. Most of the time, you end up with a disappointing picture. It’s better than nothing, but still not as good as what you’re average Point & Shoot camera is capable of doing. Sure, every now and then you may knock off an excellent [...]

How To Hard Reset the Samsung Focus S

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Have you recently purchased a used Samsung Focus S, or perhaps you’re getting ready to sell your Focus S. Before you do anything, you should take a couple minutes and wipe the phone of any personal information. As with all Windows Phones, you can always do this from the Settings / About screen. Just tap [...]

New Vonage Mobile App Provides Free Mobile to Mobile Calling

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Perhaps there should be an asterisks beside Free in the title of this post. After all, nothing is really free, right? Vonage might just change that with this new app. Sure, it’s not all free and under some circumstances, you may be required to pay – more on that shortly, but you can place free [...]

The Tale of Two Samsung Windows Phones

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First there was the Samsung Focus – a simple Windows Phone offering a great experience in an attractive body. As time ticked by, many longed for a thinner, lighter device with a larger screen and a front facing camera too. With that, the second generation Focus S was born offering everything people wanted in a [...]

Forcing an App to Update in the Windows Phone Marketplace

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Today Microsoft announced a new version of the Facebook app was released to the Marketplace. Who doesn’t want an updated Facebook experience? The marketplace will automatically notify you of any updates. But when I hit up the market, there was no updates listed for me. The reason is because the market will automatically check for [...]