Posts Tagged ‘cellphone’
Adam Swimmer - January 3rd, 2013
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (L) and HTC CEO Peter Chou display the Windows Phone 8X (centre in blue and green) and the Windows Phone 8S (L in yellow and R in orange) during their launch event in New York Sep. 19, 2012. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Sometimes it’s hard to remember there are more choices in smartphone operating systems than just iOS (which is installed on Apple’s iPhone) and Android. But if you’re looking for a more PC-like interface, you might want to check out a Windows phone. Up until recently, your best bet was Nokia’s Lumia line. But with the release of Windows Phone 8, that has changed. So if you’re not too keen on banking on a company, which financially speaking, is the Finnish equivalent of RIM, you might want to check out what HTC has to offer.
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Tags: 8S, 8X, Beats Audio, Beats by Dr. Dre, bell, cellphone, HSPA, htc, HTC Windows Phone 8S, HTC Windows Phone 8X, lte, Metro, microsoft, mobile phone, rogers, smartphone, Virgin Mobile, windows, Windows Phone 8
Categories: communications, Gadgets, Hands On, Mobile Phones, Product review |
Adam Swimmer - October 19th, 2012
LG Optimus 4X HD. (Supplied)
With the release of the Optimus 4X HD later this month, LG will no longer playing catch-up in the mobile phone market, it’s setting the bar. Not only is it the company’s first quad-core phone to launch here (the Optimus G, which I wrote a preview on last month isn’t out until November), it is, to my knowledge, the only quad-core phone currently available in Canada.
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Tags: 3G, android, camera, cellphone, Ice Cream Sandwich, ICS, IPS, lg, LG Optimus 4X HD, LG Optimus G, mobile phone, nvidia, Optimus 3.0 UI, panaroma setting, quad-core, smartphone, Tegra, videotron, Wind Mobile
Categories: Hands On, Mobile Phones, Product review |
Guest - September 26th, 2011
Texting behind the wheel is illegal in Quebec, but texting at the reins of a caleche is apparently a different story.
The drivers of the popular horse-drawn carriages in Montreal are exempt from a provincial crackdown on the use of cellphones while driving.
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Tags: caleche, cellphone, montreal, texting
Categories: Signs of the Times |
Jesse Michaels - February 4th, 2011
In these lean and green times, consumers are more aware that the gadgets they use on the go and around the house use a lot of electricity. What’s more is that they even suck this electricity while in use and powered down – often called standby or “vampire” power.
Thankfully, there are ways and means to track and reduce power consumption, including Belkin’s line of Conserve energy-saving products. I recently had a chance to get some hands-on time with three products in the Conserve lineup: Insight, Smart AV and Valet.
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Tags: belkin, cellphone, conserve, doro, easyphone, Green, vampire power
Categories: Gadgets, Hands On, Product review, Signs of the Times |
Greg Gazin - July 15th, 2010
Today Manitoba becomes the 8th province in Canada to pass legislation banning a driver’s use of hand-held cell-phones ( that includes texting devices), after PEI, Saskatchewan and British Columbia came on board earlier this year.
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Tags: cellphone, driving law, Gadget Guy, gadgetguy, Gadgets, hands free, legislation, Manitoba, Mobile
Categories: Going Mobile, In the news, Musing, Oh, Canada..., Signs of the Times |
