The New Moto X has been Announced and it’s Amazing

By Rich W Woods

I never actually got my hands on the original Moto X although I heard it was great. While it had a mid-range processor, it had other sensors that used a minimal amount of power. I was always told that it “simply does things that other phones don’t”.

Moto 360 is Finally Available: Here’s what you Need to Know

By Rich W Woods

Ever since Google announced Android Wear on June 25 at Google IO, we have all been waiting for the Moto 360. It has a beautiful round design that the LG G Watch and the Samsung Gear Live do not.

Release Date and Price

The Moto 360 is available right now. Well, that’s assuming that you are reading this after noon on September 5, 2014. It will cost $249.

Google promised us that it would be his this summer and they came through. There was a scare earlier this summer that it wouldn’t come until fall, but our fear has been averted.

64 Bit Chrome Finally Available for Windows and You Should Get it Now

By Rich W Woods

Google Chrome for Windows is finally available in a 64 bit variant after being available on their Canary and Developer channels. It makes sense that they have always been 32 bit. After all, all Android phones and most Chromebooks are 32 bit, but it really is a big deal, more so than you may think.

HTC One M8 vs HTC One M8 for Windows: Camera Comparison

By Rich W Woods

While the HTC One M8 for Windows is the first device in history to ship with an option of which operating system to use, there is a third variant out there. The three versions of the HTC One M8 are the HTC Sense version, the Google Play edition, and now the Windows Phone version. Going to prove that theory wrong.

If there is one thing I know about Windows Phone users, it’s that we love our cameras. The Nokia Lumia 930, 1020, 1520, and Icon are the only phones that support RAW photos. Many have criticized the HTC One M8 for having a 4.3 MP camera, but I’

Moto 360 Will Not Ship This Summer

By Rich W Woods

On June 25, 2014 at Google IO, Google announced the Android Wear operating system and announced three watches to go with it: the LG G Watch, the Samsung Gear Live, and the highly coveted Moto 360.

The Samsung Gear Live and the LG G Watch were available to preorder immediately. The Gear Live shipped on July 8 and the LG G Watch shipped on July 3. We were told that the Moto 360 would ship later this summer.

Myths About the Amazon Fire Phone That You May Want to Hear Before Buying It

By Rich W Woods

Amazon’s brand new Fire Phone shipped on July 25. It is a fantastic phone, but there are some common beliefs that I’ve heard from people that simply aren’t true. Some common beliefs that if you don’t know they’re wrong, they could ruin that new phone experience. Starting with:

1. It’s Android, so I will have all of my apps
   

The Amazon Fire phone is Android, but what you may not know is that there are two kinds of Android: Google Android and the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). AOSP allows anyone to make an Android device for free and change it however they like; however you don’t get any Google services.

Amazon Fire Phone: First Impressions

By Rich W Woods

I am going to go out on a limb and say that the Amazon Fire phone is the most innovative phone since Nokia released the Lumia 1020 with a 41 megapixel camera in July of last year. It has always been my opinion that PCs should be optimized for work, tablets should be optimized for movies, books, and games, and phones should be optimized for music and camera. In other words, tablets and phones should be optimized for consumption.

This is what Amazon excels in. This is a first impressions post, so I’ll leave the more in depth features for a later date.

HTC Has Announced a Press Event for August 19

By Rich W Woods

There have been rumors that HTC will announce an HTC One M8 with Windows Phone 8.1 installed. About a year ago, Paul Thurrott called for flagship Android phones to come with the option to have Windows Phone instead. After all, it is compatible hardware.

The news comes amid calls by Daniel Rubino and myself for a truly high end Windows Phone with a Snapdragon 801 processor. It’s also rumored that Windows Phone 8.1 Update will feature support for smart covers such as the HTC One M8’s Dot View cover.

The Tablet is Dead. Again.

By Rich W Woods

It is not often that something can die twice, but if you believe the Internet, tablets died three months ago when Apple first announced that they sold less iPads and they died again when Apple announced the same thing in this earnings quarter.

Samsung Gear Live: A User Review

By Rich W Woods

It seems like a lifetime ago but it was only about a month ago on June 25 when Google announced Android Wear at Google IO. There were three watches that were announced. The LG G Watch shipped on July 3, the Samsung Gear Live shipped on July 8, and the long awaited Moto 360 will ship later this summer.

The Moto 360 is clearly the one to be desired. After all, the LG G Watch and the Samsung Gear Live are almost identical and both use a Snapdragon 400 processor with 4 GB storage and 512 MB RAM. While the LG G Watch has a 280×280 LCD screen, the Samsung Gear Live has a 320×320 AMOLED display. Aside from the better display, the Samsung Gear Live is $30 cheaper. The specs on the Moto 360 are still unknown.