В гонке планшетов Amazon Kindle Fire, равно как и аналогичный планшет от Barnes&Noble под название Nook Tablet, стоят особняком. Они не участвуют в соревновании под названием "А давайте вы купите наш планшет на Android вместо Apple iPad. Да, мы знаем, что он хуже, но зато он дешевле", несмотря на то что эти планшеты также базируются на Android. ... Читать дальше
Обзор. Экслер, автор: Алекс Экслер
Прошло полгода с момента появления в продаже флагманского смартфона Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc. Модель решили немного модернизировать, предложив более мощную начинку в том же корпусе. Сейчас это популярный способ, производители экономят средства, им не приходится разрабатывать новый дизайн, всё ограничивается цветовой гаммой и какими-то небольшими ... Читать дальше
Обзор. MobiSet.Ru, автор: Александр Побыванец
Не так давно мы тестировали Samsung Galaxy Gio S5660. Он позиционируется как недорогой «гуглофон», обладающий 800 МГц процессором и 3-мегапиксельной камерой с автофокусом. Модель помладше – Samsung Fit. Его процессор скромнее (600 МГц), да и разрешение экрана «не хватает звезд с неба» (320х240 точек), но зато у него есть неплохая 5-мегаписельная ... Читать дальше
Обзор. Mobile-review.com, автор: Роман Белых
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is probably the most anticipated Android device for 2011. Each Nexus is special because it ushers in a new wave of software. In this case it is the launch device for Android 4.0, otherwise known as Ice Cream Sandwich. It's important to remember that the Nexus line originated as developer phones. If you see an app demo, ... Читать дальше
Обзор. Pocket-lint, автор: Chris Hall
A new Nexus is a big deal in Android land, and the Samsung Galaxy Nexus has plenty to live up to. As close to an official Googlephone as we ever get, they demonstrate not just how Android’s creators think smartphone development should progress, but set the benchmark by which the platform as a whole is compared to rivals like the iPhone. The Galaxy ... Читать дальше
Обзор. SlashGear, автор: Vincent Nguyen
Is it a phone, a tablet…or both? The Samsung Galaxy Note is sure to evoke some looks from passersby. With a 5.3-inch HD Super AMOLED display, the Galaxy Note is one of the largest smartphones available. Yet even with this enormous screen, Samsung has kept the design thin and stylish. Will the Samsung Galaxy Note be able to live up to its hype by ... Читать дальше
Обзор. pocketnow.com, автор: Daniel Webster
HTC's first Beats Audio-enhanced phone lands at Verizon's doorstep with LTE 4G, a 720p HD screen, and custom headphones to bring a better audio experience. Here's Phone Scoop's in-depth report, wherein we put Beats Audio to the ultimate test. Form Is It Your Type? HTC rekindles the appealing design of the original Droid Incredible in the Rezound, ... Читать дальше
Обзор. Phone Scoop, автор: Eric M. Zeman
Verizon Wireless has not one but three powerhouse 4G LTE smartphones lined up for the holidays, and the HTC Rezound is one of them. Launching right after the Motorola DROID RAZR, the HTC Rezound takes things to another dimension, both visually and sonically. With an amazing 4.3-inch 720p HD display, a fast 1.5GHz dual-core processor, ... Читать дальше
Обзор. BGR, автор: Jonathan S. Geller
The Motorola DROID RAZR is arguably the most exciting Android device to come across my desk in some time, but all the hype in the world doesn’t necessarily mean it deserves to carry the iconic RAZR name. It’s a 4G LTE device that packs in a powerful processor, high resolution display, 16GB of built-in storage, 1080p HD video capture capability and ... Читать дальше
Обзор. BGR
Samsung’s Focus Flash will soon join the Samsung Focus S on AT&T’s shelves as the South Korea-based company’s second and third Windows Phone devices in the United States. The Focus Flash is a budget-friendly $50 handset and, despite its low price point, it offers a number of enhancements over the original Focus. Is the Focus Flash a worthy ... Читать дальше
Миниобзор. BGR
When BGR Editor-in-chief Jonathan Geller first reviewed the original Motorola ATRIX 4G in February, he called it “one of the best smartphones to ever be available from AT&T.” Now I have that phone’s successor, the Motorola ATRIX 2. It offers a few improvements over the original, including support for faster data speeds, a slightly larger display ... Читать дальше
Обзор. BGR
Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform is in a peculiar place right now. Those who use the year-old mobile operating system typically offer glowing accounts of their experiences, but adoption has been anything but brisk. Carriers aren’t pushing Windows Phones with any effort worth noting — in fact, retail staffers at U.S. carrier shops have been known ... Читать дальше
Обзор. BGR
Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 8.9 made its retail debut in September and it is nearly identical to its larger predecessor, the Galaxy Tab 10.1. It mostly packs the same hardware but, as its name suggests, has a smaller screen. I enjoyed the original Galaxy Tab 10.1 when it launched earlier this year: it was thin, powerful and it offered a brand new tablet ... Читать дальше
Миниобзор. BGR
The iPhone 4S is Apple’s top of the line smartphone, but is it just a small upgrade over the iPhone 4 or something entirely different? It looks the same, but does it act the same? New in the iPhone 4S is Siri, Apple’s virtual personal assistant, along with an upgraded camera, twice the speed as far as processing and downloads are concerned, and a ... Читать дальше
Обзор. BGR
RIM didn’t envision creating a touch device. Yet here we are in 2011 with the company abandoning it’s prior failed attempts at making a touch-only smartphone, and instead copying the competition instead of innovating. The BlackBerry Torch 9850 is a no-frills touch phone. There’s no SurePress display, thankfully — just a regular capacitive screen. ... Читать дальше
Обзор. BGR
The Motorola DROID BIONIC for Verizon Wireless combines everything you might want in a phone into a single, lust-worthy package. From 4G LTE, to a supersized 4.3-inch display and 1080p HD video capture, this phone has it all. Verizon Wireless has launched several 4G phones now, but they have all arguably been lacking due to their shortcomings in ... Читать дальше
Обзор. BGR
RIM’s BlackBerry Torch 9850 is the company’s third smartphone to launch with a full touchscreen form factor, following the original Storm and the Storm 2, and it’s the first to launch on Sprint. The 9850 packs brand new hardware and the new BlackBerry 7 operating system into a thin industrial design, but is it enough of an improvement over the ... Читать дальше
Миниобзор. BGR
The Thrill 4G is the second Android smartphone in the United States capable of recording and displaying 3D video and photos without the need for special glasses. We first saw the phone during CTIA earlier this year and, after delays, it will launch soon on AT&T for $99.99. I spent the better part of the last three weeks carrying the LG Thrill 4G ... Читать дальше
Обзор. BGR
Another BlackBerry out of RIM? We might as well consider them done and finished. Or should we? With a brand new take on BlackBerry hardware and an improved and enhanced operating system in BlackBerry 7, RIM hasn’t been sitting still. I have been using a BlackBerry 9900 for over a week, and as a reformed BlackBerry addict, I have some thoughts on ... Читать дальше
Обзор. BGR
The Motorola PHOTON 4G is the company’s first 4G handset on Sprint, and even more, it is the first high-end Motorola device set to launch on Sprint’s network in a very long time. It’s packed to the brim on paper — specifically, with features such as a 1GHz dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, 1GB of RAM, a 4.3-inch qHD display, an 8-megapixel ... Читать дальше
Миниобзор. BGR
Motorola has been on a roll. With the introduction of the original DROID handset, a phone that we exclusively showed the world, Motorola has been set on a path of success with Android. The first Motorola DROID was innovative and brought forth a brand new version of Android, Android 2.0. The device featured a high resolution display with full ... Читать дальше
Миниобзор. BGR
It has been exactly 140 days since Hewlett-Packard first unveiled the TouchPad, and I think of it as the first device to emerge from a post-acquisition Palm team that has really been tested over the past few years. To be fair, it will actually be the third webOS device to launch since HP took over Palm, but the the Pre 2 was a leftover from before ... Читать дальше
Обзор. BGR
Barnes & Noble took the wraps off of its latest eReader, the “All-New NOOK,” just last month. Its grayscale screen strays from the NOOK Color, and while the device still runs Android, it looks and feels much more like a traditional eReader. However, the new NOOK has a brand new E Ink Pearl display that not only works as a touchscreen, but ... Читать дальше
Обзор. BGR
When Palm first introduced webOS in January 2009 and subsequently launched the Palm Pre, I called the innovative operating system the best thing to happen to smartphones that year. To this day, webOS holds a special place in my heart for taking a novel approach to smartphone operating systems and making it beautiful. It was refreshing, it was ... Читать дальше
Обзор. BGR
“4G” can mean a lot of things these days. For some carriers, it started out as marketing speak that did little beyond confusing customers. For others, 4G represents a next-generation network that might help ease the strain of a new breed of data-hungry smartphone users that have brought a nationwide 3G network to its knees. But while certain ... Читать дальше
Обзор. BGR
The Motorola DROID X was one of the most powerful handsets to hit Verizon Wireless. It’s only fitting that the big boss of Android phones would get upgraded at some point, right? The Motorola DROID X2 ups the DROID X in almost every way possible. Instead of a single core 1GHz CPU, the DROID X2 features a dual-core 1GHz processor. The display has ... Читать дальше
Миниобзор. BGR
The Samsung Infuse 4G, with a radio capable of achieving peak rates of 21Mbps, is being marketed as the fastest smartphone currently available from AT&T. It’s the big brother to the Samsung Captivate, and fits just between that device and Samsung’s Galaxy S II when it comes to hardware specs. The Infuse 4G packs a gorgeous and massive 4.5-inch ... Читать дальше
Обзор. BGR
I’ve spent more than a week living and breathing alongside the Samsung DROID Charge, Verizon’s second 4G LTE smartphone, and and it had some pretty big shoes to fill following Verizon’s first 4G LTE smartphone, the HTC ThunderBolt. The DROID Charge is loaded with all the trimmings you could ask for, including a huge Super AMOLED Plus display with ... Читать дальше
Обзор. BGR
T-Mobile introduced the world to its first Android 3.0-powered tablet at the Consumer Electronics Show this past January. Unfortunately for T-Mobile, however, the G-Slate was announced amid a flurry of similar announcements — remember, over 100 tablets were introduced at CES this year — so the LG-built tablet got a bit lost in the fray. What’s ... Читать дальше
Обзор. BGR
LG hasn’t launched a high-end Android smartphone in the U.S. for some time now — sure, it shipped the Optimus on multiple carriers, and Verizon launched the Ally a few years back, but neither was capable of holding a candle to other first-rate devices. That all changes with the G2x however, which is no doubt LG’s answer to Samsung’s Galaxy S ... Читать дальше
Обзор. BGR
Sprint’s Kyocera Echo is a brand new concept in the mobile space. It’s innovative, and it’s bold. Using two displays that connect together to form one large touch surface, you’re able to interact with your handset in a way that’s never been possible before. You can use Twitter on the top screen while scrolling through your photos on the lower ... Читать дальше
Миниобзор. BGR
Late last month, AT&T unveiled the first two smartphones that would launch with the ability to access its brand new 4G network (not to be confused with its old 4G network). The Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket was a mouthful and a pocketful, identical to T-Mobile’s Galaxy S II save for the addition of an LTE radio. The other device was a brand new ... Читать дальше
Обзор. BGR, автор: Zach Epstein
Nokia once had a big stake in the U.S. smartphone market. I remember being jealous in high school that I couldn’t tell anyone my Snake high score because I carried a Motorola phone. I seemed to be the only kid without a Nokia device so, when I went to college, I picked up the Nokia 6010. I was drawn to the color screen and interchangeable face ... Читать дальше
Обзор. BGR, автор: Todd Haselton
Для компании Sony Ericsson выпуск двух версий каждого гуглофона — в обычном корпусе и в виде слайдера с QWERTY-клавиатурой — уже стал хорошей традицией. Раскладную клавиатурную версию Xperia neo ждали многие: этот смартфон оказался очень удачным не только среди модельного ряда Xperia, но и среди смартфонов других марок среднего ценового сегмента. ... Читать дальше
Обзор. mobi.ru, автор: Денис Поповкин
Можно сказать, что Archos 80 G9 – еще одно планшетное устройство, которых сейчас на рынке огромное количество вариантов. Отметим, что компания Archos достаточно редко делает банальные и простые устройства. Например, нынешний подопытный легко обновляется до устройства с модулем 3G как раз в тот момент, когда пользователь до этого созреет. На ... Читать дальше
Обзор. The-eBook
Несмотря на положительные качества электронных книг с бумагоподобными экранами, со стороны потенциальных покупателей нередко можно встретить критику таких устройств. Например, отсутствие подсветки делает чтение неудобным или невозможным в плохо освещенных местах, а медлительность экрана и его монохромность влечет за собой невозможность ... Читать дальше
Обзор. iXBT.com, автор: Даниил Кудрявцев
В белой картонной коробке с откидной крышкой на магнитном клапане аккуратно уложен комплект поставки электронной книги WEXLER.BOOK E5001. Яркое изображение самой электронной книги и усиленная реклама романов фантастической серии (три из них уже закачаны в память книги) украшают поверхность упаковки. Здесь же перечислены и основные характеристики ... Читать дальше
Обзор. F1CD
Продвинутые мобильные телефоны с навороченными камерами и сверхбыстрыми процессорами нужны далеко не всем. Людям, которые ведут активный образ жизни или работают в суровых условиях, хрупкие флагманы типа Apple iPhone 4S, Samsung Galaxy S 2 или HTC EVO 3D просто противопоказаны – сломают в два счета. Для таких пользователей существуют защищенные ... Читать дальше
Миниобзор. Mobiltelefon.ru, автор: Евгений Макаров
The Nokia Lumia 800 is probably the most highly-anticipated Windows Phone ever. We've been wishing and hoping for Nokia to use a powerful Windows-based mobile operating system since 2003, and finally we see the incredible phone manufacturing expertise from Finland merged with the gorgeous new Windows Phone software. It's not all good news, though, ... Читать дальше
Обзор. pocketnow.com, автор: Adam Z Lein
The familiar Motorola Razr brand is back, but this time it's re-imagined with Android 2.3.5, an 8MP camera with Full HD recording and a super slim chassis that's just 7.1mm. That doesn't make it the thinnest phone in the world, as it's still got a thicker end to it at the top of the phone - but given you don't hold that section, it certainly feels ... Читать дальше
Обзор. TechRadar, автор: Gareth Beavis
We've already established that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is a great tablet. Then, just recently, we summarily found that the 1.2-inch smaller Galaxy Tab 8.9 is an even better tablet -- at least for anyone who wants to take their slate places. So, following that logic, the even more petite Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus should be the best of the three, right? Not ... Читать дальше
Обзор. Engadget, автор: Tim Stevens
Though iOS and Android are engaged in a cutthroat battle for smartphone supremacy, the iPod touch has reigned largely unchallenged in the media player market. Samsung aims to change that with the Galaxy Players, which are basically 4- and 5-inch Galaxy S phones minus the phone parts — they still have full Android Market access, all the excellent ... Читать дальше
Обзор. The Verge, автор: David Pierce
Back in April, the Nook Color underwent a magical change of sorts: a software update that transformed the device from a color screen e-reader into an honest to goodness Android tablet. It was the company's first swipe at the space -- a backdoor approach that beat out fellow e-reader manufacturers like Amazon and Kobo. Its follow-up, the Nook ... Читать дальше
Обзор. Engadget, автор: Brian Heater
One year older and one year wiser, Barnes and Noble is bringing us its latest Nook device that’s simply dubbed as the Nook Tablet this time around, which hopes to continue the legacy established by the Nook Color from last year. Unlike the Color not only is it aiming to offer the world’s best reading experience , but to fully compete against the ... Читать дальше
Обзор. Phone Arena, автор: John V
Итак, наконец то, чего ждали все, кто хоть немного интересуется мобильными технологиями, свершилось. Финская компания Nokia представила свой первый Windows Phone смартфон. Скептики ждали новинку с нескрываемой неприязнью и утверждали, что переход Nokia на WP - это начало конца. Однако, все оказалось не так плохо - смартфон Nokia 800 получился ... Читать дальше
Обзор. allnokia.ru
Первый MeeGo-смартфон Nokia N9 злые языки называют последним устройством финского производителя, в котором будет установлена данная операционная система. Тем не менее, этот представитель смартфонов Nokia на MeeGo (пока единственный) оказался весьма удачным. Новый флагман выделяется не только новой ОС, но и множеством современных функций и ... Читать дальше
Обзор. allnokia.ru