Posts by Brooks Barnard

The White Nexus 4 Is Real Folks

The elusive white Nexus 4 has been popping up in lots of different places, but it seems Google I/O has been the place to finally serve some answers.  This time, MobileBurn was able to get their hands on the device and provide us with some pretty pictures and a new video.  Unfortunately, the person who lent MobileBurn the White Nexus 4 wasn’t able to… Read more

Leaked Specs And Render Of The Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8.0

The friends from SamMobile leaked some interesting information Friday morning bringing use an image and specs for a purported Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8.0.  If you recall, Samsung recently made official the Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 with specs that we were less than excited about.  For what it’s worth, benchmarking has demonstrated that this new Tab 3 7.0 is… Read more

Google Hangouts Is Available To Use Now!

If you haven’t already heard, Google announced its unified chat service that we’ve been hearing about for a while.  Hangouts will bring together all the different Google services such as Gmail, Google+, iOS, Android and Chrome. You will be able to save your chat history, send emoji icons, photos and make video calls. Hangouts will replace Google… Read more

Poll: Will You Use BlackBerry Messenger For Android?

Back in 2009, I had a rad BlackBerry 8900 on T-Mobile and loved that phone.  I also loved using BlackBerry Messenger because I could get around having to pay for a large texting package with my unlimited data plan.  I think I had the lowest texting plan I could which was like 250 texts a month which suited me fine with me and my BBM.  I still… Read more

Facebook Home On The HTC First [Video]

I’ve had the HTC First for almost two weeks, and I’ve formed some pretty solid opinions on Facebook Home as it runs on the HTC First. When I initially heard about Facebook home, I thought to myself that I would never use a launcher like that.  At the time, I didn’t even have a Facebook app on my personal device, why would I want a launcher?  Now that… Read more

Poll: What Google I/O Rumor Are You Most Excited About?

Can you believe Google I/O is already less than week away?  I can’t. I’m pretty excited about it.  And the most exciting thing to me is how well things are being kept under wraps by Google.  There have been the occasional leaks here and there, but I haven’t seen any leaked images of new devices.  That hasn’t however stopped the rumors from flying… Read more

Samsung Galaxy S 4 Unboxing Video

We finally have our hands on the Samsung Galaxy S 4! And we are so excited about it, we filmed an unboxing of the device.  In the video you’ll see everything that comes in the box with the Galaxy S 4.  I also go through the initial set up (there is A LOT of setup) of the device and give a tour of the hardware on this beast.  I was immediately struck… Read more

Early Adopters, How Are You Liking Your Ones and S 4s?

We’ve had an exciting couple of weeks with two of the most popular Android device manufacturers releasing their flagship devices: The HTC One and the Samsung Galaxy S 4.  The One was able to get a little bit of head start on the S 4 being released on Friday, April 19th for Sprint and AT&T and T-Mobile only days later.  This last weekend, the S 4… Read more