Review: Freehands Powerstretch 5 Finger tech gloves

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The biggest gripe many have with multi-touch enabled capacitive touchscreens in smartphones and tablets is that they're useless when one is wearing gloves. Using these devices in the cold isn't fun specially when one has to take off their gloves to work their phone or tablet. Freehands Powerstretch gloves changes all this and does so in style.

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Review: Kobo Vox Android enabled eReader

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

A coloured eBook Reader with tablet aspirations. This is the Kobo Vox, the most ambitious device released by Toronto-based Kobo whose earlier eBook reader devices, the Kobo Wireless eReader and the outstanding Kobo eReader Touch Edition were superb examples of the company's focus on quality, social reading and innovation. There is a lot weighing on the Kobo Vox's  shoulders, it is the company's first coloured eReader and also the first one to run a scaled back version of Google's Android OS. Here's our review.

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Android Superphone Shootout

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Smartphones today have the specs and power that desktops had only a few years ago. On the high end of the spectrum, we have the superphones which by their very definition should have dual core processors, large screens and the best functionality and are the best that money can buy.

We pit four of the most anticipated devices against each other and test them for speed, performance, design and overall capabilities. All of these are Android devices starting with the Galaxy Nexus which is Google’s chosen smartphone and the first to carry the new Ice Cream Sandwich OS.

Next we have Motorola’s revived Droid RAZR which is clad in Kevlar and incredibly sharp. The HTC Raider 4G LTE is dark, mysterious and promises blazingly fast access on next generation LTE ( Long Term Evolution) speeds of up to 75Mbps. Last but not the least is the most powerful smartphone in the market today, the LG Optimus LTE, another ultra-quick device that has more horsepower under its svelte enclosure than most of the tablets in the market today.

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RIM's BlackBerry Mobile Fusion server opens ports to iOS and Android

Due to insistent public demand, RIM is launching BlackBerry Mobile Fusion – the Company’s next-generation enterprise mobility solution and RIM’s entry into the multi-platform Mobile Device Management (MDM) marketplace. Which can now manage iPhones, iPads and various Android devices.

Building on years of leading enterprise mobility management solutions from RIM, BlackBerry Mobile Fusion will simplify the management of smartphones and tablets running BlackBerry, Google Android and Apple iOS operating systems.  Full PR at the jump.

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