Posts by Vincent Messina


Samsung continues firing at Apple with their latest barrage of Samsung Galaxy S II ads. You won’t see any more “Samsunged” catchphrases, but there’s plenty of the usual jabs being taken at the expense of a certain “other” device. These ads are spin offs of previous ads and feature the “creative barista” and his urban camping friends, as well as a love triangle between an iFan, a sales lady with a Samsung Galaxy S II, and voice-to-text.


Our favorite music-in-the-cloud service has received a pest control update. Nothing major has been included but they have fixed a couple nasty bugs. These fixes are related to shuffle mode and multiple accounts. If you’ve been having issues with either of these functions, you should be all patched up and ready to go.


It’s been about two weeks since we saw AT&T announce its future lineup of phones and tablets at CES, and today they have announced the availability of their Pantech duo: the Pantech Burst and Element. The first South Korean device to enter the lightweight division come in at just 4″, and is called the Pantech Burst. The Burst features:


I’m sure by now you’ve been subjected to the perpetual cat fight between Samsung and Apple. Just when I thought Samsung couldn’t taunt Apple any further they go ahead and launch another ad for their “The next big thing is already here” campaign. Their newest ad, which is set to smear your screen during the Super Bowl, has a corny catchphrase that I’m assuming Samsung hopes will go viral. Would you like to hear it? Of course you would — “We’ve Just Got Samsunged!” I kid you not, this is what one of the portrayed iFans blurts out after a Samsung Galaxy SII owner shows him that he has free turn by turn navigation built into his phone.


If you’ve been in the market for an Android tablet, you can now add another option to the slew of Android tablets you have to choose from. The Acer Iconia A200 is now being offered at Best Buy for the mid-range price of $349.99. That price isn’t much higher than what we reported a couple weeks ago, although we were a couple days off on the release date. If you missed our earlier coverage, the Acer Iconia A200 features:

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