You could have the cheesiest chat-up lines in the world and they’re still likely to be more successful than showing a lady your new smartphone. But that’s all changed (according to AT&T), thanks to the Asus PadFone X — a phone that transforms into a tablet to help you pick up girls in the park.
Motorola is currently rolling out a rather hefty update in the Play Store for its browser-based notification app, Connect. The upgrade now allows users to view and respond to both multimedia and group text messages directly from Google Chrome on their PC or Mac.
To commemorate the launch of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, HTC has teamed up with the folks over at Marvel to create an ultra-rare S.H.I.E.L.D. Edition of its flagship smartphone of 2014 — if you’re a Captain America fan, then this is definitely the smartphone for you.
Google celebrated Teacher Appreciation Day yesterday by officially announcing its most recent development for the teaching industry. Classroom is designed to improve productivity in the room in which pupils are taught — so teachers have more time to teach, and students have more time to learn.
Look at all those IR emitters (we think those are IR emitters). Photo: Eli Milchman/Cult of Android
In the race to bestow absolute control over your home entertainment paraphernalia, the Blumoo device is a sort of a jack-of-all-trades standout.
Similar to the now-discontinued Griffin Beacon, Blumoo lets you control all your devices that normally work with a remote control — TV, DVR, Bluetooth player, stereo, etc — from an Android phone or iPhone. But it also does double-duty as a Bluetooth streaming device, giving you the ability to stream music to pretty much any set of speakers it’s physically connected to.
We had a little hands-on time with the Blumoo, and came away impressed with the device — but frustrated by the software. Also, unfortunately the Blumoo Android app is a few weeks away from availability, so we played around with its iOS sibling instead; we’re not expecting any major difference when the Android app eventually arrives. Here’s what we liked, and didn’t.
