Derek Kessler is Special Projects Manager for Mobile Nations. He's been writing about tech since 2009, has far more phones than is considered humane, still carries a torch for Palm (but BlackBerry's alright, too), and got a Tesla because it was the biggest gadget he could find. You can follow him on Twitter at @derekakessler.
HTC's new One A9 looks like an iPhone, but there's more to it than that. Pre-orders are open for the Android-powered BlackBerry Priv. The fancy new Apple TV is landing very soon. And we review the Microsoft Surface Pro 4 — it's pretty great.
It's like the tech industry takes turns claiming weeks as their own. This week was all Windows 10, with Microsoft announcing new Windows Phones, the Surface Pro 4, and the Surface Book. Also this week: Android 6.0 Marshmallow, BlackBerry's CEO on the Android-powered Priv, and we review the new iPhone 6s.
This week in mobile tech: Google announces the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P smartphones, the Pixel C tablet, and new Chromecasts. Apple launches OS X El Capitan from Apple. Microsoft lays the groundwork for two new Lumias and two new Surface tablets.
This week was dominated by two stories. Two stories that happened on the same day, at roughly the same time. The first was the release of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus on the public at large, the second was the long-awaited admission from BlackBerry that they're making an Android phone: the Priv.
This week on Mobile Nations: launches for iOS 9 and Android Pay, new Windows 10 builds for desktops and phones, even more BlackBerry Venice leaks, and upcoming events for Google and Windows 10 Mobile.
When Apple announces a new iPhone, most everything else stops. When Apple announces a new iPhone, a new Apple TV, and a brand-new iPad Pro, everything stops.
The IFA 2015 trade show is under way, but as these things tend to go, most of the big announcements happened before the show even started. And this year's theme was right at hand. Well, more at your wrist: smartwatches.
This week on Mobile Nations: how to break the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 with the S Pen stylus (it's easier than you might think), Apple gives us the date they'll announce the iPhone 6s, and more leaks from the BlackBerry and Windows Phone camps of their most-anticipated phones in a good long while.
This week on Mobile Nations: Reviewing the Samsung Galaxy Note 5, BlackBerry tries on Android and a new slider for size, iMore's comprehensive Apple Music guide book, and Windows 10 gets a surprise new preview build.
This week on Mobile Nations: The Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 edge+, BlackBerry's turnaround strategy, waiting for the iPhone 6s, and the latest and greatest for Windows 10. This is Mobile Nations Weekly!
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This week on Mobile Nations: BlackBerry launches the new Passport Silver Edition, Windows Central goes to Gamescom, the affordable Moto G gets glowing praise, and both the Android and Apple camps grapple with security holes big and small.
Welcome to the first edition of Mobile Nations Weekly, bringing you the latest and greatest from this week in technology and mobile life from across Android Central, Connectedly, CrackBerry, iMore, Windows Central, and more!
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We've all been there. Maybe you're there now. You switch over to your email app and there's this tremendous stack of unread messages. Some are important to you, some to your boss, a lot are crap. Increasingly it seems all but impossible to keep on top of it all — which do you need to read? Which need an immediate response? Which can you just delete without even opening? It's like you...
Just under a month ago we got our first look at the Porsche Design P'9983 Graphite, and today we're getting a closer look at the details that make up the phone. As before, the P'9983 Graphite is essentially the same phone as the standard Porsche Design P'9983, just with a design that's all-black stainless steel frame with a hand-wrapped leather back cover instead of the glossy carbon...
This is BlackBerry's newest smartphone: the BlackBerry Leap. Sporting a 5-inch 720x1280 IPS LCD display, an 8MP rear camera, and 16GB of storage, the phone offers quality mid-range specs at an affordable $275 off-contract. We've been told the phone's built by Wistron, the manufacturing arm of Taiwan-based Acer. It has a Foxconn feel to it, but this is more the entry-level design...
Big Red has a new chief, with John Stratton replacing Dan Mead as CEO of Verizon Wireless. Stratton comes from within Verizon, having previously served as the company's President of Global Enterprise and Consumer Wireline. Mead will stay with Verizon to oversee the sale of the company's wireline assets, and then plans to retire. Verizon Wireless is still a subsidiary of Verizon...
Not content with legally prevailing over Typo on multiple occasions, BlackBerry is dragging Typo back into court of the iPhone case maker's second iteration of their Typo keyboard. The first edition was barred from sales for copying the Q10 keyboard design, which Typo ignored, which ended with them being hit with an $860,000 fine. Now the Typo2, which looks less like a BlackBerry...
AT&T's added another tier to their Mobile Share Value data plans: 7GB for $75. Of course, that's just for the data, but if you're thinking about grabbing a new smartphone at the same time and go with AT&T's Next payment plan option for a new smartphone, they'll cut the $40 smartphone access charge down to just $15/month. That equals out to $90/month in service charges for 7GB...