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, and got a Tesla because it was the biggest gadget he could find. You can follow him on Twitter at @derekakessler.
The Samsung Gear VR finally launches, the BlackBerry Priv receives its first update to improve on the mediocre camera, Apple open sources their programming language, and there's a Surface Phone coming! Eventually.
With the holidays upon us we want to know what you hope to find under the tree (or might just get for yourself). A new phone? A tablet? Maybe a computer? Tell us for your chance at $600 to help you get the new gadget of your dreams — Take the Mobile Nations 2015 Holiday Gadgets Survey!
You might still be sleeping off the turkey and potatoes, or perhaps getting started on working them off, but that doesn't mean the tech news stopped.
It's about to get hectic all up in this joint. We've got the just-launched Lumia 950 and the impending Lumia 950 XL bringing the heat back to Windows Mobile. And then there's LG, which surprised us all when it announced it, and surprised us again when it cancelled the Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE launch. Oh, and Apple Pay launched into Australia and Canada, NVIDIA has a new Shield...
This week in mobile tech: the iPad Pro arrives, TAG Heuer launches a smartwatch, the Mac App Store hiccups, and more!
Inflight internet is great in concept, but for a while now it's been pretty much worthless for anything other than light web browsing and catching up on Twitter and email. But airplane Wi-Fi market leader Gogo's fixing it with its new 2Ku service. We tried it. It's fast.
The biggest news this week was simple: the BlackBerry Priv is here. It's BlackBerry's first new phone in several months, and their first running Android. A big screen, a slide up keyboard, and BlackBerry's legendarily rock-solid hardware have combined to make one hell of a phone.
Boo! Before you head out for trick-or-treat tonight, let's catch up on the news: we've got a new Apple TV, reviews for the LG V10, Huawei Nexus 6P, LG Nexus 5X, Microsoft Band 2, and this little thing called Halo 5: Guardians.
We sit down with Nick Parker of Microsoft to talk about how they've worked with PC manufacturers to bring Windows 10 to the people. The new OS and Microsoft's own forays into hardware have elevated PC makers as a whole to produce some impressive new machines.
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.
Microsoft's Surface Pro 4 versus the iPad Pro. Here are four ways that Microsoft's latest handily bests Apple's attempt at a big tablet.
I've sat through dozens of press events in just the last few years. Today, Microsoft walked onto that stage with swagger and passion and excitement that was totally justified and utterly invigorating.
Smartphone versus smartphone is boring — smartwatches are where the real interesting action is happening, and there's no more interesting comparison in that rapidly-expanding category than of the Microsoft Band 2 versus the Apple Watch.
If you're looking for a phone to go spec-for-spec with the Lumia 950 XL, you could do worse than Google's Huawei Nexus 6P. They're both at the top of their class, physically and internally, so much so you might be seeing déjà vu for a bit when you run down the spec sheets.
It's been a while since the last huge Windows flagship phone, but Microsoft is back in a big fashion with the Lumia 950 XL. It's the first truly big Windows phone since the Nokia Lumia 1520 of two years ago. In the time since, the competition's also gone huge, including Apple with their iPhone 6s Plus. So how do these two giant phones compare? That's why we're here.
While the Lumia 950 XL vs. Nexus 6P is a battle where the fighters have nearly identical specs, the differences between the smaller Lumia 950 and Nexus 5X are a bit more pronounced.
So how does the new Microsoft Lumia 950 compare to the Apple iPhone 6s? On the surface they're very different phones, built in different ways and running radically different operating systems. So let's get down and compare: iPhone 6s versus Lumia 950.
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.