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.
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.
Microsoft's announcing even more Windows 10 news, and we'll live in Berlin to bring you every last bit!
Serious gamers take their gear seriously, and the new ASUS ROG Swift PG348Q monitor is going to seriously appeal to a lot of them. This display is many things, including being enormous, curved, and beautifully-crafted especially for the gaming crowd.
Anybody who's tried gaming with a laptop knows the biggest problem they face: heat dissipation from a blazing-hot processor, GPU, and RAM. ASUS thinks they have a solution for that with the ROG GX700: a combination of high-powered gaming laptop with a crazy liquid cooling dock.
ASUS's Republic of Gamers brand is more than just their gamer-focused products; it's also a community of gamers and builders that create some truly awesome rigs. You can't buy either of these computers, but you can dream about putting together your own. These ROG ASUS gaming PCs feature top-of-the-line hardware inside, but it's the design itself that really piques our interest....
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, a comprehensive guide to Apple Music, 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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The developer behind the adaptive fitness app BodBot is giving away 25,000 one-year subscriptions to BodBot Premium. Normally that'd cost you $120, but if you act fast you'll be able to get a full year for free!
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Bing Image Search has been updated with a number of tools that make it easier and faster than ever to find exactly what you're looking for. The updates to Bing's image searching tools include related searches, bigger images, and even store results that sell the thing that's in the image, all just a swipe or scroll away. Places to buy the product in the image (beta). For some...
Popular alternative web browser UC Browser is now available as a beta for Windows desktop machines. Long one of our favorite alternatives to Internet Explorer on Windows Phone, UC Browser has made the jump to Windows machines. UC Browser for Windows brings with it a lot of what we've loved about UC Browser on our phones: Fast Downloads: Enjoy high speed downloads with a resume...