James - who has written 1038 posts on The Gadgets.
James Cushing is the new Editor-in-chief of thegadgets.net. He is an Android nut who has wired his home and life to a number of Google devices, and absorbs any and all Android info.
Current Gadgets: HTC Mytouch 4G Slide, T-Mobile G2X (Rooted) w/ CM7, Color Nook (Rooted), Acer Iconia Tab a500 (Rooted), Huawei S7 Slim Tablet, Sony Google TV.
Twitter: @GadgetsJ | Google+: +James Cushing | Posts by James
As true gadget geeks, we’re all waiting for the day that we can take the plunge and start mixing the virtual and physical worlds into one. Advances in virtual reality and augmented reality are beginning to make that possible, and the day that we begin combining those two worlds is fast approaching, if Google has [...]
Continue reading...22 February 2012
Android and Linux is really a marriage that should have come about a long time ago. Android runs a Linux kernel, so the transition between the two should be pretty seamless. And now it is. No more will you need virtual machines or dual-boot systems. Canonical is introducing a parallel system that allows Android for [...]
Continue reading...20 February 2012
The latest huge device from Samsung, the Galaxy Note, hit US shores at AT&T over the weekend. Lots of folks pulled the trigger and picked up a fancy new device, but there’s something missing. Yes, it’s root! Thanks to XDA’s Da_G, we now have an easy step-by-step guide on how you can root this device [...]
Continue reading...18 February 2012
Apple’s App Store is about to hit a big milestone: 25 billion downloads. As with previous milestones, Apple is offering iOS users a little incentive to keep on downloading. Well, it’s actually a very big incentive. How does $10,000 worth of apps, games, and music sound? The downloader of the 25 billionth app download stands [...]
Continue reading...18 February 2012
If you’re looking for a fast and easy way to share what’s on your phone’s screen with your friends, you should certainly take a look at Clik, a new app for Android and iOS from the makers of Kik Messenger. This new mobile TV platform is only the first iteration, however it opens up a [...]
Continue reading...18 February 2012
The number one custom ROM for Android, CyanogenMod, is seeking donations from the community to invest in some new hardware. The CM team consists of tons of developers, who work on over 50 devices. Each of those devices gets a nightly build with the latest updates, for those that have to live on the bleeding [...]
Continue reading...16 February 2012
Apple is slowly integrating iOS features into its desktop operating systems, with each subsequent release seeming to bring the ultimate merger of Mac and iDevices closer together. Such was the case with the release of Mac OSX Lion 10.7 last year. However, Lion didn’t really measure up to a lot of developer and user expectations, [...]
Continue reading...16 February 2012
In the vast and varied world of virtual assistants, you have some bad ones and you have some good ones. Each of those apps has its ways of distinguishing itself from the others, whether its through its personality, an avatar, or its knowledge database. Then there’s Utter!, which focuses on integration with system apps and [...]
Continue reading...15 February 2012
The next generation of mobile devices this year will be powered by quad core chips from makers such as NVIDIA and Qualcomm, and many of the first iterations of those devices will be on display at the upcoming Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain. Already we’ve seen some quad core smartphones leaked, such as [...]
Continue reading...15 February 2012
The most popular custom ROM for Android, CyanogenMod, has been in the works since the source code release of Ice Cream Sandwich. The project is seeing huge progress as the team has more and more time on this new release, and a recent progress update indicates that the main thing holding back a stable release are [...]
Continue reading...10 February 2012
Rumors are the stuff that gets our imagination flowing. Over here, we’re gadgets fanatics, and even rumors are enough to get us excited. We love leaks of all kinds, whether it’s images, specs, or concepts. We’ve gathered together a few of the weeks best rumored gadgets, including iOS devices, Android, and Windows Phone. The Unnamed [...]
Continue reading...10 February 2012
If you’re an iPhone user pining for the days when Siri was a standalone app, and other users besides those with the iPhone 4S could use it, you’ll want to take a look at Speaktoit Assistant. Speaktoit is one of the highest-rated virtual assistant apps on the Android Market, with over 1.4 million downloads, and [...]
Continue reading...9 February 2012
Rumors about the next Apple gadget are entering a fast and furious cycle now, approximately 1 year after the release of the iPad 2. As March draws nearer, reported leaks of information are flowing across the net, with the latest coming from Fix-iPhones, Macotakara, and Cult of Mac. Leaked internal components are just the latest [...]
Continue reading...8 February 2012
Something that should have happened a year ago finally has. Google is introducing their wildly successful Chrome web browser to Android in a new beta form. The browser is, unfortunately, only available to those running the latest version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich. This browser is not a mobile lite version, though, it’s the full-blown [...]
Continue reading...3 February 2012
Following the previous leaked builds of ICS for the Samsung Galaxy S II, the latest official build has been put up online by the folks over at SamMobile. These are the same guys who previously leaked the official builds, which were alpha products. This latest build, though, is in beta and stable enough to be [...]
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