Innovative Technology(IT) has just unleashed the Universal Justin Power Case lineup. They are designed too fit tablets from 7-inches all the way back up to 10.2-inches. Regardless of what manufacture makes your device or the size, you have a portable power solution that will give you protection as well.
Our friends over at FrogEye have sent us the PowerPlay P80 for us to review! FrogEye is a new company that lives by this quote, “Your Life, Own It!”. The PowerPlay P80 is one of their mobile power banks, similar to products made by Mophie. However, FrogEye has certainly put their own spin on a mobile power bank with the PowerPlay P80. NJTechReviews has done a large amount of testing on this device and now it is time for the full verdict. Let’s dive into the FrogEye PowerPlay P80 Review!
Today, Verizon and HTC announced that the DROID INCREDIBLE 4G LTE will be landing on July 5. It will be running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with the latest and greatest version of HTC Sense 4.0! HTC Sense is one of my favorite user interface’s available for Android devices. You will get Beats Audio which make you’re the music you are listening to make it sound better and how the wrist intended it too sound. This technology also works while you are in application, watching a YouTube video and more. It does have an 8 megapixel camera, and it is very similar to the one on the HTC One X. This also features HTC Video Pic which will allow you to take photos while recording video. It shows video in 1080pHD quality, this is always a plus. On the front you have a VGA camera, It has a 4-inch super LCD qHD display, which is an HD screen you expect great quality here. For speed when using the device you get a 1.2 GHz dual-core Qualcomm® Snapdragon S4 processor. It also has Android Beam, Read Later, and Authentic Sound from Beats Audio. No word on how much internal space, but it can hold up to a 32GB micro SD card. It will be available on July 5 for the price of $149.999 after a $50-mail-in-rebate with a 2-year contract. We should have a review up soon after the 5th, and for more info check out the press release below!
Press Release
DROID INCREDIBLE 4G LTE By HTC Available Beginning July 5 Exclusively On The Verizon Wireless Network
Power, Sophistication and Speed Come Together in the DROID INCREDIBLE 4G LTE by HTC
BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Announced earlier this year at the International CTIA WIRELESS® 2012 show, the DROID INCREDIBLE 4G LTE by HTC, will be available in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online at www.verizonwireless.com starting July 5. Customers who rely heavily on their mobile devices will find everything they need in the DROID INCREDIBLE 4G LTE by HTC. Running the latest version HTC Sense® 4, HTC’s branded user experience, integrated with Google’s™ mobile operating system, Android™ 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, customers can take advantage of an enhanced mobile experience and enjoy the latest Android features, as well as the power of 4G LTE speeds.
Every aspiring shutterbug will have something to smile about when they experience the amazing 8-megapixel camera with quick activation from the home screen so customers never miss that perfect shot. Additionally, HTC Video Pic allows customers to simultaneously shoot HD quality video and take pictures at the same time. Uploading photos or videos onto social networking sites or sharing through e-mail takes only seconds with 4G LTE speeds.
The Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network is available in 304 markets across the United States. In real-world, fully loaded network environments, 4G LTE customers should experience average data rates of 5 to 12 megabits per second (Mbps) on the downlink and 2 to 5 Mbps on the uplink. When customers travel outside of 4G LTE coverage areas, devices automatically connect to Verizon Wireless’ 3G network, where available, allowing customers to stay connected from coast to coast.
Lifestyle features:
- Authentic Sound: Customers will benefit from Beats Audio™, an enhanced auto tuning technology that allows users to hear music the way the artist intended. Beats Audio is incorporated across the entire experience for richer, more authentic sound and whether watching a video or playing a game, customers are sure to be impressed with the sound quality.
- Read Later: Active readers who are constantly on-the-go can use the Read Later feature to save online content, such as news articles and website pages, to view later, even when they are offline.
- Android Beam™: Sharing YouTube videos, Google Maps locations and more with others is faster and easier than ever with Android Beam. Android Beam is as simple as tapping two compatible phones together for users to instantly share information.
Additional features:
- 4-inch super LCD qHD display
- 8-megapixel rear-facing camera with autofocus, LED flash, BSI, f/2.2 and 28 mm lens
- Front-facing camera for video chatting with friends and family
- 1.2 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor
- Mobile Hotspot-capable to share a 4G LTE connection with up to 10 Wi-Fi-enabled devices
- Support for up to 32 GB microSD™ memory card
Price and availability:
- The DROID INCREDIBLE 4G LTE by HTC will be available beginning July 5 in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online at www.verizonwireless.com for 149.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. Customers will receive the rebate in the form of a debit card; upon receipt, customers may use the card as cash anywhere debit cards are accepted.
- For additional information on Verizon Wireless products and services at a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or go to www.verizonwireless.com.
PS: Verizon And Color Will Also Be Doing SNL, You Will Get To See What Happens Behind The Scenes At SNL! For More Info On This Awesome Team Up, Please Click Here.
Verizon Wireless is in the mood to help out another company, and that company is Color. It is free application for your smartphone that let’s you share live video and photos with your Facebook friends. Verizon Wireless 4G LTE let’s you stream up to 30 seconds of live video to Facebook! If you are a Verizon Wireless customer you can add special sound to your broadcast. When you start streaming video your friends will be sent a notification on their smartphone if they have the application. You could stream video from a concert, prom, a birthday party, or just anything you want to share with your friends. One other great feature is that you can upload many photos to Facebook at once. You have the power to make an album and choose the best photos for that album. Bill Nguyen the CEO Of Color, he said that 4G LTE from Verizon is huge opportunity for making new applications and that it let’s them start a new platform for creative. They also have plans to develop new feature that will work with Verizon’s 4G LTE network. Color is a free download that is available on many app stores. For more info check out the Press Release below!
Press Release
VERIZON WIRELESS AND COLOR INTRODUCE LIVE VIDEO SHARING ON FACEBOOK
Share Spontaneous Moments on America’s Largest 4G LTE Network
NEW ORLEANS, BASKING RIDGE, N.J. and PALO ALTO, Calif. – Verizon Wireless customers can use their smartphones to share live video broadcasts of life’s special moments with their Facebook®friends using Color for Facebook, a free social camera application, the companies announced today.
Color for Facebook highlights the power of video on Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE network, giving customers with a wide range of smartphones the ability to broadcast up to 30 seconds of live video and share the important moments in their daily lives at blazing speeds. Verizon Wireless customers will also have access to an exclusive audio feature to add sound to their broadcasts.
Friends and fans receive a notification on their devices when one of their friends starts broadcasting live video and audio. Concerts, sporting events, road trips and other special moments can all be shared live.
Using Color for Facebook, batch photo uploads to Facebook are an easy and fast way to share multiple photos from a phone’s camera roll to any Facebook album. Customers can pick the best photos, choose or create a new album, and share with any group or all of their friends on Facebook with a single tap.
“Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE network is a huge opportunity for creating new applications,” said Bill Nguyen, chief executive officer of Color. “The performance, coverage and features available on Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE network establish a new platform for creativity; it is revolutionary for app developers. Color plans to develop additional features exclusively with Verizon Wireless to showcase its 4G LTE network.”
“Color is an amazing team dreaming up creative ways for people to share even more using smartphones,” said Kristi Crum, executive director, Consumer Solutions at Verizon Wireless. “This app, which highlights the speed and immediacy of video over 4G LTE, is just the first step in what we will deliver for Verizon Wireless customers.”
Availability and pricing
Verizon Wireless customers can dial “**COLOR” to download the app, or download it from a number of app stores. The app is free, and other charges will apply according to a customer’s data package.
Today, Polaroid has unveiled the Polaroid SC1630 Android Powered Smart Cover. It features a HD 16 mega-pixel camera with 3X optical zoom, WiFi, touch screen display, and social networks capabilities. Polaroid SC1630 Smart Camera combines a camera with an Android smartphone. It features a beautiful 3.2 inch touch screen display! Since it is powered by Android it features automatic face and smile detection. The camera itself organizes all of your photos, this way you don’t need to plug the camera into your computer. This camera also allows you to edit your photos on the device and then save and share them. All from the comfort of the palm of your hand with this camera. It has built-in cropping, red-eye removal, resizing and color correction. You also have plenty of room to store your photos, as it can hold up to a 32GB micro SD card! This smart camera also features an optional cellular data network, Bluetooth, and WiFi! This is the first time i have ever heard of all of these features available on a camera. It also supports Google’s Android Market, so you can play a game or respond to an email in between your photo shoot; all from one device. The rechargeable battery is said to last a full day! No word on pricing or exact availability just yet. However, Polaroid has said it will land in 2012. I personally cannot wait to get my hands on this insane camera, that combines Android with an awesome digital camera.
Press Release
POLAROID ANNOUNCES THE SC1630 SMART CAMERA POWERED BY ANDROID
Fusing the Feature Set of a High-End Digital Camera with the Power of Android*, the Polaroid SC1630 Makes Snapping and Sharing High Definition Digital Images an Instant Experience
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 10, 2012 - Polaroid today announced that capturing and sharing high-end digital images is now seamless with the Polaroid SC1630, an Android powered smart camera. The Polaroid SC1630 Smart Camera features a high-definition 16 megapixel camera with built-in 3X optical zoom, touch screen display and Wi-Fi, making uploads to social networks as easy as the touch of a button. Merging the optics of a digital still and video camera with the limitless power of the Android platform, the Polaroid SC1630 Smart Camera evolves the process of clicking, editing, uploading and tagging to an instant experience on one device.
With the Polaroid SC1630 Smart Camera powered by Android you will no longer need to choose between your smart phone and your point and shoot camera because it offers the best of both worlds. Delivering everything expected from a digital camera but powered by Android, the Polaroid SC1630 Smart Camera surprisingly packs all the features needed to conveniently capture, connect and instantly share beautiful HD digital images and video into one device, weighing a mere five ounces.
An ultra-portable, two-in-one instant sharing powerhouse, the Polaroid SC1630 Smart Camera leaves even the most powerful camera phones in the dust by combining an advanced imaging feature set with an unmatchable Android powered mobile platform:
- Capture Like the Pros: Life’s quickest moments are no longer at risk to becoming blurry images from a basic camera phone. Built on a 16 megapixel CCD senor, the Polaroid SC1630 Smart Camera treats images to a 3X optical zoom – a feature not found in most mobile phones. Choose from 18 scene modes and then click and view crystal clear images – captured at 36mm or full 108mm magnification – on the Polaroid SC1630 Smart Camera’s 3.2” widescreen display.
- Enhance Your Moments With Smart Features: The Polaroid SC1630 Smart Camera powered by Android takes the work out of being behind the lens with automatic face and smile detection. Also, gone are the days when digital images that never connected with a USB cord went unorganized and forgotten. The Smart Album feature of the Polaroid SC1630 Smart Camera automatically organizes photos by date, location and people. Plus, geo-tagging features can add longitude and latitude coordinates to photos.
- Edit, Share and Save: Now there is no reason to leave the party – everything needed to edit, save and upload can be done anywhere right on the PolaroidSC1630 Smart Camera. On-board editing features include cropping, red-eye removal, resizing and color correction. Backed by the power of Android, thePolaroid SC1630 Smart Camera uploads images to social networks with the touch of one button and can hold up to 32GB of memory via a microSD card.
- Instantly Connect to the World: The Polaroid SC1630 Smart Camera’s Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and optional cellular data connections empower digital images to be shared from anywhere in a snap.
- Get Productive: Need to check-in on where friends are gathering, get directions or make the next move in your favorite game? Backed by the power of Android, the Polaroid SC1630 Smart Camera supports Google’s Android Market, making it truly like no other camera available today. Now you can snap, share and link up with more than 400,000 apps.
“Polaroid has helped the world bring stories to life through photographs for the past 75 years,” said Scott W. Hardy, President, Polaroid. “The newest member of the Polaroid family, the Polaroid SC1630 Smart Camera unites the beauty of high-end digital images with powerful Android connectivity features. The result is an instant experience of click, capture and share that enables social networks to see and experience the moment as if they were there.”
Designed to be just as fashionable as it is portable, the simple, clean lines and straight forward interface of the Polaroid SC1630 Smart Camera makes capturing and sharing effortless. Loaded with features that enable easy capture, connecting and sharing on the fly, the rechargeable battery can last all day on a full charge.
The Polaroid SC1630 Smart Camera will be available in 2012. Price is TBD.
Our Friends over at Fuse have sent us a PowerSlice for us to review. It is their new universal charger. The base unit for the PowerSlice retails for $44.99 . It holds up to 4 slices, those are the different charger bases. They retail for $9.99 a piece. Some of the slices are for Micro USB, Mini USB, Samsung, and many more. The base it self just has one plug, from there you plug-in the power cord and you are good to go. So, the price for the unit and one charger will be $65 and up. The pricing may not be right for the economy, but it is a good product. The slices that come pre-installed in the base unit just snap right out, then you can install the slice that you bought. From there just make sure the base unit is plugged in and you are ready to charge your devices. When you are charging the devices, they stand up-right so if your smart-phone or devices has a case on it may not fit in the charger. The charger it self it around 6 inches wide across the middle of it, so it is not the biggest piece of equipment in the world. Charging time depends on how many devices you have in. If you have 1 or 2 devices charging time should normal. If you have all 4 devices plugged in, getting charged, it might be a little bit longer. Overall, it gets the job done, which of course is getting the device fully charged and in a reasonable amount of time. Overall, we would recommend the Fuse PowerSlice to any person, who wants an easy and simple way to charge there devices. You Can Get More Info Or Buy The Fuse PowerSlice, By Clicking Here. We would like to thank “Fuse” for providing us with a copy of the “Fuse PowerSlice”.
There have been some pretty cool pieces of furniture created in the past, and we have seen some pretty cool Eco friendly things as well; but, nothing combines these two things better than the SOFT Rocker. This oddly shaped piece of wood looks like a teardrop shaped home depot do it yourself kit, but one thing stands out, there is a solar panel on the top. This chair not only harnesses solar energy, but it gets power from motion as you rock it back and forth. In addition to this, the chair rotates 360 degrees so it is always facing the sun. All this power is used to light up a strip inside the chair and sends power to three USB ports capable of charging small devices like phones and tablets. These chairs were developed by Professor Shelia Kennedy and her team of students. Hopefully we will see these power chairs on porches and in parks worldwide.