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Should you buy an iPad mini, a Kindle Fire HD, or a Nexus?

Should you buy an iPad mini, a Kindle Fire HD, or a Nexus?

Credit to and written by David Gewirtz for DIY-IT You might think the big decision is about which has the best hardware, but you’d be wrong. In fact, the big decisions are all about price and ecosystem. David Gewirtz has the details inside. The tablet market is moving at warp speed. Back in July, I wrote How to decide: should you buy the Nexus 7 or the...

Top 5 smartphone picks for the holiday season

Top 5 smartphone picks for the holiday season

There are some very compelling smartphone choices as we reach the end of 2012. It’s easy to pick five great phones, but a bit tougher to put them in order. Heading into the holiday season, there are once again some excellent smartphone choices and you really can’t go wrong with any of them. Here are my top five smartphones to end 2012. Number 1:...

2011 Smartphone Top 10 – Gift Guide

2011 Smartphone Top 10 – Gift Guide

Summary: Apple’s  iOS and Google Android are the two clear leaders in the smartphone market here  in the U.S. so it was easy to pick the top two devices from these platforms.   The next eight were not as easy in such a competitive market. The beginning  of the year always starts with a bang with smartphones being revealed at CES,  Mobile World Congress and...

HP Touchpad – The Productivity Tablet

HP Touchpad – The Productivity Tablet

Who is it for? The TouchPad will mostly appeal to professionals who want a tablet to handle work tasks — Web-based business apps, email, instant messaging, contacts, calendar, etc. These will mostly be executives, project managers, IT administrators, and other business  folks who want to purchase their own tablets and use them for work… What problems does...