Mobile & Wireless

Originally posted at: NY Video Game Critics Circle Recently on Live Digital, Shelly Palmer’s NBC television program, I talked about a new Android phone with 4G T-Mobile service. The G2X from LG has a dual core processor, which makes it really quite speedy for games. That means car racing games don’t drop frames, and it Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer chats about Verizon ending unlimited data on Good Day NY. Continue Reading →

ComScore says that there are 77 million people in the United States with smartphones and Nielsen Media Research says that in Q1 2011 data usage grew to an average of 435 MB per user/per month.  I’ve seen studies that say these numbers are likely to double every year for quite some time. Give ‘em the Continue Reading →

Verizon has confirmed that it will switch to tiered data pricing starting July 7th. Two gigabytes of data will now run you $30 a month, with another two gigabytes for mobile hotspot use at an additional $20. If you already pay for mobile hotspot use, you will be charged $30 per month for unlimited use. Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/110706_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] China is working on installing a network of up to 500,000 surveillance cameras within the country. Officials claim that they will be used to prevent crime, but activists are worried that they will only contribute to political unrest. Western companies like Cisco Systems have agreed to help Continue Reading →

What can possibly follow an extremely active first six months of 2011? Try these observations out for size: ***Original programming on cable networks continues its summer dominance over broadcast networks. We’re now at the point where on some weeknights other than Friday or Saturday, the combined ABC/CBS/NBC share of households is 16 or 17 percent, Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer chats with Microsoft’s Pallavi Sebastian about the company’s newest Windows Phone 7 devices. Continue Reading →

This all seems a little bit like déjà vu, doesn’t it? First there was Google Buzz, now Google+. What makes the search giant’s latest effort to take on Facebook any different? If you remember, Google Buzz’s launch strategy was not very well planned. All of a sudden a link appeared on millions Gmail accounts, which Continue Reading →

According to a recent report by Nielsen smartphones outsold feature phones for the first time ever. During the period of March to May, 55% of people looking for a device purchased a smartphon—up from 34% during the same time last year. Android phones are still the most popular smartphone, accounting for 38% of new smartphone Continue Reading →

Among the many reputations Google has is the ability to turn a lemon the first go at something into lemonade the second. That was the case with its Android operating system, which after considerable tweaking, went from latest also-ran in the competition of mobile formats to neck-and-neck with Apple’s iPhone. In a matter of months, Continue Reading →