Make The Right Connection: Access The Internet Wirelessly

For your favorite devices, the Web has become just another feature alongside screen size, megapixels, and storage capacity. But there’s more than one way to connect to the Web with those devices these days, and we’re here to clear the air on Wi-Fi and mobile broadband. In this article, we’ll help you determine what you need to get started with each technology and why you should choose one over the other, or both.

Mobile Broadband

Mobile broadband (3G/4G) covers two versions of the same technology. Both are capable of delivering a reliable and swift Web connection to your mobile broadband-capable device of choice from coast to coast (depending on your carrier’s coverage area). Today, 3G is the most prevalent mobile broadband standard, but the mobile broadband of tomorrow, 4G or WiMAX, offers connectivity that is even faster.

To get running with a mobile broadband network, you’ll need a mobile broadband subscription with a wireless carrier or use a pay-as-you-go service and one of the following: a device with embedded mobile broadband (only available on select notebooks and devices), a USB-based mobile broadband device, a USB-based mobile hotspot device, or a mobile phone with a limited or unlimited data plan.

Best Buy Connect (bestbuyconnect.com) is one example of a mobile broadband service that lets you add a dose of the Web to your favorite notebook, netbook, or smartphone on a subscription or pay-as-you-go basis. Better yet, you can get a substantial discount on a mobile broadband-capable device by signing up for a two-year Best Buy Connect agreement.

What Mobile Broadband Can Do For You

● Listen to streaming music or watch TV shows while you commute to work

● Look up a map and get detailed directions if you ever get lost

● Access your email whether you’re in the office or on the road

● Download the latest pageturner from your favorite author right from the beach

Best Reasons To Choose 3G/4G

1) Enjoy broadband Internet speeds practically wherever you get cell reception

2) Mobile broadband hotspots let you connect multiple Wi-Fi devices at once

3) Get significantly discounted devices by signing a two-year Best Buy Connect mobile broadband agreement

Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi is the ubiquitous wireless protocol used by almost every consumer electronics device that can benefit from a Web connection.

These include—but are not limited to—PCs, notebooks, tablets, smartphones, MP3 players, gaming consoles, Blu-ray Disc players, smart HDTVs, and digital photo frames.

In its most basic form, a Wi-Fi network consists of a subscription to a broadband cable or DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) Internet provider, a physical connection between the cable or DSL modem and a Wi-Fi router, and one or more Wi-Fi-capable devices to connect to the network. With the right settings, any of the devices listed above can connect to the wireless router and get you surfing in no time. Note, for desktop PCs to connect to a Wi-Fi network wirelessly, however, they must have a wireless adapter.

What Wi-Fi Can Do For You

● Get more entertainment mileage from your HDTV by streaming video

● Reduce wire clutter at your TV, notebook, and elsewhere around your house

● Enjoy fast uploads to share photos and videos with distant friends and family

● Using Wi-Fi instead of 3G/4G reduces your smartphone data consumption

Best Reasons To Choose Wi-Fi

1) Unbeatable download/upload speeds, particularly with 802.11n

2) Most devices can connect to the Web via Wi-Fi

3) Inexpensive to create a Wi-Fi network

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Amazon Kindle Fire Review: Specs, Release Date and Price

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Building on the technology behind its Kindle eReaders, Amazon recently launched a tablet: the Kindle Fire. With a 7-inch color screen and support for streaming video over your Wi-Fi network, the Fire is ready to entertain you. It supports digital books, audio books, music, and other content.

And, Amazon provides free online storage for any content you buy from it. You can also store photos, music, and more on the Fire’s 8GB of built-in storage. Built-in speakers let you share the fun with your friends, and a stereo audio jack lets you plug in your favorite pair of headphones.

Of course, any tablet worth its salt can browse the Internet, and the Fire is no exception. In fact, it has a special Internet browser, Amazon Silk, which uses cloud computing to provide extra-fast Web browsing. The Fire supports charging from a wall outlet (via an adapter) or your computer (via a USB cable that can also transfer files from your PC). The battery provides 7.5 hours of video playback and eight hours of reading (when the wireless settings are turned off), making it an excellent travel companion.

Tech Tips

The more you use your new Kindle Fire, the more features you’ll discover. Keep these tips in mind as you explore your new tablet.

• The Kindle Fire’s touchscreen supports two-touch interaction, which means you can not only swipe and tap with a single finger, but also pinch and expand your fingers for easier navigation.
• Opening email attachments (including Microsoft Word documents and PDFs) is easy, thanks to special functionality built into the Kindle Fire.
• A sleeve protects your Kindle Fire when it’s not in use. You can easily slip the Fire out of the sleeve when you’re ready to use it.

Amazon Kindle Fire Release Date: November 15th

Amazon Kindle Fire Price: $199

Toshiba AT200 Features, Specs and Release Date

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With the waistline of a stick insect that's lost its appetite, the Toshiba AT200 looks barely able to contain a slice of ham, let alone a full complement of Honeycomb-powered hardware. But in that 7.7mm-thin chassis you'll find a 10.1in screen, 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB RAM, 5MP rear camera and all the right kind of holes, including microUSB, microHDMI and a microSD slot, Most importantly, it's a full millimetre thinner than an iPad 2, And in the words of a supermarket chain that stocks a variety of hams, every little helps.

Toshiba AT200 Price

$tba

Toshiba AT200 Release Date:

November 2011

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 Features, Specs and Release Date

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Samsung's Galaxy Tab 7.7 might be marginally lardier than the Toshiba AT200 (by a microscopic 0.19mm), but chances are you'll be too dazzled by its Super AMOLED screen to notice. Rather than just shaving a few inches off the Samsung Tab 10.1, Samsung has given the 7.7 a new brushed aluminium back, a choice between 16, 32 and 64GB of storage, plus a 1.4GHz dual-core processor to power its Honeycomb OS and TouchWiz interface.

Oh, and this one makes calls too. Take that, Tosh.

Samsung's Galaxy Tab 7.7 Price:

$tba 

Samsung's Galaxy Tab 7.7 Release Date: 

November 2011
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Samsung Galaxy Note Features, Specs, Price and Release Date

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Although the Dell Streak came first, Samsung's plus-size Note is the first tablet-bothering smartphone to threaten a real scrap. It's got nuff skills and a huge screen...

Samsung Galaxy Note Features:

It's a whopper. An Impressive 5.3 inches of HD Super AMOLED goodness beams out at you when the Note powers up. It's sharp enough to cut your eyeballs too, with a 720p HD screen that has a density of 285ppi -that means individual pixels are almost indiscernible. Although the iPhone 4 does claim 326ppi...

If you've got the ability to play back 1080p videos at 30fps, then the full HD skills of the rear-mounted 8MP snapper will come in handy. There's also an LED flash, while the front-facing video chat camera is a more pedestrian 2MP.

The elephant in the room is the stylus, or S Pen. Although the Note's creators suggest practical uses, such as drawing a map or handwriting texts, you'll obviously use it to draw moustaches (or worse) on photos and upload them to Facebook. The stylus is fun, but still a gimmick.

The screen isn't the only part of the Samsung Galaxy Note that's blinding. It's screechingly fast, thanks to a 1.4GHz dual-core processor. Not since a fox outwitted a piece of confectionery has anyone seen Gingerbread running this quickly.

Despite its supersize frame and powerful innards (there's also a 16GB SSD and an army of sensors), the Note hasn't let it go to its waistline. It's well under 10mm thick and tips the scales at less than 180g. We're interested to see how long its vast 2500mAh battery'll last, though.

Verdict:

The Samsung Galaxy Note forges a new class of gadgetry with this stunning phone and tablet gap-closer.

Samsung Galaxy Note Price:

$TBA 

Samsung Galaxy Note Release Date:

January 2012

Samsung Galaxy Note Tech Specs:

Display 5.29in HD Super AMOLED (1280x800, 285ppi)

Processor 1.4GHz dual-core

OS Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)

Cameras 8MP with LED flash, 2MP [Front]

Connectivity Bluetooth 3.0, USB 2.0, Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, 3G

Memory 16GB, plus microSD (up to 32GB)

Samsung Galaxy Note Alternative
Dell Streak

$299
URL: dell.com

This tablet's fatter profile may be a turn-off, but it's got a 5in display, 5MP cam, full-fat browsing, a 1GHz Snapdragon and, oh, a phone. You'll be hard-pressed to find a Galaxy Note for this price.

Toshiba ZL2: 3D TV Goes Glasses-Free

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If putting on a pair of glasses to watch the telly is about as natural to you as wearing a wetsuit and flippers in bed, then Toshiba's 55in ZL2 is the velvet onesie of 3D TVs. With a quad full HD lenticular screen beaming a different 1080p perspective to each eye (which your brain then assembles into a 3D image), the only lenses here are the ones built into the screen that adjust the picture for up to nine different sofa-bound gawpers at once. A face-tracking camera squeezed into the skinny bezel works out where everyone's sitting, thus eliminating the 3D sweetspot normally found with glasses-free gadgets. Clever, eh? 

As hot as... freshly steamed contact lenses.

Toshiba ZL2 3D TV Features

The Resolutions Will not be televised

Next to the ZL2's 3840x2160 screen your full HD telly will look pixelated. It means 3D Blu-rays are played at full resolution (passive 3D systems normally halve it), but there are no 2D TV broadcasts of that quality. Yet.

A Remote Possibility

A top-end TV without Wi-Fi is like a bacon Sanger without brown sauce. The ZL2 uses it to access iPlayer, YouTube and Facebook, and DLNA lets it stream from other gadgets. There's a free iOS remote app, too.

Facing Facts

The ZL2's camera isn't just used for 3D. You can create custom profiles as on a PS3 or Xbox, with different setups for each user. It uses facial recognition to sign you in and load your settings as soon as you sit down.

Toshiba ZL2 3D TV Release Date:

£tba (due December)

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Best Apps For iPhone 4S

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We'll show you the best apps to install if you want the iPhone 4S to organise your life, apps that will help you work from anywhere, and others that will help you head off on your travels and get back home safely, whichever mode of travel you choose. Recently our friends over bestiphone5apps.us posted a new list of best apps for iphone, you can also check them out.
There are some real gems in this post, even if we do say so ourselves. So start reading - you never know what app you’ll find that will change you life. Don't forget to visit our list of best food apps for iphone.

Best Music Apps For iPhone 4S
Shazam

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Shazam allows you to identify a song you hear on the radio or anywhere else, if you activate it while the song is playing. The £3.99 Encore version also allows you to view the lyrics on the screen as the song plays. Jawdropping.

Spotify

Spotify allows you to listen to music in a few different ways. You can stream music from Spotify's servers, in the same way as you would on a computer If you want to be able to listen to tracks when you're away from a 3G or Wi-Fi signal, you can make them available for offline listening, at which point they'll be copied to your phone. Or you can sync tracks from your iTunes library. You’ll need a Premium subscription for all of those features, but it's a great way to have a vast music library on your iPhone or iPod touch.

Best Games For iPhone 4S

We've played a lots of high quality games, and choose the best iphone games here.

Angry Birds Rio

Having had their eggs stolen by the little piggies, there's only one thing on the minds of these feathery creatures. The birds are out for vengeance. They're so mad that they're happy to be used as slingshot fodder so you can launch them at the pigs.
Using a combination of logic, skill, and brute force, you must eliminate the pigs to move to the next level. If you get stuck, and you will, help is at hand in the form of the Mighty Eagle, an In-App Purchase who will swoop down and eat a few pigs for you. Great fun.

More Top iPhone 4S Games

Infinity Blade

NBA 2K12 for iPhone

Fifa 12

Dead Space

Flight Control

NOVA 2

Death Rally

The Heist

Best Photography Apps for iPhone 4S

Photogene

Photogene is a very competent photo editor for iPhone 4s. Enabling you to correct red eye, tweak exposure, contrast, highlights, saturation, colour temperature and more (as well as add all manner effects and crop your artwork) it's a slick and intuitive way to edit photos on the go.

8mm Vintage Camera

8mm Vintage Camera turns the videos you shoot with the camera on your i Phone, iPod touch or iPad into an old-fashioned cine movie, complete with flickering and scratches. It comes with multiple lenses and film types, which you can mix and match to create your own effects. Want that authentic projector sound? You can add that, too. It's all very analogue.

Other Top Photo Apps
Camera+
Hipstamatic
Magic Shutter
ShakeItPhoto
Pro HDR
Filterstorm
Photogene
TiltShift Generator

iPhone 4S Apps for Social Networking and Communication

Facebook

Facebook's mobile apps were the making of it back when it was an up-and-coming social network. Its iPhone app allows you to update your status, respond to messages, chat to friends, share photos and add your current location.

Gowalla

Gowalla is a location-based social network that allows you to 'check In' at places, keep a record of where you've visited, and share photos with friends. The iPhone and iPad clients allow you to record your travels and keep up with friends.

Skype

Skype's apps allow you to make cheap calls and send instant messages. If you have an iPhone 4S or iPad 2 you can make fullscreen video calls too, using either the front or rear-facing camera. You can talk to more people than with FaceTime.

HulloMail

HulloMail is voicemail on steroids. Once set up, it diverts incoming calls whenever you don't answer them. It then deals with voicemail according to your preference. You can have it send you an email with an attached MP3, for example.

Best iPhone 4S Apps for Reading Books and Magazines

iBooks App

iBooks is Apple's tool for turning your iPad or iPhone into an ebook reader. It supports two formats: PDF and ePub, a popular ebook format. These can be added to iBooks using iTunes, but iBooks also has its own store. The store allows you to buy and download books within the app, or you can download a sample chapter free of charge. Once downloaded, books are displayed, cover forward, on iBook's shelves. You can bookmark, search and change the text size.

Amazon Kindle

Amazon Kindle app allows you to read books bought from its Kindle store on your iPhone or iPad. You can no longer go directly to the store from within the app, but once you've added your device to your Amazon account, any Kindle books you buy will be delivered to that device. A terrific app to access thousands books.