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Patrick Northcraft

I am a student at the University of Toledo studying Information Systems, Electronic Commerce, and Instrumental Music with a trumpet specialization. I am fascinated with all aspects of mobile technology, especially the vast possibilities offered via Android. I am currently sporting a Nexus 5 (which is a VAST upgrade from my old Samsung Epic 4G Touch), a Galaxy Note 10.1 2012 Edition, and an Acer C720 Chromebook.

AH Primetime: Why No One Really Wants A Smartwatch Now, And How That Could Change
Mar 12, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
AH Primetime: Why No One Really Wants A Smartwatch Now, And How…
Tech companies nowadays are really pushing for us to get into the smartwatch trend.  There…
Mar 12, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Nokia Patents A New Ribbon-Like Battery
Alright, I'm going to be a little unprofessional right now... this is one of the…
Mar 12, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Security Flaw In WhatsApp Can Reveal Your Messages With Ease
There is always a trade-off when it comes to technology.  The eternal battle of privacy…
Mar 12, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Don't Worry, You Can Turn The Nokia X Into A Real Android…
What do you call something that is a weird Frankenstein-style mix of operating systems?  That…
Mar 11, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
All Stock Wallpapers For the All New One, Leaked and Ready for…
If there's one phone that we know about probably far more than we should, considering…
Mar 10, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
New Social Network Only Lets You Login If You Are Drunk, Via…
This is easily one of the most unique things I have heard about in a…
Mar 07, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
T-Mobile Strikes Back To RootMetrics Report
RootMetrics has recently released a report that compares the top four U.S. carriers against each…
Mar 06, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Patent Wars Continue: Apple Fails To Get Permanent Ban On Samsung Devices
And so the patent wars continue!  Back in 2011 we predicted that the wars would…
Mar 06, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Google Chromecast Can Now Mirror Your Android Phone's Screen… If You Have…
The long-awaited update is now finally in the works!  For those of you that use…
Mar 05, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Mobile Game Broadcasting Coming Soon via Twitch.tv
While it's a field I never got into, there is a large group of people…
Mar 05, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
LG G Flex To Get 4K Recording Capability With Android 4.4 Update
LG has had quite the interesting lineup of phones recently, with their contributions to the…
Mar 04, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
New Ear-Based Wearable Computer Could Be Glass's New Competition
Wearable technology seems to be the up and coming trend here in 2014.  Not only…
Mar 04, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Mercedes To Include Android In Their Cars Once It's Ready
We've heard all about the potentiality for cars to run off of Google's open source…
Mar 03, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
HTC Reports Sales Plummeting In February
We have raved about HTC's  quality phones for a while now, but unfortunately for them,…
Mar 02, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Galaxy S5 On Exynos Gets Benchmarked
The Galaxy S5 seems to be the center of most mobile news, and this is…
Mar 02, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Samsung Launching The Galaxy Tab 3 Lite In Three Different Colors
There are so many Galaxy devices out there that sometimes I wonder if Samsung is…
Mar 02, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Why Samsung's S5 Processor is the Pinnacle of an Anticlimax
The release of Samsung's newest Galaxy phone, the Galaxy S5, came with a bit of…
Mar 02, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Galaxy S5 Lets You Access 10.7GB out of 16GB
It is common knowledge at this point that the advertised amount of space on a…
Mar 01, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
AH Primetime: Come On Samsung, Just Tell Us The Damned Prices Already!
Samsung is arguably the king of the mobile markets, if only based on volume and…
Feb 27, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Samsung Can Use 'Standard-Essential Patents' Despite Apple's Complaints, Korean Commission Rules
Patent Wars are never ending, troublesome, and ultimately annoying.  Hopefully we see an end to…
Feb 27, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Say Goodbye To Media Hub As Samsung Keeps The App Off The…
Google and Samsung have had a very interesting relationship as of late, which have involved…
Feb 25, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Deutsche Telekom CEO Claims That To Become Efficient, Regulations Need To Be…
Regulations by governing entities are a dual-edged sword.  While in some cases, they protect the…
Feb 25, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Fleksy To Bring Insanely Small Predictive Keyboard To The Gear 2
  There are plenty of keyboard alternatives to the stock keyboard available for those of…
Feb 25, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
All The Best New Galaxy S5 Features In One Place
With Mobile World Congress in full swing, there is news flying left and right about…
Feb 24, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Nokia's New Android Phones Will Not See A U.S. Release
Nokia announced something rather interesting today at the Mobile World Congress in that they will…
Feb 24, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Glympse Partners With Samsung To Provide Basic Location Sharing With ChatON
Whenever you are traveling or trying to get someone to meet up with you, one…
Feb 23, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
New Amazon Streaming Device Tipped In Best Buy Leak
Streaming hardware would seem to be the up and coming fad of the year.  Currently,…
Feb 22, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Nexus 5 Bug Causes Texts and Calls to Randomly Not Come Through
Why did we develop cell phones in the first place?  Simply put, we did it…
Feb 22, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
KitKat Update Approved For T-Mobile and AT&T HTC One, OTA To Come…
Some quality good news for all you HTC One owners out there on T-Mobile and…
Feb 21, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Google's Project Tango Phone Renders Full 3D Maps, Here's What They Look…
Google is easily the king of innovation.  Now they are working on something that people…
Feb 21, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Paranoid Android: Halo Is Dead; New Features In Development
Think way back to when we started hearing about floating widgets and apps.  Seems like…
Feb 20, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Oppo Find 7 Will Have A Removable Battery
As much as I started to dislike my old Epic 4G Touch near the end…
Feb 20, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Google Fiber To Roll Out Their 1Gb Broadband To 34 New Cities/9…
Google Fiber is one of the fastest internet provider options out there, but it is…
Feb 19, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Oppo Find 7 Will Have Two Variants, Says AnTuTu Benchmarks; New Leaked…
The era of absolutely crazy phone technology seems to be upon us.  People maybe jut…
Feb 19, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
AH Primetime: Why The HTC M8 Is In Trouble Due To Its…
What's in a name?  A rose by any other name smells just as sweet!  Yes,…
Feb 18, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Tech Talk: Are Pomegranates The Secret To Longer Battery Life?
Battery life is one thing that plagues almost all smart-technology users, specifically phones.  One of…
Feb 18, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Google Set To Open A New 200-Worker Office In San Francisco
With all of the acquisitions that Google has been heading as of late, a problem…
Feb 18, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Andy Rubin Offered Android to Samsung First; And They Laughed Just Two…
Here's an interesting tidbit:  Samsung could have been the owner of Android, and the mobile…
Feb 17, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Sony To Focus Primarily On Wearable Tech For The Future
Sony has been quite the player in the mobile technology industry as of late.  With…
Feb 16, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Google Acquires New Sound Authentication Company SlickLogin
Google has been the king of acquisitions for years.  They constantly buy new companies with…
Feb 16, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Smartphone Early Upgrading Programs: Explained, Defined and Compared
Ever since 2013, carriers have been instituting a new method of holding customers besides the…
Feb 16, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Android: The Most Popular OS In The World
We have been having the biggest debate of the mobile world for a few years…
Feb 15, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
HTC Needs To Update Sprint EVO 4G LTE In A Special Way
Carrier specific phones have been around for quite a while.  My first phone, the Samsung…
Feb 15, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
AH Primetime: The Rise And Fall Of Flappy Bird
It's the game that was so addictive that you loved to hate it.  You don't…
Feb 13, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Google Release New Crisis Response Map In Wake Of Southeastern Snow Storm
It's always great to see that a company cares, and Google is one of the…
Feb 13, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Sony's New D6503 'Sirius' UI Preview, Pre-MWC Edition
Sony has been making some waves lately.  With their Xperia line, they have made some…
Feb 13, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Sprint Galaxy S4 To See KitKat Update Starting February 13
Courtesy of a leak from a Sprint insider, we know that the Sprint version of…
Feb 13, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Lenovo's CEO Predicts That His Company Can Turn Motorola Around
It is now old news that Lenovo purchased has purchased Motorola from Google for $2.91…
Feb 13, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Convert Your Stock Moto G Into The GPE With MotoTool AIO
  There are many variants of smartphones out there, and many variants of skins that…
Feb 12, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
First 5G Network To Be Released By Huawei In 2020
Even with 4G LTE not even accessible to every person, we are hearing about 5G…
Feb 12, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
Third Party Provides Way For Developers To Add Ads To Chromecast
Nothing really ruins a video experience like an ad.  Right when we get engrossed in…
Feb 12, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft
AH Primetime: Should Microsoft Drop The Windows Phone And Turn To Android?
Let's look at the facts here.  The Windows Phone (WP) platform is not doing well.…
Feb 11, 2014 · By Patrick Northcraft