This guy is all over the place, but he really does show you what the phone does. 

This is a great phone. I love it so far! 

...then Motorola pulled back the curtain on its next Razr iteration, the Droid Razr Maxx. It looks like its former self, but it’s been retooled to include a massive battery — the extra two-odd millimeters in thickness that were scooped away from the first Droid Razr’s backside have been filled in, and the slim profile of last year’s design has been obliterated. Otherwise, it looks like the same phone, but now it wears plus-size jeans. It’s heftier too. At 145 grams, it’s 20 grams heavier than the Razr.

The extra junk in the trunk comes with a payoff — an upgraded 3,300 mAh battery cell, one which Motorola promises will deliver up to 21 hours of talk time and over 350 hours on standby.

With the Razr Maxx’s supercharged battery, Moto goes a long way toward solving what is arguably the biggest issue in mobile devices today: longevity. Even the iPhone — the darling device of the mobile world — took serious heat for its lack of stamina after receiving the latest iOS software update. 

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Since the launch of Sandy Bridge, we have showcased a number of P67 and Z68 boards from ASUS, Gigabyte, and EVGA. Today we will add MSI to the list and have a look at one of their higher-end socket 1155 boards - the Z68A-GD80 G3. The G3 version of the GD80 board was released only a few weeks after the B3 with the main difference being included PCI-E 3.0 functionality. The X79 boards may be all the rage these days but savvy consumers have stuck with the Z68 platform for its lower price and excellent feature set.

Not only does the Z68A-GD80 G3 include PCI-E Gen 3 and support for upcoming Ivy Bridge processors (including Gen 3 SLI), but with the GD80 there is a long list of features on top of that. First and foremost, similar to what we saw with the ASUS P67 Sabertooth, the GD80 has Military Certified components (Hi-c and Solid Capacitors and Super Ferrite Chokes) and with that comes an extra two years on the warranty for a total of five years. Then of course we have the Z68-specific features: graphics switching with both DVI-I and HDMI outputs, SSD caching, Quick Sync Video, and SATA 6Gb/s direct to the PCH. 

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Recently my wife and I took a trip to Chicago and we stayed at the Hilton hotel by the airport. Dealing with the hotel itself is a completely different story but one of the things that we ran into was (and it truly is one of those Griswold moments) the floor we were on was the only floor which had trouble with the wireless routing so the floor had both ethernet and wireless. Now my wife and I had brought just our iPads and we made every attempt to get onto the wireless in our room and it ended up being a complete and total joke. So we called down to the front desk and they said yes were aware of the problem and we are working on a solution but for now you have to plug-in. Of course we all know that there is no ethernet adapter for the iPad two so I started looking around after I got back from my trip ( because I had to go down to the lobby to get a stupid signal) and low and behold I ran across this under $50 little wireless hotspot that you can take with you when you travel.