mobile phone
Samsung Galaxy R smartphone sports Nvidia Tegra CPU
Thursday, August 11th, 2011Samsung and Nvidia have announced they’re extending their technology partnership from tablets to smartphones, today announcing the Galaxy R smartphone, a new entry in Samsung’s well-regarded Galaxy line that will sports a 4.19-inch display, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and the same dual-core Nvidia Tegra processor that powers Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1. The addition of the Tegra [...]
Phone battery flat? Yell at it! Gadget uses your voice to charge mobile!
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011It could go down as one of the most irritating inventions in history. Scientists have devised a gadget that will allow mobile phones to be recharged simply by talking into them. The technology turns sound into electricity, allowing a mobile to be powered up while a conversation is in progress – and the greater the [...]
Smartphone Photos Can Reveal Private Information
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011According to a report by WSOTV: Smartphone users and their children could be targets of a new kind of stalking without ever knowing it. Many parents don’t realize that pictures taken with smartphones and uploaded to the Internet could give a predator all the information needed for stalking or even an abduction. Police Detective Walt [...]
Office 365 Isn’t Mobile Enough
Monday, April 18th, 2011According to Tony Bradley of PCWorld: One of the most compelling aspects of Office 365–aside from its overall value–is that you can access it from virtually anywhere. Because it is delivered from the cloud, the tools and services in Office 365 are not tied to a single PC or device, and data can be accessed [...]
Back To The Future! 1988 / 2011
Sunday, March 20th, 201124 years ago, Apple’s co-founder Steve Wosniak laid out a vision for what the computer would become. The year they gave was 2000 – a bit optimistic it turns out. However, today 2011, everything in their vision has come true! When this video was created in 1988, there was no World Wide Web, no flatscreen [...]
Softbank’s Ultra Simple Single-Button Phone
Saturday, February 12th, 2011This new cell phone from Japan’s Softbank and ZTE is more of a security device than anything else. It’s kind of like a one-button panic alarm that’s wired into a cell phone. Apparently it’s designed for preschoolers and seniors. Yes, smartphones don’t work for everyone, but I’m a bit surprised that this phone only has [...]
Does a Facebook Phone Make Any Sense?
Friday, January 28th, 2011A flurry of rumors circulated about HTC launching Facebook-branded phones. Let’s talk about this! Why this rumor doesn’t make sense What CityAM is saying about the facebook phone might be right. But it seems off. CityAM didn’t quote any sources, instead relying on old favorites “City A.M. has learned” and “it is understood…”. OK, that [...]
Sony’s PlayStation Phone gets in-depth preview in China, PlayStation Pocket app in tow
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011Well, that was quick. It was just two days ago when the elusive PlayStation Phone popped up on a Hong Kong forum, and now it’s back again in full exposure thanks to Chinese website IT168. It’s now confirmed that said Xperia-branded device is powered by a Qualcomm Adreno 205 GPU, along with what’s likely to [...]
Nokia slips secret chip into C7
Sunday, October 24th, 2010Nokia’s C7 handset has an NFC chip in it, but Nokia is refusing to say why it’s there or even what it is exactly. The C7 is very much like Nokia’s flagship, the N8, only with less multimedia and (arguably) a prettier case, but it now seems that the C7 is packing some Near Field [...]
Docomo Phone with integrated air purifier
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010This is why we come to Ceatec, nowhere else in the world will you see a phone that integrates an Ion-generator that aims at sanitizing the air in a 30cm radius around the phone. Of course, you have to understand that many people wear their mobile phones around the neck, instead of putting them in [...]