All the stories tagged with smartphone
Android updates shown to be late and inconsistent – is it a problem?
10/28/2011, While there are many pros and cons to using an operating system like Android over iOS, one of the major disadvantages that plagues Android users is the frequency and timing of official updates. Depending on the phone, its manufacturer, and [...]
LG posts disappointing Q3 2011 results
10/27/2011, Uh-oh, it looks like LG isn’t doing too well again. The Korean electronics manufacturer recently posted its Q3 2011 financial report and sad to say, it’s far from pleasant. LG reported sales down on both year to year basis and [...]
Android top smartphone purchases in Asia
10/21/2011, The Apple iPhone 4S might be doing gangbusters in terms of sales, but that does not mean North America is the center of the universe. There is this thing known as the rest of the world, and in Asia, Android-powered [...]
NetSecure Payments Kudos lets everyone have a credit card machine
10/20/2011, While it’s not exactly in everybody’s best interests to have a portable credit card machine that can be brought wherever they go, the technology is available for such purposes. The folks over at NetSecure Payments have recently introduced its Kudos [...]
Motorola Droid RAZR Preview
10/18/2011, The Motorola RAZR is back – revived as an Android-powered smartphone that’s thin, powerful, fast and ready to kick the competition around. Simply put, the Droid RAZR has something for everyone. It’s powerful with a 1.2GHz dual-core processor and has [...]
PocketTouch lets users control their phones through fabric
10/17/2011, Don’t you just hate it when you’re in the middle of something important and your phone rings – especially when you forget to put it on silent? Taking the phone out of your pocket just makes everybody stare at you [...]
Smartphone does more than take beautiful photos
10/11/2011, A camera in your smartphone is compulsory these days, how times have changed! Well, did you know that instead of just taking pretty photos with your smartphone, there is another way to harness its imaging quality – that is to [...]
Motorola Lapdock 100 – one laptop dock to rule them all
10/11/2011, Motorola has just launched the Motorola Lapdock 100, a laptop dock that will work with every current -and future- Webtop-enabled smartphones. If you haven’t heard of Webtop before, it’s a proprietary Motorola “computer mode” that Motorola smartphone can go into [...]
Most secure Android phone in the world
10/11/2011, The Germans are an efficient lot, and when it comes the quality of their automobiles, well Mercedes Benz, BMW and Audi says it all, don’t they? The Swedish are also in with a shout for the safest car in the [...]
TAXAN MeoTune turns your smartphone into a portable TV
10/03/2011, [CEATEC 2011] People in Japan love watching TV; in fact most of the phones made for the Japanese market seem to incorporate 1-Seg tuners so that they can enjoy TV while on the go. However, not all phones were built [...]
Sony XPeria Ray Unlocked for $425
09/30/2011, The Sony Ericsson Xperia ray has been announced back in June at the CommunicAsia 2011 event in Singapore and the unit was shipping in some countries this summer. Today, Sony Ericsson announced that the XPeria ray is now available unlocked [...]
All your touchscreens are belong to us
09/20/2011, Visual Planet from Cambridge think that the future lies in touchscreen display – on just about anywhere and every where, as the company is currently developing a project that is said to turn virtually any surface into a touchscreen. This [...]
EEG powered by smartphones
09/19/2011, Folks over at the Technical University of Denmark managed to cobble together a portable EEG system that comprises of a low-cost scalp monitor and a smartphone application. This is not exactly rocket science, but the positive implications of such a [...]
