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Woman Dies In Smartphone House Fire Rescue
Internet August 2, 2014
We all love our modern gadgets right? I mean who can live without your smartphone, tablet, PC, games console, etc. It feels sometimes like we are more and more reliant upon these technological marvels. What if you dropped your phone in the toilet? Or even somehow managed to drop it... Read more
Smartphone Video Of Park Ranger Dancing Gets Him Fired
News June 29, 2014
Amazon has officially unveiled the Fire at a special press event held in Seattle. As thought by many, Amazon’s first handset has a 4.7-inch Gorilla Glass display with a 720p HD-resolution screen. To put that in perspective that is the same size as the Moto X. The new handset also has... Read more
The new Firefox OS was able to capture some of the spotlight at this year’s Mobile World Congress. Mozilla held a press conference highlighting its Firefox OS and also outlining their vision for the future. The question is whether a Firefox OS, or any other for that matter, would be... Read more
Chief executive of StoreDot, Doron Myersdorf, says you will. Thr technology required to fully charge your mobile phone in just 300 seconds could be on the market and in the smartphone in your hand by 2018. That is at least, according to the boss of Israeli firm behind the technology, StoreDot.... Read more
Most of us use our smartphones so much that they will use up all of their juice by the end of the day. Likely you will plug your smartphone in at night and then forget about it and fall asleep, knowing that you will wake up to a fully charged... Read more
Amazon Fire Phone Price Dropped to $199 Off Contract
Mobile December 2, 2014
Amazon is sitting on $86 million of unsold Fire Phone inventory and in order to start reducing the stock, the e-commerce giant has slashed $250 off the phone, costing only $199 off contract. The original price of the Fire Phone matched most of the high-end devices at $199 on contract,... Read more
The Fire Phone is not doing well, in fact, it is costing Amazon $170 million in operating loss quarterly. In the recent Q3 earnings call, Amazon announced a loss of $544 million, and the majority of the loss came from their first smartphone. Amazon has been hampered by the lack... Read more
What won’t a person do for their beloved smartphone? Just within the past few months, Techbeat has written more than one article detailing the importance we as a society now place on our phones. In one of those articles, it was revealed that more than two thirds of all Americans... Read more
A Smartphone Unlike Any Other From Amazon
Mobile May 14, 2014
Amazon has been working away on its own series of smartphones for a number of years now but sources claim that an announcement from the company is just around the corner. We know from the rumors that Amazon is promising that this handset will be unlike any other already available... Read more
Mozilla’s Firefox Operating System is a smartphone and tablet OS, which is designed to run web apps that are made using HTML5. The trouble with applications is that they come in all manner of different sizes. The management over at Sony would like to bring in some support for home... Read more
Firefox Phones Will Soon Be Available For $25 in Developing Countries
Mobile February 26, 2014
If there’s one thing most all of us in the United States know all too well by now, it’s this: smartphones are not cheap. And while they’re not cheap, there’s a reason most of us have them – and that’s because they’ve basically become an extension of ourselves. We do... Read more
Struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry has abandoned a $4.7bn (£3bn) rescue bid from its largest shareholder, fired its CEO and turned to a $1bn fundraising plan in a battle to stay afloat. Thorsten Heins was employed as CEO to run the company back in January 2012. He will leave with a pay off... Read more
A British startup came under fire for using recycling bins to track people’s smartphones and identify their preferences in view of supporting personalized advertising. A total of 12 smartphone tracking bins were installed across the UK capital by the startup, called Renew. But following several press reports on the matter... Read more
The latest smartphone from the company ZTE, will run the new Firefox operating system. It will be the first mobile manufacturer to run this operating system in the UK and US markets. ZTE have chosen to sell the handset named ZTE Open, exclusively through the e-commerce site eBay and it... Read more
One of the world’s leading Internet browser providers has joined the smartphone business with a new operating system. Mozilla’s smartphone OS was officially released in Spain. First details about the operating system emerged at the Barcelona Mobile World Congress in February and Mozilla has just released the first two smartphones... Read more