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Pre-Mobile Tech Companies Re-Inventing Their Core Apps for Mobile
The mobile world is becoming vastly different from desktop, with several pre-mobile companies redeveloping their core apps around mobile and tablet, to offer a new experience. This all started with Facebook Paper a few months ago. Rumored to be the new RSS feed, Facebook Paper actually offers more than... Read more
Amazon Admits they Got the Price Wrong with Fire Phone
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... Read more
Check Out ‘NoPhone’ – The Ultimate Smartphone Smashing its Kickstarter Goal
A group of friends from the United States and Netherlands have joined forces to create the ‘NoPhone’. It is simple in design – a piece of black, rectangular shaped plastic, which supposedly helps those with “app addiction”. What’s more incredible than the ‘phone’ itself, is that it has already... Read more
All NYPD Officers to Get Windows Phones
New York City Mayor, Bill de Blasio, announcedĀ last Friday that the NYPD is planning to outfit all 35,000 of their officers with a mobile ā€˜handheld device,ā€™ aka a ā€˜smartphoneā€™. The technology program; NYPD Mobility Initiative, will cost $160 million. As well as giving all the Police officers a smartphone,... Read more
OnePlus One Dropping Invites, Pre-Orders Start This Weekā€
OnePlus is looking to get rid of the invite system on the OnePlus One, after using it as the only way for customers to buy their smartphone for a few months. After complaints railed against the company for their failure to provide customers with smartphones after months of waiting,... Read more
Make The Most Of iOS 8 With These Cool Apps
If you’re looking at iOS 8 on your iPhone or iPad, you may be left wondering what the difference is because let’s face it, it doesn’t look massively different. However it does have some cool new features and thanks to widgets and app extensions, some of your favourite apps... Read more
New Battery Lasting 20 Years Takes Just Minutes to Charge!
Researchers from the Nanyang Technology University have developed a new battery that boasts a life span of over 20 years, that’s an extra 18 years more than the current lithium-ion batteries that are found in our smartphones and tablets. As well as promising to last a whole lot longer,... Read more
Nexus 6, Nexus 9 & Nexus Player All Launched By Google
The Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 have been announced by Google earlier today, alongside Android 5.0 Lollipop, the new updated operating system. Google has also launched a new Android TV media player, called Nexus Player. The announcement happened on Googleā€™s official blog, sadly without an event. The two new... Read more
Study Shows You Probably Stare At Your Phone 3 Hours A Day
I don’t know if you’ve noticed or not, but everywhere you go it seems like people are using their smartphones. Maybe they’re looking at their Facebook newsfeed, maybe they’re snapchatting, or, maybe they’re just taking a picture or two. (Or, God forbid, they might actually be using the phone... Read more
Australian Guy Recreates the Strangest Tinder Photos
When looking for love many turn to the popular dating app Tinder, however when Jarrod Allen failed to find a girlfriend after a lengthy search, he decided to put Tinder to better use. After seeing how many crazy profile pictures women were using, Jarrod embarked on a mission to... Read more
The Worst Break Up Text Messages Ever Sent!
What’s worse than being dumped? – Being dumped by text of course! Here is a collection of some of the worst messages ever sent, by people who were just too cowardly to say it face to face. This guy appears to have his priorities all wrong! Image 1 of... Read more
Sony Expects $1.2 Billion Loss from Smartphones this Yearā€
Sony has had another hard year, as CEO Kazuo Hirai works on creating the ā€œOne Sonyā€ motive across all platforms, their businesses in television, mobile and camera continue to slope down, losing up to $1.2 billion this year alone. The company is projecting a Ā„90 billion ($1.2 billion) net... Read more
Sony Xperia Z3 Scores Best On Battery Life Tests
The Xperia Z3 and Z3 Compact are critical for Sony, after losing $1.7 billion on mobiles this year, they need the newest flagship to work in the United States and Europe. It looks like the Japanese company has got one area spot on – battery life. In early tests,... Read more
HTC Working With Google On Nexus 9
There has been plenty of evidence revealed in the past two weeks, regarding the Nexus X and Nexus 9. Google looks to be continuing the Nexus program in 2014, adding a new smartphone and tablet from Motorola and HTC. HTC will be head of the Nexus 9 design and... Read more
BlackBerry Passport is the Company’s New Flagshipā€
BlackBerry decided to step out of the consumer market in 2013, instead focusing their efforts on BBM and business customers. It has not been a great move for BlackBerry, while they incur lower losses under their new CEO John Chen, BlackBerry has also lost the tiny bit of mobile... Read more
Samsung Galaxy Note Faster 4 Launch in China to Beat Appleā€
Samsung is making some aggressive moves with the Galaxy Note 4, after losing share price due to the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus launch. The South Korean company was looking to announce the Galaxy Note 4 on October and later in China, but this will be escalated. SK... Read more
Study Shows That Half Of Us Use Damaged Phones
I am known for taking meticulous care of my smartphone. It is rare indeed when my iPhone is out of it’s protective case, and in those times, I make sure it’s not over the toilet or over an area where it would break were it to fall to the... Read more
Oppo N3 Has A Radical Redesign In Newest Leakā€
Last year, Oppo was known as a startup Chinese manufacturer, but we have learned a lot about the company in 2014. For one, they own the startup OnePlus, who developed the OnePlus One, a favorite among Android fans. The Chinese manufacturer has two smartphones lines, the N and Find.... Read more