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Over the past two weeks, I’ve become rather obsessed with Google’s still invite-only game, Ingress. While it’s probably incredibly geeky to hear someone talking about portals and resonators, the game quickly becomes addicting once you give it a real shot. But, like most 1.0 version applications, Ingress isn’t perfect and needs some polishing. Last night…
NVIDIA’s Tegra platform is something that most tech geeks have been acquainted with for some time now, and early last year the company introduced Tegra Zone. Tegra Zone was, and still is meant to be your one-stop shop for finding the best games that have been optimized, and sometime exclusively released, for Tegra processors. Recently, the Tegra…
Do you remember that phone that went viral a few years ago? The Pomegranate? Everybody considered it their dream phone and some people even thought it was real and wanted to pre-order it. It featured a coffee brewer, built-in shaver, built-in harmonica, built-in projector, global voice translator, and all the regular features of a smartphone…
Apple announced today that its latest iOS products are slated to debut in China starting in December. The Cupertino company will kick off sales with the iPad mini and the fourth generation iPad, both of which will hit retail shelves on Friday, December 7th. The iPhone 5 will arrive two weeks later on December 14th.…
VoLTE may promise digital-quality calling, but it may drain smartphone batteries at a rate that’s twice as fast as CDMA-based calls, says a study by Metrico Wireless that was first reported by GigaOM. The study measured the power consumption of voice calls placed over a CDMA network and compared it with voice calls that were transmitted over…
Thanks to savvy ninjas from SamMobile, we know that Samsung is entering the final test phase of the Galaxy Note Jelly Bean firmware test. Software version N7000XXLSA is based on Android 4.1.2, packing a number of new features and improvements like: Improved performance and stability, thanks to Project Butter Multi-View (Multi Windows Multitasking) like on…
The Sharp Aquos SH930W, which has already been unveiled in Russia, will also be announced for Hong Kong. The Japanese company said that its 1080p Android smartphone will cost 4,488 HKD (around $580) and will ship with Jelly Bean out of box. The price is much lower than what Russians are forced to pay (21,990…
Not everyone does routine checkups but does who do know it can be a pain in the neck. To solve this hassle, a company called Scanadu unveiled new line of smartphone accessories that read your body’s vital signs and beam that information to a doctor’s office. Three devices are in the pipeline: Scanadu Scout (pictured…
Did you know that the first smartphone was introduced at Comdex twenty years ago this week? The phone to hold that illustrious title as the world’s first smartphone is the Simon Personal Communicator from IBM. Introduced on November 23, 1992 as a prototype, the Simon was the first cellular phone to combine telephone and PDA features…
Verizon may be ranked among the best wireless carriers in the US, but the company has a shoddy track record when it comes to updating its Android phones . As pointed out by Droid Life, the prime example of this lackluster performance is the Galaxy Nexus. The Galaxy Nexus was the first Nexus device to…