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Pay no attention to what anyone says about the convenience of mobile phone holsters – they’re about as cool as neon-colored fanny packs. At Mobile World Congress this week, the fashion police – courtesy of Good Technology – was quick to cite offenders by handing out tickets. If being accosted by lovely ladies dressed as…
Earlier this week couples around the world celebrated the artificial holiday known as “Valentine’s Day”. In America the 14th of February is also “National Condom Awareness Day” because couples tend to … you know … share a soda pop down at the corner diner. In order to celebrate both holidays the city of New York…
Please allow me to indulge my photography obsession once again by sharing with you Camera+ and the process the developers take to create effects. If you’re familiar with iPhone photo apps like Instagram, Hipstamatic, Camerabag and Camera+, you’ll notice that film-style photos – especially ones that look like they’ve aged or have been taken by…
Although Android is everywhere these days, iOS brings in more dough in terms of ad revenue for free apps. It’s tough to say how long this trend will last given Android’s tremendous presence – it’s on hundreds of smartphones and tablets combined – but right now iOS has a pretty solid lead when it comes…
Valentine’s Day is here once again, and this writer, unfortunately, will most likely spend the night at the gym trying to prepare for the rapidly approaching summer. For those of you in a similar boat, you should know that there are plenty of iPhone apps to help you seek out singles in your area and…
There is so much going on in the world of Nokia this morning with its new Microsoft partnership. In the meantime, however, folks are still apparently enjoying their current handsets running Symbian and having all kinds of fun with them. The Nokia N8, in particular, has been the star of many videos, short films and…
Will Carling, a former rugby captain in the UK, lost his iPad on a train and chronicled his journey to finding it with his Twitter account. But when he initially left the Apple tablet on the train, he just chalked it up as a loss until he remembered that he had MobileMe activated on it.…
Sonos owners have enjoyed a pretty solid audio system for quite some time now, and iPhone owners who own Sonos systems also have the convenience of controlling it from their smartphones. Now the Sonos Controller is finally hitting Android, over a year after the iOS version, but there are a few tweaks that make it…
Samsung is trying to keep up with the high-quality image game when it comes to its feature phones and smartphones, so it developed at 12MP CMOS sensor that looks to be a killer in terms of low-light performance. The new sensors feature 1.12 micron pixels, which is slightly smaller than that of the iPhone 4’s…
It’s no surprise that as we’ve become more mobile, and our phones become more like mini-computers, the sales and adoption of smartphones would outpace that of personal computers. One could even argue that our smartphones are indeed small computers that fit right into our pockets. We can send e-mail, check our Facebook and Twitter accounts,…