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How many times have you stumbled across an interesting article on the internet, but then decided not to read it because it was too long and you didn’t have enough time to go through the whole thing? That’s a problem that Marco Arment solved by creating Instapaper. In a nutshell, it’s an app that stores…
HTC just launched the One S in Taiwan. Normally Qualcomm’s latest and greatest Snapdragon S4 would be inside, but they put the S3 in there instead. There’s nothing wrong with the S3, it powers millions of 2011 flagship Android smartphones, but the S4 is a totally different beast. Despite having just two cores, the Krait…
Chances are that if you’re reading this article, you’re probably a geek. And because you’re a geek, you’ve likely spent your childhood taking things apart while your parents watched in horror. Doing that is a lot harder these days because gadgets are now basically tamper proof, but that hasn’t stopped the folks at iFixIt and…
One month ago, on May 3rd, Samsung announced their 2012 Android flagship device, the Galaxy S III. Three weeks later it hit store shelves in Europe, and now it’s time for it to cross the pond and land in the United States. The South Korean handset vendor just issued a press release saying that their…
Another display news though not as nearly as interesting as the previous one. This time we have Sharp saying that it’s upgrading its current displays to make them slimmer and clearer. Moreover, the Japanese company’s new technology, called IGZO, will also make future screens more efficient, reducing power consumption along the way. The best part…
If you think you’ve seen it all when it comes to touchscreens, think again. Japanese NTT Docomo and Fujitsu demoed the technology that could potentially change everything. Their two-side OLED screen prototype is not only transparent but can accept your touch inputs from both sides. For instance, one side could be used for dealing with…
While the topic of mobile apps generates so much online and offline buzz, the truth is, there are almost no absolute rules that apply to all mobile apps. What is true for mobile games, might not be true for mobile tools… Inner-Active took a bird’s eye view on the world of mobile apps according to…
Image editing/uploading apps like Instagram can do miracles but there’s a point where software can’t replace the hardware. A sunny sky or reflections off of shiny surfaces including water can create overexposed blown out images, or reduced color saturation. To prevent this, professional photographers have relied on polarizing filters to clean up noisy light and…
LG Prada 3.0 was pretty sexy device when it was originally announced and even today it looks pretty cool with that Prada logo, which I’m sure is well appreciated by fashionistas all around the world. Its problem, however, was the price, which at one point was north of 400 GBP. Now it’s down with online…
According to the recent research from price comparison website uSwitch.com, 17 million mobile phone users in the UK are wasting money by not using all of them. To put it in percentages, that’s almost half (48%) of mobile phone customers who use just 50% of their monthly minute and text allowances. Furthermore, the wastage is…