Tag Archives: smartphone

Over the next four years, Sprint has agreed to purchase 30.5 million iPhones from Apple -- for $20 billion dollars. Can Sprint really sell that many iPhones in four years?

If you're one of the 11,600 people who paid $1.99 for "Acne App", we've got some bad news. Flashing red and blue lights at your face doesn't really cure acne.

Pago Mobile could potentially make our lives a whole lot easier. However, can this application survive long enough to become widely accepted?

The analysts at comScore have come up with some... not so surprising new statistics, which place Android as having a 40% share of mobile subscribers.

Google engineers send their latest smartphone into the upper atmosphere, extending the reach of the do-it-yourself impulse into space.

After seeing the alleged smartphone time traveler in a documentary featured on the DVD of Charlie Chaplin’s “The Circus,” I became intrigued with the concept of time travelers popping up in Chaplin films. In fact, I’ve been seeking them out. You can imagine my surprise when I was watching the 1936 Chaplin film ‘Modern Times’ and came across this eerie ...

Last year, John Savio, Apple fanboy and avid Halloween fan, created an iPhone 3GS costume that impressed the geek community. It was both a thing of beauty and yet somehow aesthetically ‘off.’ He incorporated a display that made the costume look like a functioning device, but the form factor was all wrong. The corners were too squared… the width too ...

A few months ago, Holiday Inn announced that they would be initiating a program that will turn your smartphone into a hotel room key. Over the last few weeks Holiday Inn hotels in Chicago and Houston have started to roll out the trial program which they call “MobileKey.” Participation in MobileKey, where available, is still optional, so it does allow ...

This is a true disaster for Microsoft. They wanted so bad to be a serious contender in the smartphone market. Their newest attempt, the KIN, which has only been in stores since May 13th, is now being pulled from the shelves. But why? Some sources are reporting that as few as 500 KINs were sold in their entire tenure on ...

If you wear this tee, you’re essentially asking to be poked all day. Like some sort of geeky Pillsbury Doughboy. Except when you get poked instead of giggling you let out a proud Wookiee roar. *insert phonetic Chewbacca growl here* I do wish you could create your own custom app page based on your favorite apps, but then again, I ...