03 May, 2016
The evolution of Samsung smartphones and the sophistication of their hardware design has carried over to the company's marketing department. The latest batch of Galaxy S7 ads is tastefully made and is quite enjoyable to watch. Gone is the tacky way...
28 April, 2016
Sony invited us to its Tokyo headquarters not so long ago and there the company showed us wondrous gadgets. One of them was the Sony Xperia Agent - a personal assistant for your home.
Right now, there are more unknowns than known things about it....
23 April, 2016
Let’s face it, texting and driving is really dangerous no matter how good you think you might be at “multitasking”. Would you juggle knives while texting? Well, you get the point.
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or NHTSA is...
22 April, 2016
XDA member KApetz2 decided he loved every bit of his Nexus 5 so much, but hated that he didn’t have more than 32GB of internal storage. So he did what every modder does, he took matters into his own hands and bought a 64GB eMMC chip and changed the...
21 April, 2016
Samsung has just posted a set of videos on YouTube promoting this year's Galaxy A-series under the tagline "A for you" (A4U, millennials?). From the A3 (2016) to the A9 (2016) they all share the same glass/metal build, and that's the first thing the...
19 April, 2016
Google has been cracking down on potentially harmful apps being installed from the Play Store, so much so that currently, as of Google’s latest security report, only 0.15% of Android devices have been able to successfully install PHAs or potentially...
18 April, 2016
Sony's image sensor production plant in Kyushu Island has been closed due to the recent deadly earthquakes in the country. The Kumamoto Prefecture factory is the second of Sony's image sensor plants to halt its operation after the one in the Kyushu...
17 April, 2016
The twilight of the microUSB may be upon us, but it still has a few years before it's properly phased out. While the USB Type-C allows reversible plugs, it's yet to become the most popular, let alone the only standard.
Many new smartphones, among...
16 April, 2016
LG has released a whole bunch of 360-degree spherical wallpapers for you to enjoy on your brand new G5 smarphones. "Spherical wallpapers?" you exclaim in confusion, with a firm belief in your head that walls do generally tend to be flat.
Well,...
14 April, 2016
Remember the LG Rolly Keyboard? A wireless portable keyboard that could be folded into an easy-to-carry stick. Well, a successor to that device has been unveiled. Appropriately dubbed Rolly Keyboard 2, the new keyboard contains several improvements...
13 April, 2016
We came up with a puzzle for you to solve yesterday and here's the answer - the 13MP image was captured with the front-facing camera of the Sony Xperia X (sans Performance, but the two cameras are actually identical).
Clues were abundant - so...
13 April, 2016
The USB Implementers Forum together with USB 3.0 Promoter Group have announced a new Authentication Protocol for USB Type-C. The non-profit and the group of companies which includes HP, Intel, and Microsoft among others, have agreed upon a...
12 April, 2016
Update: The 13MP image was captured with the front-facing camera of the Sony Xperia X. Clues were abundant - so much so that we resorted to deliberately asking you to ignore them, but those who called our bluff were right.
Today, we got to spend...
12 April, 2016
IDC has released PC shipment data for the first quarter of the year and the numbers show the market is still in decline. For the period worldwide PC shipments totaled 60.6 million units, a year-on-year decline of 11.5%. IDC says the decline is due...
10 April, 2016
Motorola was the first to make the wooden cases more than just an exclusive accessory available to select few. Sure, the Moto G and Moto X wooden panels looked beautiful, but a piece of wood isn't the thing that sells phones.
Three years ago we...
08 April, 2016
In another round of head-to-head speed tests, the folks over at PhoneBuff have pitted the Exynos-powered Samsung Galaxy S7 edge against the Apple iPhone 6s Plus. The Galaxy S7 with a Snapdragon heart lost miserably the previous time around, but then...
07 April, 2016
I don’t know about you, but lately my Facebook feed has been nothing but re-shared memes, videos, and click-bait articles. Facebook has been so focused on selling its platform for companies and organizations to advertise on, that users feel...
07 April, 2016
When it comes do building apps, developers need extensive training in order to build even the simplest applications.
A developer named Kevin Burke submitted a request for the information regarding the iPad deployment and the app that randomizes...
07 April, 2016
Some modders at ComputerBild decided that the iPhone SE was stuck in a body much too old to be sold as a new phone. We don’t blame them, the iPhone 5 was introduced in fall of 2012 so it’s about 3 and a half years old.
These modders decided to...
06 April, 2016
Las Vegas’ newest arena has T-Mobile’s name on it, and magenta lights as far as the eye can see. It’s huge at 650,000 square feet (~60,385 square meters) and deep rather than wide, in order to give the best views of the arena below from any seat....
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