Cecilia Abadie is one of Google’s Glass Explorers — an early adopter of the head-mounted display. The ticket issued to Abadie (image cropped to remove home address). (Credit: Cecilia Abadie) While driving in her home city of San Diego earlier this week, she was pulled over by police and given a ticket for wearing her …
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Y’know, for kids! The Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Kids is a 7-inch Android tablet for tots and toddlers, bairns and bambinos, and it goes on sale in the UK this week for around £199. The youngling-friendly tablet’s screen is a 7-inch 1,024×600-pixel display. Underneath is a 1.2GHz dual-core processor with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage, and on the …
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An e-mail survey is not a pretty thing. For Mixpanel founder Suhail Doshi, it’s downright insulting. “It’s a giant form,” he explained. “There’s 13 questions, text inputs, no great incentive.” It’s the standard way companies get user feedback at the moment, using services like SurveyMonkey. But Doshi is hoping Mixpanel’s new tool, exclusively for mobile, will help developers see the …
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Earlier today, Sprint announced the first four smartphones (the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini, Galaxy Mega, HTC One Max, and LG G2) that will be compatible with the carrier’s new ultra-fast LTE service called “Spark”. Related stories T-Mobile Laying Off More Workers Post-Sprint Merger Mint Mobile, Xfinity Mobile, Google Fi, Visible: Which Wireless Networks Do Smaller Providers Use? I’m Racing My …
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Are you one of many Apple fans who say that the zooming, floating effects in iOS 7 are causing seasickness? A new feature in Apple’s latest update should sort you out, and may even make older iPhones easier to use. iOS 7.0.3 contains an update to the ‘Reduce Motion’ option found in the Settings menu of iPhone, iPad and iPod …
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Sprint potentially could look for partners to augment its wireless network. That’s according to Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, who spoke on a conference call with analysts on Wednesday. Hesse was fielding a question about the search for additional spectrum, the radio airwaves necessary to carry cellular traffic. Hesse touted the company’s position, which has a Frankenstein-like combination of different spectrum, …
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Despite all the promises, smartwatches remain an acquired taste. Yes, there’s a market but one that largely caters to the likes of health junkies and early adopters. Fitness bands are cheap and light but too minimalist. Samsung’s Galaxy Gear is all brawn but lacks device compatibility and email support. And the Pebble, one of the first true-blue smartwatches, is still …
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It was a Hail Mary pass that badly missed its mark: the release of BlackBerry 10 and its first cellular vessel, the Z10. And in the ensuing series of downs, BlackBerry suffered injury after injury. These included a failed promise to bring BlackBerry 10 to the Playbook, delays in delivering BBM to iOS and Android, and T-Mobile’s yanking of BlackBerry …
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I really don’t want a smartwatch. What I want is something that notifies me when a call or text message comes in. That way I’ll stop missing them because I can’t hear my phone ring or feel it vibrate. The Vybe, as described, is a simple rubberized wristband with an embedded (but removable) gizmo that connects to your smartphone via …
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The Apple iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C have only been out five minutes, but experts are already turning their thoughts to the iPhone 6 — and they predict it’s going to be big. Bigger, anyway: industry experts and analysts reckon the next generation of iPhone will finally give in to the trend for bigger phones and expand to a 5-inch …
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It wasn’t that long ago that desktop “computer” audio was synonymous with awful-sounding, cheap ‘n’ cheerful plastic speakers, but over the last few years Audioengine, Emotiva, Adam Audio, and many others started making seriously good high-quality monitors, with prices starting around $200 a pair. I mostly focus on desktop speakers a la carte, but this time out I’m checking out …
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A man has been arrested for allegedly hauling more than $12 million in stolen smartphones, Kentucky State Police announced. Juan Perez Gonzalez was arrested on Monday in Louisville after he crashed his tractor trailer into a utility pole. The truck was found to be carrying more than $12 million in LG G2 smartphones. CNET reported last week that 22,500 LG …
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Google Glass 2.0 is coming to a face near you, and reports say Google is in final talks to put an Android-powered smart watch on your wrist too. With a focus on battery life and useful information from Google Now, the rumoured Google watch could trump the Samsung Galaxy Gear and Sony SmartWatch 2 — and maybe beat Apple’s heavily …
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It has been a long time coming, but Nokia finally had a breakout quarter in North America. The company reported third-quarter results that showed marked progress in North America, traditionally a market it has struggled to crack. Revenue in the region jumped nearly 500 percent to 214 million euros ($293.5 million) year over year, while unit sales increased 367 percent …
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Google Motorola has announced Ara, a project to create a modular smartphone that allows you to swap out components, partnering with Phonebloks’ Dave Hakkens. (Credit: Motorola) Last month, designer Dave Hakkens revealed Phonebloks — a concept for a modular smartphone that allows you to swap out parts, fitting them to a base motherboard as needed or desired. It looked like …
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