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SlideIT Keyboard Review: Swype-Like Input for Any Android OS Smartphone
The PremiseThe basic idea behind SlideIT Keyboard is fairly simple. Instead of tapping keys individually, you slide your fingertip from one letter to the next. While it uses a full keyboard, SlideIT does qualify as a form of “predictive input,” because it’s making assumptions about what you mean to type. You can’t slide your finger from [...]
Motorola and Nextel launch the i867 Push To Talk smartphone in Brazil
Motorola have pulled the wraps of their latest entry level device, the i867. This one is destined for Brazil via Nextel, and will be available in a couple of promotions on the carrier. So what do we have? One of the biggest features that they’re pushing with this device is the Push To Talk two-way radio. [...]
Mobile Malware: Beware Drive-by Downloads on Your Smartphone
While Jeff Schmidt, the CEO of JAS Global Advisors, was surfing the Web on his new Android smartphone (his first Android phone) earlier this year, what appeared to be an ad popped up on his screen. The “ad” looked like the prompt that appears when his phone rings. He clicked the button on the ad [...]
Apple iOS 5.1: How To Turn An Android Smartphone Into An iPhone
Like us on Facebook The key to creating an Android phone that appears to be running Apple iOS 5.1 is installing a bundle of apps that allow you customize the look of the phone’s launcher. Apps within the personalization section of Google Play will let Android owners customize their phone’s lock screen, contacts, SMS, widgets [...]
Intel’s Medfield chip limited to the entry-level smartphone market, report claims
Announced back in January at CES 2012 Las Vegas, the Medfield chip represents Intel’s latest attempt to enter the smartphone processor market, one currently dominated by Qualcomm and Nvidia (both using ARM architectures for their designs). Although Intel has high hopes that, starting with the second quarter of this year, major manufacturers will choose to [...]
Survey: 90% of people want their next smartphone to have a larger screen
The manufacturers have been right to push for larger screens, because it seems that’s exactly what people want. Of course, part of this is probably because some people have already bought some large screens, and only then the others noticed how nice the larger screen is, so then they wanted one, too. This recent survey [...]
Smartphone talks to Panasonic rice cooker
The new Panasonic SR-SX102 rice cookers know who to call for a new rice recipe. (Credit: Panasonic) Rice doesn’t lack for vitamins and minerals. Or smartphone apps. There is little left that smartphones cannot do. Or rather, to be more precise, there is little left that smartphones are not capable of controlling. The distinction is [...]
HTC One X could be Sprint’s first LTE smartphone
HTC did its best to wow Android fans and mobile industry insiders alike when it unveiled the HTC One X at Mobile World Congress. The company’s first quad-core smartphone, the One X hasn’t even landed stateside yet it’s making waves and spawning plenty of speculation. AT&T first confirmed plans to bring a version of the [...]
Recycle your beaten down smartphone, and get paid for it
Did you manage to demolish your smartphone while playing catch with it? Or maybe tried one of those drop test comparisons that went awry? No need to just throw it in the bin (in fact, NEVER EVER do that) or keep it in a drawer collecting dust. You can salvage some money for it on [...]
Study: the 4G smartphone market grew sixfold over the last year
ExtremeTech According to a survey conducted by market research company NPD Group, the US 4G smartphone market has grown almost sixfold during the Q4 2010 – Q4 2011 interval. Accounting for 35% of all smartphones sold in the US during the last quarter of 2011, the market was fairly quick to grow out of the [...]