A team of researchers at the University of Cambridge, led by Professor Arokia Nathan are working to develop technologies that would make daily phone charging a thing of the past. To keep a phone's battery topped up, the team has built a prototype device that recaptures wasted light from and OLED phone screen. According to researcher Arman Ahnood, only around 36 percent of the light produced by a phone screen is projected forwards – the rest escapes around the edges. [......]
It’s not really news to say that the Galaxy S II is a hit, but it has actually become a mega hit in South Korea. According to maker Samsung , the Android handset has been sold a whopping 5 million times in its domestic market since release at the end of April 2011. [......]
They say the grass is always greener on the other side, and a pair of announcements from CES seem to give that old cliché some credence. Qualcomm, a major player in the mobile chip market, wants to break into PCs by stocking thin-and-light Ultrabook-style notebooks with its Snapdragon processor, while Intel’s CEO spent part of his keynote address boasting than the company has inked deals with Lenovo and Motorola to power future generations of smartphones with Atom chips. The Verge got a chance to play with the Lenovo K800 , the first smartphone that actually runs on an Intel chip[......]
If you ever wanted to be able to read text on a street sign or on a menu in a restaurant when abroad, your smartphone might be able to help you soon. Japanese electronics company Omron has developed a smartphone application that can instantly translate (short) foreign texts you come across – firing up the app and pointing the phone’s camera at the text in question is enough. [......]
Android modders have hit the ground running in 2012 with a call to arms after discovering that Asus is using an encrypted booloader on its Eee Pad Transformer Prime, effectively preventing users from easily rooting and modifying their swank new slate. It's not an unprecedented move by Asus, but typically manufacturers refrain from locking down Wi-Fi only tablets, reserving the practice primarily for smartphones[......]
Tech-savvy fashionistas finally have a reason to rejoice with the official release of LG’s Prada 3.0 handset . Namely, it’s the first time a in a long while that the company’s fashion phones aren’t completely outclassed by the competition. [......]
If you take a look at Techmeme right now, you’ll notice that the top conversation in the tech blogosphere is about Windows Phone, and more specifically why it has failed to catch on compared to Android smartphones in particular (according to Charlie Kindel , former GM of the product division). I’ve read people’s different views on this with great interest, but I feel like something’s missing: the opinion of an actual Windows Phone owner and user with no real skin in this game. Enter, well, me[......]
Well it’s about time - after months of breathless waiting, Verizon has finally confirmed that the LTE-capable Galaxy Nexus will indeed launch on December 15 (i.e. tomorrow). The word comes courtesy of 9to5Google , who received a release from Big Red themselves celebrating the device’s long-awaited release. [......]
With leaks galore and this afternoon’s announcement , there’s not much reason to rehash HTC Rezound deets. So I’ll just cut to the chase and hit you guys with some first impressions. As you must already know, the Rezound touts a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, and was snappy enough to prove it. [......]
Samsung said it shipped 28 million smartphones during its third fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2011, which represented a 40 percent increase on-quarter and 300 percent year-on-year. Perhaps just as important, Samsung raced ahead of Apple in smartphone sales, which sold 17 million iPhone devices in the same time frame. Samsung's continued global rollout of its flagship Galaxy S II smartphone is doing particularly well and has sold more than 10 million units in the five months since its introduction, Samsung said[......]
On October 23rd, 2001, Steve Jobs introduced the iPod at a special event, showing off a design destined to become iconic. Ten years later, the brand is as strong as ever, though sadly, we have lost its inventor[......]
One of the many awesome things coming out of this year's Intel Developer Forum (IDF) is a new DRAM concept Intel claims will deliver a 7-fold improvement in energy-efficiency over today's DDR3 modules. It's called Hybrid Memory Cube and Intel is working closely with Micron to turn this concept into a shipping product. [......]
Things are about to heat up in a big way in the handheld mobile space, a sector that's currently dominated by ARM. [......]
If you're into tablets, smartphones or gaming then this week has been rather like a dream - and we don't mean one of those dreams involving your favourite celebrity, a leprechaun costume and a gallon of massage oil. One minute all kinds of technological delights were heading for UK shop shelves; the next, they'd vanished into the ether. U-turns have affected three top gadgets this week: Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, the Nokia N9 smartphone and Sony's PS Vita handheld. [......]
The Bracketron All-Weather Soft Case Bike Mount is just that: an all-weather soft case bike mount. Once upon a time, dedicated bike computers were the pinnacle of bike gadgetry, but now your own smartphones can perform all their functions and so much more. This case makes the phone weatherproof, therefore trumping the bike computer’s remaining high card. [......]
