Digital Tablets and E-Readers

Luxury phones like Vertu are an acquired taste – personally, I do not see much sense in forking out insane amounts of money on a handset considering how technology ends up obsolete after a while, so what are you going to do with the phone when you want to make an upgrade? Melt all the [...]

Google has another employee to add to their popular and ever-growing list as they’ve recently hired one of the head managers from the Microsoft Windows Phone crew — Joe Marini. Joe was “retired” or resigned follwoing some troubled waters after tweeting information regarding the then unannounced Nokia Lumia 800 Mango handset. The Windows Phone web [...]

Enterprising modders are seemingly one step closer to getting Windows Phone 7 devices to dual-boot with Android and other platforms, with Samsung’s Focus being coaxed into running an unofficial bootloader. The handiwork of DFT (Dark Forces Team)’s Cotulla, the hack currently allows the MAGLDR bootloader to run after the Focus’ original bootloader, with the eventual goal [...]

I always try and keep my eye out for the latest in mobile technology. Considering that we communicate through email and texting, technologies that we didn’t even really conceive two decades ago, I can’t help but wonder how we will communicate by the year 2031. How about cell phones with pico-projectors? They already exist, so [...]

Dell has canceled its plans to launch any Windows Phone 7.5 Mango devices and may completely bail out of the Windows Phone market for now. Although a leaked roadmap back in February indicated that Dell would be coming out with an updated Venue Pro codenamed “Wrigley,” the company was noticeably absent from the list when [...]

All the way back in April if 2011 we first heard of the possibility of a Samsung / VISA device running with an NFC chip to assure it of widespread use. Now it’s October, just 295 days to go until the actual Olympics 2012 events in London, and VISA has confirmed that the device is, [...]

NTT DoCoMo has unveiled the prototype of super-fast rechargeable battery phone case at CEATEC 2011. What makes this battery phone case interesting is that it uses a lithium-titanate (LTO) battery that requires only 10 minutes of charging time for a full charge. As a comparison, Toshiba’s Super Charge Ion Battery needs only 5 minutes of [...]

It’s time for the second coming of Windows Phone 7, a mobile OS that by all means deserves a fair shot at the global market share, but hasn’t quite risen to the ranks of iPhone or Android glory – at least not yet. What we’re going to do in this post is give the first [...]

Here is a good question that someone once asked me: which would you rather lose, your wallet or your mobile phone? If you have a Callet, then you have probably lost both. You can see it on the iPhone 4 in this picture, and it is a high quality Gel-Polymer the gives your mobile some [...]

We all know that we make a lot of kinetic energy just by moving around, and we all need energy to power our mobile devices. This is why researchers at the University of Wisconsin in Madison are working on a harvester that stores all the energy that we create by strolling, running, or walking. Tom [...]