Newt Gingrich Doesn’t Know What A Smartphone Is
Newt Gingrich doesn’t know what a smartphone is and he made a video to talk about it. Below is an moment by moment breakdown.
Newt Gingrich doesn’t know what a smartphone is and he made a video to talk about it. Below is an moment by moment breakdown.
The launch event for the Samsung Galaxy S IV saw women celebrating the phone’s capacity to track their weight, shopping, and wedding planning. Here’s what other phone companies think their female customers might use those cute pink box things for.
The “technology” from these vintage style pin-up photos is now all in your smartphone. (via phlearn.com)
In 2009, the iPhone 3GS advertised an “oleophobic” screen to stop smudging. This is the next step.
The world’s largest smartphone manufacturer has something Apple doesn’t.
Snapchat shares photos that self-destruct. It says it’s not about sexting, even though that’s how it’s used by some teens. But you definitely shouldn’t use it for sexting.
The Droid DNA is the pinnacle of phones. So far. This is what your next phone will look like, give or take.
We went to a NYC My Little Pony meetup and asked some die-hard fans of the show to rate the new game on a scale of 1-4 hooves. But for some, four hooves were not enough.
Sure, it can’t show video, or scroll that well. But as a long-lasting alternative to a dumbphone, it sort of makes sense!
It’s confusing. It’s unnecessary. It’s bad.
Not even dad rock can save RIM. (via Gizmodo)
With a long, jargon-filled whimper.
This momentous event has come to pass more than a month ahead of schedule. Phone Dick Doomsday has arrived.
A new part of the opening ceremony for 2012, countries from all over the world headed to London to display their favorite gadgets, take self-portraits, update twitter, and instagram pictures of Kobe Bryant. All in fancy patriotic costumes! H/T to Mat Honan for the idea.
As computer screens go super-high res, users are finding that their “good enough” cellphone pictures actually look kind of terrible. Long live the actual camera! Well, at least for a little while.
The first iPhone came out five years ago today. That’s a pretty long time, it turns out.
Cell phones are increasingly ubiquitous among the very religious, from Hasidic Jewish communities to Amish groups. Some leaders are cracking down, especially on women’s usage.
The leader of the Satmar sect of Hasidic Jews has banned the phones for all women of the sect — men may use them if necessary for work, but only with internet filtering in place.
It’s time for a unified communications app. Everyone’s close, but nobody’s done it yet. Here’s how smartphones should — and will — work.
Best Buy needs us to to believe we have too many good choices when it comes to phones, and that we’re too stupid to make them. We don’t and we aren’t.
Just download your apps and be happy, ok?
Uniting factor: They all have enough money for a smartphone. View Image ›
The media really, really, really loves to write about Apple and the iPhone these days. It reminds me of Google in 2004, when the media fell in love with the concept of search.
With the eyes of the technology world squarely on Apple’s iPhone 4, Google quietly announced it will stop selling the Nexus One, its first and possibly only foray into the smartphone world.
Android is suddenly looking tempting. View Image ›
Palm finally officially releases it’s next smartphone, a thin, unlocked handset aimed at Blackberry, not Apple. It’s refreshing to see a mobile phone not attempt to position itself as an iPhone killer. The Treo Pro is for the professional set, will be sold unlocked in the U.S. for $549. Read More ›
Samsung’s new smartphone (for Sprint) is flying off the shelves. Tech sites hail it as the first true iPhone competitor — plus it comes with live TV service built-in. Read More ›
New trio of Verizon LG phones (the Dare, Chocolate 3, and the Decoy) will go on sale as soon as June 16th. For those of us who can’t get excited about the iPhone because we’re chained to Verizon for the rest of our lives (I say this as I look at my co-editor’s iPhone wistfully), LG is offering a new touch-screen phone that’s like the Prada phone, only better. Read More ›
Photos of the first RIM clamshell flip phone have been unveiled. It will be out by the end of 2008. A novel flip phone seems kind of oxymoronic, but that’s what this phone is being touted as. Read More ›
Google’s new software platform for mobile phones is called ‘Android’ and will debut this week in its prototype form at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It’s going to take a lot of work to make a phone as pretty as the iPhone, but the open source nature of the Android platform has got the geek sector pretty amped. Read More ›