Tag Archives: smartphones

A recent survey revealed some troubling, but perhaps unsurprising news. According to Bank of America, 47% of American consumers admitted that they wouldn’t last a single day without their smartphone. Furthermore, it turns out that most of the surveyed people consider their devices to be just as important as their car (91 percent) or deodorant (91 percent) and more important ...

Two companies in India are planing to introduce unlocked smartphones as cheap as $25. These phones are going to run the Firefox OS. This is a browser-based operating system so it runs a version of Firefox that’s light enough to run on mobile phones hardware. It’s basically a stripped-down OS that doesn’t run native apps like the Android OS does, it ...

Acer produces both high-end and low-end hardware, but nobody foresaw what  the company was planning to do before Friday’s announcement. It seems Acer is planning an invasion of the smartphone market for later this year, launching no less than five devices. Four devices, and probably the most expected, are the new Liquid phones Acer promised for 2014. Along with the ...

Intel plans to make a great appearance at the upcoming Computex conference with its new processor. Codenamed Moorefield,  the 64-bit processor was specially designed for small Android and Windows tablets. The processor is also known as quad-core Atom Z3560/Z3580, and it’s designed for 8-inch or smaller devices, including smartphones. An Intel spokeswoman said that Moorefield is different than its predecessor, ...

Google has been experimenting with advanced vision capabilities for mobile devices and now moves on to developing a high-end tablet. It’s said the company is planning to produce up to 4000 7-inch tablets starting next month. The device will come with two back cameras featuring infrared depth sensors and an advanced software that can capture 3D images. A person close ...

No doubt graphene was indeed a miracle material ever since a pair of chemists from Manchester University first manufactured it. They isolated thick layers of carbon by peeling off the sheets from the powdered graphite using sellotape. Earlyer this year Samsung achieved a breakthrough, developing a technique for synthesizing graphene on a large scale. The material of unusual strength and flexibility ...

Microsoft has finally released Windows Phone 8.1 to developers. The update designed to help developers get to grips with Microsoft’s updated mobile OS, can be downloaded by registered Windows Phone developers on their devices starting today. The 8.1 is a significant update to Windows Phone 8, with new features like the Cortana digital assistant, available in US only (for now), ...