If you’re a Verizon customer on an unlimited data plan, it may be time to examine the small print. If comments from the company are correct, it seems that at the very least you’ll lose the deal if you upgrade to a 4G handset.
Butane used to only be used in cigarette lighters and wood stove lighters because it burned hot and clean. A spin off company from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found another use for the flammable liquid/gas, charging batteries in mobile devices. Smart phones, iPads, tablets and other mobile devices burn through batteries quickly. You can carry a wall charger and pray for an accessible socket or a separate battery backup charger and hope it still works or you can get a new type of butane battery charger that will recharge your devices multiple times.
Both leading candidates for the US presidency are using a mobile payment device for collecting doorstep donations to their campaigns. Their respective teams are each using a system created by the founder of Twitter.
You could use your current dual or quad core Android phone or any old multicore Android phone as an Ubuntu Linux computer. All you need is a dock. Yes there are some phones that have dock accessories that will let you hook them up as mini PCs but they produce a very unsatisfactory experience. In the newest attempt at to make your smartphone a dual use device, Ubuntu is claiming to be able to provide that elusive workable PC experience.
It would be conduct unbecoming of a judge to physically grab the heads of lawyers for Apple and Samsung and bang them together. But the judge overseeing their various patent disputes has done the next best thing.
Microsoft has applied for a patent on a technology that would put a screen across the entirety of what’s currently the back of phone handsets. Counterintuitively, the idea is to extend battery life.
One thing you can say for the rumor mill, there is always something fascinating to be found. In this case there are rumors that smartphone cases will be made out of new materials. Apple’s iPhone 5 is supposed to be housed in “Liquidmetal”. Meanwhile Samsung’s Galaxy S3 is expected to have a case made from high-tech ceramics.
It is no secret that BlackBerry is in trouble and has been for a while. The company has tried a variety of things to date none of which seem to be working. The latest fix is to hire Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP to work on restructuring the company. So far BlackBerry has tried its new operating system BlackBerry 10, Playbook, and a new CEO to right the ship but nothing has worked.
Verizon says it plans to offer high-speed mobile broadband to two-thirds of the US population by the end of the year and is launching a special secure service for businesses. But a separate Verizon announcement may spell doom for the idea that 4G will bring greater consumer choice.
The big mobile phone companies in Europe are unconvinced by Nokia’s latest range of handsets and Microsoft’s new Windows Phone operating system. Meaning the collaboration between the two could be condemned to fail from the start.
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