That metal band that surrounds the iPhone 4 isn’t just for looks—it actually doubles as the phone’s antenna. And as you may recall, the AT&T version of the iPhone 4 that came out in June suffered from signal degradation when held in a certain way.
The “death grip” as it came to be known, ultimately led Apple to offer iPhone 4 owners …
Americans were using their smartphones a lot more last year, with usage up an amazing 60%. But it’s only really good news for Apple and Google, as ComScore figures suggest that iOS and Android were the only mobile platforms to see any increase, with RIM, Microsoft and Palm all dropping in the last months of the year.
Google’s Android …
Snap judgment: Sprint’s new Echo Android phone looks cool, but there are a lot of intangibles at play that’ll ultimately determine its success.
The big story here is the Echo’s dual 3.5-inch touchscreens and patent-pending “pivot hinge” that holds everything together.
Slide the right-hand screen down over the left screen and the …
Big day!
This marks the first time I’ve ever sourced an article from TMZ. But enough about me; Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently has a stalker.
His name is Pradeep Manukonda, he’s 31 years old and according to legal documents filed by Zuckerberg, he’s allegedly seen fit to “follow, surveil and contact Mr. Zuckerberg using …
Not to be left behind in the scuffle, but T-Mobile is entering the Verizon vs. AT&T fight with a great offer of their own: free phones. While the coveted iPhone won’t be included in the promotion, all phones – including 4G-capable phones – will be gratis on February 11 and 12. The last time the company attempted this on Father’s Day …
You might be signed up for Lovely-Faces.com’s dating services and not even know it. Website creators Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico took information from 250,000 Facebook users and used it to create their project which uses facial recognition technology to categorize users into the kinds of people they look like they would be. …
Let’s face it; you’re into some weird, tasteless, mind-numbingly awful stuff on the internet. But should you have to use your own e-mail address to get access to all of it? Did we lose a war?!
Microsoft’s Hotmail service has added a new feature that lets you whip up an e-mail alias completely separate from your regular e-mail address …
Whoopsie daisies. One of Best Buy’s stores unwittingly posted some product availability dates on Facebook that shouldn’t have been made public yet, as captured in the above image by DroidLife. All are Verizon products and only one—the iPhone 4—had its release date known previously.
I saw it with my own eyes this morning and left …
The British Supreme Court are fans of Twitter, it seems. The court announced yesterday that journalists, legal teams and members of the public will be allowed to tweet – sorry, I mean create “live text based communications” – from the courtroom in most cases that the court hears, because doing so may be in the greater public …
Not so fast, researchers: Samsung is now saying that their return rate for the Galaxy Tab is actually less than two percent, according to ZD Net. This new information comes to light after ITG Investment Research reported that by January 2011, 16 percent of all Tab purchases were eventually returned.
There’s no explanation as to why …
I’ll admit to lusting after the idea of the Motorola Atrix for the past month.
Announced at CES, the 4G phone runs Android atop a 1GHz dual-core processor, packs an entire gigabyte of RAM under the hood and sports a 4-inch, 960×540 resolution screen. It’s truly a tiny computer that’d give some netbooks a run for the money. As such, it …
If you’re an existing Verizon customer looking to pick up the iPhone and you didn’t take advantage of the early opportunity to pre-order yesterday, the first batch is all gone. Just after 8:00 last night, Verizon “ceased online orders of iPhone 4 to existing customers and ended the most successful first day sales in the history of the …
