We walk, talk and sleep with our phones. But are we more—or less—connected?
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How a Quick Wi-Fi Tweak Could Double Your Phone’s Battery Life
The lowly battery: It’s one of the most important parts of any modern-day gadget, yet it’s been one of the slowest pieces of the technology puzzle to evolve. That smartphone in your pocket is exponentially more powerful than the first computer you ever used, yet you still have to plug it in every night.
We’ve had access to lithium-ion …
Now You Can Make Multiple Phone Calls in Gmail
Good news for anyone who makes phone calls from inside Gmail – now you can make or receive multiple calls at once. Oh, wait. Excuse me.
Hi Mum. Are you? That’s great. Well actually I’m trying to write something for Techland at the moment. Is that the dog barking? Well how did it get in there in the first place? Wait. Hold on, …
The Top 10 Places to Lose Your Cellphone
The last time I lost something, I lost it in a taxi, which actually makes perfect sense according to this list. Mobile security company Lookout released a list of where most people commonly lose their cellphones, and which cities also seem to be the most absentminded.
Miami checks in as the city most prone to losing its phones. Maybe …
Hey Asus, What the Heck Is This? A Tablet-Phone Hybrid?
Tablet teasers aren’t really my thing, but Asus has piqued my interest by promising more than just another thin touch screen slab.
At the Computex trade show next week, Asus will reveal a device that it says will “break the rules.” A teaser image shows what looks like a tablet and phone coming together, along with a tagline: “Pad or …
Plantronics Tackles an Age-Old Problem: Switching a Call from Cell Phone to Landline
We’ve all been there: Someone calls your cell phone and wants to have a long heart-to-heart, so you tell them to call back on a landline to save voice minutes or to get a better signal.
Plantronics think it’s solved this problem with the Savi 740, a headset and stand that can answer phone calls from cell phones, landlines and …
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Android vs. Chrome: The Inevitable Showdown
I spent most of Tuesday and Wednesday this week at Google’s massive I/O developer shindig in San Francisco. And then I wrote a Technologizer column for TIME.com on the first day’s keynote, which was jam-packed with Android news. But I could just have easily written a column about day two’s keynote, which was devoted to Google’s Chrome …
This Paper-Thin Phone Will Soon Look Primitive
A team of researchers at The Queens University Human Media Lab put together this flexible, ultra-thin phone out of electronic paper. They’re calling it — what else? — the PaperPhone, which does most of the things phones do nowadays: it places calls, lets you scroll through contacts, plays songs and even paginates text.
What’s …
T-Mobile’s HTC Sensation 4G: Dual-Core CPU, 4.3-inch Screen, 1080p Video
Set for release this summer, the HTC Sensation 4G will run on T-Mobile and features a 1.2-gigahertz dual-core processor, a 4.3-inch touchscreen with 960×540 resolution, and an 8-megapixel camera capable of capturing full 1080p video clips. The Sensation 4G will sport an aluminum unibody shell and a contoured screen as well.
T-Mobile …
The Slow and Agonizing Death of the Landline Phone
When was the last time you used your landline phone? For many people, especially 20-somethings in the UK, the answer to that will be: “What landline?”
With cell phones now ubiquitous, and house prices so astronomically high that buying a home is beyond the means of many young couples, the idea of having a fixed phone line connecting …
Introducing…The Grandma Phone
It’s hard to imagine a cell phone these days that isn’t equipped with a camera, a web browser and assorted other bells and whistles. But Just5, a “simple features phone,” takes a counter-intuitive approach. It just lets you make calls. That’s it. Nothing else. Nada. Zippo. Think of it as the anti-iPhone.
Or, actually, think of it as …
Study: Android Smokes iPhone 4 Crunching Web Pages?
Everyone loves a smackdown, so how about one that proves whether Google’s Android or Apple’s iPhone is faster? And from a disinterested third-party researcher to boot?
Blaze Software says it ran a whopping 45,000 tests to prove whose browser was really king of the mobile mountain. The results: Android’s Chrome browser was an …