Yep, that’s a phone sitting in a cradle inside a wire-mesh box in the photo above. The box is a Faraday Cage and the phone is inside it because both are part of a demo at Wilson Electronics’ booth at the CTIA Wireless show in New …
Smartphones
Police Need a Standard Policy to Deal with Flood of Smartphone GPS Data
Recently, smartphone owners became the majority of mobile subscribers. And a poll from the Pew Internet & American Life Project says that 74% of them use their phones to access location-based information — directions, local …
This Phone Is All Firefox, All the Way
This year’s CTIA Wireless conference in New Orleans is surprisingly short on major new smartphones. But at last night’s MobileFocus press event, I happened across a fascinating, one-of-a-kind handset which I hadn’t seen in person …
Why Samsung’s Galaxy S III Is Friggin’ Huge
Every year, Samsung‘s flagship Galaxy S line has crept up in size, and this year’s Galaxy S III continues the trend with a 4.8-inch display. Not counting the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note, which is more of a phone-tablet hybrid, the …
Virgin Mobile and Boost’s Not-Quite-New 4G Android Phones Make Prepaid More Palatable
When you think about it, it shouldn’t matter that much whether you pay for your wireless service after you’ve received it — as most of us do — or before you use it, as you do if you have a prepaid carrier such as Virgin Mobile …
Doro Makes a Smartphone for Seniors
Tech specs and fancy features take a backseat to oversized buttons and a dead-simple interface in the Doro PhoneEasy 740, a phone built with older folks in mind.
To even describe the Doro 740 as a smartphone seems like a …
Android Update Delays: AT&T CEO Passes the Buck…to Google
At a Milken Institute event on May 2, an audience member asked AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson why phones are so often so slow to get the latest versions of Android. Stephenson’s response is raising eyebrows — including those of …
Droid Incredible 4G LTE for Verizon: A Smartphone for Normal Hands
There’s nothing cutting-edge about HTC’s Droid Incredible 4G LTE, a smartphone that’s coming to Verizon Wireless in a few weeks. Yet the new Droid Incredible might become one of Verizon’s most desirable phones, simply because you …
Samsung Focus 2 Continues AT&T’s Windows Phone Love Affair
At a time when no other wireless carriers are launching Windows Phones, AT&T has announced the Samsung Focus 2, the carrier’s third new Windows Phone in less than two months.
The Focus 2’s main attraction is its price of $50 …
Color’s Video-Sharing App: Now Optimized for Verizon
Back in March of last year, an innovative but ill-fated iPhone and Android app named Color debuted. It let you share photos with nearby folks who you didn’t necessarily know; the idea was that it would be cool for use at …
Nielsen: Majority of Mobile Subscribers Now Smartphone Owners
If you’re immersed in the tech world, it can be hard to believe that there are still people out there without smartphones. The fact is that as recently as December, the majority of mobile subscribers were using plain old feature …
Smartphone-Friendly Grocery Store Adorns Walls of Chicago ‘L’ Station
For a while now, commuters in Seoul, South Korea have been able to do their grocery shopping virtually as they wait for the subway. Now Chicago’s “L” commuters are getting in on the action.
Rolled out as a pilot program in the …