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For First Time Ever, 1 Billion Smartphones Shipped in One Year

January 29, 2014 no comments

For the first time ever, one billion smartphones have been shipped in one year, marking a huge milestone for mobile. According to data from the International Data Corporation (IDC), vendors shipped m...

Quebee Camera Lets You Put Yourself in the Shot

December 17, 2013 no comments

With the advent of smartphone cameras and other handheld video recorders, putting yourself in the shot has become an increasingly complicated process. But Quebee, a wireless camera that shoots wide-a...

Google search on Android now finds results within apps

December 5, 2013 no comments

As much as Google’s search business revolves around the web, the company knows that mobile apps sometimes have more relevant info. Accordingly, Google has updated Android’s native search ...

New Honda Civic packs multi-touch interface and Here Maps navigation

December 4, 2013 no comments

With certain exceptions, Honda isn’t frequently on the vanguard of car cabin technology. However, we’ll have to toss out our expectations now that the automaker has detailed the 2014 Civi...

YouTube app teardown hints at ad-free Music Pass service with offline ...

November 29, 2013 no comments

Rumors of a YouTube-based music service just got some credibility thanks to an Android Police teardown of the Android app’s most recent code. The site has found references to a Music Pass that ...

Watch the LG G Flex Magically Heal Itself Before Your Eyes

November 21, 2013 no comments

There’s nothing worse than scratching up the back of your pristine smartphone, either from keys or an unfortunate drop on the concrete. It’s a terrible feeling, and LG wants to help. The ...

LG Unveils G Flex, the First ‘Real’ Curved Smartphone

October 29, 2013 no comments

LG has launched its first curved smartphone, the G Flex. The device has a curved 6-inch, 720p OLED display, a Snapdragon 800 processor, 2GB of RAM and a 13-megapixel camera. Unlike Samsung’s Ga...

BitLock Lets You Unlock Your Bike With a Smartphone

October 19, 2013 no comments

After a long day at work, the last thing you want to do is fumble to unlock your bike before commuting home. The BitLock makes unlocking much easier and faster by turning your smartphone into a virtu...

The World’s First Phone With More Pixels Than an iPad

October 17, 2013 no comments

A full HD smartphone isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A Quad HD smartphone — one with 2,560 x 1,440 pixels, like the one China’s Vivo just announced. The Vivo Xplay 3S will be the ...

True-View Turns Your Smartphone Into a 3D Camera

October 14, 2013 no comments

In the early ’90s, the closest we got to 3D vision was the Fisher-Price View-Master. The new True-View reminds us of that trusty old Fisher-Price toy — but instead of switching out slides, this...

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