Tag: smartphone
Google Enters the Foldable Phone Arena: Introducing the Pixel Fold
In the ever-changing world of technology, the next big innovation is just a tweet away. Google recently teased its latest hardware device on Twitter, and it’s making waves in the smartphone market. Say hello to the Pixel Fold, Google’s entry into the foldable phone segment.
Making Your iPhone Work For You: The Back-Tap
Welcome to the series Making Your iPhone Work For You, hosted by the honorable, Internet Patrol. We’re here to make your life simpler and give your personal aesthetic a tech boost. Your iPhone is filled with useful capabilities that, when configured correctly, can transform it into a personalised tech wand….
How to Turn Off and Disable Operation Amber Alerts on Your iPhone and Android Phone
Did you just get one Operation Amber Alert too many on your smartphone? Fed up with how the vast majority of Operation Amber Alerts are not about stranger abductions that endanger the child (or about stranger abductions at all)? You’re not alone. Here’s how to turn off and disable Operation Amber Alerts on your iPhone and Android phone.
How to Sync Your Meetup Calendar with Your Personal Calendar
If you use Meetup.com as a way of finding fun and rewarding things to do, you may find yourself wondering how to sync your Meetup.com calendar with your iPhone or Android calendar, Google or Gmail calendar, Apple Mac calendar, Outlook calendar, or other calendar. Here is how to synch your Meetup calendar with your ics or other calendar.
Foldable Phone Coming Soon from Samsung
Remember flip phones – phones you could fold in half? Remember how much more convenient the folding phone was to stick in your pocket? Then came smart phones, which signaled a death knell for phones that you could fold and put in your pocket. Until now.
AT&T Rolls Out Live and Streaming TV on Mobile Devices
AT&T is offering live streaming television direct to your smartphone or tablet, and even your Android or Apple Watch, through its U-Verse apps and offerings. While you do have to have an AT&T U-verse television package that includes home television (and includes giving you a DVR), there is no reason you have to use it at home or use the DVR, you can choose to access only the online streaming service.
Using Smartphones to Track People Under Quarantine
With the recent outbreak of Middle Eastern Respitory Syndrom (MERS) in South Korea, officials are taking to tracking people who are quarantined by tracking their smartphones. If someone who is quarantined leaves their quarantine area – and takes their phone with them – public health officials will know.
Cell Phone Holder for Car Uses CD Slot to Hold iPhone and Smartphones
We got such a great response to our article on the iPhone holder for cars that uses the cassette deck, that we thought we’d write an article about a similar device that holds your phone using your CD slot in your car. We especially figured we should do that because we got a couple of questions asking whether there was a smartphone holder that uses your car’s CD player. There is.
11 Year Old Saves Dad’s Life with Smartphone App
While parents often agonize over their kids’ smartphone usage, Steve Latham is grateful that his 11-year-old son Samuel knows how to use a smartphone. That’s because Sam Latham saved Steve’s life by using the Red Cross smartphone app when his dad seemed to be having a heart attack while driving.
You Can Own a Lamborghini for Just $6000 – a Lamborghini Cell Phone that is
This week at CES, Tonino Lamborghini debuted the Lamborghini cell phone. The $6k price tag for the Lambo 88 Tauri smartphone from Tonino, the son of the famed auto maker Ferrucio Lamborghini, basically gets you a tarted-up Android phone, and the Lamborghini emblem on your phone.
Sidewalk ‘Smartphone Lanes’ are Now a Thing
Pedestrian smartphone lanes – also known as “e-lanes”, “talkways” and “mobile phone sidewalks” – are becoming a thing, as are other measures to protect texting pedestrians from themselves, as more and more people are injured in “distracted walking” accidents.
Amazon 3D Smartphone to Be Announced June 18
A new device is coming to Amazon on June 18th, and while Amazon is playing coy about it to build buzz, most in the know say that it will be the long-awaited Amazon Smartphone. Indeed, Amazon’s own buzz builder teases the edge of a device that looks decidedly smartphonish. And it won’t be just any smartphone, but an Amazon 3D smartphone.
Apple, Samsung Join CTIA Pledge Anti-Theft Kill Switch for Smartphones
Apple and Samsung are among the major smartphone makers to take the CTIA pledge to provide antitheft so-called “kill switches” – tools and mechanisms to allow an owner to disable, lock, and even delete the data off their devices, should their phone or other smart device be stolen or lost.
NSA Mining Data from Smartphone Apps
Turns out there is another reason for rejecting all those insidious game invitations from smartphone apps and their Facebook counterparts: the New York Times has revealed today that the NSA and its British counterpart, GCHQ, are mining the data that your smartphone apps are generating, from location data, to contact lists, to phone logs and even the data embedded in images. Dubbed the “Mobile Surge” by the Brits, the intelligence community is giddy with glee over the trove of data served up by mobile apps.
The Doctor is In…Your Pocket: New “Emotion Sense” Pocket Therapist Mood App
There have been other smartphone mood apps created, but none that take it to the limit like the Emotion Sense app that has been released to the public, for free. Developed in part as a research tool, the Emotion Sense app, which has been likened to having a therapist in your pocket, not only senses your emotions, but then correlates and cross-references that input with how you interact with your phone throughout the day.