What next for the smartphone? The latest generation of swishable, app-packed mobiles would appear to have it all, with enough processing power to send a rocket to the moon while uploading lunar images to Facebook in real time. What can we expect the next generation of smart phones to bring us – other than an even sleeker profile and a few more spurious...

Long-term wireless phone contracts, commonly known as post-paid contracts, are evil and always have been. They’re evil because you’re committing one to two years of your fiscal life to something you either won’t use at all, or something that won’t be enough for your needs; there’s never a happy medium. There is such a thing as a...

Imagine your smartphone or tablet screen as a flexible, elastic material. As it turns out, you might not have to wait long. Researchers from Osaka University have developed what they are coining the “Flex” interface and it will likely be reaching cellphones and tablets before we know it. These researches identified a key problem with standard swipe...

This video speaks for itself.

When it comes to tech gadgetry, disposable nature is more or less based on price point and ease-of-transition from one gadget to the next. A few examples: Netbooks were always disposable because they were introduced with a low price point and are even marketed as “companion” computers, which translates to “this is something cheap enough to...

PND means Portable Navigation Device, and in general use refers to any portable automotive GPS device. For several years now there have been those that claim PNDs are a dying market and that they will die a quick death. The exact opposite of that has been true. PNDs still continue to sell by the truckload and in addition have become quite advanced in overall...

The typical tech people put into cars are music players, DVD decks, PNDs (personal navigation devices) and smartphones. And the most annoying thing is how to mount it. You have seven basic options for mounting tech in a car:Proprietary in-dash Semi-proprietary in-dash In-mirror Gooseneck/Bracket Suction mount to adhesive plate Suction mount to glass...

I really find it humorous when I read articles like this basically insinuating that Dell can’t build a decent small computer, and in this case a SmartPhone. From the linked article above, the tail of it states this: Still, would you buy a Dell smartphone? What kind of features should MePhone have in order to convince you to chose it over an iPhone,...

With last week’s announcement of the Iphone 2.0 (due to be released on July 11th), I was yet again pondering the thought of switching to the Iphone. The Iphone is very revolutionary for the smartphone market. The interface is amazing. The fact that almost anyone can actually use the features of the Iphone is amazing. Anybody with a Windows Mobile phone can...

One of the “in” things to do online these days is lifestreaming. Lifestreaming is where you have an online record of your daily activities. You might use Twitter to share random thoughts throughout the day. You might snap photos or take videos and put them online. You’ll write blog posts. You’ll update your statuses in social networks...

There are more than a few people out there that put their entire lives (more or less) into their mobile device, i.e. a smartphone. Mobile users are all about accessibility, as in “I want to do everything on my smartphone that I can do on my computer.” And when they say everything, they mean everything. The Big Three in this field are Google,...

If you are the type of person who sends text messages a lot on your smartphone device using Windows Mobile, this is good news for you. Windows Mobile 6.1 has been reported to (after a long wait) have native SMS threading. What this essentially means is that text messages can be sent/received in an instant-messenger style way, making it much easier to follow of...