The shape of your next handset What are our phones going to look like in 10 years time; see-through displays, Star Trek-style tricorders? Ton Brand from the GSM Alliance – the organisation that promotes standardisation between mobile networks – has a pretty good idea. As programme director of Embedded Mobile, [...]
Could it be WP7? Sony Ericsson has teased a new mobile device on its Facebook page in an attempt to whet people’s appetites before the big consumer show in Las Vegas. There isn’t much to go on in terms of what device we can expect, but the main rumour so [...]
An HTC Rezound, iPhone 4 and Nokia Lumia 800 celebrate the holidays. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired.com The holidays are a smorgasbord of sensory overload. The traveling. The cooking. The shopping. Even the “quality” family time. It’s all packaged into two nightmarish rollercoasters scheduled at the blunt ends of November and December. [...]
runMobileCompatibilityScript(‘myExperience1270872507001′, ‘anId’);brightcove.createExperiences(); On this week’s edition of the Gadget Lab podcast, we talk about Adobe’s decision to kill mobile Flash and the ongoing iOS 5 battery problem saga, then take a look at Motorola’s tough but slender new Droid Razr smartphone. Staff writer Mike Isaac and Reviews Editor Mike [...]
The Motorola Xoom shipped with the underwhelming, buggy beta version of Flash for Android tablets. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com It’s all over. On Wednesday morning, Adobe delivered the eulogy for its multi-media Flash platform for mobile, stating the company would no longer invest resources in porting its once-indispensable cross-browser technology to [...]
Largest research ever Latest research involving a large section of the Danish population suggests that there is no link between the long-term use of mobile phones and brain cancer. The study, that was originally published in the bmj.com, involved the analysis data of 10,729 central nervous system tumours between 1990 [...]
A screenshot of Infinity Blade II on the iPhone 4S illustrates the fine graphical detail enabled by Apple's A5 processor. Image: ChAIR Entertainment If the last two weeks of mainstream press coverage are to be believed, the only relevant features in Apple’s new iPhone 4S are Siri, the phone’s remarkable digital [...]
Allowed to use Everything Everywhere network too Virgin Media mobile customers will soon be able to use Spotify via 3G on their phones without incurring any data charges, or affecting the accompanying phone’s data allowance. The news for Virgin Media customers follows the company’s announcement earlier in the year that [...]
Apps, books or music? Looks like we just can’t get enough apps these days. Image: Asymco Our appetite for downloading apps is tremendous, and just seems to keep on growing, and yet our need to download other forms of digital entertainment isn’t nearly as staggering. Market intelligence blog Asymco found [...]
MVNO for employees hints at greater plans? Ladies and gentleman take a closer look. Yes, it’s time for the mobile networks to start panicking – this is a Google SIM card for the search giant’s own mobile network. Mobile virtual network actually, as Google has entered the MVNO game in [...]