Articles By Alex Angove
Android Approaching 1 Billion Users
Android is fast approaching an astounding 1 billion users worldwide, according to ex-CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt. The milestone will likely be hit in the next six months, placing it well within the borders of 2013. With an apparent 1.5 million activations per day, a rate that is constantly increasing, it was only a matter of time.
Samsung Galaxy Mega Breakdown
About a week ago Samsung officially announced its rumored Samsung Galaxy Mega phablets, one weighing in with a 5.8 inch display and the other with a whopping 6.3. We were initially very sceptical as to the validity of these rumours, as whether or not the market for such devices actually exists is as yet uncertain. However, that’s exactly what everybody said about the original Galaxy Note and now we could hardly imagine the mobile market without it.
BlackBerry Z10 Review
So we’ve had the BlackBerry Z10 for a little a while now and we’ve got a much better idea of the device as a whole. If you’re unfamiliar with the Z10, it’s BlackBerry’s flagship device for the new BB10 operating system. The iconic smartphone manufacturer has ditched its aged, yet popular, mobile OS and started again from the ground up.
Samsung Galaxy Mega 5.8 and 6.3
Rumors are flying suggesting that, alongside its increasingly popular Galaxy Note line of phablets, Samsung could be set to release a new set of phablets under the moniker of Samsung Galaxy Mega. While the name is definitely ripe for change, we’re more interested in the larger screens that these new handsets are said to sport.
Happy Birthday to the Cell Phone!
Either today or yesterday, depending on where you are, marks the 40th birthday of the cell phone. On the 3rd of April 1973 Motorola Engineer Martin Cooper made the first successful public call from a cell phone, officially kicking off what was not known then, but clear as day in hindsight, one of the many technological revolutions that would change the world. In case you were wondering, the recipient of Cooper’s inaugural call was Joe Engel, his direct competitor and head of research at Bell Labs, thus making it one of the bigger “in your face” jabs in tech history.
HTC Windows Phone 8X Review
The HTC Windows Phone 8X is HTC’s current Windows Phone 8 flagship device that, while doing nothing to slow HTC’s growing reputation for questionable names, has seen its fair share of popularity in the WP market. Sporting thoroughly modern hardware, the elegant WP8 UI and stylish case design make for a blending of power and visual appeal that’s rarely seen in the handset market. But looks and specs aren’t everything, so we grabbed one ourselves to check it out in our own Windows Phone 8X review.
HTC No Longer ‘Quietly’ Brilliant
HTC will be ditching its now familiar “Quietly Brilliant” tagline in favor of more aggressive marketing stance. According to the Wall St Journal, HTC Chief Marketing Officer Benjamin Ho has declared that the new marketing approach will be “bolder”. We can’t help feeling that the decision is, while entirely laudable, perhaps a smidge late. HTC may have been ‘quietly brilliant’ for years now, but its recent crowning achievement, the HTC One, deserved a lot more fanfare and hoopla upon its global unveiling than it received. Perhaps a louder approach to marketing would have been more effective a few weeks, or even a month or more ago, rather than after the biggest launch of HTC’s recent history.
Nokia Working on Chargeless Phone
The idea of wireless power transfer is not a new one. Nikola Tesla demonstrated it as a working concept as early as 1893. A few years back researchers at MIT outlined a short-range method in a paper titled “non-radiative mid-range energy transfer”, more recently multiple smartphone manufacturers have already introduced wireless charging pads in to the market (including Nokia) and countless other researches are working wireless energy transfer in the hopes of one day ditching the cord.
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