On Friday, February 21, 2014, in what can only be characterized as grasping for straws, BlackBerry announced that the newest version of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) will now offer stickers. Revolutionary.
If you're a smartphone lover than this week is going to be like Christmas in February for you. On the ground in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress all of the manufacturers are keying up their 2014 handsets that we should all be talking about in the coming months. While all manufacturers love to have a [...]
Huawei, like many other key manufacturers, weren't waiting for tomorrow mornings official kickoff of Mobile World Congress to make a big splash. At their press conference today in Barcelona the Chinese manufacturing giant unveiled 5 new 4G LTE connected devices. The devices include a new connected watch/ fitness tracker, a new MiFi that they are billing as [...]
On February 20, 2014, Google's Advanced Technology and Projects team announced a wildly innovative new smartphone prototype: Project Tango. What makes Project Tango so remarkable is the use of a new chip that allows for 3D tracking and mapping. In Google's words: Our current prototype is a 5” phone containing customized hardware and software designed [...]
If you missed out on the Flappy Bird epidemic and didn't download it before developer, Dong Nguyen took it down two weeks ago then you may be in luck. As soon as news hit that Flappy Bird was going away developers immediately went to work on clones. Games that mimicked the popular game that had [...]
"The Uncarrier", T-Mobile, is set to make some changes to their Jump program that will undoubtedly make big spending early adopters happy. T-Mobile's Jump program is the program currently allows customers to upgrade their device after a six month waiting period. At the end of the six month waiting period T-Mobile will pay the rest [...]
On 12 February 2014, the International Data Corporation (IDC) released some data from their Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. There is some really interesting data in the report for the smartphone market as a whole, as well as some telling data on the various mobile operating systems.
While T-Mobile and AT&T have been battling it out over social media and in stores, to the benefit of their customers, AT&T has now lost a court battle to the fourth largest carrier in the US. John Legere, T-Mobile's CEO, must be grinning from ear to ear over the recent court ruling, not just because [...]
It seems like mobile computing, smartphones in particular, are evolving at a near exponential rate. However, there are still many things that these phones can not do, or can not do very well; things that have been promised or rumored. Think about it. How often do you switch off your home lights from a mobile device? How often to pay for things with your smartphone? Shoot, how often do you have to charge your device?
The pre-emptive promotion that AT&T started on January 3rd ahead of T-Mobile's planned "breakup" promotion is now in the history books. AT&T announced at the start of the year that they would pay T-Mobile customers $450 in incentives to move over from the "uncarrier" network to AT&T, Ina Fried at Recode.net reported. AT&T's decision to [...]
