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Finnish startup launches smartphone to rival their former company Nokia
A group of ex-Nokia employees who quit over the company’s decision to abandon the planned MeeGo operating system in favour of Windows presented their own smartphone on Monday, hoping to rival the sector’s giants. The Jolla smartphone, which is entirely intuitive and has no buttons, is “a strong candidate” on…
New smartphone extension helps you find your lost cat
Lost your cat? Your grandmother? Or are you injured in a car crash, unable to call for help because your phone battery is dead? Never fear, a mobile solution is near. Inventors and manufacturers at the world’s biggest mobile fair in Barcelona showed off new inventions to make the ubiquitous…
Tech firms pitching smartphones as the ‘remote for your life’
It can talk to your car, your refrigerator, water your plants and help you stay fit and healthy: the smartphone is become the consumer’s remote control for life. That was the message delivered by dozens of firms at the International Consumer Electronics Show, where terms like “appification” were tossed around…
First African smartphone launched in Rep. of Congo
A Congolese inventor has unveiled what he says is the first African-designed smartphone. Verone Mankou, 27, told AFP that the so-called Elikia, which means “hope” in the local language, went on sale the day before in the Republic of Congo. Mankou, head of the company VMK, said the Android-powered device…
Smartphones dominate Tokyo Game Show
Sophisticated gameplay and cheap downloads that are fuelling a boom in software for smartphones and tablets were on display Thursday at the Tokyo Game Show, the biggest of its kind in Asia. Developers from all over the world flocked to the town of Makuhari outside the Japanese capital to showcase…
How Microsoft is looking beyond an app-centric world
Microsoft may have stolen a march on its smartphone rivals by putting social connectivity at the heart of the user experience When my kids were small, one of their favourite walks was down Staithe Street in Wells-next-the-Sea, a charming seaside town in Norfolk. Staithe Street is long and narrow and…
What good is Twitter? How a telltale tic is twitching us into twits
It’s now thought that the reason CNN and Fox mistakenly reported, at first, that the ACA mandate had been struck down by the Supreme Court… was simply because some chucklehead pseudo-reporter in the room TWEETED the wrong information. (CNN et al may deny this—I don’t believe them, as the indications…
Android, Apple extend gains in smartphone market
WASHINGTON — The Google Android platform extended its lead in the US smartphone market while Apple increased its market share to nearly a third in March through May, a survey showed Monday. Android accounted for 50.9 percent of all smartphones used in the US during the three-month average period, according…
British police use smartphone App to catch ‘rioters’
British police on Tuesday loaded almost 3,000 images onto a smartphone App and invited the public to help them identify people suspected of taking part in last year’s London riots. The Metropolitan Police force loaded 2,880 CCTV images onto its App and urged people to sift through the images and…
The iPhone makes up half of smartphone sales the U.S. even though Android wins globally
Here’s a statistic: in the first quarter of 2012, of the 18m smartphones sold in the US through carriers, the majority went to existing smartphone owners. Less than half – about 8.6m – went to new smartphone owners: people upgrading from a featurephone or getting their first phone. (The former…
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