Ford’s plan to turn the inside of your car into one big eavesdropping, ad-spewing smartphone
Be careful what you say while driving. The car may be listening. Automaker Ford recently filed for what it says is a patent.“In-car advertisement display system” If this doesn't piss you off, just wait until your center screen gets flooded with texts, messages, and more junk mail. The technology uses microphones in the car to […]
Pushing Buttons: Nintendo DS at 20 – the console that paved the way for smartphone gaming | Games
BIn 2004, video games were well into their adolescence. The war between Sega and Nintendo that defined the early 1990s was in the rearview mirror. PlayStation knocked both companies off their feet, and Microsoft launched the Xbox. The critical and commercial hits of the time were not comic book platformers but operatic space shooters (Halo) […]
8 new emojis coming to your smartphone
Show me how you really feel. Eight new emojis are due to arrive on smartphones soon, with the addition of the bags under the eyes emoji already proving popular with users who say it makes them “feel noticed.” Daily Mail. The Unicode Standard, the official emoticon standard managed by the Unicode Consortium, which is responsible […]
Apple rival Huawei debuts tri-fold smartphone Mate XT
China's Huawei Technologies Co. unveiled a $2,800 tri-fold phone on Tuesday, aiming to widen its lead in the world's biggest smartphone market and steal attention from Apple Inc. just hours after it unveiled a new iPhone. The Chinese tech giant unveiled the new Mate XT, which can fold in three ways like an accordion screen […]
World’s largest functional smartphone breaks Guinness World Record
A popular YouTuber has created a giant, fully functional iPhone that has broken a world record. Arun Maini and Matthew Parks have created a 6.74-foot version of the iPhone 15 Pro Max. Guinness World Records The largest smartphone replica. To win the title, the phone had to actually work. Built around an 88-inch OLED TV, […]
Google under fire for pressing influencers to ‘prefer’ Pixel smartphone
Google has come under fire for pressuring tech influencers to only promote its new Pixel phone or risk being excluded from a program offering early access to the device. The tech giant is inviting content creators to join its “Team Pixel” program, giving them early access to devices. Earlier this month, Google unveiled a new […]
Miss your flip phone? A growing number of people are ditching the smartphone for ‘dumb phones’
Smartphones can do so much these days that their function as actual phones, while natural, seems unimportant. The expansion of smartphone apps and features clearly appeals to people who grew up corded and with shared lines, people whose old-world habits keep them excited about such novelties. But it seems some smartphone users are tired of […]
The rise of dumbphones in a smartphone world
Most of us know how distracting our smartphones can be. Despite our best efforts to avoid picking up our phone as soon as we get bored, the average American spends 4.1 hours a day staring at a smartphone screen. This not only impacts our eyes, posture and attention, but also our mental health and feelings […]