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Modern smartphones are expensive, relatively fragile and battery-hungry. Consequently, they're pretty much useless in any tough emergency situation. Todd talks to Christian Scheder of SpareOne about their solution to the problem. The SpareOne emergency phone is a mobile phone that runs off a standard AA battery rather than a rechargeable one more usually found in a mobile phone. While this gives
Rovio made an announcement today regarding the company's holiday season success. We knew that the 2012 holiday shopping season was going to be a big one for mobile devices -- smartphones and tablets were the IT thing to have under your tree on December 25th and Rovio perhaps has lended some credence to that perception. The Finnish game maker started off by
Just a few days ago Google released a small set of holiday wallpapers, but now the holidays are almost past and the dark, cold days of winter stretch out ahead of those of us in the northern hemisphere -- exception for Todd and his Hawaiian paradise. Now it is time to switch to a new winter wallpaper. Thankfully, the folks over at
On the eve of Christmas Eve Google has pushed out its official holiday themes for Android devices -- not a moment too soon. The mobile operating system will likely be a gift found under many trees this December 25th, but for those already using the number one selling devices then you can get in the spirit of the season now.
Rovio is celebrating the third birthday, or 'Birdday', of it's ground-breaking Angry Birds game today. As part of the celebration the company released an update, bringing the app to version 3.0, and adding thirty new levels of pig-bashing fun. The game from the Finland-based company is certainly not showing it's age, as it continues to hover near the top of mobile download charts.
Over the past 3-4 weeks I have been carrying a LG Optimus G and using it in my day to day cell phone use. Up to this point I have not had a lot of exposure to Android based mobile phones. I have a couple of tablets and was always underwhelmed by their performance. First of all let me say
I don't know if I should be happy or angry with YouMail today. Every company needs to make money or otherwise it has a way of ceasing to exist. YouMail has a great free version of it's service and I have been a happy customer for quite some time now. Today, however, a message in my inbox announced some changes,