Displaying items by tag: Smartphones

John Chen, who is also the CEO of BlackBerry has decided to put an end to leaking information about new products the company is preparing. As stated in his post, he understands the need for users to know at all times what is going on in the company, and that the devices are in preparation, but they briefly applied too much damage and it must be stopped.

The White House and U.S. President Obama will reportedly soon replace their existing Blackberry devices with alternative solutions based on Android. If the decision proves true it will give another blow to the Canadian company that is already in serious financial problems.

Chinese company OnePlus announced its smartphone. It will have 13 megapixel rear camera with Sony's Exmor IMX214 CMOS sensor that has an opening aperture at f/2.0. To prevent any distortion optics consists of six lenses that will also serve to enhance the color and image quality.

Quite unexpectedly, Rovio Entertainment has its franchise Angry Birds turned in a new direction. Next game from this mega-popular series will belong to a RPG genre with the turn based combat.

Last month Microsoft has announced that they will drastically slash the price of licenses for Windows Phone operating system to manufacturers of mobile devices. But now it appears that some of the bolder speculations how some companies will not have to pay any fee to Microsoft to use the WP platform were true.

Flappy Bird is irritatingly difficult, yet addictive game. For some time it was available for the mobile platforms, but the author decided to move it from all the official stores a month ago.

Nokia at the global level received a patent for his invention described as a flexible batteries. According to the description, mentioned batteries should be able to wrap around one axis, and will be manufactured for installation in a “multifunctional portable electronic devices.”

Lately, among the rumors related to the iPhone 6 we could usually hear that the new device will have a sapphire glass, and that Apple is working on a new A8 processor. The latest talks are about the amounts and terms of delivery of the product by Apple's favorite supplier Foxconn.

A new technology called Spritz has the task to increase the speed of reading text on the screen of your mobile phone or smart watch. This system was developed by a company of the same name in Boston, and will be installed on the new series of Samsung devices coming this spring - Galaxy S5 and Gear 2. Unlike other methods of speed reading, this technology is unique and can be mastered in 5 minutes, according to its authors

After the discovery of mass surveillance by the famous whistleblower Edward Snowden, numerous products with an emphasis on protecting users' privacy appeared on the market. One of them comes from smartphone company FreedomPop and it's called Privacy Phone. Devices that protect privacy often come at a hefty price, but Privacy Phone corrects this complaint and will arrive on the market with a price tag of $189.