The Mophie Juice Pack Air for iPhone 5 is the company’s second battery case for the iPhone 5, and the first one to add almost double the battery to Apple’s smartphone. The Mophie Juice Pack Air for iPhone 5 covers the back and side of the iPhone 5, making the phone about twice as thick [...]
The Satechi Portable Energy Station 10000 Packs a Punch
March 19, 2013 | Posted by
If you’re looking for a high-capacity USB battery pack that will charge your USB-powered gadgets while traveling, I’d recommend the Satechi Portable Energy Station 10000 for $60. When you’re looking for USB battery pack, you should make sure that it provides enough additional power to the hardware you want to use it with that it’ll be [...]
Twitter To Shut Down TweetDeck to Android, iPhone Users
March 5, 2013 | Posted by
Twitter wants you to know that TweetDeck is its most powerful weapon — and you can’t have it. You can’t have it, that is, if you’re using an Android phone or an iPhone — or if you for some reason prefer the old version of TweetDeck that was built on Adobe’s resource-hogging Air platform. Twitter announced via a [...]
‘HTC One’ Wins Best Mobile Device
March 2, 2013 | Posted by
Now that the exciting show in Barcelona, Spain, has finally ended, we are now starting to see the awards granted for best in show. Mobile World Congress is one of the most exciting mobile events of the year, and this time around was no exception. Even though HTC didn’t announce their device at MWC 2013, [...]
Judge Wipes Out $450M in Apple Vs. Samsung Verdict
March 2, 2013 | Posted by
The two biggest — and bitterest — rivals in the smartphone market will have to endure another bruising trial after a federal judge ruled that jurors miscalculated nearly half the $1 billion in damages it found Samsung Electronics owed Apple Inc. for patent infringement.U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh wiped out $450 million from the verdict [...]
For the Record, Facebook is Officially a Mobile Company
January 31, 2013 | Posted by
At the end of last year, Facebook officially became a mobile company, not a desktop one. For the first time in its history, the number of active daily users accessing the service on a mobile device exceeded the number that were checking the social network from their desktop computers. That’s a momentous shift — the company’s [...]
BlackBerry Z10 May be Hot Competition For iPhone
January 30, 2013 | Posted by
By Jesus Diaz I’ve always hated BlackBerry phones. Disgracefully ugly bricks they were — until the BlackBerry Z10. The BlackBerry Z10 is hot. Truly beautiful, elegant hardware. If the OS is as nice as it seemed at CES, I will totally snatch one up. These BlackBerry Z10 vs. iPhone 5 comparative renders by our friend Martin Hajek are great. Not only [...]
Cheaper iPhone May be in The Works
January 29, 2013 | Posted by
A trickle of rumors about a cheaper iPhone has recently turned into a gush. This would seem to lend support to the idea that a budget iPhone really is about to launch at the end of 2013. But it’s puzzling that the rumors don’t seem to converge on one product concept. On the contrary, they point to opposite directions. [...]
Apple Revenue Hits Record, Still Misses Analysts’ Estimates
January 24, 2013 | Posted by
Apple had record sales in the fourth quarter, but the numbers were still not strong enough to please Wall Street. Apple sold 47.8 million iPhones in the quarter, compared to 37 million in the same quarter a year ago and a new record for the company. However, it missed Wall Street’s estimates of 50 million iPhones. [...]
New 5-inch iPhone? Rumors And Backtracks Fly
January 23, 2013 | Posted by
We’ve been hearing rumors of the next iPhone for weeks now, with all kinds of different specs and models rumored for the device. One of these rumors pegged the next iPhone with a 5-inch screen and seemed at least relatively easy to believe. That rumor came from DigiTimes, but today the site is going back on what [...]
