From helping us navigate the streets to blasting our favorite traffic-busting music, our phones play a big role in our day-to-day commutes. But fiddling with your smartphone while you're driving isn't safe: That's why the folks at ARMOR-X created the One-Lock Air Vent Car Mount.
Most modern smartphones are thin and light enough to comfortably fit inside your pants pocket. However, this can occasionally turn into a grievous error (complete with grievous bodily harm), as a woman in Switzerland recently learned to her sorrow...
Portable gadgets have become a permanent fixture in our everyday lives. Whether you're into social media, gaming, texting or videos, they're a great way to stay occupied when you need to kill some time. But they could also be making our species gradually dumber.
BlackBerry Z10 smartphone owners in Australia can now download the latest operating system update; BlackBerry 10.1. The updated OS ushers in a raft of new features including improved cursor control, new Blackberry Hub tools and a high-dynamic-range camera mode.
The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) has launched a free app for iOS and Android devices that lets users test their mobile phone reception and log dropouts as proof of shoddy service. Complaints can then be sent to your telco provider directly from the app.
The next time a 20-something colleague offers you the use of their phone, you might want to handle with extreme care. A new survey from networking giant Cisco has confirmed Generation Y has a (literally) unhealthy addiction to their smartphones -- in addition to texting while driving, many freely admit to using their phones in the bathroom.
One of my main reasons for using a BlackBerry has always been that I do a lot of writing and text manipulation on my phone while travelling, and for those purposes a well-designed built-in keyboard is essential. But I've had to face facts: in recent months, I've been using its touch-screen interface a lot more than I realised.
The latest Android release, Gingerbread, is coming soon to phones, but we can peek at it in the software developer's kit. Here's what's new and notable in Android 2.3: better typing, darker looks, detailed battery and memory reports, and more.
Android 2.3, the "Gingerbread" update to Google's smartphone platform, is shipping first on the new Nexus S from Samsung, which Google partnered in designing. Get a glimpse of some Gingerbread features, and the new (T-Mobile) Nexus, in the clip above.
Android: We mentioned the CyanogenMod 6.1 Release Candidate when it first came out, but the stable version dropped today with performance improvements and feature additions for tons of Android phones.
As expected, Telstra has started selling the Motorola Defy from today. It's still only running 2.1, but it's relatively weatherproof. Pricing doesn't seem to have been posted on the Telstra site yet, but it will be available on a 24-month contract on the company's $49, $79, $99 and $129 cap plans, or outright for $600.
You had IT set up Microsoft Exchange Server on your personal phone so you could get corporate email and stay in touch. You also, likely unbeknownst to you, gave them the power to remotely control and wipe your phone.
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Android (with Windows): To unofficially tether and use your Android's mobile web on your laptop, you previously had three options: rooting, wonky proxies and purchasing PDAnet. Now there's formerly BlackBerry-only Tether, at about the same price as PDAnet. What's the difference?
Got Android envy? Just wish Apple handled sync, the web and openness a bit better? Well, you can't have it all but if you want to bring more Google paradigms to your iPhone here's how to do it.
The iOS 4 branch of Apple's mobile operating system is generally considered to perform pretty terribly on the iPhone 3G model — it's why downgrading to iOS 3.1.3 became such an attractive hack. But a video from the TiPb blog shows the latest developer release of iOS 4.2 as running much better on an older iPhone — nearly at par with iOS 3 on the same device, according to the Boy Genius Report.
Mozilla Labs lead Pascal Finette discusses why, despite the convenience of single point-of-access app stores for mobile devices, multiple app stores is a good thing. In short: It's all about competition and innovation. Read more at his site, and let us know what you think in the comments.
If you've rooted your Android phone and chosen to run the all-around great CyanogenMod ROM, you can download the latest update for beefy performance enhancements, as well as new features in Email, Camera and other apps.
Windows only: We recently featured Universal Androot, an app that rooted quite a few Android phones, but had a few limitations (and is already being patched by Google). Windows program SuperOneClick is the easiest, most universal rooting app we've seen yet.
