Phones

Set Your Phone’s Photos Free With the Wikimedia Commons App

Wikipedia just wouldn’t be the same without its pictures, but someone has to go out and take ’em. Now you can help, armed with nothing but a smartphone and some stuff to shoot. The new Wikimedia Commons apps for iOS and Android make uploading pictures to Wikimedia’s Creative Commons archive a piece of cake. By…

Report: Samsung Is Planning a Klutz-Proof Version of the Galaxy S4

Rugged phones are nice, but they are almost invariably crap. According the Wall Street Journal, Samsung is making a move to kick that trend with an upcoming waterproof, dustproof Galaxy S4. The WSJ’s unnamed source says the tenatively named “Galaxy S4 Active” will launch this June, alongside robust models of the Galaxy line’s 7 and…

Nokia has announced that it will hold a Lumia event in London on May 14th—brace yourself for new phones.

Geeksphone’s first Firefox phone for developers goes on sale today. Are you going to buy one?

Tangible Alarm Smartphone Dock: Shove to Snooze

It’s early morning. Your phone is screaming at you. Unless you open your eyes and seek out place to touch, it’ll never stop. But the Tangible Alarm could bring back the eyes-closes snooze-button flailing of days gone by. A concept by Victor Johansson, the Tangible Alarm would provide a backup for your phones built-in alarm.…

What’s Inside a $12 Phone

Chances are you’ve owned a “free” phone at some point or another, a beater that cost zero-down with your contract. That’s still nothing compared to this $12 off-contract “Gongkai Phone” you can pick up from the Mingtong Digital Mall. But what is in one of those? Not much. The folks over at Bunnie’s Blog picked…

The lovely HTC One is available nationwide today on contract at AT&T and Sprint for $199, and T-Mobile for $99 down.

Samsung’s New 6.3-Inch Phone Is Bigger Than 75 Percent of Human Penises

Samsung’s Galaxy Mega is pretty big. (You: How big is it?) So big that it’s bigger than about 75 percent of the full grown human penises on planet Earth. Full stop. Last year, noted penis blogger John Herrman alerted us to the phone-penis size crash course we were on. Smartphones surpassed dicks last summer—a bit…

Facebook Home Review: Surrender Yourself Unto Zuck

Facebook Home isn’t a Facebook Phone, nor is it really “a bunch of apps,” or a new operating system. It’s an admission: Facebook means a lot to me, and is an interesting view of my life—and I want to look at it all the time, everywhere I go. If that sounds like you, Home is…

Word is that Facebook is shutting down the leaked version of Home. Ours is still working. For now anyway.

HTC Just Made Its Lowest Profit Ever

HTC has announced that it made just $2.8 million in the first three months of 2013, which Bloomberg claims is its slimmest profit on record. The company generated around $1.4 billion in revenue, which is well down on last year, when it churned over $2.2 billion. More embarrassingly, last year it made a profit of…

The Facebook Phone: It’s Finally Sorta Real (Update: Eyes-On)

We’ve been talking about it for years now—half dread, half excitement—and now it’s no longer just our imaginations. The Facebook Phone is as real as it’s probably ever going to get: it’s called Facebook Home a complete Android takeover that converts your smartphone. It’s important to know what Facebook Home, “the Facebook Phone,” isn’t. Facebook…

This Is How the FTC Wants Us to Save Ourselves From Obnoxious Robocalls

Way back in October, the Federal Trade Commission admitted impotence against the ever-tenacious robocall and essentially begged the nation to find some way to make the madness stop. With a cool $50,000 tossed in to sweeten the deal, two winners have, at last, surfaced: meet Nomorobo and the decidedly less catchy “Robocall Filtering System and…

14 Ridiculously Retro Novelty Phones

So we used to have these things called landlines, which were phones that you didn’t take with you everywhere and that you actually used to talk to people. Some of them didn’t even look like phones. Here are some of our favorite incognito novelty handsets of yore. Warning: will cause extreme nostalgia. Garfield: Hates Mondays,…

Report: Facebook’s “Phone” Is a Home Screen That Could Be Coming To Your Phone Too

Android Police has managed to get its hands on a system dump for the upcoming “Facebook Phone” this Thursday. And while there will be a physical device announced, it seems “Facebook Home” is a really customized launcher, eventually destined for a wide variety of handsets. https://gizmodo.com/is-facebook-about-to-announce-a-facebook-phone-running-5992843 The disassembled data reveals a lot of information about…

DNA vs Razr: What’s Your Pick?

The HTC Droid DNA and Motorola’s Droid RAZR HD/RAZR MAXX HD are all sweet handsets. The DNA of course has an edge in terms of screen and display while the RAZRs’ battery lives are unmatched in the Android ecosystem. Sure the HTC One will be frickin’ awesome when it does eventually show up but “later…

All delays considered, HTC is now promising the One will pop up in the U.S. “before the end of April.”

It Took Five Years To Make a Beautiful Android Phone

Android has become an enormous success in part by appealing to a lot of people who don’t prioritize aesthetics. It’s no wonder it’s been ugly for half a decade. But finally, it’s spawned a truly gorgeous object for everyone: the HTC One. Google’s take on phones was never meant to be pretty—it was just supposed…

Blackberry’s CEO Says the iPhone Is Outdated

With the launch of the last-chance Z10 around the corner, Blackberry is giving itself a pep talk to keep those hopes high. And according to CEO Thorsten Heins, the iPhone’s hardly in the race Blackberry’s fixin’ to win because it’s old news. In an interview with The Australian Financial Review Heins made it clear he…

Samsung’s saying it’ll have its first high-end Tizen phone out as early as this August. Take that, Google. [Bloomberg]