Phones

Samsung Galaxy S IV Rumor Roundup: Everything We Think We Know

The Samsung Galaxy S IV will be announced at an event tonight in New York. It’s so close we can almost feel it in our hands. And thanks to the leaky ship that is the internet, we’ve got a pretty good idea of what to expect once it’s real. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-confirms-the-galaxy-ivs-coming-march-14th-5986667 Last year’s Galaxy S III…

Galaxy S IV Video Leaks Show Off Smart Pause, Gesture Recognition, and More

A series of leaked videos purport to show off some of the Samsung Galaxy S IV’s new control methods, including a smart pause system and touch-free control. Why wait for tonight when you can check out all the goodies right now? The smart pause system appears to intelligently notice when someone looks away, and then…

What’s the Most Important App on Your Phone Right Now?

Everyone has at least one. Stock apps and don’t count; you get those for free. You are given a brand new phone of your choice running its stock OS, and you are allowed to install one and only one app on it. What do you pick? Image by Oleksiy Mark/Shutterstock

Is This What the Samsung Galaxy S IV Looks Like?

The Samsung Galaxy S IV is going to be announced in 10 days and we’re pretty excited for it even if we don’t know what it’s going to look like. We might now. A few leaked images of what’s supposed to be the Galaxy S IV have come out and if they’re real, the phone…

NYT: The Galaxy S IV Will Auto-Scroll By Gazing Deep Into Your Eyes

With the Galaxy S IV announcement just barely over a week away, rumors are swirling. But one of the stand-outs, now being confirmed by the New York Times, is that the Galaxy S IV will be able to scroll all by itself, just by looking at your eyes. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-confirms-the-galaxy-ivs-coming-march-14th-5986667 It’s a super simple concept. As…

White House: You Should Be Able to Unlock Your Phone If You Own It

The White House has responded to a 100,000+ signature petition opposing the recent decision by the Librarian of Congress to remove DMCA exemptions for unlocking cellphones. The official response? You should be able to unlock your phone with no legal penalty. So long as you own your phone. https://gizmodo.com/unlocking-your-phone-is-illegal-starting-tomorrow-5978982 Unlocking your phone for use on…

Someone Made an Entire Movie About How Awful 3G Data Is

What began as a shameless ploy by the LTE-peddling thugs of the mobile crime wars has, fortunately, evolved into a tale of star-crossed lovers set for the modern stage. Presenting 3G: The Killer Connection, the story of what can happen when your choice of data carrier turns out to be wrong. Dead wrong. Our story…

Charge This $20 Nokia Phone Once Every 35 Days

First of all, don’t get too excited because this phone will almost certainly never be available where you live. Regardless, the new Nokia 105 lasts freaking 35 days on a single charge and it costs under $20. The phone isn’t intended to replace a smartphone. Quite the contrary—it’s for emerging markets, aka countries where millions…

Meet the Symbiote: The Ironclad, Adaptable Future of Antivirus Protection

Ang Cui has a lot of power. With enough time he can take control of pretty much any networked device. He could watch you through your iSight or track the Netflix on your smart TV. But he has bigger fish to fry, so your Catfish marathons are safe for now. From him, at least. A…

The Problem With Apps Is Smartphones

We love our music apps, and the smartphones that made it commonplace to carry around advanced, diverse music functionality, rather than relying on a “dumb” iPod or waiting until you get back to your computer to try the cool stuff. However, phones are getting in the way of apps. Case in point: You’re listening to…

This Is Firefox OS in Action

Firefox OS won’t be coming to the U.S. until 2014, and chances are that its rather budget approach is not for you, dear gadget-obsessed Gizmodo reader. But Firefox OS burst onto the scene today at Mobile World Congress with announcements of new, upcoming handsets, and a global roll-out plan. It’s poised to bring smartphone goodness…

Meet the ZTE Open, The First Official Firefox OS Phone

There have been a few Firefox OS developer phones floating around but now, Mozilla has announced the first official Firefox OS handset at Mobile World Congress: The ZTE Open. It’s not a high-powered guy, packing a Cortex A5 processor, and a 3.5-inch display. It’s like a glance into Android’s past. Information beyond that is a…

A Year With the Cheapest Unlimited Phone Plan You’ve Never Heard Of

Remember Republic Wireless? Those guys who promised to change the world of mobile with a $19 per month unlimited talk, text, and data plan? Remember how it sounded too good to be true? I dove in head first when it came out as a beta last year, and I can tell you from experience that…

Report: The Galaxy S IV Is Definitely Being Announced on March 14th

It should come as no surprise the Samsung Galaxy IV is coming. The only question was whether or not it would rear its head at the upcoming Mobile World Congress alongside competitors like the HTC one. Apparently not. According to The Verge, sources say it is definitely coming on March 14th at a Samsung event.…

Does Anyone Actually Want a Transparent Phone?

There are a couple of rumored features that “phones of the future!” always seem to have, and up there with flexibility is transparency. See-through phones have been a futuristic what-if for ages now, but now a company called Polytron is promising that the future is here! Or at least close. Within the year, perhaps. Sure,…

Bump Is the Newest, Easiest Way to Send Your Digital Goodies From Your Phone to Your Computer

As great as your smartphone is, there are plenty of things you just don’t want to look at on there; you’d rather have them on that big ol’ computer screen of yours. Now Bump, which previously let you throw data from phone to phone, is here to help by making it ludicrously easy to get…

What’s The Best Ringtone You’ve Ever Heard?

There are two worlds of ringtones. There are the “this is my favorite song” ringtones and there are the “holy shit why didn’t I think of that” ringtones. Music, pretty much by default, falls in the first category. The second category, that’s harder to define. And that’s where you come in. What’s the best, wittiest…

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An iOS 6.1 Jailbreak for iPhone 5 Is Definitely Probably Maybe Coming This Sunday

iPhone 5 users have been waiting a long, long time for a jailbreak. Sure, the current versions of iOS have been opened, but unlucky kids with A6 chips and the fancy new Apple devices they come in have been out of luck. But no longer! Probably. With today’s release of iOS 6.1, jailbreak release rumors…

How Often Do You Use Your Phone to Make Actual Calls?

Smartphones. The more you think about it, the more the term just seems antiquated. A relic that just stuck around, sort of like the word “rewind.” With hulking phablets coming out more frequently and in larger sizes, it seems like the phone part of a phone is increasingly incidental. How often do you actually make…