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Journalism Is Fine Because Everyone Is a Journalist

The Washington Post had an interesting back and forth wringing its hands over the future of journalism. Oh no! Journalism is dying! Again! Or so a newspaper with declining readership and revenue would have you believe. But that’s just plain wrong. Journalism is just dandy. And that’s largely because of your phone. The Posts’ Gene…

Tech News Mat Honan

Don’t Try to Convert Friends to Your Tech Religion

You probably love your phone, tablet, and other miscellaneous touchscreens—that’s why you bought them. But now that we anticipate, live, eat, and sleep with our gadgets, they’re being deified. Don’t let your fandom turn you fanatical. Relax. Just think about it—whenever you make an informed decision to go Windows Phone or Android, you’re not just…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Samsung Will Sell Bendy Screen Phones Next Year. Why?

Samsung has already demoed its flexible OLED displays as seen up top, but now they’re promising them in phone form, possibly in the “earlier part” of 2012. Does anyone want this? Samsung phones like the impending Galaxy Nexus already have a curved glass screen—but a truly flexible display might make the process easier. Or perhaps…

Gadgets Sam Biddle

The First Interesting Looking BlackBerry Isn’t Even Made by RIM

When was the last time you cared about a piece of BlackBerry hardware? 2003? Never? Your last malarial fever dream? Maybe today, at the sight of Porsche’s limited edition, $2000 P9981. It’s kinda nice looking! And stupidly, prohibitively expensive. So what do you get for two grand, besides spotty service and a seat on a…

Gadgets Sam Biddle

Sony and Ericsson’s Marriage Is Over

Sony-only phones are coming back as predicted. The Japanese electronics giant has announced that it will acquire Ericsson’s share of Sony Ericsson partnership, bringing it into the Sony ‘platform of network-connected’ products. Sony will be throwing Ericsson around $1.45 billion for their half of the company, as well as ownership of a bunch of patents…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

iPhone vs Android: Who Aged Better?

Some things never change. Other things never stay the same. Take the iPhone and Android. The iPhone is an iPhone is an iPhone. Android? It went from being the ugly stepsister to the belle of the ball. No, seriously. Once upon a time, Android was the young scrappy upstart that stayed invisible for nearly a…

Tech News Casey Chan

Nokia 800 Windows Phone Pictured Again

A nice high-res photograph of what could be a finished version of Nokia’s first WP7 phone has appeared online, showing us the phone previously known as the “Sea Ray” in all its… er… glory. The new phone, which previously leaked under the product name Nokia 800, is a slab-like affair, which will arrive in three…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

HTC Unsure About This Whole Ice Cream Sandwich Thing for Current Phones

Android 4.0 sure looks like a decent update for existing Gingerbread handsets. HTC isn’t all that sure about updating their current line of Android phones to Ice Cream Sandwich though; if you’ve got an HTC you might be out of luck. Talking to TechRadar, HTC said: “While our goal is to upgrade as many of…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus Knows What You Look Like

You’ve always had a choice. Either leave your screen unlocked when you stow it and run the risk of pocket-dialing the entirety of your contact list or lock the screen and endure the tedium of entering a PIN every time you pull it out. The new Samsung Galaxy Nexus, however, knows when to unlock itself—just…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Sony Ericsson to Go Smartphone-Only From 2012

Amid the numbers and percentages in Sony Ericsson’s Q3 financial data is a quote from CEO Bert Nordberg, in which he says the company will move “the entire portfolio to smartphones” by 2012. That K600i update isn’t happening, folks. Elsewhere in the update, SE reveals just how heavily it relies upon its smartphone range already,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

CheckIn Radio Is FourSquare for Your FM Dial

The combination of apps and traditional FM radio broadcasts might seem unnatural, but they actually work well together in at least three cases. Many of the most popular music apps on all platforms merely repackage online streams from FM radio stations; a company called Jelli crowdsources radio programming in cities across the country; and now,…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm

Nokia’s Sea Ray Windows Phone to Be Known as N800?

A pair of seemingly official adverts for Nokia’s first Windows Phone handset have been discovered, which give the rumored Sea Ray the extremely dull new product name Nokia N800. And we get to see the thing, too. https://gizmodo.com/orange-france-leaks-nokia-sun-windows-phone-nee-nokia-5848065 The supposed Nokia 800 is pictured atop a WP7 style coloured tiled background, showing an oddly curved…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Is a Samsung Galaxy S III Already on the Way?

The Galaxy S II came out pretty recently, but Samsung no care—at least if this blurry, “leaked” slide’s correct. Phandroid says what we’ve got here is a bona fide internal image of the next best Android for 2012. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-a-first-draft-of-your-next-android-5818202 Is it true? Maybe. Is it fake? Maybe. But the rumorific image claims a swell 2…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Sony Is This Close to Paying $1 Billion for Full Control of Sony Ericsson

Sony sure had itself a day the other day, and rumor has it the tech giant may soon have itself all of the Sony Ericsson joint venture as well. https://gizmodo.com/sony-sure-had-themselves-a-day-5836302 This according to a rumor reported by industry gaming pub Gamasutra, which reports Sony is oh so close to a $1 billion takeover of the…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Smuggling Cell Phones Into a Prison with a Toy RC Helicopter Is a Great Idea…If You Don’t Crash

We’ve seen a million and one clever ways to smuggle a cell phone into a prison before. Hidden inside buttholes, baked into bread and even shot over with a bow and arrow but flying in a phone with a RC helicopter into the prison might be the most tech savvy way yet. Too bad it…

Tech News Casey Chan

The United States of Smartphones

We judge people based on their tech. It’s okay, everyone does it. iPhone users are prissy liberals; Androiders are pasty nerds; Blackberry wielders are your dad. And the Atlantic’s got an awesome interactive map that lets you overlay a state’s characteristics with its dominant mobile OS. The results are preeeeetty interesting. Example: there are five…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

How Did Scarlett Johansson’s Phone Get Hacked?

When naked pictures of Scarlett Johansson hit the internet, take notice—but not for that reason. If You Are Famous and Take Nude Photos of Yourself, They Will End Up on the Internet If the wave of other possible leaked pics obtained from “hacked phones” is any indication—Jessica Alba, Vanessa Hudgens and Blake Lively, among others-ScarJo…

Tech News Rachel Swaby

Why Do We Use The Term Cellular Phone Instead of Mobile Phone?

If I asked you about your phone, would you call it a cell phone or a mobile phone? Does it really matter what you say or is one term more appropriate than the other? The world cellular, as it describes phone technology, was used by engineers Douglas H. Ring and W. Rae Young at Bell…

Tech News Kelly

HTC’s Sensation XE Is the First Beats Audio-Certified Smartphone

HTC’s Beats Audio deal is seeing its first fruits come forth with their Sensation update, the Sensation XE. It’s sure to sound great; it even has its own pair of Beats by Dre headphones. On the inside, it’s inherently the same phone as the original Sensation, just a bit better-fied. It’s got a new 1.5GHz…

Tech News Kwame Opam

QNX BlackBerries Being Rushed Out (YES!) Without Real Email/Calendar (NOOOOOO!!)

BlackBerry sales have been in the toilet, so RIM has been scrambling to get their much-anticipated first QNX-based phones to market. Very smart. But they may be pushing them out without BES/BIS email/calendar calendar support. That would be unfathomably stupid. This morning, an article in Mobile Magazine had this little poo-nugget: It turns out that…

Tech News Brent Rose

Journalism Is Fine Because Everyone Is a Journalist

Don’t Try to Convert Friends to Your Tech Religion

Samsung Will Sell Bendy Screen Phones Next Year. Why?

The First Interesting Looking BlackBerry Isn’t Even Made by RIM

Sony and Ericsson’s Marriage Is Over

iPhone vs Android: Who Aged Better?

Nokia 800 Windows Phone Pictured Again

HTC Unsure About This Whole Ice Cream Sandwich Thing for Current Phones

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus Knows What You Look Like

Sony Ericsson to Go Smartphone-Only From 2012

CheckIn Radio Is FourSquare for Your FM Dial

Nokia’s Sea Ray Windows Phone to Be Known as N800?

Is a Samsung Galaxy S III Already on the Way?

Sony Is This Close to Paying $1 Billion for Full Control of Sony Ericsson

Smuggling Cell Phones Into a Prison with a Toy RC Helicopter Is a Great Idea…If You Don’t Crash

The United States of Smartphones

How Did Scarlett Johansson’s Phone Get Hacked?

Why Do We Use The Term Cellular Phone Instead of Mobile Phone?

HTC’s Sensation XE Is the First Beats Audio-Certified Smartphone

QNX BlackBerries Being Rushed Out (YES!) Without Real Email/Calendar (NOOOOOO!!)

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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