Smartphones

Galaxy S IV Display Shoot-Out: How Does It Compare?

The Samsung Galaxy S smartphones are by far the most popular Android smartphones, and are flagship products for Samsung to show off its latest and greatest OLED display technology. The display on the Galaxy S4 is a major enhancement and improvement over the Galaxy S III—it has a full HD 1920×1080 resolution display with 441…

The Sleek WebOS Smartphone That Never Was

You’re not looking at a new phone headed to stores any time soon—in fact, you’re looking at the surprisingly sleek, all-touch webOS smartphone developed by HP which (sadly?) never was. Unearthed by webOS Nation, this phone—codenamed WindsorNot—had similar innards to the Pre 3, but focussed on an all-touch, 4-inch, 800 x 480 touchscreen, and ran…

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

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

These Cheap and Cheerful Archos Smartphones Run Stock Android and Start at $120

Archos has announced a new range of budget smartphones for those of limited means—and while they may not be market leaders, they have value and stock Android going for them. While the new handsets might not be challenging the HTC One anytime soon, there’s no denying their value. The 35 Carbon, for instance, offers up…

Is This What a Cheaper iPhone’s Shell Will Look Like?

Whether Apple will release a budget iPhone this year is subject to no small amount of debate, but it seems almost certain that the company is at least testing one out. Which is why this rumored cheap iPhone shell, published by Tactus, could very well be legit. Whether it actually makes it into stores is…

It’s official: the U.S. version of the Galaxy S4 will have a 1.9GHz quad-core processor and be available this month.

Why Your Cell Phone Doesn’t Have a Dial Tone

In addition to the long curly cords, and the part where they are permanently attached to a wall, old-fashioned landlines have something else that we’ve lost in the cell phone revolution: a dial tone. What happened to that thing? Dan Goldin of Makers Alley just happened to be reading The Idea Factory when he came…

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…

HTC One Review: The Beauty Is a Beast (Updated)

Last year HTC made three excellent phones: the One X, the One X+, and the Droid DNA. This year, it’s focusing on a single dominant device: the HTC One. It’s a gutsy strategy—basically focusing all of your efforts on one device that will span across many carriers—but one that worked wonders for Samsung’s Galaxy S…

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…

HTC First: Pure Facebook Phone (Update: Hands On)

The HTC First is a new smartphone that’s deeply integrated with Facebook Home. The AT&T phone runs on a modified version of Jelly Bean and it’s the only phone to come pre-loaded with Facebook Home. Facebook Home is the rumored Facebook phone we’ve been hearing about for what seems like forever now. It basically replaces…

Automatic Do-Not-Disturb Measures Your Brainwaves to Know When You’re Busy

Italian-born neuroscientist Ruggero Scorcioni has developed a new technology that will help you get stuff done by deflecting phone calls or other notifications away when you’re busy. Finally, technology to help keep your brainspace clear when you need it. Ruggero showed us his tech implemented as an app on smartphone at an AT&T event in…

Why You Might Actually Want a Facebook Phone

Facebook’s got a new phone. And a new home screen. They’re going to be fine, probably, more or less. But you are also asleep now because the idea of a Facebook phone bores you, deeply. Maybe it shouldn’t. In a perfect world, there’s a compelling case for a true blue Facebook phone. It’s the Messaging…

Future AT&T Galaxy S4 owners will shell out $250 or $200 for their respective models—with two-year contract, of course.

This Is (Probably) the New Facebook Phone

Facebook has a big event planned Thursday to show off a new homescreen, reportedly, along with a “midtier” (read: cheap) phone. According to well-known tipster evleaks, this is it. It looks pretty boring, sure, but boring is a billion million times better than Facebook’s last gawdawful swing at hardware. Baby steps! [evleaks]

Our Favorite Soundbars, Streaming Boxes, Stoves, and More

Winter’s slowly winding down, and no doubt, the warm weather is beginning to beckon, what with the birds and the sunshine and the joyful frolicking and whatnot. And we’d be out there enjoying it, too… if this past month hadn’t given us a whole slew of gadgets to stay inside drooling over. Ah well—the sun…

Battery Life Is the Only Spec That Matters

Give basically any piece of tech you carry around the time machine test. Jump ahead 50 years, and show off whatever anachronism of a gadget you brought along to a native. They’d laugh, obviously. But within the confines of our traditional tech specs, you know what they’d probably find most egregious? The battery. Somehow, when…

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…