How many smartphones do you think were shipped across the world in 2013? The answer is a pretty staggering 1 flipping billion. 1.004 billion if you want us to be exact. This is huge percentage of the overall mobile phone shipments of 1.8 billion last year and a 38.4% jump from the previous year’s figures. It is also the first time that more than a billion smartphone...
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If having a plain old smartphone isn’t enough for you then maybe you will be interested in some of the cases and add ons which have been seeing the light of day at the CES in Las Vegas. For example, there is the Yellow Jacket smartphone case. This is a pretty innocuous sounding name for something which is basically a highly powerful stun gun. The fact that it can deliver...
If you are ever in the Mexican village of Villa Talea de Castro be sure to make a mobile phone call or three. This remote settlement has a population of 2,500 but has now set up its very own phone network, due to the fact that the country’s major networks don’t offer their services there. The villagers pay $1.20 each per month, which works out at under 80p, to get...
An interesting piece of research has shown how our mobile phones can be used to track our movements and find out more about human behaviour patterns. The study was published in the journal Nature and was done by a team which included Dr Marta Gonzalez, who is based in the Northeastern University in Boston. Their efforts included tracking the location of over 100,000 mobile...
April 2013 is a historic month for the mobile phone. You might not know this already but the 3rd of this month was the 40th anniversary of the first ever mobile phone call. While most of us joined the mobile revolution long after this, it was on this day back in 1973 when a chap called Martin Cooper made history with a Motorola device. He was a senior engineer at Motorola...
What are the chances of you wanting to use your mobile phone in North Korea in the near future? They may be slim but, hey, it’s always nice to have the option, isn’t it? Well, now you have it, so you might want to start looking at prices for flights to Pyongyang after all. Previously, foreign mobile phones were of no use at all in North Korean territory. However, under...
If you like to use Firefox as the browser on your PC then you might be interested to see that Mozilla has given out some information on the very first smartphones which will use this system. The first couple of phones running Firefox will be produced by a modestly sized Spanish company going be the name of Geeksphone. They will be aimed at getting the attention of developers...
If there is one thing better than sitting relaxing in the bath it is sitting relaxing in the bath while using your smartphone. If you have spent time in Japan lately then you may have already enjoyed the undeniable pleasure of some bath time phone use but waterproof smartphones are scarce outside of the land of the rising sun. That’s all going to change though, as Sony...
Some people will tell you that 3D printing is going to be huge in the future and they might very well be right. This technology could be used in the coming years to produce all sorts of things, from cars to false teeth and could revolutionise the industrial process forever. However, for the moment we are happy enough with the idea of printing off our own phone. Ok, so...
The launch of EE, the UK’s only 4G provider, will enable millions of people to make the most of the latest handsets. With that in mind, EE has announced it will carry devices like the HTC One XL and Huawei Ascend P1, and many more. One of the most sought after devices of the year has to be the newly-launched Apple iPhone 5, which is available through EE and will be fully...