March is my iPhoneiversary. After using an Android smartphone for my entire adult life, I made an impulse decision to upgrade to an iPhone 5 last spring. In early 2013, I had been having increasing troubles with my LG Revolution and wanted a change. When the phone began to randomly shut...
Can it be done? Can Fleksy, the makers of an admittedly small touchscreen keyboard make it actually usable on such a tiny screen? Well according to them it will work on the Tizen Samsung Gear 2 Smartwatch and enable you to use SMS and Chat applications. "Fleksy patent-pending technology...
Developers get ready for the Third Annual Tizen Developer Conference. Registration is now open for attendance and also Importantly the Call for Papers is Live, so please get submitting your session proposals. This year's Conference hopes to build on the momentum gained by the recent additions to the...
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.Simple step trackers are going the way of the dinosaur, as a new generation of fitness devices cram more sensors and smarts into smaller and smaller shapes. This next wave will track our movements in three dimensions—and that’s...
It took five months for Google to approve 17 apps that could work with its Chromecast streaming gadget. But it only took a couple of weeks for those numbers to practically double, once Google opened up Chromecast to all comers.See also: How 6 Months With Chromecast Changed MePreviously, only an exclusive...
This is a Video going through the user interface of the Tizen Prototype Device at Mobile World Conference 2014 #MWC14. Device specifications were not on hand, but being a Samsung device it won't be too hard to guess. This user interface has definitely evolved since seeing it on other...
Nokia’s long-rumored Android smartphone is shipping across the globe next week. Well, with one minor exception: North America.That's right. Eager users in the U.S. and Canada will be missing out on Nokia’s budget-friendly smartphone.Nokia plans to ship the Nokia X everywhere else—from emerging markets such as China, Indonesia, Thailand, Central...
In may seem silly to say, but in the ongoing tragicomedy that is Nokia’s wedding to Microsoft, Nokia’s Android strategy could make a whole lot of sense. For both Nokia and Microsoft.Jussi Nevanlinna, the VP of product marketing for mobile phones at Nokia, says that the goal of both Nokia...
The race to connect to put a smartphone in the hands of every person in the world is on. And Mozilla thinks it has a chance to shake things up.Mozilla, which makes Firefox OS for budget smartphones, announced seven new devices that will ship to emerging markets in 2014. Alcatel...
"Having searched thousands of times in the crowd, suddenly turning back, She is there in the dimmest candlelight." And "she" might very well be Tizen. (Although I have no clue what Tizen might mean in Chinese...). Baidu (BIDU) is expanding the scope of its businesses and seems to be planning...
Motorola CEO Dennis WoodsideDennis Woodside, a ten-year Google veteran who most recently served as CEO of its Motorola Mobility unit, will be moving to cloud-storage service Dropbox as its first chief operating officer. Google recently announced plans to sell Motorola to Lenovo for almost $3 billion, roughly two years after...
European antitrust authorities are looking into the restrictions Google imposes on Android handset makers who want access to the Google Play Store for Android apps, the Wall Street Journal reports, to determine if it has abused Android's position as Europe's leading smartphone operating system.See also: Sure, Microsoft Could 'Fork' Android—But It...
The Tizen Association today have announced 15 New Members that have joined the Tizen Association Partner Program. The new members include mobile game publishers, operators, application developers, mobile software management vendors and major telecommunications companies. As with most Partner Programs, the new members will be able to get involved with...
Nokia makes beautiful Windows Phones—of this, there is no doubt. But whether or not those phones are different enough to make them interesting to the buying public remains an open question.Take the brand new Nokia Lumia Icon, which the company announced Wednesday. It is a 5-inch smartphone, exclusive to Verizon,...
Charging cables for phones and tablets just edged a little closer to oblivion. Two of the three major coalitions backing incompatible wireless charging standards announced plans to join forces, potentially a big step toward unifying wireless charging standards and pushing the technology toward mass adoption.It's not clear, though, how quickly...
Windows Phone may not be the blockbuster mobile operating system that its designers in Redmond (or Espoo, Finland) hoped it would be. But that doesn't mean Microsoft and its new CEO Satya Nadella would be better off doing something drastic like scrapping the project and building a new mobile OS...
The Pebble smartwatch is growing up. A year after it started shipping to Kickstarter backers, the startup officially cut the ribbon on Pebble's very own app store last week. With this, Pebblers get a single resource covering the latest watchfaces, tools and time-wasters for their favorite arm gear.The Pebble Appstore,...
If and when Apple ever comes out with a wearable computer, the term “watch” may not necessarily apply.According to reports, Apple is going whole hog into health and fitness for its long-rumored wearable device. This morning, a new job listing on Apple’s website called for a “User Studies Exercise Physiologist”...
ReadWriteHome is an ongoing series exploring the implications of living in connected homes.When I'm at work, my cats—Gamera and Gojira—love to defy me. I know this because my smart home tells me so. People have all sorts of reasons for connecting their homes. Some people want to monitor the nanny, or...
A year ago, we could say with certainty that users preferred iOS apps to similar or equivalent Android apps, because we had the data to prove it. Now the 2013 results are in ... and this time Android apps have walked away with the affections of users.See also: The Data Doesn't...
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