Latest Smartphones News

• 11 March 2015

• News: How to use your mobile device to control your home theater

  You've got the latest OLED TV, 3000 satellite TV channels, and a surround-sound system that would make George Lucas jealous. Why are you still using that 1980s-style hunk of handheld plastic to control it all? The clumsiness of navigating menus with a thumb-pad is matched only by the tedium of hunting and pecking letters on numeric buttons. Multiply that misery times the number of remotes you're using for all your home theater components and it's enough to make you wish for the simpler days of rabbit ears and horizontal hold.

• News: Second generation Moto G with LTE goes on sale in Europe

  Motorola Mobility will start shipping the second generation Moto G with LTE in Europe later this month, while smartphone buyers in the U.S. will have to wait.

• 09 March 2015

• News: Apple Watch to ship April 24 to nine countries

  The much-heralded Apple Watch will ship on April 24 with price tags ranging from about $350 for the Sports edition all the way up to $12,000 or more for a limited-edition model in 18kt gold, Apple said Monday.

• 05 March 2015

• News: How to manage cellular data usage on your iPhone and iPad with iOS 8

  When Apple introduced the iPhone, it also managed to get AT&T and then other carriers to offer unlimited data plans in the United States and in a few other countries. That didn't last, especially as networks became congested with heavy data use.

• News: Imgur returns to iPhone with a slick new app

  Imgur, every Redditor's favorite viral image site, recently released its second attempt at an iOS app after producing--and then pulling--its first shot at iOS several years ago. The new app is currently an iPhone-only affair that focuses on browsing the site's image collection.

• News: Samsung Galaxy S6, HTC One M9 will support MirrorLink as Android Auto alternative

  If Apple's CarPlay and Google's Android Auto are two hares racing to connect their smartphones to your car, MirrorLink is the tortoise, slowly and patiently working its way to the finish line. That tortoise gained two important allies on Wednesday at Mobile World Congress: The HTC One M9 and Samsung Galaxy S6, high-profile flagship smartphones announced at the show, will both support the platform-agnostic car-phone interface.

• News: The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Thursday, March 5

  China defends surveillance plan... Apple's plans for larger iPads put off... IBM buys AlchemyAPI... and more tech news

• 04 March 2015

• News: Against the odds, Canonical and Jolla trot out iOS, Android alternatives

  Four smartphone OSes that hope to find room next to Android and iOS were on display at Mobile World Congress, but the most exciting were Ubuntu Phone and Sailfish OS.

• News: Apple's new Maps patent guides your car around cell phone dead spots

  Every day when I drive over the Bay Bridge, I lose my wireless signal, just briefly. This is the firstest of first-world problems, and some days I don't notice, but often I'm streaming music on a shuffle, and the track tries to change, and it just...can't. It's super annoying.

• News: 5G, net neutrality may be headed for a showdown

  Net neutrality and 5G may be on a collision course as the mobile industry tries to prepare for a wide range of mobile applications with differing needs.

• News: Switched on CIO: Simon Clarke of Trustpower

  Simon Clarke treaded quite an unusual career path – corporate lawyer, CEO, and now general manager business solutions and technology for Trustpower.

• News: Optus launches wrist-watch payment app for Apple and Android

  Optus has launched a new payments app which could see customers paying for their next load of groceries with just their wrist-watch.

• News: Galaxy S6 pricing slips out: $780 unlocked, at least in Spain

• News: Momentum grows around Microsoft's Windows 10 for phones

  Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 OS hasn't taken the world by storm, but its successor, Windows 10, is off to an encouraging start even before its release.

• 03 March 2015

• News: European group wants 5G to be 100x faster than 4G

  5G should go 100 times faster than 4G, connect 1,000 times as many devices and carry 1,000 times as much traffic in a given area, a European Commission group says.

• News: Twitter CFO floats idea of newspaper-like 'daily edition'

  Here's an idea for the next version of Twitter that might crystallize the service's value: The Twitter Daily Favorite.

• News: Have we reached peak smartphone?

  At the end of 2006, the cell phone landscape was awash with devices that filled specific wants and needs. If you wanted the coolest way to make calls, you got the RAZR. If you needed to email colleagues on the go, you bought a BlackBerry. If you were constantly texting your friends during study hall, there was the Sidekick.

• News: Google will stop patching Chrome on Android 4.0 next month

• News: Apple edges out Samsung in fourth quarter smartphone sales

  Strong interest in the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus helped Apple sell more smartphones than Samsung in the fourth quarter of 2014.

• News: Samsung Galaxy S6 UK release date, price & specs: new features in Galaxy S6

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