Latest Smartphones Opinion

  • 24 May 2012

  • Opinion: Share Smartphone Photos Wirelessly To Your PC With Bump

    Bump for iOS and Android makes it easy to move photos from handsets to PCs with a new Web-based tool that transfers smartphone photos to your desktop with just one tap of your spacebar. The new tool doesn't rely on a shared network or Bluetooth to transfer files. Instead, Bump uses geolocation capabilities on your phone and your PC browser to send photos to the cloud and then download them to your desktop. This is similar to how Bump's smartphone app transfers contacts and photos between mobile devices.

  • Opinion: Why Office for iPad Is Inevitable

    The rumor is back. There are new reports that Microsoft is developing a version of the Microsoft Office suite for Apple’s iOS operating system--and perhaps the Android mobile operating system as well. I don’t know if the latest speculation is accurate or not, but it makes sense because it’s in Microsoft’s best interests to do so.

  • Opinion: QR Code Relies On Sunlight to Deliver Deals, Makes QR Codes Slightly Less Useless

    It's fairly well established now that QR codes, well, kind of suck. Although lots of people own a smartphone or gadget with a scanner now, no-one really bothers to scan them--that's if they know how to at all. Still, that doesn't mean smart uses of the technology should go unnoticed, just like Korean Emart's big 3D QR code.

  • 23 May 2012

  • Opinion: App Spotlight: Create Email Groups on Your iPhone with MailShot 2.0

    Email groups are an important part of business life, yet Apple's iOS offers no support for them.

  • Opinion: Apple Design Chief Ive Working on Most Important Project So Far

    Apple is currently working on its “most important and best work” so far, Jonathan Ive, the company’s senior vice president of industrial design, said in a rare interview for UK daily The Telegraph. Ive was in his home country this week to receive his knighthood from the queen, who has both an iPod and an iPad, recognizing his “services to design and enterprise.”

  • 22 May 2012

  • Opinion: Extreme Grid case for iPhone 4 and 4S offers serious protection

    G-Form’s Extreme Grid is a $40 case for the iPhone 4 and 4S. Available in black or black with yellow, blue, green, red, gray, pink, white, or purple, the Extreme Grid uses G-Form’s Reactive Protection Technology (RPT). For the uninitiated, RPT is a composite blend of Poron XRD and other proprietary materials. The basic idea of RPT—besides empowering folks who want to learn some new acronyms ASAP—is that it’s soft and malleable to the touch, but its molecules actually tighten on impact, forming a protective shield capable of absorbing 90 percent of the force, before immediately relaxing and becoming soft again.

  • Opinion: Samsung Galaxy SIII Available June 1 from Amazon for $800

    Consumers who want to be among the first in the U.S. to own Samsung’s Galaxy S III smartphone on June 1 will pay a steep price. Amazon is now taking U.S. pre-orders for the flagship Android device and bitter iPhone rival for $800 unlocked, but the price tag is not the only thing you should be weary of.

  • 18 May 2012

  • Opinion: Comcast's Data Cap Hike: Good News, Bad News

    Comcast plans to fiddle with its longstanding 250 GB data cap for broadband subscribers.

  • Opinion: Verizon Unlimited Data Plans: FAQ

    Good news, Verizon customers: You can keep your $30 per month unlimited data plan after all, but it'll cost you in another way. Longtime Verizon fans got a shock Thursday when a Verizon executive reportedly said customers must give up their unlimited data plans for a tiered data option when switching to 4G LTE phones. But that's not entirely accurate, Verizon spokesperson Brenda Raney confirms to PCWorld.

  • 17 May 2012

  • Opinion: iPhone Users More Likely to Tell Truth Via Text, Study Says

    People are more likely to tell the truth in a text message than in a voice interview, according to researchers at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.

  • Opinion: Delete Linked Calendar Entries In Android

    The calendar on Jstanaway's Android phone displays appointments that he never made--hundreds of them from someone else's calendar. He can't delete them. He asked the Answer Line forum for advice.

  • Opinion: More Smartphones, Apps in Use in the U.S.

    One in two U.S. mobile subscribers now has a smartphone, fueling the American appetite for apps, according to a Nielsen study. In the past year, the average number of apps on a smartphone has increased from 32 to 41, a 28 percent jump, according to the research.

  • Opinion: Best Buy Stores Cut iPhone 4 Price to $50

    Price cuts for Apple's iPhone have spread to Best Buy, where the retailer has slashed the iPhone 4's price to $50.

  • 16 May 2012

  • Opinion: Lens/Focus Shifter Is The Simplest $45 Follow Focus Attachment You Can Buy

    Today's DLSRs can capture high-definition video with sharp lenses that make your movies just as crisp as a high megapixel image. The only problem is that those same lenses weren’t exactly made track focus on your subject in live motion.

  • Opinion: iPhone Screen Size May Increase to at Least 4 Inches

    Apple is looking to increase the iPhone's screen size from 3.5 inches to at least 4 inches, according to a Wall Street Journal report, a move that's presumably being made because of stiff Android competition.

  • 15 May 2012

  • Opinion: Mozilla Releases Firefox for Android Beta

    Mozilla released a new beta version of its popular Firefox browser for Android on Tuesday.

  • 14 May 2012

  • Opinion: Siri: Just Kidding, iPhone is Best Smartphone Ever

    Last week, Apple's mobile assistant Siri was traitorously touting the Nokia Lumia 900 as the "best smartphone ever." This week, it seems like she's been recalibrated.

  • Opinion: Kingsoft Office for Android Brings Free Document Editing to Your Mobile Devices

    A few months back I called Kingsoft Office the best Microsoft Office alternative you've never heard of. Now Kingsoft is making waves again with a mobile version of that impressive suite.

  • 13 May 2012

  • Opinion: Verizon Defends Customer Privacy in Publisher's Suit

    Verizon is fighting a move by a book publisher to obtain personal information on ten of its customers accused of illegally sharing electronic copies of books in the popular "Dummy" self-help series.

  • Opinion: Facebook's Mobile Future All About Advertising

    Facebook users are increasingly accessing the online social network via their mobile devices, a trend the company expects to capitalize on through advertising as it prepares for its IPO.

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