More Smartphones Opinion

• 23 July 2012

• Opinion: The ChargeCard Is The Compact USB Charger We've All Been Waiting For

  Although they do exist, portable chargers for mobile devices often suffer from a very significant issue--their size. At some point in any cell phone user's week, there's likely to be a moment of panic when the battery is dwindling and an outlet or charger is nowhere in sight. And nobody wants to carry around an easily tangled charging cable if they can avoid it.

• Opinion: Android's Piracy Problem Drives Dead Trigger Price to Zero

  Zombie-shooter Dead Trigger is now free for Android users. The reason: rampant piracy.

• Opinion: DocSync Tackles Document Scatter

  Let's see, where's that Word document, PDF, spreadsheet or PowerPoint preso? Did you leave it on Google Drive? Save it to DropBox? Maybe it's somewhere on your computer or iPad?

• Opinion: This Awesome Gumball Machine Dispenses Apps Instead of Candy

  As a kid, there was nothing more exciting than inserting a coin into a machine and getting a surprise goodie. While gumball machines are still around, their magic is all but gone--who really cares about a gumball or a piece of plastic toy anymore? Good thing there are people like the guys at Razorfish in the world, who've come up with a gumball machine that dispenses content.

• Opinion: The frustrations of App Store licensing

  A reader who works in the world of Big Business (and wishes to remain anonymous) finds fault with Apple's app licensing. He writes:

• Opinion: Refreshed iPhone May Feature Micro Dock

  Speculation about Apple's next iPhone is piling up ahead of an expected fall launch.

• Opinion: Verizon, AT&T, Others Make Big Bucks Sharing Customer Data

  A creepy issue is bubbling up in Congress involving the dramatic uptick in the number of requests to cellular carriers from law enforcement for people’s cell phone records.

• 20 July 2012

• Opinion: AT&T vs. Verizon: Shared Data Plans

  Shared data is the future at AT&T and Verizon. Both companies have introduced new wireless plans that use a single bucket across multiple phones, tablets, and hotspots.

• Opinion: Dress Up Your Kindle Fire or iPad as a Vintage Book With These Covers

  Out of Print is a fairly popular clothing line that reprints iconic book covers onto t-shirts and iPhone cases, all while leading a humanitarian mission to bring books to Africa. Now the entrepreneurial company wants to break into the iPad and Kindle Fire case business.

• 19 July 2012

• Opinion: Privacy Monitoring App Clueful Booted from iOS App Store

  Apple has given the boot to BitDefender's Clueful, a privacy monitoring app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

• Opinion: Apple Ordered To Admit That Samsung Is No Copycat

  The judge who declared Samsung tablets "not as cool" as Apple's iPad is at it again. This time he wants Apple to post notices on its website and in British newspapers that Samsung didn't copy Apple's iPad's design when creating its computer tablets.

• Opinion: AT&T, Verizon Shared Data Plans: 5 Things to Consider

  Critics and users are crying foul over AT&T and Verizon's new shared data pricing structures that let you share one bucket of data with up to 10 devices. PC World readers commenting on AT&T's new Mobile Share plans described the news as "atrocious," "insane," and "ridiculous." Verizon introduced its Share Everything plans in June.

• 18 July 2012

• Opinion: Google Brings Emails to Feature Phones in Africa, No Internet Access Required

  Some of us in the Western hemisphere might already take Internet access and smartphones for granted, but this is not the case all over the world. Bearing that in mind, Google has launched a cool new service called Gmail SMS, which allows Gmail users who own a simple feature phone to send and receive emails using only text messages.

• Opinion: The ins and outs of iPad photo management

  Like many of us, Eric Jacobs has parents and those parents are confounded by iPad photo management. He writes:

• 17 July 2012

• Opinion: Google Nexus 7 Tablets Selling on eBay With Premiums Added to Their Prices

  If you can't wait one to four weeks to get your hands on a Nexus 7 tablet from GooglePlay, you can get one on eBay now--you'll just have to pay a premium for it.

• Opinion: AT&T May Charge for Facetime Over Cellular Networks

  AT&T appears ready to charge iPhone users for Facetime calls over cellular networks when iOS 6 launches in the fall.

• Opinion: iPhone 5 Expected to Have Thinner, In-Cell Display

  Apple’s iPhone 5 may be thinner thanks to a new type of display technology that may also help the device have a larger screen without adding any extra weight, according to an online report. Apple’s iPhone 5 will reportedly feature a display called in-cell technology that integrates the touch sensors inside the LCD panel. The new type of LCD display will help Apple save about 0.02 of an inch (0.5mm), according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.

• 13 July 2012

• Opinion: Android, iOS Called Dominant Smartphones

  Google's Android and Apple's iOS account run 86 percent of the U.S. smartphones, leaving RIM's Blackberry and other mobile platforms -- we're looking at you, Windows Phone -- in the dust.

• 12 July 2012

• Opinion: App Spotlight: LogMeIn for iOS Provides Free Remote Access to Your PCs

  Phones and tablets can work wonders, but they can't do everything. Sometimes you need the PC you left behind in the office, whether it's to retrieve a document, review an old email, or even run a program.

• 11 July 2012

• Opinion: Nexus 7 Costs $160 to Make, Says iSuppli

  Google's Nexus 7 might turn a small profit after all, according to a third-party estimate by IHS iSuppli.

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