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The iPhone 4 is the best smartphone on the market, but a potentially serious flaw could be indicative of bigger problems. with it's iOS 4.2 it's the one of the most advanced phones yet.
and a revolution in portable technoligy
A long, long time ago, Icarus and his father Daedalus did something pretty incredible: they constructed wings out of wax and feathers and flew. Apple too has achieved remarkable greatness--after proving themselves consistently capable of pushing mobile gadgets further than anyone else, here lands the iPhone 4, the best smartphone ever made. Onwards and upwards, to the sun.
But what's that faint honey smell? And the feathers slowly peeling off, drifting lazily back down to Earth on the wind? There are problems. The wax is starting to melt.
In a disaster, cell phones are not even as useful as the antiquated land line -- towers might topple, and service may jam as people overload the system with calls. Australian researchers tested a new system last week that aims to solve this problem, as well as introduce cell phone coverage to remote areas. It essentially uses
cell phone swarms, enabling regular mobile phones to make and receive calls without cell towers or satellites.
The much-publicized reception issues regarding the iPhone 4's antenna design, where a finger covering the seam on the bottom-left portion of the phone causes significant reception loss, have
been verified under rigorously controlled laboratory conditions by the folks at Consumer Reports.
As the Android-phone wars wage onward, Verizon and Motorola send their largest, strongest soldier into the field
With a face that measures 5.6 inches diagonally, Verizon's
Droid X is the largest handset in the U.S., which sets expectations pretty high right off the bat. Does this massive slab measure up?
By Adam Frucci/Gizmodo
Videocalling has been a sci-fi staple for decades. From 2001 to Back to the Future people chatting face-to-face from great distances was a way of saying "Hey, look, it's the future!" So does Facetime mean we're in the future?
At first glance the just-announced Verizon Droid X by Motorola looks a ton like Sprint's
HTC EVO 4G, and at second glance the two handsets are more or less comparable (save for the EVO's 4G connectivity, which doesn't do most of the country any good, anyway).
Never mind that the largest study ever conducted on the cell phone-cancer link found that your cell phone addiction
isn't increasing your risk of cancer. San Francisco voted yesterday requiring that all cell phones sold in the city display the amount of
radiation they emit.
Apple, through powers of both good and evil, always finds a way to captivate like no other with their new product launches. But in unveiling the iPhone 4 today, they had an unfamiliar challenge to deal with: a world that has already seen in great detail the new product they were about to announce, thanks to Gizmodo's
mega-leak in April. So this time around, Apple had something more to prove: what exactly about the new iPhone 4 is new
today?
Wait...
Did you know that the next generation of iPhone is forecast to be iPhone 4G*??? It's the next generation of phones and is to come out June 22nd 2011. Here are some new features the iPhone 4G is
most likely to have is this...
Sensors built into cellphones could detect hazardous chemicals and spread the word to people nearby
By Bjorn Carey
Your smartphone can post Twitter updates and find late-night pizza. But warn you of a hazardous chemical spill? Soon there will be an app for that too. The Department of Homeland Security is working on technology that allows cellphones to double as chemical detectors.
The phone of the hour (well, at least until Apple unveils the
next iPhone on Monday) is Sprint's HTC Evo 4G, and it goes on sale today. We've been using a review unit for the past week, and here are our impressions.
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