BBM users, get ready for ads – BlackBerry starts testing sponsored content
No, you’re not going to see advertisements pop up in the middle of your BBM chats… but BlackBerry just delivered on new CEO John Chen’s …
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Apple patent hints at live voicemail eavesdropping for call screening
With all the conveniences that they offer, we sometimes forget that smartphones lack several key features that we all used to enjoy back when answering …
Google plans to make the world’s best mobile browser even better
Google’s Chrome mobile browser is the best mobile web browser we’ve used and it looks like Google is about to make it even better. DroidLife …
How Samsung plans to make sure driving with the Galaxy S5 won’t kill you
If there’s one thing that’s even stupider than people who drive while watching videos on Google Glass, it’s people who drive while watching videos on …
Video: Here is Cortana, Microsoft’s answer to Siri, in action
The Windows Phone 8.1 leaks continue to roll out as the Microsoft Build Developer Conference inches closer. Just a day after the reveal of Cortana’s …
Apple has a major opportunity to invade Samsung’s turf
For the past couple of years, Samsung has been aggressively making moves to erode Apple’s market share in both smartphones and tablets by pumping out …
Apple expected to release iOS 7.1 within the week
iPhone and iPad owners looking forward to the next major update for iOS 7 might not have to wait much longer. John Gruber over at …
Video: Here’s everything you need to know about the Galaxy S5 and new Gears
Following the first Galaxy S5 and new Gear wearable ads that were released during the Oscars, Samsung on Tuesday published a couple of longer videos …
Ballmer owns up to blowing it with Windows Phone
By the time Windows Phone 8 made Microsoft’s mobile platform a real competitor in 2012, the iPhone had been on the market for five years …
Video: This is how cool Apple’s CarPlay is… in a parked Ferrari or a Mercedes
Mercedes-Benz released its own demo video that highlights how Apple’s CarPlay feature works in more detail than Volvo did with its own CarPlay video demo. …
Apple wins patent for wildest iPhone design you’ll ever see
Meet the iPhone of the (possible) future. Patently Apple notices that Apple has won a patent for a radical new iPhone design that imagines a …
iPhone 5s continues to track your movements even after the battery dies
In a post that is as incredible as it is horrifying, Reddit user Glarznak has written about what could be a pretty amazing revelation: Apple’s iPhone …
Confirmed: Device that may be 2014’s best Android phone will have 2014’s worst name
HTC is very, very good at making phones. Unfortunately, the company is not as good at selling phones and its struggles continued in February as …
Sprint chairman’s plan to win America’s heart: Bash Verizon and AT&T
SoftBank CEO and Sprint chairman Masayoshi Son knows that he has a lot of work to do convincing a skeptical public that his company should be …
Galaxy S5 ‘killer’ reportedly launching sooner than you think
New reports seem to indicate again that LG will launch its next-generation flagship smartphone much sooner than anticipated, with the LG G3 expected to hit …
How not to leak a top-secret flagship smartphone
On Monday, a leaked video appeared showing The All New HTC One in all its dual-camera, metal unibody, BoomSound-equipped glory. However, the leaker made a …
Samsung really wants you to buy the Galaxy S5
Even though Samsung is not yet ready to say how much the Galaxy S5 will cost, the company seems extremely interested in convincing as many …
Nokia makes fun of Ellen’s blurry Samsung selfie from the Oscars
In return for all of the money Samsung spent on the 86th annual Academy Awards on Sunday night, host Ellen DeGeneres took photos with a …
This is the real secret to making a killer smartphone display
The trouble with making a new smartphone stand out based on specifications such as pixels per inch is that by now most new devices have …
Video: Here’s the first Google Ara smartphone hands-on demo
Google’s Paul Eremenko at a LAUNCH event last week performed a first hands-on demo of a Google Ara smartphone that revealed some of the interesting things about Google’s ATAP project. During a …
Samsung reportedly scrambling to produce enough Galaxy S5 fingerprint scanners
Samsung’s Galaxy S5 is less than 6 weeks away from its release but Samsung is apparently still having problems producing enough fingerprint scanners to meet …
This new Android smartphone will pack a monster 50-megapixel camera
An Android smartphone will apparently beat any competing devices in camera performance, at least when it comes to counting megapixels. An image leak posted on …
This is what Microsoft’s answer to Siri and Google Now will look like
The next version of Windows Phone is shaping up to be the biggest evolution of Microsoft’s mobile operating system yet. We already know that Cortana, …
iPhone 6 camera will be even better without entering the megapixel war
A new report from China reveals that the iPhone 6’s camera resolution will not go past 8-megapixel, although it will let users take better photos …
Video: Stunning ‘iPhone 6c’ concept takes colorful plastic in a bold new direction
In a world where technology has absolutely no limitations, smartphones are gorgeously slim devices with sleek designs endless battery life. They also don’t always have …
Leak: iPhone 6 component photo may reveal major design overhaul
An image showing the purported digitizer of the iPhone 6 seems to reveal the size of at least one upcoming iPhone version, although the image …
HTC’s unreleased ‘All New HTC One’ fully exposed in 12-minute hands-on video
The All New HTC One (also known as the HTC M8) has starred in a lengthy pre-release 12-minute hands-on video that was recorded in mid February …
What might finally help Windows Phone break out? Android.
Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform has been inching forward since it first debuted in 2010. While the mobile platform finally started making gains worth speaking of …
Video: Samsung attacks Oscars with ‘Amazing Things Happen’ ad campaign
Samsung on Sunday released its first Galaxy S5 and Gear 2 ads under a new “Amazing Things Happen” TV campaign. The two devices have been …
Windows Store heats up, doubles daily app downloads in 6 months
Microsoft didn’t make a lot of waves at Mobile World Congress this week but TechCrunch has spotted a little-reported detail from its MWC presentation that …
