by J. Angelo Racoma, 2 months ago

Driving and mobile devices don’t mix well if your smartphone or tablet ends up breaking your focus on driving. But with voice-enabled apps, you can still interact with your device for much-needed information. Chief among…

by J. Angelo Racoma, 2 months ago

Access gmail.com from your mobile device today and you might be in for a pleasant surprise. Google has quietly pushed an update to the mobile version of Gmail, which includes a few user-interface improvements, as…

by J. Angelo Racoma, 2 months ago

Lenovo is more popular for its line of desktop and notebook computers, although the company actually has a respectable smartphone business in its home country of China. But with news that BlackBerry might be up…

by J. Angelo Racoma, 2 months ago

Power efficiency can make or break a mobile device. If we weren’t constrained with the power supply, then our mobile devices would probably be even faster and more powerful than they are now. But even…

by J. Angelo Racoma, 2 months ago

The Cherry Mobile Fusion Bolt caught our attention for being an affordable Jelly Bean device. After all, for just $99, you get a 7-inch tablet running a quad-core Cortex A9-based processor clocked at 1 GHz…

by J. Angelo Racoma, 2 months ago

BlackBerry has launched its Z10 smartphone initially in emerging markets, with some success. But as inexpensive Android devices has proliferated in the market, CEO Thorsten Heins says BlackBerry is not likely to sell $50 BB10…

by J. Angelo Racoma, 2 months ago

Just in time for SXSW this year, a Valley-based startup has launched MessageMe, which is an instant messaging app for Android and iOS platforms. We might be tempted to say it’s yet another instant messaging…

by J. Angelo Racoma, 2 months ago

“You’ve got a friend in me,” Nokia seems to be telling Apple when it filed its amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals in support for Apple’s patent claim against Samsung, in particular Apple’s…

by J. Angelo Racoma, 2 months ago

Android tablets are on the rise. It’s not enough that the 7-inch form factor has quickly supplanted the full-sized devices in terms of sales and Internet traffic market share (this includes the iPad Mini), but…

by J. Angelo Racoma, 2 months ago

You probably know the brand Wacom, and you probably know them for tablet peripherals used as computer input interfaces. Wacom targets its tablets mostly at the creative industries, but the company also supplies the underlying…

by J. Angelo Racoma, 2 months ago

This will be good news for Samsung and its stakeholders — including investors and Samsung device users. Judge Lucy Koh, who presided over the Apple vs. Samsung patent lawsuit that was decided in favor of…

by J. Angelo Racoma, 2 months ago

Businesses are going green in an attempt to become more environmentally responsible. You read stories about designing green buildings, streamlining operations and even finding alternative energy sources, if only to reduce the carbon footprint. But…

by J. Angelo Racoma, 2 months ago

Cross-platform instant messaging service are on the rise, and this has contributed to the decline in SMS use and revenue for carriers. But will Facebook’s announcement of free Messenger service through 18 carriers around the…

by J. Angelo Racoma, 2 months ago

As much as smartphone users hate the unbalanced look of images taken with flash, it’s an unfortunate fact that nighttime images taken without flash usually look worse, unless you’re in a studio lighting environment. A…

by J. Angelo Racoma, 2 months ago

Infrared is so 1990′s. I remember IR being a premium feature on my old Nokia phones. Even up to the mid-2000s, my E-series Nokia featured an IR transceiver for data exchange. Well, who would’ve known…