Samsung’s giant Galaxy Note smartphone has been described as a ‘phoneblet’ thanks to its massive 5.4″ screen. The innovate smartphone comes with an S Pen stylus, allowing you to take notes or draw sketches directly onto your phone. And while the big screen may have some downsides when it comes to actually talking on the [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 15, 2012
is now the world’s number one seller of smartphones according to a new report. The maker of the iPhone has also passed up LG to become the world’s number three phone vendor, according to a new market share report from Gartner. clocks in at 19 percent of all smartphone sales, making it the leader in [...]
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2011 marked the beginning of a major shift toward mobile computing. Smartphone shipments topped PCs for the first time ever last year, by 73 million units, according to figures published by research firm Canalys on Friday. Last year a total of 487.7 million smartphones were shipped. Only 414.6 million PCs, which include tablet PCs, shipped. That’s [...]
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Research in Motion (RIM), the maker of BlackBerry smartphones, may seem like a dinosaur in today’s flashy mobile market, but Tony Bradley thinks they still have a lot of untapped value. First off, he notes, “RIM has a very large customer base of companies, and government agencies that fit this description. These organizations might not [...]
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by Erik Kain on January 30, 2012
[Updated below.] Samsung will release its tablet-smartphone hybrid, the Galaxy Note, on February 19th. For subscribers the massive smartphone will only set you back $299 with a two-year contract. But will consumers buy up the massive smartphones? A 5.3″ touch screen has many advantages, but it has one pretty big disadvantage, too: it might be [...]
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by Erik Kain on December 13, 2011
Remember that software installed on 140 million smartphones that tracks every keystroke you make? Smartphone users were told that Carrier IQ was only being used for diagnostic information but what exactly does this mean? And if it’s only being used for diagnostic information, why is the FBI denying a FOIA request for records of how [...]
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by Erik Kain on November 22, 2011
Farhad Manjoo has been using the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus - ’s flagship Android 4.0 device – and says it’s an impressive phone running an the best version of Android yet: In many ways, the Galaxy Nexus and Android 4.0 come together to form the most powerful smartphone ever built. I found the phone to be [...]
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The new Galaxy Nexus from Samsung sports a 4.65-inch HD sAMOLED touch-screen display. The 8.94 millimeters thin phone boasts a 1280-by-720 resolution and runs on a powerful 1.2-Ghz, dual-core application processor. The above ad focuses on the creative flexibility and technological power of the new Samsung smart phone, which will ship with Android 4.0 “Ice [...]
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Good news for Netflix subscribers who own Android-based smart phones and tablets running the Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” OS: The online streaming service offered through Netflix is now available in their updated app, allowing subscribers to watch the company’s entire online catalog of television shows and movies on the go. I spent a little time with [...]
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Nintendo makes portable gaming devices but they probably won’t make a smart phone – at least not any time soon. The company doesn’t think it could compete with current market players, and isn’t sure it would want to share revenue with carriers. This is sensible enough, even if playing Mario Brothers on your phone would [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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