smartphone
Nexus One sees red, nearly doubles battery life? (video)
These five Nexus One smartphones may seem to have defects, but there’s actually nothing wrong with their AMOLED screens — the funky colors are an attempt to improve battery life by turning off unnecessary sub-pixel LEDs. Hooking up his handset to an industrial power meter, Android engineer Jeff Sharkey discovered a blood-red screen drew 42 percent less current than full color — the least of any combination by far — purportedly doubling the effective battery life of the phone.
Skyhook hones in on another partner, Samsung’s Wave to geo-locate like no other
Skyhook Wireless seems to have located itself yet another major partner in its continued quest to pinpoint every single cellphone owner in the world. Sure, we’re exaggerating a bit just to get you riled up, but there’s no arguing the fact that the company fulfills “hundreds of millions of location requests every day across over 100 million handsets, netbooks and cameras.” Or so it says, anyway
HP ePrint really works: eMails and attachments printed from the cloud (video)
We don’t blame you if you missed this the first time round , but HP’s ePrint service is probably best seen in action anyway.
Motorola Droid X review
The original Droid made a powerful statement. Actually, make that state ments , plural: for Motorola, it was the largest single affirmation that it was going all-in with Android (after having already released the far less memorable midrange CLIQ on T-Mobile) and that it could play in the very highest rungs of the smartphone elite
Did Nokia just confirm a MeeGo tablet?
We’ve heard the rumors, hell, we’ve even seen Intel reference designs (pictured) running the MeeGo OS. But now we seem to have confirmation that a proper MeeGo tablet built by Nokia is on the way. Anssi Vanjoki , Nokia’s newly crowned chief of Mobile Solutions, said the following in an interview captured by the Wall Street Journal : Due to the spread of cloud computing and new advances in electronics and network technology, mobile devices will increasingly move beyond smartphones to include other computer-like gadgets such as tablets, and the MeeGo platform will be an important asset for Nokia
Droid X ad pokes fun at iPhone 4 antenna troubles
The world of corporate cheap shots has today been enriched in its number with one supersized ad for one supersized phone. BGR reports that Motorola took out a full-page spread in the New York Times on this final day of June, which was ostensibly dedicated to promoting the positives of its mighty Droid X.
