Smartphones have become a massively popular tool in the past few years. This popularity has also resulted in a huge surge in phone thefts. Apple, Google and Microsoft have now signed an anti-phone-theft pledge to tackle this problem.
Google rolled out the latest version of Android, branded ‘KitKat’, six months ago. To date, only 10% Android devices run this version. Such sluggish adoption rate is even slower than the adoption rate of Android Jelly Bean.
Apple was the first company to bring the fingerprint scanning technology to a popular consumer device. Samsung is following suit but it has also opened up the biometric technology to others such as PayPal.
For long, Apple has stayed away from the larger smartphones frenzy, sticking to its guns and smaller display sizes. This may be changing as a couple of slides from Apple reveal that company knows larger smartphones are the demand of the day.
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During a talk show, musician Will.i.am revealed that he had made a smartwatch that can make/receive phone calls without being connected to a smartphone. The smartwatch will be launched it in July of this year.
Apple is typically known as a company that isn’t driven by the market and rather, goes by its own decisions. However, an internal email from Apple now reveals that its employees are concerned about the increasingly tough competition.
By using any weather apps, one may get the information, but what if there’s no reliable data connection to get the latest update? Keeping that in mind, a Danish team of enterprising inventors has created Vaavud, a new smartphone gadget that lets you measure wind speed easily, anywhere.
There is a very distinct advantage Apple has over Android. And that it the utter lack of platform fragmentation. This is manifest in the latest numbers which reveal that a whopping 90% iOS devices now run iOS 7.