HTC Corporation announced the HTC One M8s yesterday. It features an all-metal curved body and a 5” Full HD screen made from Corning® Gorilla® Glass to provide a tough, damage-resistant display. “The HTC One M8s combines the quality ergonomics and design of the award-winning HTC One M8 with great sound and photo features to deliver […]
Smartphones are great but they’re not designed to fill a room with sound. Sure there’s a speaker, but turn on the kettle and you can forget about hearing it. BBC podcasts are the worst: they don’t use dynamic range compression and they allow about 8dB of headroom. That’s good practice for radio engineering, sure, but it’s useless when […]
Native Union only needed $40,000 to fund their Kickstarter project for a battery-booster built into a USB cable – but they’ve already cleared $137,000 in a matter of hours and there’s still 30 days to go! The simplest ideas are the best, of course – by which I mean: things that help to solve a […]
This video has been doing the rounds for the last few months and has, so far, clocked up over 36 million views on Youtube. It’s a short, but very powerful reflection on how mobile phones can interrupt our experience of daily life. Some food for thought? The video is directed by Miles Crawford
The Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan, the Minister for Justice, Equality & Defence Alan Shatter TD, and the CEO of Vodafone Ireland Anne O’Leary have this morning launched a new free smartphone app that allows users to receive CRI (Child Rescue Ireland) alerts direct to their smartphone. The smartphone app was created with the assistance of […]
Most of us have smartphones these days, be that an iPhone or an Android. But if you use your phone for data heavy applications its battery will get drained quite quickly. This product doesn’t solve this, nor does it extend the battery life of your phone, but what it does do is give you a […]
Hailo has launched its service in Galway, though their website still hasn’t been updated to reflect the new service area. The mobile app is available on both iPhone and Android smartphones. To celebrate their Galway launch they’re running a promotion to give users a €10 credit off their first fare. Full details here. Related articles […]
Hailo announced this morning that it is now available in Cork city. They’re also offering a special promotion to first time users in Cork: Just download Hailo on your iPhone or Android, register an account with a credit or debit card, and add the promocode CORK01 to your account. To use your voucher, just choose […]
Remember the Blackberry? Their latest release, the Blackberry Z10 is the first smartphone from the manufacturer that uses their new Blackberry 10 platform. From the release: The BlackBerry Z10 is the first smartphone powered by the new BlackBerry® 10 platform, and is HSPA+ and LTE-enabled. It is elegant and distinctive, and the fastest, most advanced […]
If you’re an Android user then this graphic might be of interest. Plenty of data about Android! Via
