Just under a week ago, Nokia started sending out invitations to a July 11 New York event. While they didn't out and directly reveal what the company intended to have on its agenda, the "Zoom Reinvented" language they used sure had us thinking about the PureView EOS, which like the 808 before it, would be able to use its excess of megapixels as a workable digital zoom. ...

The big news that everyone is talking about from last week is the Xbox One and Playstation 4 announcements.  Both are still being considered gaming consoles and are being compared in that manner, but I think the Xbox One is really supposed to be something different… kind of like a smartphone. 10 years ago, many of us were dreaming about a smartphone that combined ...

Rumors about a company looking to buy-up Nokia are nothing new. While nothing ever seems to come of them, those suggestions keep popping up again and again over the years, and it sure seems like more often than not, we're talking about Microsoft considering making the purchase. The subject is back on our mind today, but in a slightly different context, with Huawei ...

Several months ago Waze, the insanely popular GPS navigation company, was in the middle of negotiations over selling their company to the highest bidder. Facebook reportedly want to buy Waze for the social aspects of the company. Google apparently didn't want Facebook to become a competitor in that industry, so the two companies got into a bidding war. What would this ...

The Bing team has always had a strange relationship at Microsoft. On one hand, they want to gain market share as a search engine, on the other, they want to integrate with other Microsoft products.  In the past, many of the Bing apps on non-Microsoft platforms really took priority.  For example, Bing on the iPhone was once much better than Bing on Windows Phone and ...

We've been talking about Microsoft's plans for the next big Windows Phone 8 update, GDR2, for months now. Some of the picture of how the update would arrive has been clear: for instance, we know that Nokia models will start getting their "Amber" updates next month, and that's going to be tied-in to the release of GDR2. But with how inconsistent Windows Phone update ...

The modern world of smartphone audio is perhaps best summed up by country-music singer Loretta Lynn: we've come a long way, baby. For much of the decade or so that smartphones have existed, the devices have been plagued by underwhelming audio performance, a symptom of too-small speakers paired with anemic software drivers, permitted only to suckle the tiniest bit of ...

Since many of today's smartphones and tablets don't have removable batteries, and staying tethered to an electrical outlet isn't a viable option, there's got to be another solution. Hold tight as we look at three portable batteries that you can use with your Android, iOS, Windows, or BlackBerry today! As our smartphones and tablets become a more powerful part of our ...