A decade before Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, a tiny team of renegades imagined and tried to build the modern smartphone. Nearly forgotten by history, a little startup called Handspring tried to make the future before it was ready. This… Read More ›
Phones
The Wild West Days of Phone Design
I do miss the Wild West days of cell phones, before we’d all settled on glass rectangles. It’s always fun to watch competing manufacturers trying to figure out the ideal form for a new thing, and it’s not the home… Read More ›
How to photograph the moon on your phone
When a full moon rises, many people will pull out their mobile phones to try and taken an Instagram-worthy picture, but unfortunately the moon is really challenging to get a great photo of. Two reasons: it is very far away… Read More ›
The Best Photography Smartphones in 2021
Mobile photography is now one of the major battlegrounds for vendors trying to one-up each other. Thankfully, it’s not entirely about numbers, despite megapixel counts hitting new highs, it’s a lot about how effective software can be to do more… Read More ›
Sony launches the Xperia PRO-I
The new smartphone, which can of course be used by ordinary consumers as well, is aimed at a very specific market that may well find this an essential part of their kit for outdoor photography and video recording. With its… Read More ›
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Our mission: make technology that respects user privacy accessible to everyone. It is time to regain control over our personal data on our phones! We build mobile operating systems, apps and code that put users’ privacy first before profit. Everyone… Read More ›
The Commodore PET smartphone
It will only mark the attempt of a small company to buy an off-the-shelf smartphone from China and ship it with a white casing and a slightly weird looking take on the Commodore logo. To justify selling under the Commodore… Read More ›
The Cosmo Communicator
Cosmo Communicator is the ultimate mobile device that fits in your pocket. It’s a great little computer with an excellent keyboard, a world-wide dual-SIM mobile phone and a fantastic camera – all in one! Great for emails, messaging, editing documents,… Read More ›
Leica makes a phone iPhone owners will look twice at
The Leica Leitz Phone 1 is not an original phone as such because it is a rebadged Aquos R6. It is, however, an object that jumped out at me in an instant. Just look at the image above. The Leica… Read More ›
Should you charge your phone overnight?
What about your smartphone’s battery’s performance? It will decline over time, but you don’t want to speed up the process. Let’s end the debate on whether charging overnight will do that… More here. I still charge mine overnight. Not sure… Read More ›
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