Modern smartphones consume so much energy that charging them once a day is not always enough. When they are used intensively, the user sometimes has to look for a power source in the middle of the day, and charge their device whenever and wherever possible. At first glance, it seems absurd to worry about safety →
Tear-down of a new gadget is always interesting to see. iPhone 5s Teardown article has linked to this iPhone 5S Teardown Round Up video from YouTube. It shows what is inside the latest iPhone. Judge yourself does does Apple have innovation problem or not. →
Stephen Elop’s task on turning Nokia Mobile phones business to Microsoft compatible has come to end: Microsoft Corporation and Nokia Corporation today announced that the Boards of Directors for both companies have decided to enter into a transaction whereby Microsoft will purchase substantially all of Nokia’s Devices & Services business, license Nokia’s patents, and license →
Yle news wrote a few days ago in Ei tippa tapa – paitsi älypuhelimen article that sweating or wet hair can easily destroy an expensive smart phone worth of hundreds of Euros. Most smart phones withstand poorly water and moisture, but consumers rarely put any effort in protecting their devices on many every day situations. →
Internet.org seems to be on news today everywhere. Facebook Leads an Effort to Lower Barriers to Internet Access article tells that half a dozen of the world’s tech giants, including Samsung, Nokia, Qualcomm and Ericsson, have agreed to work with the company as partners on the initiative, which they call Internet.org. The plan is to →
HTML5 has opened many new possibilities for developers. Now you can use web technologies to build full mobile applications, not just web pages. When you are building those application you need to know The Security Risks of HTML5 Development, because HTML5 includes a number of useful features that pose as double-edged swords from a security →
Hackaday mentioned some time ago an interesting Arduino cellphone. The fact that you can build a cellphone around an Arduino is pretty neat: An Average Joe can build this thing with a minimum or background knowledge and without breaking the bank. Wow. The components include and Arduino Uno, GPRS shield from Seeed Studios, a TFT →
Web technologies like HTML5 are the future of mobile application development, but there are also problems: many Mobile web apps are slow. JavaScript performance is essential to many modern web apps. When Java applets failed, JavaScript became the language of the Web. One big reason for slowness of many mobile apps is that is that →
Signal generators are a handy thing to have around the lab. In recent years these lab tools have not only decreased in size but also in cost and the result has been a plethora of portable versions that now exist on the market. In addition to full equipment it is nowadays possible to use a →
I have written earlier on new Finnish mobile phone company Jolla at my Two new mobile phone companies from Finland and Mobile trends and predictions for 2013 articles. Jolla announces its first Sailfish OS smartphone which will be available in Europe by the end of 2013. The first Jolla phone: 4.5-inch display, Android app compliant, →