A liquid cooled smartphone: an inevitable, and very smart move

Every processor on the planet creates heat. More precisely, computer chips convert electrical energy into thermal energy. Even the most simple circuit has some amount of resistance, and that resistance is manifest in heat. It’s the nature of the beast. Electronics don’t particularly like heat – in fact, a circuit that runs too hot will eventually burn itself out. That’s where the genius of a liquid cooled smartphone comes in to play. First, let’s lay some groundwork.yThe nanometer push

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What Windows 10 Phone needs to do to woo Android users back

Back when the only competition was from Palm, I was a Newton guy. Sometime later (and way before the iPhone), Steve Jobs killed the Newton. I sold my MessagePad 2000U and switched to Microsoft’s solution. Palm PC was renamed to Palm-sized PC, then to Pocket PC, and ultimately Windows Mobile (and all of them were powered by various versions of Windows CE).Windows Mobile was great, for the time, but Apple was quietly plotting its revenge. Before long the iPod Touch was ...

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An LG Windows Phone might be on its way to Verizon

It’s been a while since we’ve last seen an LG Windows Phone, but according to recent reports, that’s about to change, as the South Korean manufacturer is reportedly working on a smartphone powered by Microsoft’s mobile operating system. While the smart thing to do would be to for this upcoming device to ship with Windows 10 phone, the documents unveiled by MyLGPhones don’t reveal information about the platform version.What they do unveil though, is the model number, which is ...

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Windows 10 phone screenshots reportedly surface

Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones is what has been allegedly used to grab these Windows 10 phone screenshots. The official date on which this piece of software will be available to the public is still unknown. What we’re looking at in the pictures above an below, however, is allegedly the Preview installation acknowledgement, the Action Center, as well as the System Settings.While the pictures themselves aren’t very telling, aside from having a look at what might be in store, we can, however, see that the Action Center will now have not one, but three rows of icons (both ...

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HTC One M9 for Windows in the works, claims leak

An HTC One M9 for Windows should be happening this year, according to a recent @upleaks leak, which claims that the “Hima”, believed to be the 2015 Android flagship from Taiwan, will have a Windows twin. This would be something similar to what HTC did last year, with the HTC One M8, and the HTC One M8 for Windows.While the consensus is that the 2015 Android flagship will make an MWC appearance at the March 1 HTC event, ...

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Windows 10 phone portrait tiles incoming?

We’re still waiting for the Windows 10 Phone preview to land — and there are some fresh details which you shouldn’t have missed if you’re interested in the preview — but until then we take whatever we can get. Vesku Paananen, a Microsoft employee, might have accidentally leaked a feature we haven’t seen so far, one that will probably grace our Windows Phones: we’re talking about Windows 10 phone portrait tiles.According to BestMobileBlog, who spotted the ...

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Most Windows 10 phone complaints are about its bad user interface changes

Over on the Windows Phone user voice site, the hot topics lately have focused on the poor user interface design changes seen in Windows 10’s phone UI. Back in the days of Windows Phone 7, one of the major differentiators between Windows Phone and other smartphone platforms at the time were its design and how much thought was put into it. Everything was primarily based on typography for a good reason; people understand words. We use them to communicate practically everything all the ...

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