Light-field cameras have the potential to revolutionize digital imaging. Brought to the commercial market by Lytro last year, the tech lets users snap a picture once, and then choose how to focus the image using software after the fact. We’ve already heard that Toshiba was working on developing the same sort of process in a form small enough for inclusion in smartphones, but today we turn our attention to Nokia, which is planning to invest in a light-field company with the intent of outfitting future Lumias with ...
Nokia plans to invest in a start-up known as Pelican Imaging, which develops small array imaging cameras that are capable of capturing the same quality photos as full-sized cameras.
Nokia plans to invest in a start-up known as Pelican Imaging, which develops small array imaging cameras that are capable of capturing the same quality photos as full-sized cameras.
NEC is no stranger to smartphones, but much like Sharp, it’s not a manufacturer we get to talk about much, with the lion’s share of its handsets never crossing the Pacific from Asia. It popped on our radar a little earlier this year when we saw the crazy dual-screened NEC Medias W at the Mobile World Congress, but that was the exception that proves the rule. Surprisingly, it now seems that an NEC Android could be fixing to come to US shores after all, upon a render leaking of the NEC Terrain for AT&T. As if ...
Almost every mobile platform today comes pre-packaged with some sort of app store. For Android that’s Google’s Play Store, Windows Phone and iOS both have their own app stores, too. All of these marketplaces allow you to browse, search, find, and download apps for your mobile device. They each also let you update the apps that you’ve already installed on your device, whenever an update is published. Facebook recently started updating their app — from within their app. If that sounds strange to you, it ...
Sometimes you have a feeling that grows on you so gradually that it’s hard to pinpoint just when you finally became acutely aware of it; you have the dim sense that your clothes aren’t fitting as well as they used to, and then one day it finally clicks – you got fat. I’ve been writing about Windows Phone for years now, and while it’s sure felt like a lot of what I’ve been sharing with you has been about Nokia, it’s only recently started to register with me just to what extent Nokia’s been dominating the platform. That’s been especially ...
The Galaxy S 4. It’s a name that commands respect: one that strikes fear into the hearts of other smartphones, and incites envy in the eyes of would-be buyers. As our full review reinforces, it’s a name that represents one of the best Android smartphones you can buy today. But the Galaxy S 4 isn’t just one phone: it’s a device family comprised of many globally-specific variants. The SPH-L720 we reviewed last week was built especially for the American carrier Sprint, and while ...
Last week, I waxed poetic on why Windows Phone can’t afford to not jump into the quad core fray. Most of the reasoning behind the opinion was based on marketing, pure and simple. Quad core is greater than dual core in the eye of the average consumer. So, in order to gain that priceless market share that we all know and love, it was reasoned that if you want to win hearts and minds, it will have to be done with four shiny cores resting snugly in the belly on the Lumia 980 Epic Superphone Plus. ...
Apple rumoured to be releasing the next-generation mobile software without any next-generation hardware, and doing so with a cleaner and flatter interface
We’ve already compared the ASUS Fonepad to its almost twin, the no-earpiece Google Nexus 7, and today we’re taking a close look at the same tablet, this time, against Apple’s latest and greatest small-sized iPad. The iPad mini is a tablet many have thought would never see the light of day, not from Apple. Still, it’s here for quite some time now and it brings the premium build to the sub-ten-inch form factor. Specs are modest though, from the low-resolution screen to the A5 ...
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Apple rumoured to be releasing the next-generation mobile software without any next-generation hardware, and doing so with a cleaner and flatter interface 
Dual front-facing speakers from the HTC One move downmarket into a new budget-friendly handset due to launch in the near future in China 
Distinctly unimpressive specifications reveal Samsung is joining rivals in a bid to produce the absolute cheapest brand-name 7in Android tablet 
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