Our apology for the late upload. Sadly we’ve experienced some bad technical difficulties that just got fixed. Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Samsung’s new Exynos S processor, and what this could mean for their smartphones in 2014. We then talk about Samsung’s new mobile RAM chips to power 64-bit processors as well. Then we talk about Asus as the company has already begun teasing its smartphone line-up for CES. Windows Phone 8 returns to the news as we’ve seen a Jailbreak for the Lumia 920 being teased. We end today’s show by talking about ...
When Motorola’s Moto X first launched, I remember not being too enthusiastic about the phone’s “Touchless Control” feature – the ability that, among other things, let the user interact with the handset using voice commands even when the phone was in standby mode. I think a lot of my objection at the time was formed around a knee-jerk reaction to what seemed to me (at least on first glance) a pretty unsavory idea: that of your phone perpetually monitoring what you say. But in the months ...
The smartphone you carry on New Year’s Eve has a big say in how the night will be remembered. (And not just because it’s an opportunity to show off your newest holiday acquisition to your friends, you materialistic fop.) If you take pictures with your smartphone even semi-regularly, you’re bound to do it twice as often on a landmark event like New Year’s Eve – and so the phone you carry will play a big role in how well the evening is documented. As tech reporters, the Pocketnow review team is lucky enough to have access to a slew of purchased and loaner ...
“The BlackBerry Z10 isn’t the strongest reboot the RIM of old could have delivered,” we wrote back in February in our Z10 review, “but it gets an awful lot right about the smartphone experience.” We continued: “In a broader sense, it has accomplished something not many products out of Waterloo have managed in recent years: it’s made us excited for the next BlackBerry.” The next BlackBerry to cross our desks turned out to be the Q10, the ...
It’s that time of year when we all reflect on how this year has been, how we’ve exceeded (or failed to meet) our goals and expectations, and how we can do better next year. I’m not a huge fan of the resolution rush at the turn of every year. Although I understand the significance and symbolism which appeals to many, I don’t need to turn the page of a manmade calendar to force myself to do … better. I’m a firm believer in recognizing problems and implementing a change at that exact moment. That said, when it comes to technology, my life could always use a ...
When talking about our smartphones and tablets, there seem to be two things we always want more of: battery life, and speed. Ironically, the two may not be mutually exclusive, since completing tasks faster means the processor can return to a more energy-efficient speed quicker. How the speed boost is achieved will have a significant impact on how much battery life will be saved — or squandered. Overclocking and overvolting are two popular ways to speed up any device, but they’re also notorious for causing more power drain and increased heat — both will zap your battery ...
One week ago, we were lamenting just how little we seemed to know about Sony’s upcoming smartphone plans. An international Z1 Mini is still the most promising product on the horizon, and while we ended up seeing quite a few models mentioned as contenders for in-development hardware, we lacked a lot of specifics. With CES just around the corner, will Sony have anything new to debut? One rumor says “yes,” and follows that up with some claims about another handset a few months later. OK, first up we have a model ...
CES-time means product announcements galore – and while you may have your interests firmly focused on a few big manufacturers, there are going to be dozens and dozens more hawking their wares. That spells plenty of announcements from companies that don’t generally dominate our coverage; bringing along a whole slew of new products to introduce – even in the absence of any singular hot-button item – can go a long way towards catching our attention. We’re looking at one of these players at the periphery today, as
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