Mobile/Cell Phones Category - Page 38

Uber has made the concept of calling a cab obsolete, as it lets users hire a car with an iPhone or Android application. But this New Year’s Eve, Uber opted to price rides based on market forces of supply and demand, and users have complained of exorbitant prices.

SMS is on the decline, at least in some parts of the world. This recent holiday season has marked a decrease in SMS messages sent, amid what is considered the busiest days in SMS. Should carriers be worried?

Apple has been sued in Italy for not providing customers the standard two-year warranty mandatory within the European Union, and is being fined an equivalent of US$ 1.2 million. Apple plans to appeal this decision, and will still pursue selling their own AppleCare warranty.

Nokia’s unannounced Ace Windows Phone 7 smartphone may have been revealed early, thanks to a Christmas greeting video by one of Microsoft’s partners. Not much has emerged, although the video suggests a front-facing camera, among other design updates.

Verizon earlier announced that it will be charging an extra $2 for single mobile, online or over-the-phone payments for mobile customers. The company has since decided to drop plans to add the surcharge, amid complaints from customers.

Steve Jobs left Apple in good hands when he relinquished control of the company to key executives. Even after his eventual death, the company has continued coming up with top-selling products. It’s probably no wonder that Jonathan Ive, who heads the company’s design team, is being knighted this New Year’s [...]

Considering that, last week, we tackled the concept of the best tech of 2011 with just a few days until Christmas, there was pretty much only one thing left to do with 2011. And with only two days left to do anything with 2011 in the first place, well, what [...]

We’ve heard about Siri imitators before, especially for Android. It really shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that Apple’s impressive new voice control app is seeing a whole lot of imitators come along; after all, Siri is the reason behind more than a few iPhone 4S sales, so why [...]

Symbian is quite the fighter. Even with Android and iOS growing fast and eating up market share faster than you can say “Belle,” the mobile operating system has held its ground in the overall mobile phone OS market, at least in terms of mobile web browsing.

It looks like Motorola has officially announced the latest software update for European Motorola RAZR smartphone users. The update is coming as a maintenance style update and appears to be bringing a handful of improvements and enhancements over the current software version.