India 'the new China' for smartphone makers

Just as China's long-insatiable appetite for smartphones wanes, India promises to be the next hotspot for explosive growth, a new report claims. "India presents the world's largest smartphone growth potential for the next 5 years," Mark Li, senior analyst ... Read more

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Belgian city launches 'text walking lanes' for smartphone addicts

People's apparent eagerness to stay connected at all times means we're seeing more and more folk walking the streets lost in their phones. Well, we would see them if we weren't staring at our own handsets, right? The thing is, this growing distraction ... Read more

Smartphone beacons power crowdsourced weather forecasts

A Japanese climate information company that wants to track just about every cloud in the sky in its own data cloud is handing out atmospheric sensors for smartphones that could improve forecasting. A Japanese climate information company that wants to track ... Read more

No Smartphone? Now You Can Hail An Uber Via Text Message

TextBer, a project that came out of an Uber hackathon of CodingDojo students, lets Uber users without a smartphone hail a car via text. The on-demand economy — a world of location-sensitive apps that send services right to your door — only exists for ... Read more

What Mobile Wallets And Smartphone Cameras Now Have In Common

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Android have just recast mobile wallets as smartphone utilities – putting them in the same category as cameras, maps, weather, the app store and any other app that comes preloaded on their ... Read more

Remote-control Range Rover can be driven with a smartphone app

High end cars are creeping towards full autonomy, unlocking new abilities every generation that allow them to drive themselves under certain conditions. Now, using the sensors and hardware that let the car park itself, Jaguar Land Rover has demonstrated a ... Read more

iBall to introduce Cobalt mSLR4 smartphone with 4 different lenses

BENGALURU: Since the first camera phone came to market, photography enthusiasts have wanted to get better, high resolution cameras in their smartphones. Taking note of the fancy that smartphone users have for their camera, the Indian smartphone ... Read more

LG G Flex 2 Review: A great curved screen on a smartphone that won't let you down

The LG G Flex 2 greatly improves on its slightly disappointing, and overpriced, ancestor, the LG G Flex. March 2014 seems like light-years ago; that's when we got our first brush with the G Flex at LG's Tech Show in Delhi. It was a bold, almost ... Read more

Take better smartphone pics

As well as being portable computers, music players and games consoles, smartphones are also starting to replace entry-level digital cameras. It's easy to see why – they are small, conveniently in our pockets most of the time and are so easy to use. Read more

Amazon Patents Ear-Scanning Technology to Unlock Smartphone

The Amazon patent details technology that would look at a person's ear and use it in a similar manner to a fingerprint scanner. It would do this by taking a picture of the ear with a smartphone's front-facing camera and comparing that picture to the ... Read more