Mobile Phone

With TV programming now spread out across a variety of services beyond traditional network TV, it can be hard to know what to watch next and what’s popular, given how much great content there is to choose from. An app called TV Time is helping with that, by allowing TV fans …

If you’ve purchased a smartphone in the last several years, it’s most likely encrypted by default to protect your data. Canada-based Phantom Secure went a step further with its customized, ultra-secure Blackberry and Samsung smartphones. Now, the company’s CEO Vincent Ramos is behind bars, accused of facilitating criminal activity by …

LinkedIn used to have its own business card scanning app, CardMunch, which served a useful purpose in a world where paper cards simply refuse to die. But that app was shut down back in 2014, with LinkedIn suggesting users move to Evernote instead. Today, Microsoft is bringing back business card …

Your smartphone already has a wide array of sensors inside, but it can’t measure your blood pressure — at least not yet. Researchers from Michigan State University have developed a prototype device that measures blood pressure via your smartphone. You’re probably holding the phone for a few hours per day, …

Samsung’s new Galaxy S9 may not quite live up to the iPhone X when it comes to Samsung’s implementation of a Face ID-style system or its odd take on AR emoji. But that’s not going to matter much to Samsung device owners — not only because the S9 is a …

Just like in the last two years, Google is using the beginning of March to launch the first developer preview of the next version of Android. Android P, as it’s currently called, is still very much a work in progress and Google isn’t releasing it into its public Android beta …

ELSA, an app whose name stands for “English Language Speech Assistant” (and not the popular Disney character!), has raised $3.2 million for its A.I.-assisted language learning platform that teaches people how to speak English. Unlike other courses that focus mainly on teaching grammar and vocabulary, ELSA uses artificial intelligence and …

There are plenty of options for storing your photos online. They come with various capacities, capabilities, and price points. But what if you want to have the power of accessing your image library anywhere, and potentially sharing it with others, without a monthly fee or needing to worry about how …

  Last year, Nokia revived the classic Nokia 3310, its iconic “candybar” phone renowned for being essentially indestructible to beings without access to vibranium, adamantium, or an Infinity Gauntlet. This year, the company is plumbing the depths bringing another nostalgia-fueled design back to market, with the re-launch of the Nokia …

Opera Max lives on after Samsung acquired the mobile browser to save it from oblivion. The browser was one of the first data-friendly mobile browsers and it later added privacy-focused settings, including safeguards against insecure WiFi connections and a VPN. The popular app clocked up more than 500,000 installs, but that …