The Android Companion Robot USB Charger is, as its name implies, a USB charger that is shaped like the little green Android mascot. Its legs plug into your electrical outlet and the USB cord plugs into its head. LEDs in the robot’s eyes light up to indicate your level of charge. That is all. Seriously though, I am all for products that make the Android charging experience more enjoyable… as that is all my phone [...]
If you love the openness and versatility of Android but hate the look, then the iPhone 4S Screen app might be of some assistance. The app, which has allegedly been downloaded by 4.2 million users, transforms your Android screen into that of an iPhone 4S. As far as the apps on the screen go, they link to the corresponding apps on the phone in question (address book, music player, weather, camera, etc.), all except for [...]
How many iPhone cases can stop a .50 caliber bullet? If you answered “none” you would be half right – Marudai’s new 1-inch Steel Case can (as long as your iPhone gets shot in the back). As the name implies, the case is an inch-thick hunk of steel, at the back at least, the front is made out of a thin bit of aluminum. Should you chose to entomb your iPhone 4 within all that [...]
By now most of us have at least heard that walking and texting can be a dangerous pastime – I mean there are all sorts of things that could go wrong: you could walk into a pole, step in front of a moving vehicle, or as this man proves – wander into the path of a confused bear. Fortunately nobody was hurt and while I am not certain that turning around and running as fast [...]
With iPhone cases available in subway stations, convenience stores, and probably in those claw games where you try and pick up the stuffed animals, there would really have to be something cool about one for me to want to post it. Ok, maybe this one will only seem entertaining for the amount of time it will take me to finish this, click a few category boxes, enter a few “tags” and hit submit, but [...]
Have you ever been talking on the phone and then been struck by an uncontrollable urge to pepper spray someone in the face? If you have then you might want to take a look at the SmartGuard case for the iPhone – it features a compartment specially designed to hold a can of Oleoresin Capsicum, which it will expel for up to 5 feet in 6 half second bursts. A plastic tab keeps you from [...]
Earlier in the week Symantec announced that some 13 Android apps from three different publishers contained malware – potentially affecting up to 5 million users. Today, they have announced that the programs in question do not actually contain malware. Symantec’s Kevin Haley describes what Counterclank does: In general, it’s changing the home page of the [smartphone's] browser, adding additional shortcuts to the desktop, adding and even removing bookmarks. … It took a while for some [...]
I had a pretty serious problem with my phone last week. Here’s the deal, when I bought it last year – it was literally the first non-Japanese Android-based cell phone to make its way to my carrier (AU KDDI). I snapped up the Pantech Sirius Alpha, because I really needed something that I could tether during a work trip to Okinawa. I thought that, with it being Pantech, there was a better than average chance [...]
A team of South Korean scientists, with the help of some government funding, have been working on an app, that will use the specific capacitative sensitivity of the phone’s touchscreens to diagnose some diseases by using a single droplet of blood, saliva or other, as yet, unspecified secretions. The team, at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology said that when its technology is commercialised, it will cause a revolution in diagnostic medicine around [...]
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Symantec has announced that 13 apps from three developers contain a malicious segment of code called Android.Counterclank. The apps have found there way onto as many as five million phones. The malware steals user info and runs ads and is reportedly very difficult to remove. On January 16, one user wrote the following review “Deal & Be Millionaire”: The game is decent … but every time you run this game, a ‘search icon gets added [...]
The SpareOne cell phone (pictured above) is brought to us by Xpal Power (owners of Energizer and PowerSkin) and is designed for use in emergencies. It is a cell phone stripped down to the barest of bare essentials: it doesn’t run apps, it doesn’t have a screen – all it can do is make phone calls. Obviously, this is not going to be your main phone, but it accepts any GSM SIM or microSIM and [...]
You’ve got to hand it to Motorola – there was a point, not all that long ago, that they were floundering. Now they are making some of the best handsets on the market. With the Droid Razr Maxx, which they showed at CES on Monday, they have taken things in an interesting direction. It gets 21h of talk time on a single charge. At 8.9mm, it is approximately 2mm thicker than the Droid Razr (7.1mm), [...]
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