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Printed Paper Piano Wirelessly Draws Power From a Smartphone

How will we interact with devices in the future? Some believe we’ll use our voices for everything, while others assume our eyes will be able to navigate complicated UIs on smart glasses. Prelonic Technologies foresees an entirely different future where interacting with electronics will be done using keyboards and other controllers made from paper that […]

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Designer smartphone hacks will trickle down in 2022

What happens to state-sponsored smartphone hacks when they’re uncovered? They get reverse-engineered and enter the cybercrime underworld, of course. There is no ‘safe’ back door The inconvenient truth is there is no such thing as a safe back door into smartphone security. Authoritarian governments may force smartphone platform developers to create them, but they make […]

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Springboard: the history of the first real smartphone is now on Youtube

In 1998, Donna Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins quit Palm, a company they’d founded, to begin a new one: Handspring. They had a simple goal in mind: to eventually create the smartphone. Years before any of the technology was actually ready, their tiny startup began laying the necessary groundwork for what would become the Treo. In […]

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OPPO ColorOS 12 enriches smartphone function with less-is-more visual

talk to OPPO ColorOS design team: a lesson in simplicity   design blurs the boundaries between technology and art at OPPO. launched in october 2021, ColorOS 12 is the new operating system for the smartphones of the china-based consumer electronics brand. the OPPO design team has refined and polished each detail of its user interface […]

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Cyber Monday trade-in deals prove you should never recycle your old smartphone for free

Source: Nick Sutrich / Android Central Trading in your old smartphone while buying a new one isn’t rocket science. Plenty of people get the newest flagship every year, trading in last year’s cutting-edge tech for half (or more) off the latest device. But two years after launch, a popular Android phone might get you $200 […]

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Lilbits: New Android and Windows 11 features, Pocket PC handheld, and the Honor 60 smartphone

It can be easy to forget that you granted an app permission to track your location or access your local storage if it’s an app you use infrequently. So Google introduced a feature with Android 12 that will automatically revoke permissions for apps you haven’t launched in a while. You can always grant permissions again […]

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All the new smartphones we still expect will launch this year

Some tech companies aren’t letting the last few weeks of 2021 go to waste, even launching new smartphones in the run-up to Christmas. While some new phone releases are confirmed events, others are rumors that may or may not happen in the next few weeks. Accordingly, we’ve created a list of new smartphone launches based […]

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Is it smart to use an old smartphone?

Apple’s recent announcement that it will begin selling hardware repair kits for many iPhones and Mac computers will help extend the lives of these already durable devices. The kits will make it possible for any iPhone owner to replace a cracked screen or weak battery without leaving home. Still, smartphones also need software upgrades. Sometimes […]

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