The ongoing race between Apple, Motorola, RIM, and several other smartphone manufacturers over the next-gen nano-SIM card design took another turn today. According to a report by The Verge, RIM and Motorola submitted just hours ago a new design for their take on the nano-SIM card that is said to be a “compromise” between their initial design and Apple’s. If you recall, the non-Apple nano-SIM design was dramatically changed resulting in a loss of backwards...
There are many things we’d love to see changed in iOS; the lockscreen, springboard, folder management, app management, UI colors, and plenty of other small areas could use some freshening up. New paint is always a good thing. And while there are what seems like an infinite amount of iOS concepts/tweaks floating around the internet, only a small percentage ever make it to a stage that we’d consider as good enough for Apple to legitimately “adopt”. One...
U.S. regional carrier, U.S. Cellular, is sailing into the weekend with a slew of new voice/data plan offerings ready for the taking. Voice & SMS $50/month: 450 voice minutes/unlimited messaging $70/month: 1,000 minutes/unlimited messaging $90/month: Unlimited minutes and messaging Data 300 MB: $15/month 2 GB: $25/month Tethering Packages 4 GB: $45/month 5 GB: $50/month 10 GB: $90/month In a somewhat unique twist, U.S. Cellular overages won’t be...
Most normal human beings still focus on a smartphone camera’s megapixel count as a measure of comparison between devices. While it does help a tad in determining which camera is “better”, megapixel count is but one factor; other things such as aperture, lens quality, glass type, flash type and software optimization all come into play. That said, over the course of the last ~10 years, Nokia has been known to focus more heavily on their phone cameras than...
Besides hoarding Twitter clients, we’ll admit to a small large army of iPhone cases in storage chest of gear. What can we say, we love iPhone cases and are always looking for the newest, coolest cases to try out/highlight. Welcome the new addition: id America’s “Hue Soft Grip” cases. The two-piece cases uses a less common snap design that is comprised of a front and back piece as opposed to the more common top/bottom layout. Also, assuming the...
