Mobile & Wireless

A new report is detailing Google’s plans to use your verified phone number to display your name and Google+ profile photo as your caller ID. The feature comes as part of Android 4.4 KitKat’s smarter caller ID, where it will display business names when a business calls you, should you not have the number stored Continue Reading →

Our smartphones are our go to devices for so many things… we’ve outsourced our memory to the apps that provide access to the body of knowledge of mankind such as Google, Wikipedia, IMDb, etc. We’ve outsourced our way-finding to maps and navigation systems. We’ve pushed just about everything we do to our phones. I’ve seen Continue Reading →

BlackBerry shocked the messaging app industry by hitting 20 million combined iPhone and Android downloads in just a week after BBM went cross-platform. Now, new Android data from Mobidia provided exclusively to BGR shows that right after its launch, BBM pulled ahead of or matched major rivals in the key metric of weekly engagement. This Continue Reading →

Gone are the days where aircraft were metal tubes of isolation. Get ready to hear more, “hello? I’m on a plane” on your cross-country flights. Gogo launched its latest in-flight technology, allowing smartphone users to make phone calls and send text messages as if they were on the ground. The aircraft connectivity giant on Friday touted Continue Reading →

At Samsung’s Analyst Day, alongside talking serious financial numbers, forward looking statements and such, the company has announced that it will bring fully-foldable screens to willing customers some time in 2015. The screen tech (which we’ve seen an incremental nudge towards with the Galaxy Round) could find its way into both typical smart devices like Continue Reading →

As expected, Google on Thursday released its much-anticipated Hangouts 2.0 update for Android. You can download the new version now directly from Google Play. The new version includes SMS support (as well as MMS support on Android 4.0 and up), animated GIFs, and one-tap location sharing. The last option is as simple as tapping the Continue Reading →

Despite a lot of complaints about the ads Instagram began running recently, the Facebook-owned mobile photo and video sharing service is seeing success so far from the ads, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom said on Wednesday. Speaking at Gigaom’s Roadmap conference in San Francisco today, Systrom said more than 5% of the ads, which feature prominent Continue Reading →

An Apple patent filing published on Thursday by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office details a wireless network sharing technology that leverages low-power Bluetooth instead of Wi-Fi, making it a prime candidate for small devices like the much-rumored “iWatch.” In its application for “Network access using short-range connectability,” Apple proposes a method by which a Continue Reading →

Earlier reports suggested that Samsung’s next-generation flagship Galaxy S5 smartphone will be getting a significant camera upgrade when it debuts next year and now the news is confirmed. Samsung said this week during its analyst day meetings that the upcoming Galaxy S5 and Galaxy Note 4 hero phones for 2014 will both get the company’s Continue Reading →

Apple is gearing up to soon begin hardware repairs for the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c in its chain of retail stores, according to sources with knowledge of the upcoming initiative. These sources say that Apple Stores will be able to replace several parts of the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c on-site, meaning that Apple Continue Reading →