Maybe you've seen Bluetooth Johnson, the bathroom texter or Han Solo, a.k.a, the holster master, in action. But hopefully, you don't see any of these 12 annoying cell phone characters when you look in the mirror.
The latest quarterly smartphone results are in from market research firm comScore, and surprise-surprise, Google's Android platform continues to rock the marketplace while everyone else looks on.
All those Android smartphone owners who have been wondering when they can ditch the outmoded Opera Mini 4.2 browser in favor of the latest beta can now unfold their pouts, stop that kicking, and remove their pounding fists from the floor. Opera Mini 5 beta has arrived.
Whether you're looking for an uber-powerful desktop replacement or a super-portable netbook, here is what you need to consider before buying a laptop.
To boldly go where other companies have failed
A nonprofit called Kopernik hopes to connect the creators of the low-cost, innovative and life-saving inventions with the people who need them most.
In Taiwan, there are more cellphones than people. About 7% of all mobile data goes to movie information. And Google owns nearly 100% of the mobile search market. These, and more fun facts in this handy infographic!
It’s not just a red and blue glass that makes things fly at you! Well sort of but its much cooler than that.
There are multiple iconic weapons in science fiction history, but few are as cool as the Terminator's side arm: the .45 Long Slide with a laser sighting. Ars tracked down the man who created the legendary prop, and we talked about the early days of lasers on weapons.
Kinetically powered cell phones have been relegated to futuristic concepts..or have they? Nokia files a patent that could lead to the first real piezoelectric mobile phone.
You know you are when you stop to answer your phone in the middle of... Take a guess, what do you think?
We're told Courier will function as a "digital journal," and it's designed to be seriously portable: it's under an inch thick, weighs a little over a pound, and isn't much bigger than a 5x7 photo when closed.
These are the first photos of Microsoft's Project Pink phones, snatched from deep within the bowels of the Microsoft/Verizon industrio-complex --not the Turtle, but the larger, Sidekick-like Pure. This doesn't look like Windows Phone 7, so what is it?
For some 25 years, Silverman has been buying arcade pinball machines, those gaudily colored, delightfully cacophonic games of skill that involve a steel ball, a bunch of rubber bumpers amid a sea of flashing lights and a pair of electronic flippers that serve as the only thing between million-point success and hole-in-the-floor oblivion.
Okay, we're in love with this delightfully evil Mattel Mindflex hack, which delivers an electric shock if you don't remain calm.
That headline is probably a bit of an overstatement, since this is probably the only iPhone stand made out of silverware at all. This is a pretty neat idea, and you can probably use it for eating some of the time!
During a preview of Microsoft's annual TechFest event this week, the company's researchers showed a technology dubbed Project Gustav, which seeks to replicate the experience of painting without the mess.