Courtesy of GSMArena.com The most common reason I hear as to why people aren’t buying Window’s phones/tablets is because their App ecosystem is limited compared to that of Apple and Android. While Window’s 400,000 to 500,000 apps is not a small number, it’s relatively pale in comparison to Apple and Android’s 1.2 and 1.3 million respective available … Read more
Earlier this week Samsung was caught disabling Windows Updates on its users PCs. For those who were unaware of this and are just now finding out, don’t worry. Samsung will be sending a patch that will allow Windows to install its updates on your PC. Many Samsung users were quite disappointed with Samsung’s decision to … Read more
E3 is around corner and Oculus is getting ahead of the action in a number of unveilings in a press conference the week beforehand. Virtual reality is an emerging industry and a number of players are getting aggressive in their attempt to take hold of early market share. Oculus made a number of huge announcements Thursday. … Read more
Wristbands, lately, seem to be all the rage. Ever since Livestrong started the trend with their rubber yellow bands, a revolution has begun. Nymi, an electronic wristband by Bionym, is the latest device aimed at taking your wristly real estate. (Yes, I did just coin the word wristly) This wrist band monitors your heart rate, … Read more
It’s a sad day when the press conference of a legendary giant like Nintendo feels like a little league baseball game amongst the professionals. Today, Nintendo put on their digital only E3 press conference to make their annual announcements. Being a Nintendo fan myself, I walked away disappointed in Nintendo questioning their future. I would hate to … Read more
E3 is here and there have been some exciting announcements thus far. Bethesda kicked things off for us this morning and Sony closed the day out for us. So what exciting news did Sony reveal for us? Lets find out! Dreams Sony announced that Media Molecule (creators of LittleBigPlanet) will be releasing a new game titled … Read more
Smart watches have been making headlines on a regular basis as of late. Between HP hiring a fashion designer to design the HP Chronowing to Apple announcing the Apple Watch; it’s clear that the industry is convinced that smart watches are here to stay. Sony has developed an entirely different kind of smart watch. This watch doesn’t connect to your … Read more
Tech enthusiasts have been waiting many years for an Ubuntu phone to be released to the market, and that time is going to arrive sooner than you’d think! Canonical, a company out of the United Kingdom, has announced that the Aquarius E4.5 will begin being sold in Europe on this upcoming Monday: February 16th. The … Read more
Lately, we here at TechSmash have noticed the trend among companies creating wearable fitness tech. Whether this has to do with the growing movement toward a healthier lifestyle, or a way to better show off on Instagram and Facebook, is up for debate. Wearable fitness tech is currently able to track how active you are, … Read more
There are a number of ways to boost the adoption of technology. You can force technology upon the consumer as Apple has done with USB Type-C. Or you can make your software open source and grant the community royalty-free access to your patents. (There are substantially less hissy-fits with the latter strategy) Panasonic did just that … Read more