Tag: smartphones
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Smartphones Expensive? Or Are They Too Expensive?
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uBeam Ultrasound Wireless Charging Is Nearly Here
What if wireless charging at a distance actually worked? What if you could change your phone while you move around or use it? You can, maybe, sometime in the future. uBeam invented a way to wirelessly send energy up to 15 feet away with ultrasound. Although that’s nothing new they did that ages ago, don’t […]
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Phones Have Unused FM Radio Chips
It may seem odd but older FM radio stations still remain one of the biggest ways listeners get their hands on music. Bands and artists still rely on radio as a big outlet for their music – digital and downloads might be huge these days, but they haven’t yet squashed the older format. FM radios […]
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Flip Phones Still Huge In Japan
Whilst it doesn’t seem to correlate with the current smartphone trend, Japan’s obsession with flip phones isn’t going to die out soon – fans of anime would be able to tell you that straight away. Whilst the devices appear a lot in Japan’s famous cartoons, in real life the older flip phone is still growing […]
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UK Scientists Charge Phone Using Sound
Researchers working at the Queen Mary University of London have devised a unique and ingenious method of charging a smartphone, anytime and anywhere, using only the sounds we hear around us every day. The smartphone they have built uses a scientific principle known as the piezoelectric effect, and takes the sound in the atmosphere around […]