Collaborate Disseminate
Apple iPhones ship with the company’s Lightning cable, a capable and robust connector, but one that’s not cheap and is only useful for the company’s products. When the competition had …read more Continue reading Why Wait For Apple? Upgrade your iPhone With USB-C Today!
It seems that few features of a consumer electronic product will generate as much rancour as a mobile phone charger socket. For those of us with Android phones, the world …read more Continue reading Showdown Time For Non-Standard Chargers In Europe
These days we’re spoiled for choice when it comes to smartphone software, especially games. Official repositories for the leading handsets feature hundreds of thousands of games, and sideloading adds infinite …read more Continue reading Firmware Modding Your Vintage Nokia Handset
Cars and smartphones have something curious in common, just as most everyday saloon cars from different manufacturers have tended towards similarity, so have smartphones. Whether your smartphone the latest and …read more Continue reading A Phone That Old Shouldn’t Be Running Android
Over the years we’ve brought you many examples in this series showing you technologies that were once mighty. The most entertaining though are the technological dead ends, ideas which once …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: CT2, When Receiving Mobile Phone Calls Wasn’t A Priority
Europe has been in COVID-containment mode for the last month, in contrast to the prior three months of serious lockdown. Kids went back to school, in shifts, and people went on vacation to countries with similarly low infection rates. Legoland and the zoo opened back up, capped at 1/3 capacity. …read more
Continue reading COVID Tracing Apps: What Europe Has Done Right, and Wrong
As part of an investigation into opposition to 5G mobile phone networks in the English town of Glastonbury the BBC reporter [Rory Cellan-Jones] shared details of a so-called 5G protection device that was advertised as casting a bubble of 5G-free space around its owner. This set [The Quackometer] writing, because …read more
Continue reading Don’t Worry, This Box Will Protect You From 5G!
In a fit of lock-down-induced boredom, [Peter Z] has turned his smartphone into an LCD screen (simulation) via an Android app (German language, Google Translate link), so that a mobile device can be plugged into your favourite microcontroller and the classic HD44780 LCD look can be replicated on its screen. …read more
Continue reading A Microcontroller Display With A Classic Twist
Most of us are probably quite aware of the damage that a car can inflict when driven by a distracted driver. In an ideal world, people who are driving a car would not allow something like their phone to distract them from their primary task of being the primary navigation …read more
Continue reading Using Smartphone Cameras To Make Sure Drivers Are Looking At The Road
Google and Apple have joined forces to issue a common API that will run on their mobile phone operating systems, enabling applications to track people who you come “into contact” with in order to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s an extremely tall order to do so in …read more
Continue reading Google and Apple Reveal Their Coronavirus Contact Tracing Plans: We Kick the Tires