We all increasingly rely on non-verbal forms of communication — email, IM, texting — to let people know what's going on in our lives. That's great for us, but it's causing headaches in Hollywood when it comes to creating drama. Read More >>
I've never wanted an iPhone in different colours. Black with a tint of gloss or white with a silver lining has always been plenty enough. But then I saw these renders of what an iPhone in different colours would look like and man, a red iPhone looks like so much fun. Read More >>
Featured comment by tolpin:
"No sorry, I don't mean you personally keep writing the same message, I mean I keep reading near-identical comments posted on almost every Apple-relate..." More »
A mysterious new phone, which purports to be a Motorola-made Android, has surfaced — and it appears to shun the usual Moto design aesthetic in favour of something a little more Google-inspired. Read More >>
Anything promising to simplify a ubiquitous, and often frustrating, activity—like email—is sure to have people salivating. For the new iOS app Mailbox, this promise was effectively hyped with the help of a lovely video back in December. The app has finally dropped, and you know what? It might just live up to the hype. Read More >>
Earlier this week, the jailbreak tool to rule them all, evasi0n, was released and since then there have been close to seven million new jailbroken iOS devices. At least that's what the creator of Cydia told Forbes. Read More >>
According to the Wall Street Journal, Canonical is claiming that its new Ubuntu OS will be with developers by late February — ready for phones to launch in "two geographically large markets" this October. Read More >>
Featured comment by Raja Awad:
"ANdroid, IOS and Windows phone OS will eat them alive, people are happy with the choices they have right now, mozilla phone and ubuntu phone will flop..." More »
So you decided to jailbreak your iOS device and now the baked-in weather app is borked, right? Yeah, sometimes these things don't always work out that smoothly but it could have been a lot worse. Now, a fix is being worked on but in case you haven't downloaded one of a bajillion other weather apps, here's how to fix the problem now: Read More >>
Featured comment by james.cavill.3:
"Got it working for me now, you need to uninstall appsync/AppCake before-hand.
Then paste this into terminal.
Then weather should work and you ca..." More »
So you must have heard about jailbreaking by now. Maybe you already hopped right on the long-awaited iOS 6.1 jailbreak for iPhone 5, or maybe jailbreaking is just something you're vaguely aware of. Now is as good a time as any to dive in head first, and you should consider giving it a shot. Read More >>
Featured comment by Growmac:
"Okay, so I just found a fatal flaw. Well, one fatal and one not good.
First, my phone locked completely this morning and took two resets to reboot...." More »
Look people, I know the BlackBerry Z10 looks great, but I just can't believe that some of you are doing these stupid things to get one for free. Ok, five of you. Read More >>
Yum, that food you ordered is so beautifully-presented that you're going to take a lovely photo of it, aren't you? I bet you're going to use the flash because it's dark in this fancy restaurant, too, huh? Read More >>
Featured comment by eadingas:
"I admit to always doing that whenever I'm in Japan - but that's because watching (and then eating) food in Japan is as much part of the holidays as vi..." More »
During Google's earnings call, Google executives made it clear that the acquisition of Motorola comes with quite a bit of baggage. More specifically, Google has inherited "12 to 18 months of product pipeline," said Google CFO Patrick Pichette. Yikes. Read More >>
If you follow any number of Silicon Valley insiders on Twitter, you might have seen them blathering on about a new email app called Mailbox for iPhone. Mailbox is an interesting take on the inbox. It forces new user behaviour, which might not necessarily be a bad thing but having used it over the last few days I can ensure you that change is not easy. Read More >>
Featured comment by elevenses:
"It's not hard to decide which emails to delete, and which to keep for a while.
It appears this system is for retards. Windows users would be the pr..." More »
Gizmodo alumnus John Herrman's penis size is unknown, but I'm sure it's proportional to the size of his genius and this awesome chart proves it. Attenshun, people of the world with average genitals! Today is the day smartphones' screens became larger than your penis, thanks to the Samsung Galaxy Note II and its 5.5-inch HD super AMOLED screen. [Buzzfeed] Read More >>
In the late 1990s, Nokia predicted the future of mobile: it spent millions on research, and even demonstrated touch-screen devices that closely resembled todays iPhones and Androids. So why is it only now making a dent on the smartphone market? Read More >>