Pokemon GO is smashing usage records out of the water. Since its debut, the app has racked up 15 million installs. However, it’s most astonishing statistics involve its average usage times – which blast other popular apps out of the water. Sensor Tower produced the data at the top of this article showing that the average iPhone user spent over 33 minutes playing Pokemon GO on July 11 (their sample day) compared to just 22 minutes on Facebook, 18 minutes on Snapchat, 17 minutes on…
Pokemon GO just rolled out to Android and iOS users in Australia and New Zealand and is expected to make its way across the world over the next 24 hours. The much-anticipated free-to-play game uses an augmented reality system to find Pokemon in your local area. You can catch Pokemon, watch them grow and evolve, and fight for control of local gyms against other trainers. It’s a mobile game that could change the world. Few other franchises have the brand prestige and nostalgia attached to…
A man in Florida is suing Apple for $10 billion after he claimed that the company stole his iPhone invention from – wait for it – 1992. That man is also asking for a reasonable 1.5% share of all future iPhone sales, which would work out to a tidy $3.5 billion a year. The man isn’t some crazy dude, either. In 1992, Thomas Ross filed a patent for an “electronic reading device”. That patent featured drawings of an e-reader-like device, which basically resembles an electronic box…
Google has been releasing its own smartphones for years. However, they’ve always been made by third party manufacturers and named things like “Nexus 5”. That could change before the end of 2016, according to a new rumor. That rumor states that Google is preparing to release its own branded Android smartphone later this year. Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai has denied the rumors. However, The Telegraph is reporting that mobile carriers have been approached about the possible release of…
A strong US dollar is encouraging thousands of Americans to grab passports and head to Europe. And now, thanks to T-Mobile, a sexy new data plan could make traveling the old country easier than ever before. This past week, T-Mobile announced that customers traveling to Europe in summer 2016 would be able to enjoy free, unlimited, high-speed data on 4G LTE networks across the continent. The promotion starts on July 1 and runs through August 31. All you need to do is be a Simple Choice…
It’s finally happened: technology has officially made us go blind. Doctors in the UK diagnosed two women with “transient smartphone blindness” in two separate incidents over the past few months. The women visited the hospital separately after they were up late reading their smartphones in bed. A few minutes after reading their smartphones, they went temporarily blind. Fearing a stroke or something worse, they checked into the hospital and underwent testing. The specialist…
Is it time you bought yourself a new tablet? Today, we’re listing the top 5 best Android tablets for summer 2016. Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 (9.7 Inch) The Tab S2 has near-Ultrabook specs and it looks like a cross between an iPad and a Galaxy S smartphone. In fact, if your Galaxy S7 made a baby with an iPad, it would probably look something like the Tab S2. The tablet comes with a 9.7-inch quad HD Super AMOLED display. There’s also a powerful quad-core processor, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of…
The two most popular VR systems for Android are Google Cardboard and Gear VR. Until today, apps designed for one system didn’t work well on the other. Fortunately, things have changed. Starting today, Google Cardboard apps now work better on your Gear VR than ever before thanks to a recently-released app. Samsung’s Gear VR has always been a powerful virtual reality system. But it’s had one drawback: once you put your phone into the plastic casing of the Gear VR, you were forced to…
Nextbit is a smartphone manufacturer that you may or may not have heard of. Last year, the company launched its Robin phone at a competitive price and promised it could solve your storage problems with “unlimited storage”. Now, the company is promising to solve another big problem in the Android world: battery life. Nextbit claims to be working on a major software upgrade for its Robin smartphone. That upgrade will be released by the end of the year and will provide major battery life…
In May, Google confirmed that Android apps would be coming to its desktop operating system, Chrome OS. Some people thought the changes would happen instantly – but they didn’t. Today, the very first Chrome OS device received compatibility with the Google Play Store. That device is the Asus Chromebook Flip. So if you have one, then lucky you. Flip owners who want to play Android games can update their device to run the developer channel of Chrome OS. When you install the latest version…
