Motorola’s roll-up smartphone concept intrigued visitors to MWC 2024. Motorola’s roll-up smartphone concept intrigued visitors to MWC 2024. |Image: Courtesy of Lenovo Each year, the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona provides an opportunity to discover the very best in new connected devices. This 2024 edition was no exception, with […]
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Rollable and bendable displays have captured the attention of the tech world in the last couple of years, primarily implemented in the foldable phones and rollable TVs released by mainstream consumer electronics giants like Samsung and LG. Now, Motorola wants to bring a bendable smartphone right onto your wrist. Truly […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Financial technology (FinTech)—innovation in the delivery of financial services and products—has grown in popularity, expanding access to finance for millions of people. But while promoting inclusive finance to accelerate economic growth and financial sustainability is considered a good idea, there are challenges to balancing the socioeconomic […]
It’s been 10 years today since Google, and the subsidiary it spun up when it owned Motorola, created Project Ara with the goal of making modular smartphones a reality. That idea died. The concept of Project Ara was rather simple as an elevator pitch: it consisted of a skeleton phone […]
The Rabbit R1 recently went viral with its post-smartphone design and voice-driven interface – and now a minimalist concept phone has similarly promised to save us from endless doomscrolling. The suitably named Minimal Phone, which will be part of a crowdfunding campaign that starts in early February, looks like a cross […]
A smartphone could be a great gift for Valentine’s Day; if we are on the same page, you are in luck. We created this list just for you that includes the top 10 best smartphones to give your loved ones this Valentine’s Day. These smartphones are tailored to give you […]
The educationist and media theorist Neil Postman argued that the path to learning is a difficult one — it requires attention to “sequence”,“perspiration”, “perseverance” and “perplexity”. Madhav Chavan’s article, ‘Classroom at a click’ (IE, Jan 18) is in complete opposition to the idea of learning as an arduous journey. Chavan […]
At this year’s Lenovo Tech World event, Motorola unveiled their concept for a bendable smartphone. “The adaptive display concept can be adjusted from a standard Android phone experience in a flat position…” “…to being wrapped for a wrist-worn experience…” “…or positioned in several stand modes.” […]
At CES 2024, I watched a Samsung representative open the shiny Flex In & Out Flip concept device and fold it in both directions. Unlike the Galaxy Z Flip 5 and other flip phones you can buy today, it folds completely backwards so that you use the phone’s 6.7-inch screen even when […]
Here are screen-free tech ideas for the holidays Updated: 12:28 PM PST Dec 18, 2023 MINUTES FROM ELK GROVE. BACK TO YOU, BRIAN. THANKS SO MUCH. NEW THIS MORNING. TECH GIFTS. THEY’RE ALWAYS POPULAR WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS OR BASICALLY ANYONE. SO IF YOU NEED TO DO SOME LAST MINUTE […]
