How I Became A Celebrity In China By Losing My Cellphone
I will never have luck like this man and the story of his stolen cellphone.
Revisiting Palm's webOS
Remember Palm? Remember the Palm Pilot? Remember when Palm blew the mobile industry away with the launch of webOS? I do! I remember watching the press videos for webOS and being utterly amazed. If I had my Doobybrain archives, I could probably track down a point where I might have even written that I wanted a Palm Pre. That pebble-like device was just so enticing at the time and it's true, I remember webOS being absolutely revolutionary and cool.
But great software paired with crappy hardware will never live long.
A look at Motorola's modular phone
I like this idea. It reminds me of a similar project from Google called Project Ara and hopefully one day the modular phone will replace phones with planned obsolescence.
Watch Edward Snowden hack his own cellphone to avoid the NSA
Shane Smith from VICE met up with Edward Snowden in Moscow to talk about how on one could potentially be tracked by the NSA simply by carrying a cellphone in their pocket. The individual components in a cellphone like the microphone, camera, and even GPS can be turned on by clever hacks and really the only way to make sure that doesn't get Snowden in harm's way is to remove those components on a physical level inside the phone. This guy knows what he's doing.