Wireless charging is the kind of thing that has been around in various guises for a good while now, and with many Android phones featuring the technology as standard, Apple's iPhone has lagged behind the times somewhat, with the company refusing to add wireless charging technology to any of its devices. From what we've heard about the iPhone 6, that's not likely to change any time soon, either.
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Oliver Haslam has written about technology for over a decade. His work has been published in print at Macworld and online pretty much everywhere else. If it plugs in or has a battery, it's fair game.
Turns out that making smartphones is hard, and although the folks at Foxconn are actually rather good at doing just that, there's always room for extra improvement. Whether that improvement comes in any form, Foxconn is apparently set to augment its existing workforce with 10,000 new additions.
Apple's announcement of iOS 8 brought with it plenty of new features, and one of those new additions was the ability to quickly reply to messages without having to stop what you're doing. Something that has arguably been forgotten in the tidal wave of other new features, quick replies are something that have been on everyone's wishlist for quite some time.
The Samsung Gear Fit fitness tracker and smartwatch is probably the least bulky smartwatch around, but it's also more of a fitness tracker than the kind of smartwatch that we're all so excited about getting. That doesn't mean that it's not awesome though, and if you've been on the fence about picking one up and happen to live in the United States, then now might be a great time to take the plunge.
It's iWatch, iWatch, iWatch right now, and when UBS analyst Steven Milunovich managed to get hold of Apple CEO Tim Cook, it was the latter's apparent favoring of voice messaging that has led the analyst to believe that it could be a main feature for the unannounced but highly anticipated Apple smartwatch.
If you want a break from all of the iPhone concept videos then how about an iWatch concept? We may be almost certain that a new iPhone will arrive around September time, but the existence of an iWatch is still just a rumor - albeit one that just won't die. A rumor it may be, but it's a rumor that sees plenty of information cropping up seemingly on a daily basis, and at this point we have to be fairly confident that we'll see a smartwatch with an Apple logo on it some time later this year.
There are few computers in this world that are more expensive than a Mac Pro. Well, home computers at least. So it's fairly safe to say that they are a high value target for thieves, which is why you'll want to make sure that every precaution is taken so that the risk of your pride and joy being lifted by some light-fingered trickster. Until now, doing just that has been a case of fashioning your own security lock, or opting to go for one of the expensive third-party solutions that just don't quite cut the mustard for whatever reason. Now though, Apple's got your back.
If there's one thing about Sony's PlayStation 4 that is undoubtedly better than its predecessor, it's the DualShock 4 controller. The third-generation DualShock came in quite a lot of criticism, and rightly so, and the folks in Japan clearly paid attention to that criticism because, thankfully, the DualShock 4 is a much better proposition, which means you might want to use it with your PlayStation 3, too.
You may have already heard of gold iPhones being sold for silly money to anyone daft enough to buy them, but the 'Caviar iPhone 5s Supremo Putin' takes things one step further by engraving Russian premier Vladimir Putin's bonce on the back of it. In fact, just to make sure you get your patriotism badge - assuming you're Russian, that is - the phone even has the first two lines of the country's national anthem as well as its coat of arms engraved for good measure. Well, if something's worth doing, it's worth doing right, after all.
When Google announced Android L at Google I/O, one of the software's biggest headline new features was its heads-up notifications. Allowing developers to give their apps notifications that fall down from the top of the screen rather than simply living in the status bar, heads-up notifications are similar to the way iOS handles incoming notifications, and are surely an improvement over what came before. Unfortunately, with the early versions of Android L only available for Nexus devices, everyone else is left out in the cold.
