It has happened on so many occasions before, and it's always entertaining when it does. Celebrities ranging from chat show host Oprah Winfrey to tennis starlet David Ferrer have all been caught promoting Windows Phone and Android products from their beloved iOS devices, but now, an actual rivaling company to Apple has shot itself in the foot. BlackBerry, a Canadian firm that once dominated the smartphone arena with an iron fist, has tweeted out to its followers using none other than Twitter for iPhone - a fatal error that isn't going to have consumers swarming back to BlackBerry any time soon.
Here's a list of the top 10 best smartphones from the year 2014, ranked in the order. For the complete list, simply head past the jump.
It wasn't too long ago when we mere consumers and business pundits suggested the end of RIM's BlackBerry lineup of devices, following the insurgency of Android and iPhone in a market that was BlackBerry's niche. However today, the company is very proudly offering up to $550 to iPhone users to dump their smartphone for its latest; the BlackBerry Passport.
If you dig flat looking geometric designs, then these 141 Material Design inspired wallpapers are bound to make your day, and the best part is, you can use them on any device you might have.
Theft of personal, digital devices is fairly rampant, but thanks to the introduction of kill-switches, those snatching the gadgets of others are now often left with a bricked product that cannot be used or sold at will. It's not much consolation to the victim, but it has made a noticeable difference to smartphone theft in that the numbers have dropped off significantly. Now, a new law has been passed in California that means by 2015, any handset sold in the state will need to be kitted up with its very own kill-switch, and although most top-end devices now ship with such measures right out of the box, this new move will ensure that all new smartphones include something similar.
Andrei Neculaesei, a full-stack Copenhagen based developer, has thrown his hat into the mobile app security debate by expressing concern regarding poorly implemented security relating to URI schemes within many popular apps. Neculaesei believes that the fact that many developers neglect to implement vital security measures within their apps could potentially lead to unwitting users falling victim to malicious services that could, in theory, invoke expensive phones calls on the device being used.
BlackBerry might have been a slowly fading away giant lately, but the company recently announced that it had one last trick up its sleeve that could become the game changer for the once smartphone-making king. That killer device, which we recently found out to be BlackBerry Passport, has just been accidently leaked in a video courtesy of Carphone Warehouse.
As if the reports of NSA spying over all your mobile phone and Internet activity weren’t enough to make customers all the more paranoid, a recent major security flaw discovered in Android and BlackBerry devices (and some iPhones as well) can basically put millions and millions of customers worldwide at the risk. The vulnerability can basically allow an attacker to assume the highest level of control of an affected cellular device and enable theft of personal data and more. Details past the break.
Microsoft's Windows Phone platform gets a pretty raw deal when it comes to apps, with developers favoring iOS and Android for the most part. The fact that Instagram only recently made its way to the Windows Phone Store is a testament to this, and with the BlackBerry Messenger app having dropped some time ago for Google and Apple's mobile ecosystems, it has finally manifested itself for Windows Phone. As usual, we've got all of the details right here.
The United States House of Representatives has taken the opportunity to unanimously pass a bill that finally declares the act of unlocking a cellphone to be perfectly legal. The bill, which passed through the Senate, overturns last year's decision to continue to make unlocking cellphones illegal, and is expected to be signed into law by President Obama's administration.