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Join our Smartphones World now to meet up with other cell phone users on the Web. Learn how to set your phones alarm, store calendars on your PDA, sync your iPhone with iTunes, download apps from the Android store, and more. And don't forget to share your own mobile tips and tricks for others in need.
WhatsApp and Facebook app icons on a smartphone screen.
Aug 25, 2016

When Facebook purchased WhatsApp for $19.3 billion back in 2014, we all knew this was coming—it just took longer than we thought. But starting today, the data mining became official, and now, informat ...

A person holding a small dog while using a smartphone.
Aug 16, 2016

Google's new cross-platform video chat app, Duo, is finally making its debut today, following a long waiting period that began in late May. The app was heavily teased during the keynote speech at Goog ...

"Google's New Duo App Will Change the Way You Video Chat with Friends" cover image
Aug 16, 2016

Google I/O is like Christmas for smartphone fans. At their annual developer's conference, the Mountain View search giant gave us a glimpse of what they've been working on over the past year—and they'v ...

Decorative temporary tattoo being applied to a forearm.
Aug 12, 2016

We're inching closer towards the singularity—that point where technology advances to the steepest slope of the logistic function S-curve and simply skyrockets at a rate we've never seen before. Somewh ...

Microsoft smartphone close-up on a rocky surface.
Aug 6, 2016

I've been an iPhone user in the iOS ecosystem for years now after a brief stint in the Android realm. But, I'm also enthusiastic about varying forms of technology in general; I realize that iOS is far ...

Mobile application interface with options for creating, storing, animating, and managing content.
Aug 2, 2016

Google Photos is one of the best photo management services out there. It allows you to back up an unlimited amount of high-quality images without ever paying a dime, the photos and videos sync flawles ...

Smartphone displaying time in a trash bin.
Jul 7, 2016

I'm an Android user. Over the course of the past seven years, I've owned ten different smartphones—all of them powered by Android. This isn't due to some blind trust in Google or some unfounded hate f ...

Smartphones displaying app icons on their screens.
Jul 7, 2016

I've been an Android user almost as long as the operating system has existed, so when I received my first iPhone in April, I felt like I was in a foreign land. Sure, it runs most of the apps I'm used ...

Person engaged in a video call wearing a checkered shirt.
Jul 7, 2016

BlackBerry announced in April that they included a beta of their video messaging service in BBM for Android and BBM for iOS for users in the United States and Canada. Well, it's finally spread to othe ...

Logos of major telecommunications companies: Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint.
Jun 20, 2016

Cellular carriers like to nickel-and-dime us out of every bit of money they can feasibly justify, so as consumers, we owe it to ourselves to make sure that we're getting our money's worth. There are s ...