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All rights reserved. phonearena@phonearena.com http://www.phonearena.com/img/logo-en.gif http://www.phonearena.com/ 107 80 http://www.phonearena.com/news/Student-develops-a-capacitor-that-could-charge-a-cell-phone-in-30-seconds_id4322918 year old Eesha Khare of Saratoga, California won the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award, earning...]]>NewsMon, 20 May 2013 19:47:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Student-develops-a-capacitor-that-could-charge-a-cell-phone-in-30-seconds_id43229/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Man-steals-smartphone-gets-hit-by-bus-suffers-only-minor-injuries-and-is-arrested_id43224It is perhaps karma of the highest order as a thief tries to make a quick grab-n-go but gets thwarted in his get-away...]]>NewsMon, 20 May 2013 17:11:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Man-steals-smartphone-gets-hit-by-bus-suffers-only-minor-injuries-and-is-arrested_id43224/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/This-girly-Android-smartphone-comes-with-liquid-cooling-racing-stripes_id43213Liquid cooling is what hardcore PC overclockers use to keep their high-performance machines from failing due to excessive heat. It is a cooling method used in cars, power plants, industrial equipment and... now smartphones. Well, just one smartphone in particular – the NEC Medias X, which is one of the handsets that NTT DoCoMo announced last week...]]>NewsMon, 20 May 2013 07:55:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/This-girly-Android-smartphone-comes-with-liquid-cooling-racing-stripes_id43213/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Credit-Suisse-is-bullish-on-wearable-tech_id43206Thanks to the progress made by Google Glass, which has gone from an eye-opening concept video in April of 2012 to a product that will ring up revenues later this year, and talk of a smartwatch that almost every big tech name is developing, wearable technology promises to be a killer category; according to Credit Suisse analysts, wearable technology will go from a $3 billion to $5 billion industry today to a mind-blowing $50 billion industry in just 3 to 5 years...]]>NewsMon, 20 May 2013 03:27:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Credit-Suisse-is-bullish-on-wearable-tech_id43206/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Google-Hangouts-has-some-fun-Easter-eggs_id43167We all know that Google loves Easter eggs. The company puts them in many of its products, and the newly released Google+ Hangouts is no exception. There are actually six different Easter eggs for Hangouts users, but unfortunately, they aren't available on mobile, only in either the Chrome app or inside Google+ itself...]]>NewsFri, 17 May 2013 21:53:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Google-Hangouts-has-some-fun-Easter-eggs_id43167/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Downloads-vs-installs-how-Apple-and-Google-count-app-numbers_id43135Yesterday was a big day of news. Moreso for Google than Apple, but Apple did get in one interesting piece of information. Just a few hours after Google had announced that the Google Play Store had reached 48 billion app downloads, Apple announced that its iTunes App Store had reached the 50 billion app marker. At the time, we noted that it was unclear how each company counts app installs, so we weren't totally sure how to compare the numbers, but now we have that answer...]]>NewsThu, 16 May 2013 17:23:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Downloads-vs-installs-how-Apple-and-Google-count-app-numbers_id43135/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Apples-App-Store-hits-50-billion-downloads_id43093You knew that Apple would be swooping in to steal some of the spotlight from Google today, and the news just dropped. Whereas Google announced earlier today that the Google Play Store has reached 48 billion downloads, Apple has just announced that the iTunes App Store has hit 50 billion downloads. Although, given the headstart that Apple had in mobile, we wonder which number is really more impressive...]]>NewsWed, 15 May 2013 17:34:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Apples-App-Store-hits-50-billion-downloads_id43093/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Google-combines-Gmail-Drive-and-G-Photos-storage-into-a-single-15GB-per-user_id42965Google has been shifting around how it deals with the various storage options it has for a while now. Gmail has always been kept separate, and when Google Docs made the transition to Drive, and Picasa was folded into Google+, those two blobs of storage found themselves combined for users. Now, Google has decided it is better to just make everything into a single 15GB per user for all of those services...]]>NewsMon, 13 May 2013 12:54:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Google-combines-Gmail-Drive-and-G-Photos-storage-into-a-single-15GB-per-user_id42965/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Smartphone-buyers-prefer-an-ever-larger-screen---4.5-takes-over-4.3-as-the-sweet-spot_id42949Given the trends this year (cough, Galaxy Mega line, cough), and the onlsaught of 5" flagships, SA might be updating their preferrable screen size survey to 4.7" in the next report. We doubt that the trend will continue much further, though, unless Samsung finally stops dragging its feet with the foldable and rollable YOUM display phones...]]>NewsMon, 13 May 2013 06:00:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Smartphone-buyers-prefer-an-ever-larger-screen---4.5-takes-over-4.3-as-the-sweet-spot_id42949/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Texting-while-driving-now-the-leading-cause-of-teen-death-in-the-U.S._id42906Drunk driving has been replaced and texting while driving is now the leading cause of teen death in the U.S. as a study conducted by the Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York shows that more than 3,000 teens die each year as a result of sending SMS messages while operating a vehicle; that figures compares to the 2,700 tens that are killed each year as a result of drunk driving, a figure reported Thursday by CBS News...]]>NewsSat, 11 May 2013 15:11:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Texting-while-driving-now-the-leading-cause-of-teen-death-in-the-U.S._id42906/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Smartphone-thefts-in-San-Francisco-mapped-out_id42891Smartphone thefts have been making the news lately. These devices are expensive and because they...]]>NewsFri, 10 May 2013 19:45:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Smartphone-thefts-in-San-Francisco-mapped-out_id42891/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Survey-30-of-Airline-passengers-are-forgetting-to-turn-off-their-phones-or-tablets-before-takeoff_id42855A new survey conducted by the Consumer Electronics Association finds that 30% of airline passengers are forgetting to turn off a device, most often a smartphone, before an airplane takes off; 21% of those surveyed will put their device in airplane mode, turning off the internal radios on the unit, instead of shutting them off completely...]]>NewsFri, 10 May 2013 03:29:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Survey-30-of-Airline-passengers-are-forgetting-to-turn-off-their-phones-or-tablets-before-takeoff_id42855/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/NVIDIA-beats-Q1-expectations-with-77.9-million-in-profit_id42842After seeing the quarterly numbers from companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Samsung, the numbers reported by NVIDIA look like a drop in the bucket. But, NVIDIA has beaten expectations for its Q1 earnings with $77.9 million in profit, causing the company's stocks to climb in after-hours trading...]]>NewsThu, 09 May 2013 21:54:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/NVIDIA-beats-Q1-expectations-with-77.9-million-in-profit_id42842/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/YouTube-paid-subscriptions-now-live-starting-at-99-cents-per-month_id42834We knew it was in the works and today marks launch day for YouTube's paid subscription pilot program. Users were worried that their favorite YouTube channels would be switching to the paid model, but from the looks of the pilot channels, there isn't too much worry about that. Instead, the paid subscription channels are dominated by names you wouldn't expect to see (legally) on YouTube, like Sesame Street...]]>NewsThu, 09 May 2013 15:10:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/YouTube-paid-subscriptions-now-live-starting-at-99-cents-per-month_id42834/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/San-Francisco-abandons-bid-for-cell-phone-warning-stickers_id42791Ever since cell phones first started making their way into the hands of consumers, there have been recurring fears that the radiation from our mobile devices could have adverse effects on our health. Studies on the topic haven't found evidence strong enough to support the fear, but people tend to think that it's better to be safe than sorry. That seemed to be the idea behind a push by San Francisco lawmakers to get retailers to warn customers of the risks...]]>NewsWed, 08 May 2013 16:39:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/San-Francisco-abandons-bid-for-cell-phone-warning-stickers_id42791/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/University-of-California-wants-to-give-1-million-people-a-physical-by-smartphone_id42661With it becoming more and more possible to get solid readings on the health profile of an individual by using a smartphone and sending data in real time to a health professional who could be thousands of miles away, the University of California in San Francisco is looking to sign up 1 million people to a study to determine if using mobile technology can help prevent cardiovascular disease...]]>NewsSun, 05 May 2013 17:26:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/University-of-California-wants-to-give-1-million-people-a-physical-by-smartphone_id42661/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Images-from-space-taken-by-NASAs-Android-smartphone-powered-satellites_id42636NASA’s PhoneSat project officially ended about a week ago, with the three Android smartphone powered...]]>NewsSat, 04 May 2013 12:20:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Images-from-space-taken-by-NASAs-Android-smartphone-powered-satellites_id42636/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Law-enforcement-officials-blame-carriers-and-OEMs-for-rising-number-of-cellphone-thefts_id42568Despite a new nationwide database that tracks the unique identifier on every smartphone that is stolen, the number of cellphone related thefts continues to rise and some law enforcement officials are blaming the carriers and the phone manufacturers for not trying to come up with a solution, noting that both make profits from victims who need to repurchase a stolen phone...]]>NewsThu, 02 May 2013 11:56:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Law-enforcement-officials-blame-carriers-and-OEMs-for-rising-number-of-cellphone-thefts_id42568/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/MorePhone-is-a-flexible-smartphone-that-curls-up-when-it-receives-a-call_id42505Imagination is only limited by what can physically be accomplished at any one time, and a group of...]]>NewsTue, 30 Apr 2013 17:12:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/MorePhone-is-a-flexible-smartphone-that-curls-up-when-it-receives-a-call_id42505/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Study-says-that-chat-apps-are-more-popular-than-SMS_id42464This day seemed inevitable. SMS has always been something of a troubled technology. It rose in popularity and became ubiquitous, but it was often saddled with exorbitant costs from carriers (especially for international SMS) and other limiting factors (for example, SMS is not unified in Japan, so users on different carriers either pay extremely high costs, or just communicate with e-mail.) Now that mobile carriers are more and more becoming simple data providers, chat services have overtaken SMS according to a new study...]]>NewsMon, 29 Apr 2013 18:42:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Study-says-that-chat-apps-are-more-popular-than-SMS_id42464/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Global-phone-shipments-dip-1-in-first-quarter-2013-Samsung-on-top-with-29-of-the-market_id42373The latest numbers from Strategy Analytics are in and it shows that global mobile phone shipments dipped 1% in the latest quarter to 373 million units with Korean based Samsung on top with a 29% share of the market; tighter controls on carrier upgrades of 3G phones and slower shipments of 2G featurephones are being blamed for the decline...]]>NewsThu, 25 Apr 2013 23:58:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Global-phone-shipments-dip-1-in-first-quarter-2013-Samsung-on-top-with-29-of-the-market_id42373/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Meeting-Tim-Cook-for-a-cup-of-coffee-will-cost-you-north-of-180-000_id42341Tim Cook is one of those people who many have heard about, yet few are ever going to have the chance of meeting in person. Yet if you're filthy rich and don't mind setting aside a six-digit figure, then you can totally hang out with the man for an hour or so. Here's how it works: there's a page over at Charity Buzz where you can place a bid on a 30- to 60-minute meeting with Tim Cook at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California. The winning bidder will have the unique opportunity to...]]>NewsThu, 25 Apr 2013 07:20:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Meeting-Tim-Cook-for-a-cup-of-coffee-will-cost-you-north-of-180-000_id42341/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/MetroPCS-reports-first-quarter-results-operating-income-rises-10-over-last-year_id42321The nation's fifth largest carrier, MetroPCS, released its first quarter earnings on Wednesday just hours after reporting that its stockholders had voted to approve a merger with T-Mobile; the company reported that its operating earnings rose 10% over last year's figure and MetroPCS reported the lowest quarterly churn in company history...]]>NewsWed, 24 Apr 2013 21:58:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/MetroPCS-reports-first-quarter-results-operating-income-rises-10-over-last-year_id42321/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Big-data-from-smartphones-and-smartwatches-named-some-of-2013s-top-10-breakthrough-tech_id42256With a smartphone in every pocket and Pebble finally arriving to its first backers, big data from smartphones and smartwatches made it into the top 10 breakthrough technology...]]>NewsTue, 23 Apr 2013 08:42:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Big-data-from-smartphones-and-smartwatches-named-some-of-2013s-top-10-breakthrough-tech_id42256/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/This-basic-phone-costs-only-12-made-in-China_id42251Quick, what's the most affordable phone you can think of? Loyal readers might remember the Nokia 105, which is already on sale in several countries for a price of about $15. This dirt-cheap cell phone, however, goes even lower – down to $12 apiece, to be more specific, with a charger, protective sleeve, and a data cable included in the set...]]>NewsTue, 23 Apr 2013 07:51:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/This-basic-phone-costs-only-12-made-in-China_id42251/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Texting-with-your-voice-while-driving-as-dangerous-as-the-old-fashioned-way-study-shows_id42235They placed 43 participants driving on a controlled track, and measured their reaction times during traditional and voice-controlled testing, benchmarked to just driving without any distractions. It turns out that "in each case, drivers took about twice as long to react as they did when they weren't texting," said Christine Yager, who headed the study...]]>NewsTue, 23 Apr 2013 04:41:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Texting-with-your-voice-while-driving-as-dangerous-as-the-old-fashioned-way-study-shows_id42235/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Study-links-cellphone-usage-and-ADHD-in-Children_id42211It might not be a great idea to let your kids play around with a cell phone at a young age, according to a study conducted by the Department of Medicine at Dankook University College of Medicine in Korea which is testing to see if Radio Frequency Electro-Magnetic fields can affect young, developing brains after repeated exposure...]]>NewsMon, 22 Apr 2013 10:15:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Study-links-cellphone-usage-and-ADHD-in-Children_id42211/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Video-Imagine-an-elastic-touch-screen-that-really-lets-you-dig-in_id42186This certainly delves into the world of science fiction, except it will not be fiction much longer, not when...]]>NewsSun, 21 Apr 2013 18:03:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Video-Imagine-an-elastic-touch-screen-that-really-lets-you-dig-in_id42186/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Ubuntu-Touch-daily-builds-now-based-on-13.04_id42182Ubuntu 13.04, codenamed Raring Ringtail, is in beta right now, and scheduled for full release next week on desktops. Ubuntu Touch seems like it has been slightly behind though, and it is just now getting 13.04 as the base for the daily builds of the mobile optimized version of Ubuntu...]]>NewsSun, 21 Apr 2013 14:11:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Ubuntu-Touch-daily-builds-now-based-on-13.04_id42182/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Wikileaks-posts-the-full-transcript-of-Googles-Eric-Schmidt-secret-meeting-with-Julian-Assange_id42113Eric Schmidt has a book coming out, called "The New Digital World," for which he apparently sat down and talked with none other, but the world's whistleblower, Julian Assange from Wikileaks, during his house arrest in the UK. The whole transcript is a fascinating read, so hit the source link, if you are interested. The book is coming out April 23, and we are eager to read Eric's musings on the future of mobile...]]>NewsFri, 19 Apr 2013 05:33:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Wikileaks-posts-the-full-transcript-of-Googles-Eric-Schmidt-secret-meeting-with-Julian-Assange_id42113/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Microsofts-Q3-earnings-down-from-last-year-CFO-stepping-down_id42084Just to erase any confusion over this, Microsoft deals with its earnings call a bit differently than other companies. So, Microsoft's earnings call that happened today was for the company's fiscal Q3, which matches the calendar Q1, meaning that we're talking about the same timeframe of January to March as with Google's earnings call earlier...]]>NewsThu, 18 Apr 2013 18:10:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Microsofts-Q3-earnings-down-from-last-year-CFO-stepping-down_id42084/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Googles-Q1-2013-earnings-beat-profit-estimates-but-Motorola-still-losing-money_id42082Google held its quarterly earnings call earlier today, and the news was something of a mixed bag for Q1 of 2013. Google's Q1 earnings surpassed the estimates for profit, but didn't quite live up to the revenue estimates, and Motorola is still losing money, which isn't much of a surprise since the division hasn't put out a quality handset since the DROID RAZR MAXX HD in October of 2012...]]>NewsThu, 18 Apr 2013 17:36:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Googles-Q1-2013-earnings-beat-profit-estimates-but-Motorola-still-losing-money_id42082/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Power-felt-will-allow-your-clothes-to-get-electricity-from-you-and-the-environment-to-power-your-devices_id42030Technology has evolved so much in recent years - smartphones have brought a huge computing power to our pockets but one thing that has remained relatively...]]>NewsWed, 17 Apr 2013 09:06:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Power-felt-will-allow-your-clothes-to-get-electricity-from-you-and-the-environment-to-power-your-devices_id42030/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Yahoo-reports-it-passed-300-million-active-mobile-users-in-Q1_id41983When Marissa Mayer took over as CEO of Yahoo, she promised that the company would refocus on mobile, and it has. Flickr for mobile has finally become a top photo sharing app after some solid updates, and now Mayer is reporting that in Q1 of this year, Yahoo passed 300 million active mobile users...]]>NewsTue, 16 Apr 2013 23:00:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Yahoo-reports-it-passed-300-million-active-mobile-users-in-Q1_id41983/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Judge-fines-himself-for-contempt-after-his-smartphone-disrupts-court_id41913Here is something that doesn't seem too unusual on its face, a judge ordering contempt of court charges on a smartphone owner whose phone goes off in the courtroom during a trial; we know how judges can be and they want to remain in control of their courtroom, but the thing here is that it was the judge's own phone that disrupted the court and so he fined himself for contempt...]]>NewsMon, 15 Apr 2013 11:08:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Judge-fines-himself-for-contempt-after-his-smartphone-disrupts-court_id41913/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/4-of-the-5-highest-paid-executives-in-the-US-work-at-Apple_id419082012 was an amazing year for technology, and understandably, it was also an amazing year for the executives of the leading tech companies, who took many benjamins home. Interestingly, it turns out that 4 of the 5 highest-paid executives for 2012 in the US work at Apple...]]>NewsMon, 15 Apr 2013 08:51:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/4-of-the-5-highest-paid-executives-in-the-US-work-at-Apple_id41908/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/New-SMS-scam-snares-10-unwitting-victims_id41883If someone sent you an SMS message threatening to harass you unless you repaid money from illegal loan sharks, what would you do? Suppose you never did borrow money from a loan shaek, would you feel threatened enough to pay up? Ten people received such a text message and paid the money even though the majority never dealt with any loanshark...]]>NewsMon, 15 Apr 2013 02:29:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/New-SMS-scam-snares-10-unwitting-victims_id41883/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Worlds-most-expensive-phone-heading-to-China-at-15-million-bound-to-raise-eyebrows-in-the-Party_id41835Custom-ordered by an unnamed Chinese businessman, the iPhone 5 is dipped in 26 karat gold, a real black diamond has replaced the home key, and 600 "regular" diamonds have been engraved in the chassis. The screen protection has been replaced with sapphire glass, which is much tougher than Gorilla Glass, and it took the designer nine weeks to hand-make the unique handset...]]>NewsFri, 12 Apr 2013 09:15:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Worlds-most-expensive-phone-heading-to-China-at-15-million-bound-to-raise-eyebrows-in-the-Party_id41835/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/NYPD-to-fight-crime-with-a-new-real-time-Android-tool_id41832The New York Police Department may be one of the largest police forces for a city, but in the jungles of New York City where millions of people live it was sometimes...]]>NewsFri, 12 Apr 2013 07:31:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/NYPD-to-fight-crime-with-a-new-real-time-Android-tool_id41832/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Google-wants-to-build-the-Star-Trek-computer-and-this-is-not-just-a-metaphor_id41823It’s no wonder Google is a place where there is a huge concentration of geeks. And not just any kind of geeks - Star Trek geeks...]]>NewsFri, 12 Apr 2013 04:37:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Google-wants-to-build-the-Star-Trek-computer-and-this-is-not-just-a-metaphor_id41823/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Next-airplane-hijackers-might-just-be-carrying-Android-phones_id41780We knew that the Android platform is versatile, but this here security research takes the cake. At the Hack In The Box Conference in Amsterdam, an IT security expert and licensed commercial pilot, demonstrated how "complete control” over an airplane can be achieved with just your Android device...]]>NewsThu, 11 Apr 2013 08:49:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Next-airplane-hijackers-might-just-be-carrying-Android-phones_id41780/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/iPad-survives-after-being-accidentally-embedded-in-car-bumper_id41738Here comes a story, the kind of which we don't hear every day. According to a recent news report, an iPad got stuck deep in a car bumper – so deep that a hammer was required in order to get it out. Surprisingly, the tablet lived to tell the story and even got reunited with its owner after all the trouble it went to...]]>NewsWed, 10 Apr 2013 09:35:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/iPad-survives-after-being-accidentally-embedded-in-car-bumper_id41738/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Fox-TV-threatens-to-go-off-the-air-if-Aereos-mobile-TV-streaming-service-is-a-keeper_id41675Aereo avoids paying the hefty licence fees that cable companies do, and streams popular channels to your iPad or iPhone for as low as 17 cents a day if you pay the annual $80 subscription fee, but there are many more plans to choose from. Moreover, you can record the live TV on your mobile device, and watch shows like Fox TV's American Idol, The Following and so on, at your convenience...]]>NewsTue, 09 Apr 2013 04:16:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Fox-TV-threatens-to-go-off-the-air-if-Aereos-mobile-TV-streaming-service-is-a-keeper_id41675/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Number-of-teens-driving-while-talking-on-their-phone-has-doubled-since-2010_id41660With the NHTSA reporting that at any moment in time, 660,000 people are driving while talking on their cellphone, you can see what a problem this has been for regulators despite high profile campaigns by carriers like AT&T; despite new laws in many states, since 2010 the number of young people observed to be driving while using a device has doubled to 2 in 5...]]>NewsTue, 09 Apr 2013 01:58:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Number-of-teens-driving-while-talking-on-their-phone-has-doubled-since-2010_id41660/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/California-judge-says-drivers-cannot-check-maps-on-their-handset-while-driving-all-excuses-are-now-shot-down_id41602Judge W. Kent Hamlin has ruled that in California giving the cop who just pulled you over the ol, "I was just checking the map on my phone" excuse is not a valid excuse and the defendant in the case, who was given a ticket for talking on his phone while driving, has appealed the ticket although the judge has ruled that it doesn't matter what you were doing on the phone while driving, the result is a distraction to the driver...]]>NewsSun, 07 Apr 2013 00:11:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/California-judge-says-drivers-cannot-check-maps-on-their-handset-while-driving-all-excuses-are-now-shot-down_id41602/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/BlackBerry-10-kindly-informs-all-of-your-friends-that-you-are-watching-porn_id41575Your phone might be called a smartphone for the myriad of things it can do, but telling all your friends and possibly relatives whenever you watch porn definitely does not qualify for smart...]]>NewsFri, 05 Apr 2013 08:10:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/BlackBerry-10-kindly-informs-all-of-your-friends-that-you-are-watching-porn_id41575/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/FTC-takes-on-Rachel-from-card-services-robocalls-with-25-000-blocking-tech-awards_id41510The FTC gets about 200, 000 complaints of unauthorized robocalls a month, and that's from those who bother. Despite the successful introduction of a do-not-call list, a lot of fluff still slips through the cracks, like the infamous "Rachel from card services" robocall we all know and hate...]]>NewsWed, 03 Apr 2013 08:42:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/FTC-takes-on-Rachel-from-card-services-robocalls-with-25-000-blocking-tech-awards_id41510/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/Mid-size-phone-screens-still-king-study-shows-the-phablet-fad-just-2-of-total_id41447The mid-size commands a vast majority of devices owned, with the so-called phablets representing only two percent globally. With the influx of 5" and up flagships this year, carrying Full HD displays, that ratio is bound to change, however...]]>NewsTue, 02 Apr 2013 02:32:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/Mid-size-phone-screens-still-king-study-shows-the-phablet-fad-just-2-of-total_id41447/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/95-of-mobile-phone-users-leave-location-data-more-unique-than-fingerprints_id41383It's common knowledge that everyone has a unique fingerprint physically, but would you be surprised to learn that a vast majority of mobile phone users leave a location data trail that is unique enough for law enforcement to use it; tracking the pinging of phones by cell towers, a study was done using 18 months of phone calls and SMS messages in an unnamed western country...]]>NewsSun, 31 Mar 2013 12:10:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/95-of-mobile-phone-users-leave-location-data-more-unique-than-fingerprints_id41383/commentsPhone Arenahttp://www.phonearena.com/news/China-might-have-just-declared-cold-war-on-Apple-here-is-why_id41234“China is currently our second largest market. I believe it will become our first.” This is what Apple chief executive Tim Cook said in January, but he probably wouldn’t have said…]]>NewsTue, 26 Mar 2013 07:02:00 -0500http://www.phonearena.com/news/China-might-have-just-declared-cold-war-on-Apple-here-is-why_id41234/commentsPhone Arena