In 1984 we happily referred to George Orwell’s book by the same name as an unrealistic science fiction horror story. Mocking the ridiculousness of the oppression became a part of popular culture, and the center of drunken debates among philosophy students. Even the comparison between Big Brother and authority figures in government became a half serious joke. Consider our lives now, where 96% of the American population has some sort of mobile communication (according to Neilson Analysts) and 49% of those people have a smartphone. With everyone connected to a communication device and loving it, can we really laugh so heartily at George Orwell’s predictions?

Mobile App

Don’t worry, this isn’t a literary discussion; but there are some heavy similarities between the aforementioned book and the wide (and wild) world of mobile apps. First of all, when a developer builds a mobile app he or she does it with the intention of getting it in the Apple or Android stores so it can be accessed by consumers. Now if everyone and their hound dog were able to get apps into the app stores without any sort of check-in process, well the sky would probably fall on mobile apps altogether. There has to be some sort of Read the rest of this entry »

If you are a fan of TouchWiz you are going to be one happy camper today. Another leaked build of Ice Cream Sandwich done by Samsung is out for the Galaxy SII, and this build is only 4 days old. Samsung is working behind the scenes to get ICS and their manufacturer’s skin to play nice together and this is the latest build of those efforts. This newest build brings the phone up to Android 4.0.3 from the earlier 4.0.1 along with a host of updates and bugfixes to the device. 

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Battery life is reported to be much better with this build but other than that, most of the build is more of the same. This is a good sign, because if Samsung has gotten most of the kinks out of the way then we can expect to see an official release pretty soon. If you are feeling like you want to flash this build, head on over to the source link for information and instructions on how to do so.

Via: SamMobile

700,000 is a big number. Samsung has announced today that sales of the Galaxy Note have reached 700K+ in South Korea since its launch in November of 2011. With that huge sales number, they have been able to capture 66% of the LTE market in their country. Once the Note makes its way here to the States on AT&T’s 4G LTE network, we will see just how popular this device will be on our continent.

Good work, Sammy!

Via: SammyHub

If you were around in the mid 70s in the United States you’d have to have been living under a rock not to know about the great citizen band radio craze made popular by the smash hit “Convoy” by C.W. McCall.  If you were into citizen band radio at all you knew that there was a certain prestige to having certain kinds of antennas, especially if you had a CB setup in your home.

CB Antennas 

For the mobile units, the ones that were installed in your motor vehicle, the antennas were rather simple and relatively weak.  They could only send and receive a short distance depending on the time of day.  In the afternoon, mobile CB antennas were lucky to reach a few miles, especially during sun spot time.  At night, if you were lucky you could reach about 10 to 20 miles, maybe Read the rest of this entry »

Photo organization service (and TechCrunch Disrupt finalist) Everpix just launched its first iPhone application. The app does two key things: it offers you a way to access your entire photo collection from your phone, plus it automatically uploads all your iPhone photos to … Continue reading →