The Future of Mobile Telephony

The Future of Mobile Telephony

by | Nov 25, 2015 | General, Mobile |

Overviewing the current situation on the smartphone marketplace it becomes pretty difficult to ascertain what the future holds for this very lucrative and coveted industry. There are incredibly bright, small, big, sharp, fast, exquisite display screens, resolution is already beyond what human eye can perceive, there are already some smartphones with proper sound integrated, there is barely a niche where smartphone manufactures have not ventured into, including fitness and health. The latest move is made by providers who offer streaming services from Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and similar that do not count towards the payment plan, i.e. they are not being charged extra, counting against or reducing customers’ data transfer limits. LTE 4G is getting established everywhere by now, coverage is expanding and already there is talk about the next generation, 5G, which will slowly be planned out and implemented, whereby the whole project should start becoming available by 2020. But what have the smartphone manufacturers envisioned as the future of smartphones, besides shinier displays, faster processors, more RAM and storage, batteries that last longer and similar improvements? Is there anything in terms of technology that can be presented to customers, which will make a difference, something new, exciting, innovative? Now in immediate future the trend seems to be not to pursue the technology advancements that much, but to hark to what the customers have to say. First of such attempts is the latest HTC device, the HTC One A9, which is a phone that is in no way as high end as, for instance, the HTC One M9. This time around, HTC tried to listen to requests made...
The HTC #BeBrilliant event – TidalX 10/20

The HTC #BeBrilliant event – TidalX 10/20

by | Nov 7, 2015 | General, Mobile |

The humanitarian concert that introduced the new HTC One flagship, the HTC One A9, revealed plenty of new stuff coming up, but also featured many starts in a live concert amplified by HTC. The presenter war quick to point out that it was actually HTC, who introduced certain features and stuff into the mobile telephony world, such as all metal phones, big screens, Android smartphones, 4G telephony, live photos and so on, now mostly attributed to Apple and Samsung, but it was actually HTC pioneering all of these, way before other manufacturers with better PR machineries took over and absconded with HTC technology.   HTC finally introduced the awesome Virtual Reality kit HTC Valve, which has been developed in collaboration with Valve and it seems that HTC Valve will very much be able to compete, even in some instances best the also highly anticipated Oculus Rift. Nevertheless, although the HTC Valve will be a bestseller and really put HTC back on into the spotlight, HTC did not waste time on it at all, but brought the focus back on smartphones and the HTC future of smartphones as they envision it. The HTC One A9 is being touted by HTC as the ultimate consumer friendly smartphone, which does not come overloaded with bloatware or functions that are sounding good on paper, but useless. HTC stresses out that the A9 is the most customizable smartphone out there, with the best sound you can get in a smartphone, with the best camera capable of making and delivering crisp photos even in RAW mode, 4k video and all of that displaying on a...
Text Messaging Shorthand

Text Messaging Shorthand

by | Nov 3, 2015 | General |

In the beginning there was a phone – a cell phone, now commonly known as the smartphone, the great deceiver. And it permitted only one hundred and sixty characters per one message. While people were awed with the performance of such an apparatus, many youngsters were not happy with the crude limitation to their freedom of expression. They worked hard to overcome the imposed limitations and break free from the imposed shackles. The solution was partially derived from the internet lingo and further perfections of the new language were close at hand. Many linguists have looked at the new creations and have given them names, like “textese”, “chatspeak” and “txt talk”, even the use of internet sourced material was prominently hummed at. If you were truly one of the anointed ones, you were probably using the definition “l33tsp34k”. The secrets of text messaging shorthand are still not discussed widely. It seems that some sort of a taboo is veiled over this phenomenon, nicknamed “devil’s talk” by older ladies, who were miffed about their acronym being used, LOL – little old ladies, as the short for laughing out loud. These small apparatuses that people are referring to as telephones, smartphones or in some really bold statement communication gadgets; are actually peculiar devices that never really ring when called, but expressed all kinds of noises, so such contraptions must be the work of the unholy one himself. None of the little old ladies approached such a gizmo without being properly protected by garlic and a crucifix. Some scientists were hired by international intelligence agencies to decipher the obviously coded messages, sometimes...