WiTricity Announces Breakthrough Wireless Charging System for iPhone 5 / 5s
WiTricity, the industry pioneer in wireless power over distance, has just introduced the world’s first system for wireless charging of consumer devices such as the iPhone 5 using the company’s patented highly resonant wireless power transfer technology. A quantum leap forward in convenience and ease of use for wireless charging of consumer electronics, the WiTricity system charges gadgets over distance and through a variety of materials – including wood, granite, plastic and glass. Initially designed for the iPhone 5/5s, the WiTricity charging system is available as a reference design for companies who want to apply the technology for charging other smartphones, tablets, or consumer electronic devices. The WiTricity charging system…
Samsung Opens New Mobile Support Centre In Teddington, UK
Samsung Electronics UK has today announced it is working in collaboration with The Repair Station to launch a new Mobile Support Centre in Teddington, Middlesex. From Friday 15th November, the new walk-in centre will give customers the chance to get up-to-date advice on all of Samsung’s smart mobile products and check that they are performing to the highest specification. Providing advice and service support, staff will be on hand to discuss upgrade options with customers. The Repair Station will also include an in-house workshop, where customers will be able to update their products with the latest software and resolve any suspected technical issues. A premium one hour repair service will…
Color Thief – iOS Photography App – Temporarily Free
Color Thief is a popular photography app for your iPhone or iPad, essentially it uses the colours in one image and applies them to another, it sounds simple and it works simply and well. Usually this app retails for $1.99/£1.49 but today you can pick it up for free. Click here to download.
Tangent – Our Daily App Giveaway
Welcome once again to our Daily App Giveaway section of theappwhisperer. We value our readers so much and that’s why we want to share our love of apps with you. Each day we give away free apps, you better make us your home page 😉 Today, we’ve teamed up with the developers of the recently launched brand new iPhone photo editing app – Tangent. We had a lot of fun yesterday playing with this app, see our quick example below. Tangent retails for $4.99/£2.99 but would like to try it for free? Just join our ever expanding Twitter followers and Facebook fans, RETWEET THIS POST and send a reply to…
Streets Ahead – Eighth Edition
We’re delighted to publish the Eighth Edition of Streets Ahead, the wonderful Women’s Street Photography Column that we publish each week. If you would like to join the Streets Ahead Flickr group, please go here. ‘The enthusiasm and support for this collective has been tremendous – and we can’t thank you all enough! Our membership in the Flickr group is now over 100 and keeps growing every week. For this week’s showcase, we thought it would be far more interesting to present a quality sampling of the work that was submitted, instead of selecting only 10 “favorites.” Please note, however, that we simply couldn’t help but comment on a few…
TheAppWhisperer Moves In With dpreview
Perhaps we should rephrase that to ‘theappwhisperer moves within dpreview’. The reason we are telling you this is that our regular readers will be well aware that we also write for dpreview.com about mobile apps, we really love dpreview.com and so were delighted to be part of their new site design. We’re still independent but you will be able to see our entire news content over at dpreview as well. Just click on an article that inspires you and you will be redirected back here to read it in full. We are part of the new link directory which as dpreview explains ‘is as the name implies, a directory of…
Sponsored Video – Samsung Memory
Samsung have commissioned a series of three videos as part of their latest campaign highlighting Samsung Memory. The idea behind it is that Samsung Memory has been designed to keep your general use energy needs down across all of your devices. Samsung mobile devices now come with a 70% power saving, less energy means reduced overheads, shrinking infrastructure and slashed operating costs. Samsung Memory is the smallest ever created, allowing for ultra slim mobile devices, such as of course the gorgeous Samsung Galaxy SIII. This new memory can store twice as much data giving your device faster processing speed and operating power too. This campaign is not just about memory in…
iPhone Photography Tutorial By Alexey Tsyganok
Welcome to our iPhone photography tutorial section, today we talk to Alexey Tsyganok about his incredible image ‘Walking Together’. Alexey talks us through the complete process as you can read below. We previously interviewed Alexey in our Extension of the I series, if you missed that you can read it here. Alexey is a 40 year old, mathematician by education who graduated at Moscow State University. For the past 19 years Alexey has been working in the investment banking industry. He is married and has three children. In his spare time Alexey enjoys iPhone photography, bridge and poker card games. Don’t miss this awesome tutorial below… Final Image …
Mobile App Usage Driving Largest Ever Shifts In Consumer Behaviour
Flurry have produced another great chart this time demonstrating that ‘The era of mobile computing, catalysed by Apple and Google, is driving among the largest shifts in consumer behaviour over the last forty years. Impressively, its rate of adoption is outpacing both the PC revolution of the 1980s and the Internet Boom of the 1990s. Since 2007, more than 500 million iOS and Android smartphones and tablets have been activated. By the end of 2012, Flurry estimates that cumulative number of iOS and Android devices activated will surge past 1 billion. According to IDC, over 800 million PCs were sold between 1981 and 2000, making the rate of smart device…
The UK Has Largest Population Of Mobile App Users In Europe
Flurry Analytics provides accurate, real time data to developers about how consumers use their mobile applications, as well as how applications are performing across different handsets. Application developers receive anonymous, aggregated usage and performance data, as well as robust reporting and analysis tools. With this data, developers can identify issues and opportunities, create a more informed product roadmap, increase retention and grow their user base. As well as that they also conduct regular market surveys and have created an outstanding one, as seen below. It is fascinating, we strongly recommed you read this information, whether you’re an app developer or app user it will be of great interest. To find…
