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The Best Phone Background Image Ever Requires A Shattered Screen
The Onion joked about people getting phones with shattered screens but, if my screen breaks, I will set this background and keep using it until I bleed to death through my fingers. So cool. [Imgur via Reddit]
Tech’s New Most Meaningless Spec: PPI
HTC’s new Droid DNA smartphone has plenty of qualities that make it intriguing. It has a quad-core Snapdragon chipset. It crams a 5-inch display in a body nearly the size of a One X or Galaxy S III. Its Super LCD 3 technology trumps the Super LCD 2 that made the HTC 8x display so lovely. By all accounts it’s a wonderful device. But one thing HTC takes particular pride in is the 1920×1080 display, good for a pixel density of 440 pixels per inch, the highest ever in any handheld consumer device. This should make tech nerds lose their shit, right? Not quite. Welcome to your new favourite meaningless stat: ppi.
Apple’s Official iPhone 5 Camera Fix: Take A Different Picture
We’d seen previously how Apple customer support handled complaints about a weird purple lens flare that shows up on certain iPhone 5 camera shots. But the problem’s apparently become so widespread that the company has issued a general proclamation in its support pages.
Amazon Phone To Be Announced At Kindle Event?
Amazon is holding an event to announce what we expect is going to be two new Kindles in a few hours, and now we have a new indication that everyone’s favourite forest will be announcing its new smartphone at the event, as well.
Block Your Kid’s Phone When They’re Driving
AT&T’s new safe-driving initiative is more than a little creepy: it’s developing software that parents can use to remotely turn off text messaging and voice calls on their children’s mobile phone when they’re out driving.
What’s More Important: Phone Or Provider?
As part of the Apple-Samsung legal dispute, Apple has revealed a survey which it undertook in January 2011 before the iPhone appeared on Verizon. It revealed that 48 per cent of people would choose Android over iPhone if it allowed them to stay with their carrier.
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