The YotaPhone 3 smartphone that features a 5.5-inch color screen and a 5.2-inch E ink grayscale screen is not the first dual-display phone, but it is the latest, and comes with all the features a typical smartphone user wants. There are two reasons for having a display on both sides … Read >
Category: Smartphone
Let your iPhone or Android phone or tablet read that ebook aloud to you
Listening to a book while doing something else is a fun and useful way to enjoy a good story or learn from a nonfiction book. Audible and other stores let you purchase audiobooks that have been narrated by professionals, often actors. Most book lovers already have a selection of ebooks, … Read >
This is what the Apple iPhone X camera means for travel photography
Many travelers, writers and even professional photographers trust in their smartphone cameras for capturing important images that document their journeys and remarkable moments in life. The Apple iPhone X has so many features for photographers that it allows travelers to reconsider the contents of their photography kits.
The iPhone X … Read >
The best smartphone for travel photography
Smartphones, especially high-end models, come with so good cameras that even some professional photographers admit they use camera phones for photography. It is, after all, the one camera that is always with you when traveling, commuting or visiting friends. Different phone manufacturers use different camera components, and most importantly, different … Read >
Dual-screen Hisense A2 smartphone is also an ereader
Common smartphone screen sizes are between 5 and 6 inches, and the most common ereader screen size is six inches. Reading a book on a bright and colorful smartphone display is pretty convenient these days. The downside is that the color screen drains the battery and it is still difficult … Read >
The best camera apps for smartphone travel photography
Many smartphone owners are happy with the camera application the phone manufacturer has installed on the device in the factory. In general, the factory-installed camera apps get the job done, but may lack an extra feature photographers maybe looking for. Fortunately, this is exactly where smartphones are strong: you can … Read >
Need a handsfree ereader? Wrap it on your wrist
When you read an ebook on an ereader, smartphone, or tablet, you need one hand to hold the device and often, the other hand is required to control the device. Unless you have a dedicated stand for your device, and you want to leave both hands free, you have a … Read >
If you read a lot on your smartphone, you might want to consider a dual screen phone
People who read plenty of ebooks often like to have a dedicated ereader device, like a Kindle, Kobo, Sony, or Tolino for reading. The reason for this is the greyscale E ink screen that doesn’t flicker and consumes very little energy. The downside is that you have to carry a … Read >
Instant translation of foreign signs is exactly what millions of travelers need
Often, travelers who speak one of the major languages of the world like Chinese, Spanish or English think that everyone in every travel destination should speak their language. It only feels natural that if hundreds of millions of people speak your language, it must be familiar to people across the … Read >
Flexible smartphone lets you flick pages of an ebook like pages of a printed book
Many applications that let you read ebooks on a tablet have a nice feature: when you tap the screen to turn the page, an animation mimics the way the page flips in a printed book. Now, researchers at Queen’s University’s Human Media Lab in Canada have developed a prototype smartphone … Read >