Category Archives: cell/smartphones

7 New Smartphone Features That Will Help Define Your Future

Posted on 17 March 2014 by Stewart Wolpin

My first (and hopefully not last) piece for CNN International on what smartphone technologies could become our new mobile normal. Read it here.

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10 Best Photo and Video Apps

Posted on 15 January 2014 by Stewart Wolpin

Here’s a round-up of the best (IMHO) photo/video smartphone/tablet apps I wrote for Digital Photo Industry, a trade magazine: 10 Best Photo and Video Apps

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DVICE: The (unnecessary?) smartphone wireless charging war

Posted on 15 January 2014 by Stewart Wolpin

Why are there so many different, incompatible yet infuriatingly similar smartphone wireless charging schemes? Patent royalty money, of course. Read all about this greedy stupidity in this DVICE column: DVICE: The (unnecessary?) smartphone wireless charging war

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DVICE: Smartphone scoliosis

Posted on 15 January 2014 by Stewart Wolpin

LG and Samsung both announced curved smartphones. Why? Who knows. But here’s my take on these bent devices from DVICE: Opinion: Smartphone scoliosis

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Your Smartphone in 2018: 15 Futuristic Features

Posted on 15 January 2014 by Stewart Wolpin

Here’s a piece I wrote for Laptop Magazine; the title is self-explanatory. Your Smartphone in 2018: 15 Futuristic Feature

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Your Smartphone in 2018: 15 Futuristic Features

Posted on 11 June 2013 by Stewart Wolpin

In many ways, the evolution of the smartphone since the debut of the original iPhone in 2007 has been a predictable straight line —bigger screen, more powerful processors, longer battery life, faster data connections, higher-resolution cameras and more apps. But … Continue reading →

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My CES panel on Passpoint (aka Hotspot 2.0, aka Next Generation Hotspot, aka NGH)

Posted on 19 January 2013 by Stewart Wolpin

In the next few years, how you connect to Wi-Fi is going to change radically – it’ll be seamless just like connecting to a cell signal – thanks to a new Wi-Fi standard called Passpoint (sometimes known as Hotspot 2.0 … Continue reading →

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Our 4G Future

Posted on 6 July 2010 by Stewart Wolpin

Last weekend I took the Sprint HTC EVO 4G down to Philadelphia, the closest 4G zone to New York City, to see what all the 4G fuss is and will be about – especially after Verizon launches its 4G LTE … Continue reading →

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If you build it, they will videophone

Posted on 6 July 2010 by Stewart Wolpin

Apple’s FaceTime is stoking the flames of videophoning passion, and could help video telephony finally engulf the living room (to complete the suddenly ridiculous fire metaphor). Yes, futurists have been prognosticating ubiquitous videophones since, well, since futurists have been prognosticating; … Continue reading →

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How to Solve iPhone Reception Problems

Posted on 30 June 2010 by Stewart Wolpin

The recent broohaha over iPhone 4 reception issues reminds me of an old vaudeville joke. Man goes to a doctor and says “It hurts when I do this.” Replies the doctor, “Well, don’t do that!” This is my response to … Continue reading →

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