The Apple will turn the owner of the smartphone into "the walking ATM"

Apple has developed one of the most courageous of algorithms to convert all smartphone users in the "walking ATM machine". This algorithm is already in the pending patent, allows anyone to get cash from other, more affluent users nearby.

So, imagine a situation - you want to eat, and the nearest cafe, where you threw a table his mortal body, does not accept the card. ATM nearby can not see - what to do? Apple engineers offer out under difficult name «ad-hoc cash-dispensing network» (self-organizing network of cash). All you need is to run a custom application, and enter the desired amount of cash. On the next point, the application distributes the request to other users in the vicinity (using location information of the first user).

When someone close to you from the user agrees to give you cash out of your wallet, you tell him your exact location to meet and get your bill. It is also proposed to use the card, where your future lenders will be displayed as asterisks (if the request for extradition made of money), or in the form of question marks (if you have not received a request), or a cross (if refused to comply with your request.)

Antivirus on your smartphone

Antivirus software on your smartphone. Needed or not?

80% of smartphone users, in principle, are not aware of cyber threats, says Govind Rammurti, an expert in information security and CEO of eScan MicroWorld.

Increasingly, people prefer smartphones and tablets - mobile gadgets seriously pushed the desktop PC.

This is not surprising. Because modern devices provide the user with direct access to the Internet and control over e-mail, files, pictures, programs, and more. Gaining more and more popularity and they among office workers who prefer to connect remotely to your office laptop or desktop PC.

Qualcomm has developed a smart phone for the visually impaired

Qualcomm and Project RAY announced a smartphone for the blind and visually impaired users.

You can manage your smartphone, without looking at the screen. To run the application using special gestures. For example, placing a finger on any part of the touch screen and the line up, the user will open the phone application, and to the right - a program for playing audio books.

Interacting with the device, called Ray, you receive voice prompts (note that this feature is also in non smartphones). The device is based on a modified operating system Android. Another feature is the contrasting Ray interface - white icons on a black background.

It is known that the device will be a phone application and an application to use SMS, e-mail program, audible book player, voice recorder, support for positioning and remote management. The smartphone will automatically back up data.

Regular phones soon there will not be

Universal desire to terminal manufacturers make devices with advanced communications capabilities is confirmed by statistics - the share of smartphones with touch screen mobile handset market will exceed 50% in the following year, 2013.

According to experts IHS iSuppli, the results absolutely fantastic - it was previously assumed that such progress will only be possible by 2016. But the demand of the users with massive subsidies touch handsets from major mobile operators overturns their forecasts.

Philips has combined smartphones with your home phone

At Berlin's IFA, Philips introduced a home wireless phones S9 and S10 standard DECT. Their feature is support Mobilelink, through which phones are able to work with the city line and cellular networks. To use the mobile network operators, smartphone-connected Bluetooth-technology to the home phone, whereupon the latter is able to make calls to mobile phones and choose a line for outgoing calls: landline or mobile.

Samsung smartphone Galaxy S Duos

Samsung is preparing the announcement of the smartphone Galaxy S Duos

Design patterns are almost entirely copied from the Galaxy S III, but the specification of the new items more modest.

South Korea's leading maker of mobile technologies, Samsung announced a new smartphone with support simultaneous operation of two SIM-cards. The technology, dubbed the Samsung Galaxy S Duos, looks like a model of Galaxy S III, but has not so powerful technical characteristics. It is explained by the fact that the novelty ozitsioniruetsya as primarily intended for communication, not for entertainment.

Sony Mobile smartphone for under $ 200

Sony Mobile is going to develop the smartphone segment less than $ 200

As the resource Digitimes, citing its sources, Sony Mobile Communications has decided to hire the services of Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn International Holdings (FIH), Arima Communications and Compal Communications in order to enter into the smartphone market for less than $ 200.

The first smartphone with three-dimensional shell

The first smartphone based on Intel with three-dimensional shell

A few days ago in sale smartphone Megafon Mint - the first device on the Russian market, operating on the basis of processor Intel. As the shell in the three-dimensional interface device uses a megaphone Shell, built on technology "Yandex", Shell 3D.