Todd R. Weiss

Google has created a Google Cardboard Camera app for Android that allows users to view their personal photographs with new virtual-reality capabilities, adding new life to once-static images. The new app was announced in a Dec. 3 post by Carlos Hernandez, a software engineer for the cardboard camera project, on the Google Official Blog. “With […]

OnePlus, the company that previously only allowed customers to buy its smartphones if they had an invite from someone else, has now dropped the invite-only sales requirement for its earlier OnePlus 2 smartphones. That means that anyone who wants a OnePlus 2 phone (pictured) can now simply order one for purchase. In addition, through Dec. […]

Apple reportedly is planning to offer a smaller, entry-level basic iPhone 6c to replace its dated iPhone 5s in early 2016, according to rumors about the company’s next handset. The rumored iPhone 6c would have a 4-inch display and be equipped with Apple’s latest A9 processor, which is more powerful than the A8 processor in […]

Smartphone Highlights of 2015: From Improved Displays to Windows 10 Smartphones continued to evolve in 2015. Among the smartphone highlights were a shatterproof display from Motorola and an LG phone with dual displays and front cameras. Motorola Introduces Super-Tough Moto ShatterShield Display Motorola unveiled quite an innovation in late 2015 for smartphone owners—a special shatter-proof […]

Samsung is refreshing its Galaxy A7 and A5 smartphones for 2016 while also introducing a less-expensive, less feature-intensive A3 model for users who need a more basic phone. The company unveiled the new models in a Dec. 2 announcement. The new models will debut in China in the middle of December and then be distributed […]

Five weeks after launching its fledgling YouTube Red streaming video subscription service, YouTube is now seeking to sign deals to license additional content from movie studios and production companies. YouTube is seeking the additional streaming rights to offer more to subscribers as it fights its way in a marketplace filled with competitors such as Netflix, […]

We had a power outage in my neighborhood on Dec. 1, and I’m glad it happened because it again proved to me the power of mobile phones, wireless communications, and corporate planning and readiness. The outage came as a surprise as I was finishing writing my last story of the day for eWEEK just before […]

Samsung has released a beta version of an optimized Web browser for Samsung Gear VR users who want to browse the Internet using their Gear VR virtual reality headsets. The new beta application, Samsung Internet for Gear VR, was unveiled Dec. 2 by Samsung and is available through the Oculus Store. Oculus is Samsung’s partner […]

Apple could be looking at dropping the long-established 3.5mm headphone jack on its next iPhones and replacing it with a thinner Lightning connector or Bluetooth to help make the phones even thinner. The latest rumors about the deletion of the headphone jack, which surfaced in 2014 as well, come from the Japanese technology Website Macotakara, […]

T-Mobile’s Music Freedom free music-streaming service has again been expanded, adding another 11 streaming-music services where T-Mobile customers can listen to as much music as they want without consuming their available high-speed data plans. The Music Freedom vendor expansion has been occurring steadily since T-Mobile started the initiative for customers who have Simple Choice mobile […]