App of the Week: Navigation as Heavy on Show as Go
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Magellan's RoadMate navigation can find your destination with minimal typing and shows landmark buildings on its maps.
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Adding a Fee to the Shazam App Invites a Look at Competing Tools
Many who paid for the once-free Shazam music search app may not have known about two competitors that are better in many ways.
A Constitutional Case in a Box of Cash
A traveler used his iPhone to help his case against what he considered overzealous airport screeners.
Is There a Method in Cellphone Madness?
Despite all those wild pricing plans, American cellphone users spend about 5 cents a minute on talk time and a penny a text message lower than anywhere else in the developed world.
Sending a Message, Again and Again
The number of text messages transmitted in the United States grew by more than 80 percent over the 12 months ended in June.
Far From a Lab? Turn a Cellphone Into a Microscope
“We convert cellphones into devices that diagnose diseases,” says Aydogan Ozcan, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at U.C.L.A.
A Place to Put Your Apps
Motorola offers the Droid, a mobile device that defies categories. It’s not exactly a smartphone, not exactly an iPhone. It’s...
What Your Phone Might Do for You Two Years From Now
The mobile devices of late 2011 might physically resemble the current smartphones, but they will be much more computer than phone.
Hurting Rivals, Google Unveils Free Phone GPS
Google’s service could chip away at sales of stand-alone GPS devices and the subscription services offered by cellphone carriers.
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