Top 5 Phones for 2014

The year 2014 was another year that wowed us with its plethora od sleek gadgets and awesome devices. So at the end of it all, its just normal that we give you the pick of the bunch, five smart phones that held their own amongst the hundreds of devices that were produced this year. Say hello to the juggernauts:

(5. BLACKBERRY PASSPORT

The Passport is a weird looking smartphone, yes, and that's one of the reasons its on this list. With a keyboard that has never been seen before under a perfectly 4.5 inch square screen, the Blackberry passport is a must have for the stylish ones amongst us. With a beast of a battery, a sweet IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen that can show 16M colors and displays a whooping 453 pixel per inch. It totes a decent 13 MP front camera that supports optical image stabilization, Geo-tagging and face detection. And a 2MP front camera,

The ability to install and run and Android application via SNAP is bolstered by the heavy engines under the passports hood. With a Qualcomm MSM8974AA Snapdragon 801 processor, Quad-core 2.26 GHz Krait 400 CPU and an Adreno 330 Graphics Processing Unit coupled with an internal storage of 32 GB and a whole 3 GB of RAM.

On beat solar headphones charges your headphones and phones

New solar technology lets your headphones charge your smartphone,something we really need in Africa as there is plenty Sun and no power supply. On with the beat we go with this Kickstarter project – the OnBeat Solar Headphones. As the name implies, there is a solar panel on the band of the headphones, allowing it to capture sunlight and transform it into energy, which is then stored in two light-weight Lithium Ion batteries. Pretty much any USB device can be charged with the reserved energy source, yet it is not certain how much juice you'll get from the OnBeat. Let's get technical. The solar cell's surface is 55 cm3, which is expected to be gathering those sun rays during your daily jog, a walk through the park or just cruising to work. According to the developers, musical quality will be first-class: “a superb sound from low range for bass, mid-range for precision DJ'ing and high range for vocal and acoustic excellence”. Here's a listing of some of the parameters:

About the headphones audio? Audio driver unit size: 40mm Impedance: 32 +/- 10% Ohm Frequency response: 20hz to 20,000Khz Sensitivity: 100 +/- 3 dB The solar specification? High powered flexible solar panel (poly-crystalline silicone) 55cm3 active solar area Two Li-Ion batteries (1000mAh) Provide a full battery recharge for mobile phone 5.5v charge capacity

Power felt charges your phone with your clothes

Power felt charges your phone just by being on your body

Technology has evolved so much in recent years - smartphones have brought a huge computing power to our pockets but one thing that has remained relatively unchanged throughout those years are batteries. Our handsets now can hardly last a full day and we’re looking for the charger way too often.
But this might change drastically in the near future with the advent of a new technology, thermoelectric fabric. Developed by David Carroll, a nanotechnologist, and his research group at Wake Forest University, this is a type of flexible fabric that produces electricity from heat or movement. Carroll calls is “power felt.”

How power felt works

What makes this technology different is the fact that unlike most materials used in thermodynamics, the power felt is extremely flexible, it’s practically indistinguishable from regular fabric.
And it turn heat from everywhere into electricity that you can use to power up your devices. And by everywhere we mean literally everywhere - from your body, the sun, a camp fire.
Unlike other technologies, it simultaneously draws power from both vibrations and movement so your t-shirt flapping in the wind would also generate electricity.
But what about price? That’s the greatest part of it all. The “power felt” fabric is extremely affordable, practically free so it’d cost somewhere around a dollar to make a smartphone case of it. It’s planned to be worn and gives one milliwatt per square centimeter.
And while might not be a whole lot, it’s definitely a great supplement to conventional batteries, don’t you think?
source: Business Insider

More Women own smartphones than men do

The smartphone market is quickly moving towards maturity and this latest infographic summarizing stats from the United Kingdom is a good illustration. Smartphones are penetrating people of all demographics and age, with more women owning a smartphone in the UK and more people in their mid forties to seventies owning a smart handset.

In only a couple of years smartphone penetration surged from 38% in 2010 to 60% in 2013. Interestingly, while in 2010 the survey showed that 63% of smartphone owners were men, now that has changed and there are more women owning a smartphone, 58%, according to eDigitalResearch and IMRG.

There is a lot of other interesting facts showing how smartphones become truly universal and widespread among all kinds of people in theworld