According to PEW Research Center, in 2025, nearly every American adult carries a cellphone. According to the latest survey by Pew Research, 98% of U.S. adults now report owning a cellphone of some kind, and 91% own a smartphone. Mobile devices are nearly ubiquitous. This reflects a dramatic transformation from the early 2000s. During that … Read more
Before you start searching all your old tech boxes and drawers the odds of you having an original, unopened, and sealed new 2007 iPhone are probably nil. But some lucky original owner of the first iPhone just grabbed over 39K at auction! Bidding started at $2500 and clearly, things got out of hand. I remember … Read more
This is a PSA for all you coffee lovers out there. I look forward to my cups of Nespresso every weekend (the capsules cost too much to drink every day), though I’ve often found the last sip or two are bitter – unlike the rest of the cup. Real coffee drinkers take it “straight up” … Read more
For a very long time FLV was the format of choice for streaming online videos, and although it is gradually being supplanted by HTML5 formats – it is still widely used across the internet. Unfortunately while streaming FLV videos is generally not a problem, some devices and platforms may have issues playing FLV video files … Read more
Metadata is a thing people. If you don’t want people to know where you are, you need to cut off your location settings on your phone. This is one time I’m glad that someone forgot. These assholes were out in a federal park hunting big game while using highly illegal methods. From all the photo … Read more
So, two crazy things happened today. One was from Australia, where the Brisbane Supreme Court ruled that an unsent text can be a substitute for a will. The second was from Yahoo news when they used a Windows Phone in their news article on 10/11/2017! I just joined the financial world not long ago and … Read more
Trending these days in the fast lane of high end hardware is the forced retirement of something most of us did not agree to. Our 3.5mm headphone jacks were stolen without our permission and for no functional reason other than you might have to scratch your ass while digging out your wallet to buy all … Read more
“I like going to Walmart” said no one ever. Funny as that may seem perhaps Walmart realizes that 30 checkout lanes with 2 of them open genuinely pisses people off and they wold rather be anywhere else but there. So Walmart, thinking out side the box, or in this case, right inside your home has … Read more
And then there’s this. https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/18/pi-can-wirelessly-charge-your-phone-from-a-short-distance/ Simmons: Well a foot is a step in the right direction (though electromagnetic waves weaken exponentially over distance), but my crystal ball says the world craves being able to charge anywhere in their home or office without either plugging in or laying down one’s phone within centimeters or even inches from … Read more
Happy New Year from everyone here at Mobility Digest! Even though articles have been published a lot less these days we are still here talking about mobility and technology. Hopefully we can drive more interesting content to the website for discussion. If you would like to share your thoughts on mobility or anything interesting in … Read more