Showing posts with label Smartphones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Smartphones. Show all posts

Friday, February 10, 2012

Painful Neck? Smartphone Owner? YOU May Be Suffering from Text Neck! [Smartphones]

By Jack Loftus Oct 9, 2011 12:00 PM 12,127 27

Painful Neck? Smartphone Owner? YOU May Be Suffering from Text Neck!Infomercials, Start Your Copywriting! "Text Neck" is apparently a thing now, and anyone with a smartphone and a sore neck will be ripe for the picking this holiday season!

Seriously, start working on all manner of $19.95 plus shipping neck braces, salves, ointments and Text Neck exercise gear—the sheer number of smartphone users in the U.S. today literally guarantees there will be at least a few hundred thousand slow, dim-witted ones who will gladly pony up the cash to address their ailment.

But what is "text neck?" How can you avoid giving yourself this debilitating condition? Easy. Don't hunch over so much when you're walking along the sidewalk avoiding eye contact or while you're sitting at your office desk all the live long day. Don't hunch, don't get hurt. This is important, because doctors say the condition can lead to your body adopting a permanent hunch, where the muscles actually hurt when you straighten them out in a "normal" position.

As with many "trend pieces" this story doesn't really wade into many numbers or anything. Just a few interviews with willing doctors who have seen "a few cases" and such. In the end it boils down to common sense: Adopt good posture and your body will repay you by breaking down more slowly as you age, instead of all at once as you toil away on your iPhone on the subway. [Daily Mail]

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Thursday, August 25, 2011

The Brightest and Loudest Smartphones in the World Run Symbian… For Some Reason [Nokia]

The Brightest and Loudest Smartphones in the World Run Symbianâ?¦ For Some ReasonWhat do the brightest and loudest smartphones in the world have in common? They're both made by Nokia. And they both run Symbian. Say what?

The 701 has what Nokia claims is the brightest phone screen the world has ever seen (and a 1GHz processor and 8MP camera). The 600 is their loudest smartphone to date. And the tiny 700 Nokia claims is the smallest monoblock phone on the market. All exceptional in some way. All running Symbian.

Why? As dead as Symbian is in the US, people still care for and use it outside of the states. It's why thousands of workers walked out of their offices when Nokia took Microsoft's hand in BFF-dom. And this is the second Symbian update this year. But even Nokia CEO Stephen Elop says that it's "crufty."

But now there's this Symbian Belle release. And it seems they've gone ahead and tried to fix their past mistakes. All stuff that, if Nokia was going to do this sort of thing at all, it should have been two years ago. These phones put themselves in the same category as the recently released N9.

It's time to let go, Nokia. [Nokia via This Is My Next]

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