A tug-of-war goes in the head of a phone buyer who is deciding between a sensible sized phone which would fit into the palm of their hand and a big screen with an enthralling video experience.  But Samsung comes to aid such users with their latest phone idea.  Samsung is soon going to release a …

Apple vs Samsung, whenever someone reads the words, the first thing that comes in mind is the epic patent battle that has been continuing since 2012. Not only the companies have been fighting in market and courtroom but their fans, too, have been on the internet. No-phone-headphone, exploding-phone-meme or this-has-been-in-Android-for-2-years kind of meme are common …

This year Samsung achieved another feat by launching a smartphone with iris scanner. What A Future readers knew it already as we covered the possibility in the past articles. We’ve seen multiple patents from Samsung on unlocking smartphones – weird as well as cool. The cool one was Iris scanning method – the one in …

Whenever my battery was about to die while I was enjoying someone’s free WiFi, I always thought “how beautiful it would be if this WiFi hotspot could transfer the battery juice like it transfers data!”. I can bet I’m not alone. Charging your phone using your friend’s phone wirelessly is something you might have thought …

From pressing menu and star key in our old phones to passwords and then pattern locks, and then to biometric authentications, we are the generation that has seen how in matter of a decade, our smartphone became intelligent and creative in confirming that you are the one you claim to be. Now, we are about …

Whenever you use weak passwords e.g. your phone number or date of birth, you make your account vulnerable as these sort of passwords are easy to guess by doing a little social engineering. And if your email account has compromised, then without any efforts, a smart hacker can access your other accounts (FB, Twitter) linked …

It is normal to recharge (or replace) smartphone batteries at least once or more times a day. Similarly, smartphone battery appears to drain over night, when smartphone is idle. Sending smartphone to sleep mode is a good option to save power. However, users generally find inconvenience in pressing or holding power button to activate/convert the …

Seven to ten million people worldwide are suffering from the debilitating neurological disease Parkinson, says Parkinson Disease foundation. It is a progressive disease that gets worse over time and kills the nerve cells that generate dopamine – a chemical that sends signal to part of our brain that controls movement. And by the time a …

By just long-pressing a button to passwords and then the bio-metric authentication – fingerprint scanning – smartphones continuously are ameliorating security and privacy of user data. And now after fingerprint scanning, which of late we have seen in many smartphones, Samsung is all set to make our gadgets a little more secure. Samsung has stepped …

Peter was delivering an important presentation and was presenting important points of his project and all of a sudden his phone started ringing. He forgot to put his iPhone 5s on silent mode today. Result: Everyone gets distracted and it became embarrassing for him as he had requested everyone to put their phone on silent mode. …