Yesterday, South Korean tech company LG announced thatit’s stepping away from manufacturing smartphones. The firm was one of the first adopters of Android, and came out with a device running the OS’ early Cupcake version in 2009. While LG made some solid phones over the years, its mounting losses forced the company to throw in the towel. We might not see any LG-branded phones in the future, so let’s take a trip down memory lane and take a look at the company’s wacky and wonderful phones....

I have a cellphone built into my watch. People now take this type of technology for granted, but not so long ago it was firmly in the realm of science fiction. The transition from fantasy to reality was far from the flip of a switch. The amount of time, money, talent and effort required to put a telephone on my wrist spanned far beyond any one product development cycle. The people who crossed a wristwatch with a cellphone worked hard for several years to make it happen, but technology development really occurs on a timescale of decades....

A brief history of phones with two screens Flip phones That’s right. You might not have thought of these good old stylish flip phones while thinking about a second screen, but plenty of them had one on the shell.We won’t name every single flip phone model that had a second screen, but let’s go back in time to the glory days of the GOAT, the Moto Razr.. The old classic sported a tiny screen to show youinformation like incoming calls, text messages received, and the time....

In the last month or so, tech news has been dominated by Epic Games’ court case against Apple. While the ruling could bring a major pivot point for either of the companies, it might also affect us as consumers. In this story, we’ll try to explain the core of the case, arguments from both sides, and how it will impact users. Why are Apple and Epic fighting? In August last year, Apple and Google booted Epic’s hit battle royale gameFortnite from their app stores....

Yik Yak is back! If you don’t know what it is, I don’t blame you. It was an anonymous gossip platform that had some success, but after running into moderation problems and failing to deal with problematic content, it was shut down in 2017. The company announced onTwitterthat it’s making a comeback with an iOS app. But before we get into that, let’s take a look at the brief history of the social network....