External battery packs are pretty darn awesome and have been getting more awesome over the past couple of years. Capacities and features have gone up while size and prices have dropped. Despite the benefit of being able to charge multiple devices from a single external battery pack, there is a growing appeal for smartphone cases more »

Counterpoint Technology Market Research, the go to source of smartphone market data, has released its monthly global smartphone data for May 2013. Smartphones are now 57% of the market in May 2013. During the first quarter the shares of major brands shrunk or were at stalemate while local tier 2 brands grew. Counterpoint’s data shows more »

Apple Inc is exploring launching iPhones with bigger screens, as well as cheaper models in a range of colors, over the next year, said four people with knowledge of the matter, as it takes a cue from rival Samsung Electronics. Has the lion succumbed to being a lamb instead? Could be so. Once having ruled more »

You know, I can’t help but smile when Kickstarter projects have humble doubts about the time required to fund their project, yet overfund with at least a month to go. The Smart Cargo Kickstarter project is genius – it makes me feel like I have to buy an iPad just so I can get this more »

I can picture it now. Just a few buddies, hanging out on the back porch with a full bag and a table loaded with an arsenal of smoking utensils. At some point, one of them, in all of his marijuana enlightenment, must have dumped a bunch of weed on a Samsung Galaxy Note. It must more »

Casemachine has come up with a silicone-aluminum hybrid which gives premium fall protection to the iPhone. Casemachine aims to reduce the bulkiness of a normal iPhone case and gives a case-less feel through its latest addition of the new i5 Slimline (v2) for Apple iPhone 5. The Casemachine i5 Slimline (v2) for Apple iPhone 5 has more »

Really though, who isn’t a sucker for tech accessories that save you money? Precisely, this is why the utility and charm of Brydge so quickly caught my attention. Instead of using your iPad as just a boring old tablet, Brydge can easily turn that slate into a touchscreen laptop. Well, for all intensive purposes at more »

This year’s Father’s Day is nearing and as a logical and happy, happy consequence everyone’s readying special, limited-time gadget discounts. Barnes & Noble has even jumped the gun already and savagely slashed Nook HD and HD+ prices, but if you want something smaller and/or with a little extra oomph you might want to hold off more »

Hate wires? Me too. With the way we carry our portable gadgets, smartphones, and tablets with us, it only makes sense that we should be able to sever the tether when charging, right? Duracell thinks so. Available now for the Apple iPhone 5, Apple iPhone 4/4S, and the Samsung Galaxy S3 is the Duracell Powermat more »

As you may know, the five-day Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), organized and operated by Apple starts on Monday. It will play out until Friday, June 14  at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. And despite that we at GadgeTell are affected by Apple and iOS announcements, the event is not quite our particular scope. more »

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In May we reported that the Facebook team eyeing crowd-sourced road map and traffic application, Waze, for somewhere around a cool billion dollars. Instead, on Sunday, news from the Israeli business and money news outlet, Globes, says that Google has beaten Zuckerberg to the punch. Google is believed to be in the process of buying more »