Hasta La Gadget!

There are always those out there who do not want to follow the rules because they think that they know better. Case in point, this particular lady who hit a cyclist near Koroit, which is a small rural town in western Victoria, Australia. Apparently, the cyclist was on the edge of the road as the lady’s hit him from behind with her car, never mind that he had taken the necessary precautions such as having lights on the back as well as front of his bike. The poor cyclist suffered from a spinal fracture that required surgery as well as placement in a spinal cage, not to mention a broken big toe and lacerations to his head and body. In fact, he was also informed that he might end up as a paraplegic. Apparently, the 21 year old driver Kimberley Davis was discovered to use her phone to text 44 times as she drove before the accident happened.

It was the sending and receiving 22 text messages to seven different people that would most probably have led to such a situation, and even more galling is the fact that she did not want to help her victim, deciding to park 100 meters up the road instead while expressing disbelief that the victim called triple-O (the equivalent of 9-1-1 emergency services in Australia)

When questioned by the police shortly after the accident, she said, “I just don’t care because I’ve already been through a lot of bull***t and my car is like pretty expensive and now I have to fix it. I’m kind of p****d off that the cyclist has hit the side of my car. I don’t agree that people texting and driving could hit a cyclist. I wasn’t on my phone when I hit the cyclist.”

She ended up with a fine of $4,500 and lost her licence for nine months in the end. Do you think that the sentence meted out was just? I just find her thoughts on the situation rather surprising, especially when she considered how a human life is worth less than her car.

Driver Texted 44 Times Prior To Hitting Cyclist , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Cellphones, sms,

The original HTC One (M7) was more than just a decent smartphone – it was a high end flagship device that deserved its plaudits, but unfortunately, there was a perception issue with the brand that most probably limited its sales figure, registering sales of 5 million units within its first two months of availability. While that might sound impressive, relatively speaking, it fared poorly against the Samsung Galaxy S4 who outsold it by a whopping four times. We are talking about 20 million sold units within the same time window, at least according to recently published data.

Bloomberg has gotten hold of sales statistics concerning the 2013 flagships from Samsung and HTC respectively, and if you were to take Apple’s iPhone 5 in comparison, that handset did pretty well for itself too, at least better than the HTC One (M7) – selling a whopping 5 million units within the first five days of availability.

It does seem as though Samsung is king when it comes to high end Android-powered devices, which is not surprising at all considering the marketing budget of the South Korean conglomerate. Well, with the Samsung Galaxy S5 edging out the Galaxy S4 for its launch day sales figures, it would be interesting to find out some time down the road the total sales of the Galaxy S5 within the first fortnight.

Samsung Galaxy S4 Outsold HTC One 4:1 , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Cellphones, Galaxy S4, HTC, HTC One (M7), Samsung,

They say that staring too long at a computer screen or television screen can make your eyesight worse, or at least that’s one of the favorite arguments that parents tend to make. That being said, it is a little ironic that there’s now an app available on the iPhone and Android devices that will supposedly help to improve your eyesight.

The app is called Ultimeyes and we’re sure that some of you guys have heard of it before. The app was originally released for computers before it was recently announced for mobile devices, thus allowing users to improve their eyesight while on the go. The app, developed by Carrot Neurotechnology, is basically an interactive game that will supposedly help improve the player’s eyesight.

The game involves the player trying to track down blobs on the screen which are constantly shifting around. According to a group of ballplayers from the University of California, they claim that this helped improve their eyesight by playing the game for 25-30 minute intervals. Their vision has extended by an average of 31%, with some claiming that their vision has also improved to 20/7.5.

The app is currently available on iTunes and Google Play so if you don’t mind checking it out, hit up the respective app stores for the download which will set you back $5.99. In the meantime you can check out how the game works in the video above.

Ultimeyes App Will Help Improve Your Vision , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Cellphones, Medical, Apps,

During MWC 2014, BlackBerry announced that they were working on a device called the BlackBerry Classic. Unfortunately apart from the fact that we know that it will pack an integrated trackpad, much like the BlackBerry devices from the good old days, not much else is known about the device, such as how it looks like, hardware specs, and availability.

The handset is currently pegged for a release later this year but thanks to a recent interview that BlackBerry’s CEO, John Chen, did with USA Today, it has been revealed that the BlackBerry Classic will most likely see a release in November, although no specific dates were mentioned, but it’s definitely something to look forward to.

According to Chen, “It will include a keyboard and a good touch-screen, very fast Internet, Web-browsing capability and multimedia capability. But also it will be very productive and very secure. So, all the familiar things that people love, with some new technology updated. That will come out in November along with the server that helps companies manage devices.”

Chen has stated before how the BlackBerry Classic will appeal to old school BlackBerry users. It’s actually an interesting choice that BlackBerry is making. While OEMs are starting to move towards smartphones with even bigger screens than before, they’re actually working on creating more devices with physical keyboards. Will it pay out for BlackBerry? We guess we’ll just have to wait until November to find out.

BlackBerry Classic Pegged For November Release , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Cellphones, BlackBerry,

Facebook has just announced a major update to its iOS app, where it claims that there are new features thrown into the mix, including the likes of new story buttons, notifications, and photo comments, among others. Facebook’s Paper App was first introduced to the world at the end of January before it hit the iOS platform in the next month. After 2 months of use, Facebook Paper has “grown up” to arrive at version 1.1.

Facebook Paper 1.1 is an upgrade that will enable users to access specifically woven social content in a cleaner and less cluttered environment. The features club would be on the receiving end of new additions such as birthdays and events notifications. Birthday and event news are now embedded in the globe icon located on the top of the Facebook page, instead of being part of the news feed.

Apart from that, photo comments too, have been thrown into the mix, where users are able to attach a photo to the comment thread of a post. This feature happens to be rather popular with the web version, and according to Michael Reckhow, product manager for Facebook, “Photo comments are something we added to Facebook not too long ago, and we found that it’s now something people can’t live without.”

How do you find your updated Facebook Paper experience on iOS been?

Facebook Paper App For iOS Updated , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Cellphones, Facebook, iOS, paper,