How to Keep YouTube Music Streaming on Your Phone

How to Keep YouTube Music Streaming on Your Phone

The ability play audio in the background was supposed to come to YouTube last year. It still hasn’t arrived, but iOS users can use a quick workaround.

    



Which Phone You Should Buy Explained in One Handy Flowchart

Which Phone You Should Buy Explained in One Handy Flowchart

There are a ton of phones out there. A lot of options. That’s great, but it can also make for a tough decision. Which one is for you? We’ve got just the flowchart you need.

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Your Phone Breaks Because It Would Rather Be Thin Than Strong

Your Phone Breaks Because It Would Rather Be Thin Than Strong

It’s actually not the choice of materials alone that makes a handset more or less prone to damage — screen breakage in particular. It’s the structural design in general. It’s what’s beneath that candy-colored shell that really counts.

    



Nokia’s Mighty Lumia Icon Is Like a Pocket Photo Studio

Nokia’s Mighty Lumia Icon Is Like a Pocket Photo Studio

With a 20-megapixel image sensor, one-handed zoom, and a quartet of directional microphones that filter out background noise, the Nokia Lumia Icon looks to be another solid entry in Nokia’s lineup of great shooters.

    



How Much of Your Phone Is Actually Screen?

How Much of Your Phone Is Actually Screen?

Sure, you think about how big a phone’s screen is all the time, but how much of a phone’s screen is actually screen? This handy visualization from Post PC shows exactly how your handset stacks up against the rest of the world in screen-to-bezel ratio. The results might surprise you.

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How to Use Your Google Maps — Offline

How to Use Your Google Maps — Offline

To access one of Google Maps’ best hidden features, you have to know the magic word. Well, it’s a phrase, really, and that phrase is: “OK Maps.”

    



Here’s the Right Way to Rescue a Soaking Wet Smartphone

Here’s the Right Way to Rescue a Soaking Wet Smartphone

Given the hundreds of ways your phone could come into life-threatening contact with liquid, you should know what to do when it happens (because it will).

    



Google’s Nexus 5 Now Comes in Burn-Your-Eyes-Out Red

Google’s Nexus 5 Now Comes in Burn-Your-Eyes-Out Red

The Nexus 5 now comes in red — and it’s not your usual red, sensual and modest. This is a garish, bright, and very angry red.

    



You Can Swipe This Enchanted iPhone Cover to Answer Calls

You Can Swipe This Enchanted iPhone Cover to Answer Calls

The Moshi SenseCover has a strip of capacitive plates embedded directly on its face that let you answer calls without actually flipping open the case.

    



The Best Apps for Budgeting Your Cash

The Best Apps for Budgeting Your Cash

Budgeting used to be a huge chore. Tracking your every expenditure, holding onto receipts, all while making sure a few of those dollars get squirreled away for savings each month — ugh. Luckily there’s a plethora of apps and services …