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There are two main ways to look at the current smartphone landscape. The glass-half-full approach is to appreciate the fact that smartphone production quality have become so consistent across the board that even budget handsets from obscure companies run smoothly and offer a more-than-usable experience for the average consumer. The glass-half-empty approach is to point out that smartphone tech has plateaued in recent years — that no phone has been a true game-changer like the first and fourth iPhone. If rumors are to go by, however, 2017 could be the year that smartphones begin to wow again.  Bloomberg  is reporting that Samsung is planning on releasing phones with bendable and foldable screens. While the  Apple rumor mill  is buzzing about a new iPhone (not the one coming this fall, but the one after that) that will rock a edge-to-edge display (meaning no bezels) with its front-facing camera and fingerprint scanner embedded on the screen itself. A concept image of what the ru

Ready to transfer to iOS? Download the Move to iOS app to get help switching from your Android device to your new iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Get Move to iOS from Google Play If you live in China, learn  how to download Move to iOS .             Here's what you need iOS 9 or later  iPhone 5 or later iPad 4th generation or later iPad mini 2nd generation or later iPod touch 6th generation Android version 4.0 or later Before you begin On your Android device, make sure that Wi-Fi is on.  Plug your new iOS device and your Android device in to power. Make sure the content you're moving, including what's on your external Micro SD card, will fit on your new iOS device If you want to transfer your Chrome bookmarks, update to the latest version of Chrome on your Android device. Tap Move Data from Android While  setting up your new iOS device , look for the Apps & Data screen. Then tap Move Data from Android. If you've already finished

Kirk Phelps wants to change how things get made. He holds up a floppy yellow circle of plastic, a sealing gasket for a generic automotive engine, and explains how this gasket is limiting human creativity. “If you want to make a new kind of engine, you don’t get to design the engine from the ground up. You actually go to your gasket supplier and ask what standard gaskets are available and you design the engine around it. This is backward,” says Phelps, a 33-year-old product designer who helped develop the multitouch on the first iPhone. That frustration led him to take the job as head of product development at Carbon3D, one of the hottest startups to come along in the emerging 3-D printing industry. The promise of 3-D printing is the ability to produce a solid part on the spot based on any digital 3-D file, freeing engineers to build their dream engine. While some of the highest-end machines can precisely print small-batch items such as hearing aids and artificial joints, the va