If you’re as passionate about technology as we are at Smart Phones Home, you’ll probably have found yourself in a few heated discussions over the years about the best devices, platforms, and the like. But however intense such debates get, it’s thankfully pretty rare for things to turn violent. But add some alcohol into the mix, and things can quickly go very wrong indeed, as residents of an apartment complex in Tulsa, Oklahoma, recently learned. Two men are hospitalized after an alcohol-fueled argument began over which phone is better: iPhone or Android. Tulsa police say a woman found a man covered in blood, stumbling around the parking lot of the Evergreen Apartments around 1 a.m. When police arrived at the apartment complex, they learned that the roommates had been drinking and arguing over their mobile phones. Police say the two men broke beer bottles and stabbed each other with them. One of the men smashed a bottle over the back of the other man's head. Pol...

  Sony Mobile has just put out a press release that finally makes its latest flagship model official. The Sony Xperia Z4 will feature a 5.2-inch screen with a resolution of 1080 x 1920. It will be powered by a 64-bit octa-core Snapdragon 810. 3GB of RAM is inside along with 32GB of native storage. Those requiring more memory can take advantage of the 128GB capacity microSD slot on board. A 20.7MP camera is on back with a wide angle 5.1MP snapper on front for selfies and video chats. A 2930mAh battery will keep the lights on, and Android 5.0 is pre-installed. The Sony Xperia Z4 will be available in White, Black, Copper and Aqua Green. The handset is IP6 certified for dust and IP5 and IP8 certified for water. This means that the Xperia Z4 is protected against " Water projected by a nozzle (6.3 mm) against enclosure from any direction ." It also means that the phone can be submerged to 4.92 feet for as long as 30 minutes and emerge unscathed. Sony says that its ne...

Among the many things the iPhone is loved for are its speed, responsiveness, and reliability. The phone, despite not rocking tons of RAM and a gazillion-core processor, performs so well that it can put many of its high-end rivals to shame. HTC's latest flagship, the HTC One M9, is no slouch either. Just like its predecessors, it runs swiftly and fluidly, without lags and slowdowns ruining the user experience. Is it faster than the iPhone 6, however? Well, that's what we're about to find out. The setup This speed comparison between the HTC One M9 and the iPhone 6 follows the testing model set by our previous comparisons. In a nutshell, we picked a bunch of apps which we launched on both phones, side by side, and observed their performance. We measured the start-up times for each pair of apps and gave a point to the phone that loaded it faster. Of course, we wanted to keep the race as fair as possible for the two handsets, and to do that, we had...