The Mobile Phone will Eat Itself

Posted March 4, 2013 by admin

Back in the heyday of the feature phone, flagship phones such as the Nokia N95 threatened to consume every other consumer electronic device as more and more electronic features were crammed inside them. From watches to cameras to GPS devices…

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The smartphones HTC hopes will save it

Posted February 7, 2012 by Mike Evans

Poor HTC. After riding the Android wave from the moment Google launched its mobile OS, the Taiwanese company has achieved stellar success. Now, though, its star is fading. Its 2011 models were not a success.
Its strategy of releasing many…

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PowWowNow brings phone features back to the smartphone

Posted January 18, 2012 by Mike Evans

PowWowNow is a rather ridiculous-sounding name for a new conference call service that’s just released its first iPhone app, which provides voice conferencing with a really nice user interface. Despite its name, is actually rather neat; not only does it…

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Android devs – a call to arms for 2012!

Posted December 20, 2011 by Mike Evans

I complained the other day about the fact that the iPhone seems to have more apps developed for it than Android. Even if Android has the same app as the iPhone, the Android app seems to have limited features. This…

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How fast will 2012′s smartphones be?

Posted December 20, 2011 by Mike Evans

2011 has undoubtedly been the year of the dual-core smartphone, with NVIDIA’S Tegra2 first out the gate in the early part of the year. Naturally enough, 2012 will see the introduction of the seemingly-impossible quad-core smartphone, with four CPUs beating…

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3 days only: Nokia Lumia 800, Samsung Galaxy SII & more for £20/month

Posted December 19, 2011 by Mike Evans

If you want to cheer yourself up this Christmas without breaking the bank, then grab one of these Xmas smartphone bargains before it’s too late. You could have a Nokia Lumia 800 or a Samsung Galaxy SII for less than…

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Why does the iPhone get all the good apps?

Posted December 16, 2011 by Mike Evans

If you’re thinking of developing a mobile app, there’s one critical decision that you face before you even begin to write a line of code – which platform do you write for? Apart from the Big Three (iPhone, Android and…

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Motorola Atrix 2 on video – better than the original Atrix?

Posted October 13, 2011 by Mike Evans

The Motorola Atrix 2 has been officially launched at the CTIA Conference, but it’s not quite as big a deal as you’d think. The original Atrix was the star of 2011’s CES as it could morph into a laptop through…

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The iPhone 4S is not the fastest mobile device – but this is

Posted October 12, 2011 by Mike Evans

You’ll never guess what the fastest mobile device on the market is right now. No, really – it’s the last device you’d think would come top. If you think it’s the iPhone 4S, you’re wrong. If you think it’s an…

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How to buy an iPhone 4S for free (even in the middle of a contract)

Posted October 11, 2011 by Mike Evans

Is this you: Are you desperate for an iPhone 4S but you don’t want to pay £49 to buy it? Are you in the middle of a contract that won’t end for months, but you really want the iPhone 4S…

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Motorola Droid RAZR – the first bulletproof Android teased on video

Posted October 10, 2011 by Mike Evans

Meet the Motorola Droid RAZR.
Very different from the original RAZR, that stylish, incredibly thin, iconic mobile phone of the mid-naughties, which was sadly overworked by its creatively barren master and doomed to a fat, bloated, outdated non-retirement that saw…

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