Category: Technology
 

Nexus S

Sony’s NFC stickers let your Nexus S read the world

Posted March 10, 2011 by admin

NFC is contactless technology that’s set to turn your mobile phone into a mobile wallet. Already the Google Nexus S has an NFC reader built-in, and it’s rumoured that the iPhone 5, due later this year, will as well. At…

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News

New Sony tech paves way for 17 megapixel phone with 120fps video

Posted March 1, 2011 by Mike Evans

Dual-core and quad-core super-GHz processors are all well in good in your mobile, but what can you actually do with them? Sony has an answer – it’s just announced its latest 17.7 megapixek camera sensor, designed chiefly for mobile phones,…

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Technology

BluRay-quality video coming to phones in 2011

Posted January 25, 2011 by Mike Evans

Want to know what’s better than the 1GHz quad-core Tegra3 chip I wrote about a few days ago? A 1.5GHz quad-core Tegra3 chip that can output Blu-ray quality video, that’s what! And amazingly, it’s set for release – not samples,…

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CES 2011

Use your Samsung Galaxy S as a remote viewfinder for your camera

Posted January 5, 2011 by Mike Evans

One trend that’s set to increase this year is communication between your smartphone and other gadgets. The Vizio phone is perhaps leading the field with this new trend with its built-in IR blaster that turns it into a Universal remote,…

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Coming Soon

Why has Samsung ordered $350 million of Tegra2 chips?

Posted December 15, 2010 by Mike Evans

Legendary graphics card manufacturer NVIDIA are at last on a roll with their super-powerful Tegra2 chipset. First to use the new dual-core processor is LG, with its LG Optimus Star that’s set for release early in 2011. Then Motorola revealed…

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Coming Soon

The smartphones of 2011 revealed by Qualcomm

Posted November 18, 2010 by Mike Evans

Remember the start of 2010 when everyone got all excited with the Nexus One and the HTC Desire? So powerful were those phones, with their Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon processor, that Google even started calling them Superphones.
But what about 2011?…

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Coming Soon

Flexible iPhone on the cards thanks to new Samsung flexible AMOLED screen

Posted November 5, 2010 by Mike Evans

Not content with producing the best screen display on the market in the form of its Super AMOLED display, Samsung has gone one better with new technology that could revolutionise the mobile in your pocket – the world’s first flexible…

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CES 2010

Dual Core NVIDIA Tegra2 chip even faster than the Snapdragon

Posted January 8, 2010 by Mike Evans

Forgive the continued teccie-ness, but straight after posting about the new dual-core Snapdragon chip promised for the end of 2010 comes news of NVIDIA’s new next-gen Tegra2 chip for smartphones, which blows the Snapdragon clean out the water!
Qualcomm’s next…

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Coming Soon

Super-fast gigahertz phones arrive from NVIDIA, Samsung and Toshiba

Posted July 29, 2009 by Mike Evans

After reading our HTC Hero review earlier, you might be under the impression that mobiles are going the way of Windows – super-functional, but bogged down with bloat that makes them sluggish.
Not a bit of it! There’s no less…

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Philips folding screen phone on its way for 2008

Posted January 22, 2008 by Mike Evans

Philips’ spin off Polymer Vision has been showing off its READIUS screen for over two years now, but nothing has emerged beyond prototype form. For those unaware of the READIUS, it’s an innovative new display technology that enables the development…

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Articles

Google’s Android turns into underpants

Posted November 8, 2007 by Mike Evans

Finally, all the hype and speculation surrounding Google’s mobile phone plans can be put to rest, as the company has announced its mobile strategy. As expected, there is no Google gPhone; rather, we get Google’s Android, an “open and comprehensive…

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News

Nokia Research’s futuristic vision for camera phones

Posted October 23, 2007 by Mike Evans

Nokia has been showing off some of the R&D it does at its Nokia Research Centre at its The Way We Live Next show in Finland. One of the most amazing services it was keen to talk about was its…

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