Author: Leigh Geary
It’s been a tough old year for HTC. Their fourth quarter results were down 2.49% year-on-year. Worse still, they’re down 53% since January 2011 and total revenue looks set to drop by another 36% in the first quarter of this year. The problems? It seems that during 2011 …
Just for fun, me and the wife had our photo done by a professional photographer. Here we are.. nice huh ? She loves that phone, she really does. Oh OK, you got me. It’s actually actor Edward Norton and model Daria Werbowy, but honestly – it’s like looking …
OK, story so far. We picked up some tweets from the T-Mobile UK Help Team stating that “Full Monty Tariffs have a max speed of 1MB/s”. A day later, and T-Mobile told us that this was a mistake, but still we were getting sent phone calls where customers …
In the early 90s, when my entire gaming life revolved around a succession of PCs that seemed old almost as soon as we bought them, I discovered ‘Death Track‘ – a fun little racing game in which you drove round a track shooting the cr*p out of your …
This weekend Brandon Watson, Head of Developer Experience on Windows Phone 7, has left Microsoft and is headed to Amazon. He joins a chunk of people leaving the team but his arrival at Amazon has already got the web gossips mentioning an Amazon smartphone. It will, according to …
It’s been rumoured for a while now, but now the Nokia Facebook page seems to confirm that a polar white Lumia 800 is on the way pretty soon. According to what we’re hearing, it should arrive to the UK later this month. Either that or Nokia are trying …
On the recommendation of Tim Bradshaw at the FT I tried out Path – the social network for your close friends, apparently. Tim (who’s a fine purveyor of all things new and trendy) was particularly impressed by the iPhone app, so I gave it a try. It is …
The ‘battery life’ issue which many users have experienced – in which you moved from a 3GS or iPhone4 that could cope with a single daily charge, to an iPhone 4S that needs a minimum of two charges to make it through a full day of heavy use …
We’ve spoken quite a bit about speeds recently. Our recent news item surrounding possible throttling on T-Mobile data plans caused a lot of controversy. We were told shortly after that the information provided to us by various sources was incorrect. But, it got me thinking… In my article …
Motorola look to have forced Apple to remove devices from the Apple online store in Germany following an injunction. A second ruling in Germany could also see push-email services getting suspended after Apple lost another court battle with Motorola. Both decisions surround patents and Apple look set to …
Remember Tweakker? The idea was simple. If you stick a new SIM into your phone, Tweakker steps in and sets all that APN / MMS business so that you can get browsing on your Android handset pretty quickly. It’ll setup your iPhone too, just browse to their site …
It’s February, it’s rumour month, and Samsung are again making headlines. This shot, from xda.cn, apparently shows why Samsung are keen to keep the upcoming Galaxy SIII under wraps for a little while longer. There’s specs on the site too, although we’d like you to remember the word …
If you had a Windows Mobile phone a few years back then you may well have seen or used Dashwire. It basically plonked your pictures, videos, texts and contacts onto an online portal for you to access. It was great, but time has moved on and many phone …
Hauppauge have announced a new Mobile TV Streaming solution which you get to carry around to beam live TV to your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. It’s just a matter of extending the antenna and then you connect your device to the “myTV 2GO” WiFi network. The free …
The new major version of Windows Phone looks set to be a big change yet again. The existing kernel – Windows CE – is to be ditched although, contrary to rumours, it won’t affect app compatibility. The new Windows Phone 8 will also tightly integrate and blend with …
A leaked image of what we assume is the upcoming Galaxy SII + has just appeared on Twitter. The shot, which has appeared on the Twitter feed of Eldar Murtazin, shows a device which looks pretty much the same as the existing Galaxy SII. The only real differences …
Put an order in for the Asus Transformer Prime with Clove? You’re in for some bad news unfortunately, as the company has decided to stop shipping the unit due to complaints. An update on their blog mentions how successful the Transformer Prime has been and seems to suggest …
So, the Galaxy SIII isn’t going to get a big reveal in Barcelona. Booo, but hey, a ramped-up SII could appear instead. I know, I know, it’s like getting an iPhone 4S when you’re expecting an iPhone 5, but heck – a 1.5GHz CPU inside a Galaxy SII …
Well, so much for the “big exclusive” at John Lewis. The white Galaxy Note is already available at Clove and now eXpansys are dishing it up too. Prices start at £499.99 for the 16 GB version. Oh, and if you’re looking to get one on a contact, try …
We’ve just had this comment from Samsung which confirms the successor to the rather wonderful Galaxy SII. We will, as usual, be reporting live from Mobile World Congress but it looks like we will have to wait a little longer for the SIII because its just not ready …
Android 4.0, aka ICS, aka Ice Cream Sandwich … here in the UK we’re not overly familiar with the term “Ice Cream Sandwich”, but I did used to eat something like this when I was a kid. Anyway, I digress. According to the Facebook page for Samsung Norway …
Got a Galaxy S2? Yeah? Did you buy an unlocked / unbranded one? If you have then you may have noticed that Android 2.3.4 is as high as you can go version-wise. Josh Fullalove (what a cool name) has asked Samsung UK about this and they say that …
OK, quick check. So far we have the Sony Xperia U, the Xperia S and now the LT22I (Nypon) is to be known as the Xperia P. A launch is expected at Mobile World Congress and we’re looking with an 8 megapixel camera, 1GB RAM, PlayStation capabilities, WiFi, …
We’ve just been sent this shot of the HTC Flyer sitting on the eXpansys website for a mere £234.99. This is the 16GB version and has a 7″ screen, 1.5GHz CPU, Wifi, 1GB of RAM and, with that aluminium unibody, it weighs in at just 420 grams. Does …
We were pretty surprised and pretty much ignored earlier indications that the Xperia S was set to arrive on Play.com in January. We’ve had contact from Sony Ericsson to confirm that the release date is, and always has been, March. The guys at Play.com have now altered the …
Last week I spent £10 on two pints of lager in a London hotel. What I perhaps should’ve done is spend that money on this SanDisk 16GB MicroSD card. It’s available from Play.com fire just £10.49 and they won’t charge for postage. Pah, who am I kidding? I’d …
Another day of news about Sky, and today they’re about to launch their Sky Go mobile app. It’s free and lets you watch selected channels after logging in with your Sky ID. We’ve not been able to find it in the Android Market just yet – it looks …
OK, so just recently we heard that Three were to take the Galaxy S Advance. It seems a little puzzling. Why announce a new phone now? Weeks before Mobile World Congress? Well, it’s hopefully a signal that Samsung are clearing the way for a mahoosize launch of the …
I’ve followed the developments of mobile products at Sky for some time now but, at home, I’m unable to use the Sky “Anytime+” service. This service let’s you watch on-demand programming at a time suitable to yourself, but it’s only available to those taking the Sky Broadband package …
Has it really been a year since we first had our hands on the Huawei S7 Slim? Recently it’s had a bit of a price drop so we decided to get another look at the device. It’s a pretty weighty device, and is designed to use in “landscape …
It’s Sunday morning, so put down those newspapers for a moment while we dangle a rather tantalizing deal in front of you. If you, like me, know people who would like to get an iPhone but have been put off by the price, listen up. Right now there’s …
Over on Facebook the Sony Ericsson guys have posted a close-up of the Sony Xperia S and highlights the “illuminating transparent belt”. We saw this earlier in our in-depth look but it seems that it’s not just a funky part of the design. It’s a notification light, and …
Want a closer peek at the new Nokia Lumia 710? Check out this video, added by Nokia today, it features a geezer with greasy hair showing you around the phone. There’s 8GB of storage, 1.4GHz CPU and a 3.7″ 480×800 screen with 5 megapixel camera. If you want …
Google’s new baby, Motorola, are going through some tough times. After coming back from the dead thanks to Android they’ve posted a loss of $80 million for Q4. It seems that Motorola “shipped” 1 million tablets during the whole of 2011, with 42.4 million mobile devices sold in …
A few days back we saw a rather large list of leaked Sony (Ericsson) handsets. One was called the “Tapioca”, aka the ST21i. It’s now stated to have a single-core 800MHz CPU, 512MB RAM, 4GB ROM and runs Android 2.3.7 (Gingerbread). Other specs include a 3.2″ HVGA (320×480) …
Samsung, who have “apparently confirmed” (although I read it personally as “not denying”) the Galaxy SIII, are on a roll. Net profit at Samsung Electronics is up to 4 trillion won, which is about £2.3 billion. Althought net income for 2011 was down slightly, Samsung saw the Galaxy …
A new plan, called “The Full Monty”, is set to arrive on T-Mobile. For just £36 p/m this is said to include “truly unlimited data” along with 2000 any-network, any-time minutes. The package also includes unlimited text, unlimited calls to other T-Mobile users and there’s even free 08xx …
Samsung have continued to pump out their Galaxy SII adverts in the USA and they seem to be following a very similar vein. Earlier we saw how Samsung poked fun at Apple customers queuing and camping outside stores for the “Next big thing” and now Samsung are saying …
Another day and another set of Tweets from Editor Eldar Murtazin. Today he’s talking Windows Phone 8, aka Apollo. That bit we knew already. What he is saying is that it’ll arrive in October this year and, surprisingly it looks to be incompatible with Windows Phone 7 on …
For those of you that have a Windows Phone on the O2 network you’ll be pleased to hear that the 7.10.8107 update ( the disappearing keyboard update) is now being pushed out. Whilst this is not a major update to the OS, its a welcome one as it shows that …
