Category: General
Come on, if you have a look in the back of the cupboard I’m sure you’ve got a few quid kicking around. If you can get £32.16 together then you can get a whopping 64GB of storage for your phone. This SanDisk Ultra MicroSD card is class 10 …
Google finally took the wraps of Babel yesterday with the relaunch of Hangouts, a cross-platform unified messaging service to take on the likes of iMessage, Facebook Chat and WhatsApp. Users no longer have to contend with separate Google Talk, G+ Messenger, G+ Hangouts and Google Voice apps. …
Television, the drug of the Nation. Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation. But hey, things are still looking good for the 800MHz tests that are being performed by at800. They’ve moved onto London and have also performed tests across Brighton. Everything so far is looking good, with no complaints …
It isn’t often I laugh out loud at a letter. Especially when it’s two companies arguing about apps and services. Normally the letters between the two are very straight forward and not that funny, but this one is great. Let me set the scene. Google have YouTube apps …
Well, Google I/O 2013 has certainly been eventful so far. Our live blog and resulting traffic knocked the site over but hey, no matter, we’ve seen tonnes of good news. Google+ is to get a stack of new features – 41 to be exact – including a redesign …
Hands up if you use the same password at more than one website. Now keep your hand up if all your passwords are more than 12 characters, contain a mixture of upper and lower case letters, numbers and characters. Where did everyone go?! Until recently I used two …
Notes apps, have a look in the play store and there are literally hundreds. Some are good, some are poor and some stand out from the crowd. Evernote is probably the biggest but requires a centrally registered account and, lets face it, isn’t exactly what could be …
I own an LG Nexus 4, so as you could imagine I am always concerned I’ll damage it. Not so much because it’s fragile, but because it looks so nice I don’t want to spoil it. I have a ‘bumper’ for it but it just doesn’t feel like it’s going …
The Cygnett SoundWave Bluetooth speaker is a compact mains or battery powered wireless sound system that comes with the added bonus of a phone stand. I’ve had one on test for a couple of weeks, so here’s how it stacks up. Good Price Phone stand Big sound from …
Three have just announced that the new BlackBerry Q10 is launching on their network. It is also 4G ready for when their network starts to roll out later this year. Costing £49 up front on The One Plan including AYCE data with tethering and 4G later this year, …
Want to bust a 1GB monthly bandwidth allowance in just 8 seconds? 5G could be your answer, and Samsung have now achieved a speed of up to 1.056 Gbps for up to 2 kilometres, roughly 1.2 miles. Using a frequency of 28 Ghz they’ve used “adaptive array transeiver …
Remember that lovely piece of cake I reported on back in January? You know, the one with the white Nexus 4 next to it. Well, there’s been another sighting of a white Nexus 4. Unfortunately there’s no sign of the cake though. This time the lesser spotted Nexus …
I’ve got a couple of annoyances when I browse websites on my phone. The first is the fact that some idiotic person working in Government decided that we should all get warned about cookies. Unfortunately there’s no set way to do this, so various websites have different ways …
I love listening to our very own podcast. Stick in on your phone, stream it through your computer, grab it via your Internet radio. Whatever, it’s your weekly dose of chatter and fun. We cover the stories, gossip and reviews of the past week and it’s so easy …
I’m going to see how long it takes for someone to add a comment stating, “You should’ve know, you plonker”, but give me a minute to explain this one. I’ve been using a Three SIM Zero card for quite some time. They don’t do this particular plan any …
A brand new unlocked Sony Xperia SP, delivered by a sexy blonde from UPS? How does that sound? Sexist? Un-necessary? Yes. It is.. Ohh… awkward. Hmm.. Perhaps I should engage politically correct mode… If you’d like to be in with a chance of winning a Sony Xperia SP, …
The Samsung Galaxy S4 is a big old boy, with its 5″ screen it can’t be anything other than big. So, just like the Galaxy SIII, the Galaxy S4 has a little brother on the way. It was inevitable that the SIII Mini would be succeeded by an …
I’m reaching the end of my mobile contract with Orange. I’ve been with the company since 1995 and they’ve always treated me pretty well. However, this last year I’ve seen my contract price increase and an increased push to get me onto 4G with EE which, strange as …
With Google I/O just around the corner, you’d think the company would want to keep a lid on its forthcoming offerings but Android Police has to grab a copy of Google Play Services 3.1.36 which seems to be trickling out to devices as we speak. You’ve got to …
I think I’d like to be an analyst, they get to just make stuff up and the whole world sits up and takes notice. An analyst from KGI Securities has released some information about the supposed New Nexus 7 and it kind of fits in with what’s expected …
Three, already famed for their rather speedy and unlimited data access, are to take the Ascend P2 from Huawei. Now, if you’re a regular visitor (and we hope you are), then you’ll remember that we got a hands-on demo from a rather lovely rep at Mobile World Congress …
Well well well, this is a litle surprise tonight but it now looks like UK network Three are going to stock the new Huawei P2 we saw announced back at Mobile World Congress this year There was no news on this over on the coming soon section of the website …
The new version of Flipboard for Android has hit the Google Play Store. It packs some new features including personally-curated magazines, improved search, notifications and a bookmarklet. It’s the Android version of the same Flipboard 2.0.1 update which hit the App Store in the middle of last April. …
Everything seems to cost a lot more than it used to and you’re working twice as hard for half the money. It’s rubbish. Phones are expensive, contracts are long and, if you’re on “certain” networks, the price goes up half-way through. To put it bluntly, we’re all a …
I know what you’re thinking. “Hey, I wish I could get the all-new BlackBerry Q10 on EE” Well you can, however it’s a tad pricey. Splash out £41 per month on the 4G network and you’re still going to have to pay £139.99 up-front. Either that or pay …
You know that moment when a buzzword is adopted by more than just a few people and it “sticks”? Well, that moment appears to have happened for phablets. They’re too big to be phones and a little too small to be called tablets, so “phablets” is juuuuussst right. …
CyanogenMod is arguably the most popular custom ROM for Android phones and tablets, and the latest incarnation is almost ready for final release. Based on Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, CM 10.1.0 is so stable that they’ve decided to issue a release candidate for it. If you’ve ever flashed …
It’s fair to say that, at times, I get sent some rather strange stuff via email. Today I had another weird email from a manufacturer looking to find a distributor or outlet willing to carry their wares. Normally these emails go straight into my virtual bin, which I’ve …
Remember the Cellular Line Anti-Slip Pad from last week? Well, it found its way into my car on a semi-permanent basis. Because of this, I decided to film it in action once more, but this time as I drove around… Again, I’ve got to say, considering I featured …
Smartphone cameras are a hot topic this year, and a straw poll would probably see Nokia as the camera phone kings. However, there’s an ever growing queue of manufacturers waiting to out snap them. The latest leak from Sony’s direction is the C680X Honami phone (expected to be …
I’m one of those people that always has to have a case on my phone. I usually go through several for each phone I have, as I like the change it brings, and most cases have a flaw of some kind or other. To go with my new …
We all use apps on our phones, some more than others, some install huge games that take several GB of space, some install dozens of Social Network apps, some install bafflingly pointless apps like fart apps or soundboards. It really is a personal thing it’s your phone and …
When it comes to profits, there’s long been only one real winner in the smartphone industry: Apple. At least that’s what used to be the case, until Samsung joned the party. In Q4 of 2012 Apple and Samsung made 103% in the smartphone industry, with 72% of that …
The best bit about Sundays has to be the lie-in. My son let me sleep until 6.15 this morning, so I’m up and looking for bargains whilst preparing breakfast. Today this SanDisk 32GB microSD card caught my eye. It’s available from GizzmoHeaven for just £14.99, and it’s a …
Nokia Lumia 928 marketing meeting, May 2013 – “No videos, no secret photos, no leaks and, no matter what, no billboard posters until 14th May. Right, everybody got that? Good”. Oh dear, somebody was too busy playing Cut The Rope during that meeting, because a full ten days …
Quoting an old clichéd phrase: good things come in small packages bēm Wireless have made a small 2.5″ cube Bluetooth speaker that looks more like something Nokia would sell. The speaker comes in six different colours. the mobile speaker comes in six colours to allow expression of personal …
Instagram, the photo sharing app has announced a new feature. Billed as “Photos of You” the feature now allows users to tag photos, either with names or brands. These photos will then show up in the Photos of you section of your profile. Notifications are sent when you …
The official Twitter app for Android was recently updated bringing full implementation of the holo guidelines with one notable exception, the menu option was tucked away under the Me tab. Well, last night Twitter released a further update which corrects this oversight and gives easy access to the Accounts …
You’ll remember a little while ago Instagram tried to amend their Terms Of Service and the whole internet went crazy. Indeed so did I! The mistake I made though was that I hadn’t properly read the wording for myself and had laid all my faith in another sites interpretation. Aforementioned …
It’s looking like O2 and BT are getting quite pally in the 4G world. O2 got a slice of the 4G pie in the recent auctions, as did BT, but it looks like BT will be providing a large amount of infrastructure for the O2 4G network after …
