Category: General
Today marks the launch of 4G here in the UK. Beginning with 11 cities, EE will also offer a fibre broadband service to some 11 million premises too. The company is throwing in £1.5 billion into this roll-out and their 4G network will expand by 2,000 square miles …
As well as the trilogy of Nexus devices just announced, Google have also confirmed that their Music service is coming to Europe at the same time. This means a 13th November launch for Europe, bizarely slightly before the US. Not that we’re complaining! You will be able to …
The Speck Pixelskin HD Wrap is a full case for the iPad 2/3/4 generations. It offers front and back protection and doubles as a stand. It also has the magnetic sleep wake function. Is it any good? Lets start with the looks. I was sent the blue one …
Yes we are serious, we are doing this. My wife came across these the other week whilst looking for some bargains. They are super cheap and surprisingly good touch screen gloves. As with all of our reviews we’ll have a look at the good and bad points first. …
We won’t lie. Sometimes you get it wrong, but sometimes, you get it right – and releasing the user manual of the LG E960 aka the Google Nexus 4 before the phone has been announced can be taken as a little of both. Right for us, anyway. The …
With the mobile world seemingly taken with Samsung’s Galaxy Note II and indeed it’s predecessor, it’s the introduction of their stylus, the S-Pen, which took and continues to take many if the headlines. A while back I covered the Zoogue Stylus in an attempt to harness some similar …
The Google Nexus 10 is the most eagerly awaited tablet since… the iPad Mini. OK, this is a pretty big deal in the Android world anyway. It’s widely expected that the latest Nexus tablet will be released at the Google event on Monday 29th October in New York …
Fancy a HTC One X but want more memory, more speed and better battery life? Have a look at the HTC One X+. It’s just popped into the O2 store and the uprated handset also includes Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. It costs £399.99 on Pay & Go or …
Got your shiny new iPhone 5? Looking for accessories to help it along? So was I, then Mobile Fun got in touch offering their iPhone 5 Ultimate Bundle The device had only been around for about two weeks an accessories were running a little thin on the ground …
Pictures posted on The Verge today appear to show the instruction manual from the rumoured Samsung made Nexus 10 tablet. Google are hosting an event on Monday where it is heavily rumoured that they will launch a new handset made by LG, commonly known as the Nexus 4, …
We get a number of companies approaching us daily, trying to get a mention of their latest app, handset or accessory. They’ll try a number of tricks to try and pursuade us but, apart from the promise of free donuts, we rarely cave in to these tempting offers. …
Following a similar announcement by Three, EE have now also confirmed that they are to range the iPad mini along with the upcoming fourth generation iPad. Although there’s no news on prices or dates, a spokesman told us that the two new Apple products will be available on …
Well after a long wait, we brought you EE’s 4G price plans as soon as they were announced and… well its fair to say the response hasn’t been universal acclaim, due almost entirely to the thorny issue of data allowances. PC Pro have managed to get an interview with EE’s Chief …
The iPad mini is here. A 7.9″ 4:3 1024 x 768 display, A5 chip, 5 megapixel rear camera and 1.2 megapixel front camera with a 10 hour battery life. If you’re looking to get one then try Three – they’ve stepped forward to announce that both the iPad …
Car holders for mobile phones aren’t always the best looking or functional accessories. The universal ones are normally big and ugly as they have to accommodate as many phones as possible and they have varying mechanisms for securing the phone. Device specific mounts can be better but they …
Apple finally announced the second worst kept secret in the mobile industry this evening along with a number of other new products. Amongst the updated iMacs at 21.5 and 27 inches, they also revealed their 13 inch MacBook pro, the 4th generation iPad (and changed the name of …
I’ve written about this before, but I think we need a revisit today. Last night we gave you the pricing and plans for the UK’s first 4G network – EE. It’s provoked quite a response and a lot of questions. Some expected something different. Perhaps more data allowance …
Picture the scene, you’re at a party or a friends house or even in a meeting. You have your camera and the memory card is full of pictures. You, your friends or clients are all stood there with your iPhones and iPads looking confused. You all really need …
When Google decided to withdraw support for Adobe Flash player there was one obvious casualty…..BBC’s much used and much loved iPlayer. After some alleged pressure from the BBC, Adobe restored access to iPlayer on the Play store but it was still not natively supported for Jellybean devices and …
EE have today announced their pricing for the new 4G service which is going to launch in the UK in one weeks time, on the 30th October. Some very interesting points to take away from the full press release below including some services, data pricing, roaming information and …
There have been rumours about all sorts of phones and tablets recently, but very few of them have any more than “unnamed sources” to go on. It’s only when we see physical evidence that things start to get juicy. That’s where this interesting result from GLBenchmarks of a …
I love having a hot spot in my trousers. Many people have connected to it over the years. Enough double entendres? OK. 🙂 Expansys have reduced the Huawei E586 MiFi for today only – it’s now £79.99 and was £99.99. Ker-CHING ! If you’re unfamiliar with the whole …
The HTC One X+ is the latest flagship in the HTC One range. It’s been a controversial move by HTC, and much has already been made of the decision to release it so soon after the original One X. Well, the time for controversy is over as those …
What a hectic week it’s been news wise. We’ve had Microsoft Surface pre-orders appear from nowhere, we’ve had notification of an Apple event for the rumoured iPad Mini and we’ve had a huge new phone from HTC Japan. We will no doubt have a lot to cram into …
2012 has been pretty good for the people of London. Several big events, an extra Bank Holiday, the Olympics, the Paralympics and, to top it all off, free WiFi on the Tube thanks to Mr Branson. As the days get shorter and we all shuffle around in the …
Well,that’s that then. October 23rd 2012 – The launch of the iPad Mini. Put the date in your diary. The date that any competition in the tablet market officially disappears. Maybe I’m a little premature in forecasting impending doom for competition within the sector but let’s be honest, with …
It seems quite a few of the big names in mobile phones these days are producing their own accessories, and cases. Not just as functional protective devices, but that are actually nice to look at too. Samsung are no exception, and produce cases for both the Galaxy S3 and the …
It’s not quite the next rumoured pure Google variant after the Galaxy Nexus, but the full manufacturer version currently called the LG Optimus G which you can now see on YouTube. There’s an almost marmite-level contrast of opinions on this phone from our team. Some of our team …
Google has begun rolling out an update to the Play Store. The new version (3.9.16) has some rather useful updates that many people have had on their wish list for a while. If you download lots of apps then you are aware of just how frustrating it is …
There’s been a lot of interpretation of Steve Jobs when he referenced Picasso and his quote of “good artists copy, great artists steal”. Its been discussed before on our podcast (which by now most of you are listening to), and the general sentiment is that Jobs meant take …
It looks like the Gmail app is getting some useful new features in its next iteration, such as pinch to zoom (at last!), swipe to delete/archive and some various other niceties, including being able to report an email as phishing. All this comes courtesy of a leaked APK …
One of my personal favourite case manufacturers is Gear4 and they have been one of the first to release these stylish iPhone 5 cases and were kind enough to send me a few to show our readers. All 3 cases are “snap on the back” style cases. They …
Got a shiny new iPhone5? Need to charge it at the office? Then you’ll need one of these.. The lovely people at Mobilefun have contacted us to let us know they will have official Apple Lightning Cables in stock next week (expected Tuesday / Wednesday) For more information …
If like me, you get a little heavy handed with your iPhone and need it well protected. I suggest you try one of Pong’s Rugged Cases. Pong have made cases for a while and with the research that has gone into these cases, their age and expertise shows. …
In December last year we took a look at the Ericsson A2628 from Lekki. The phone itself was 11 years old but it had a new lease of life thanks to a bright paint job. No social networks. No pictures messages. No camera. No internet. The Lekki handsets …
Yet more pictures of the alleged new Google Nexus have surfaced on a Belarusian website. There is still no sign of any new version of Android and with Jellybean 4.1.2 being pushed to Nexus 7 devices as we speak any other new release may well come as a surprise. …
Yes we have made it to eighteen episodes of our podcast and yes we would like to hear your questions. In a week where we have had US traumas with ZTE and Huawei, we’ve had news from HTC they are dropping out of the tablet market, we’ve seen …
When the new Lumia range was announced a while back a lot was made of the colour matched accessories. The Wireless charging units came as a extra case, a pillow, a desk stand and also as part of a speaker system. They all looked and sounded like great …
Back in August we had a Scosche reVOLT c2 dual USB car charger sent to us. Unfortunately it ended up in a “special cupboard” and we’ve only just found it. Many of you will, I’m sure, have a car charger. The Scosche one is of the “low profile” …
The 4G LTE network roll-out in the UK is in its infancy; very few places have coverage, only a few compatible handsets are available to buy and there aren’t any tariffs at all. So, everyone’s concentrating on getting high speed 4G mobile broadband to the masses, right? Wrong. …
