Accept card payments, using your smartphone

I like to show my family just how rich and successful I am, so just last week I was making use of a discount voucher in Pizza Hut. After gorging myself on large amounts of “endless salad” and “unlimited soft drinks” I was sadly too fat to walk …

Lenovo Ideatab S5000 review

Why haven’t Lenovo cracked the tablet market? After all, we all know that Lenovo make great laptops, so they know about portable computing. We also know that the likes of Acer and HP haven’t had much success either, so perhaps it’s not surprising. The Lenovo IdeaTab S5000 is …

Ovivo update their plans, now get more for £0 per month

You lot are great, so I’m having a good ‘ole dig around for some bargain deals at the moment. Christmas seems to be the “crazy time” where we spend huge chunks of money, so I’m on a mission to get some cheap deals. Ovivo are an MVNO using …

Vectone Mobile offering 1GB of data for.. £1!

No, I’ve not heard of them either but, if you pop along to Poundland or buy one of these online, you can get 1GB of days over 30 days worth for just a quid. If you go into the high-class Poundland stores you can pick a Vectone Mobile …

Sky Go tablet now available

Sky Go is a free app that allows you to watch the channels you pay for on the go via wifi or 3/4G, previously the only tablets it had been available for were iPads. Now Sky have released a new version of the app specifically for Android tablets …

Feel at Home from Three UK expanded

Three recently announced a new roaming service called ‘Feel at Home’ which allowed you to take your UK deal abroad to certain countries with you, thus doing away with frustrating or confusing roaming charges. The countries picked were ones that Three operated in – Austria, Denmark, Australia, Italy, …

Successor to HTC One to launch in February??

What is considered by many to be the finest Android handset yet made, the HTC One, could be replaced as early as February revealed the Judge at the centre of the Nokia vs HTC case is to be believed (and being a member of the UK’s fine judiciary why …

EE by gum, more cities switched on to EE 4G

With over 1 million 4G subscribers EE are currently the clear market leader in superfast mobile internet. In order to help fulfil the promise of 99% coverage by the end of 2014 EE are about to switch on another 29 towns and cities. Bath, Bournemouth, Brighton, Cambridge, Darlington, …

4G from 3 goes live

The only mobile operator in the UK to not add an extra charge for its 4G services has started to switch on its next generation network. There has been no official announcement however based on Three’s twitter account  “a few thousand customers” in Manchester, Birmingham and London have had …

CyanogenMod 10.2.0 hits final release status as development ceases

If you like a good custom ROM on your Android device, but don’t want to bother with all those buggy nightly releases, you’ll probably be looking forward to the final stable version of CyanogenMod 10.2 (their take on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean). The final release candidate has been …

HTC One mini banned in the UK after Nokia injunction

Thinking of buying a loved one an HTC One mini for Christmas? You’d better be quick, because as of 6th December they will be taken off the shelves after HTC lost a patent battle with Nokia today. Without getting too technical, there’s a chip in the HTC One …

Google release latest Android distribution chart

Fragmentation. It’s the bane of Android’s life. Not only that, but they have to publish the figures regularly so developers know what they have to account for when coding apps. There’s no hiding from it! This time around we see that KitKat makes an entry with only 1.1% …

Shoppers seek spontaneous splurges

As we head towards Christmas we’re getting sent a number of surveys which relate to the festive season. Today it’s a shopping survey which reveals that we’re more impulsive when using our mobile. Gone are the days of shopping in actual shops and, instead, people are trying “showrooming”. …

Deal agreed to protect customers from mobile “bill shock”

EE, Three, Vodafone and Virgin Media have today agreed to a new cap, proposed by the Government, on mobile bills. We’ve already seen some new measures getting announced, such as the option of ending a contract early if bills are increased mid-contract, but now it’ll be extended. A …

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Lite to be released

The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is many things, but one thing you can’t call it is lite. Well, not until next year anyway, because an industry ‘insider’ has confirmed to fellow tech site SamMobile that there will be a Note 3 variant with lower specs arriving next year. …

Sony Xperia SP down in price

Sure, it’s 2.30 in the afternoon and it’s going dark already, but you can at least cheer yourself up with a Cyber Monday deal on the Sony Xperia SP. We have a full Xperia SP review online already, detailing the 1.7GHz dual-core CPU, 8 megapixel shooter, 4.6″ display …

Two more colour variants of the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 coming

The Samsung Galaxy Note 3, we’ve reviewed it here and there’s still plenty of deals kicking around where you can bag yourself a free tablet or a Galaxy Gear smartwatch when you buy one. Now Samsung have added a couple of new colours – Rose Gold White and …