Samsung, fresh from their titanic lawsuit with Apple, are pressing forward with their great work in recent years in display technology, by filing for a patent on an intriguing tri-fold flexible display, it has emerged. PatentBolt have reported that a recent Samsung IP paper outs the patent, and …
Last month it was announced by Apple that the app store had passed the 700 thousand apps mark. Well, in the spirit of true competition, Google has now also announced that the Play store has now also passed the 700,000 apps number. With the announcement of the new …
So yesterday we had the Android 4.2 Swype like keyboard leak and today we have the Camera leaking with landscape and portrait panorama and the awesome looking sphere camera. If you haven’t checked out the videos by the Verge of their visit to Mountain View where they …
Recently CoversandCases got in touch and asked us to review one of their new Moshi iGlaze cases for the iPhone 5. As always, for our readers benefit we jumped at the chance. It arrived a couple of days after, let me tell you about it. The first thing …
There has been much chagrin and consternation around the removal of Google maps from iOS. Reports of Apple’s new mapping app vary from excellent to useless and the outcry was enough to provoke a public apology from Apple and also contributed to the removal of Scott Forstall …
Recently the Android version of Lookout underwent a major overhaul and redesign. Part of this relaunch included the introduction of Signal Flare. Signal Flare is an added protection against lost and stolen phones that automatically flags your phone’s location when the battery gets really low. That way if …
We loved the Ascend P1. A great design (albeit quite similar to the Galaxy S2), a great price and no clutter in the OS. Now Phones 4u have announced that they’ll be doing the pearly white version exclusively. It’s up for £299.95 on pay-as-you-go or for as little …
Tapatalk has been around for a while now and updates keep coming. Using an iPhone 5 I welcomed this one. Now the app uses the full resolution of the new iPhone. Along with optimisation for the iPhone 5 they have also included stability and bug fixes. The improvements …
If you’re out and fancy a beet, there’s always a chance you’ll need a proof of ID. This, if you’re as young-looking as me, is a pain. Ben Pearson has got in touch with us after he created an age-verification app called Idezy. Working with Validate, the app …
We’ve long wondered what sort of sales numbers the Nexus 7 has been achieving and now we have our answer. Sort of. Asustek CFO David Chang told the Wall Street Journal “At the beginning, it was, for instance, 500K units a month, then maybe 600, 700K. This latest …
You’ve seen the news and the TV reports. A reporter, stood inside or next to an EE store slap-bang in the centre of London or Manchester. He lifts the handset, does a speed test and tells us how great 4G is. I could have done the same, but …
ZTE yesterday announced that they had become the 4th biggest smartphone manufacturer in the world during the third quarter of 2012, according to IDC. ZTE shipped 7.5 million smartphones in the third quarter of 2012, closely following RIM with only 0.1 percentage points between them. Number 5 in …
Remember the keyboard with the fancy Swype-esque functionality in the preview video for the Google Nexus 4? Well it’s available to download now. Now we should advise that keyboards can track inputs and send them to others for nefarious purposes, so proceed at your own risk. Still, it …
More red hot styli action coming at you, this time courtesy of Studio Neat’s Cosmonaut stylus. As you’d no doubt have seen if you frequent the site, a while back I covered the Zoogue Stylus and more recently covered the Applydea Maglus Stylus. Two very different styli, at …
Well, the rumours of a short delay have now been proven totally false and we are glad to be able to tell you the the HTC One X+ is now available to buy! The handset, an update on the acclaimed HTC One X comes complete with 64gb internal …
The other day ZTE and Virgin Mobile announced the new white version of the Kis. Their hugely popular “record breaking” Kis is an entry level 3.5″ device and we’ve had it for a couple of days and here is our initial impressions. Starting off with good and bad …
The Acer Iconia A110 has sort of arrived on the scene with barely an announcement. It was up for pre-order on Ebuyer for a while and then it just suddenly came into stock. A few weeks later and we have one here on our desk. Hailed by some …
Fast paced. Two words that sum up the mobile industry. HTC were, until fairly recently, riding high, but now share-price is heading to its lowest level for 7 years. Bloomberg are reporting that HTC dropped 7% to NT$219.50 after missing forecasts. Now analysts are starting to pitch in. …
Our friends over at Three to let us know that the recently announced 3G version of the popular Nexus 7 tablet should soon be available on a variety of tariffs. Although there is no mention of when or how much, we’ll bring you further info as and when. …
If you are visiting the high street here in the UK today you may well notice a brand new name. With two yellow circles on a grey background, shop windows with no posters and clean fresh lines all over the place, the new brand that is EE has …
