Editorial – Microsoft hands power back to the networks?

I’m worried, and I’ll tell you why. Back in 2002 Microsoft emailed me after reading some of the stuff I’d put on the web. The first Microsoft Smartphones were hitting the market and I’d added some critical but constructive posted about it. They respected this, and they wanted …

O2 BoostBox Review & Setup

UK network O2 have a new product in testing and that is a Femtocell.  If you do not know what one of these is then consider it a portable mast you plug into your home WiFi network to give you fill 3G signal all around your house even …

Sony Ericsson dangles the carrot

Lord knows what’s going on now. We thought originally that Sony Ericsson were teasing us with a possible Windows Phone, then we changed our minds and figured that it was probably the Android-powered Arc HD which would make an appearance at CES. Now, with this further image posted …

CES – LG Spectrum to be announced

Another CES leak. How hard can it be to keep a product under wraps until a big event? Anyway LG and Verizon have released some info about the successor to the LG 2X. It is a 4G LTE device but hopefully a GSM variant will come to the …

HTC profits drop by a quarter

Not brilliant news for HTC, especially just a month before Mobile World Congress… Profits have dipped by 25% in the last quarter. HTC has faced stiff competition from Samsung and Apple, with Nokia also above them in the smartphone maker leaderboard. Sales fell in December by 20.3% but …

CES – Velocity Mobile to debut two tablets

CES is due to start in the US in a few days. For some reason manufacturers are desperate to announce their products before the actual event. Velocity Mobile have announced two tablets a 7″ and a 10″ tablet that will come with Ice Cream Sandwich installed. Even though the …

Galaxy Nexus 32GB coming to Expansys soon

Storage. There’s just never enough. Cast your mind back to 2005 when the Samsung SGH-i300 came out. Powered by Windows Mobile it had a hard drive on board. Yes, you heard right… a hard drive on a phone. Now, try not to laugh here, because this seemed like …

My thoughts on Ice Cream Sandwich

I’ve been using ICS for about a week now on my Nexus S and feel I have enough experience with it to note down my impressions. This isn’t a structured review by any means, just my comments on things I like and dislike. UI/Feel I love the new …

Pre-order the Acer A200 for £299

Come on, it’s not the end of the sales yet. Look at the guys at DFS, they only have one week in the year when their sale isn’t on 🙂 Anyway, the people at Very are having a sale. They’ve reduced the price of many Acer tablets… .. …

Samsung Galaxy M Style announced

  Samsung have just announced the Galaxy M, launched in South Korea yesterday. No news of when it’ll come our way, if at all, but it looks like a nice, capable mid-range smartphone. As you can see from the photo, it’s running Gingerbread and has a decent enough spec …

Signature needed on a Word document? No problem!

Have you ever been sent a Word document that needs your Signature? There’s a couple of ways of getting around this issue. You could print the document, sign it, scan it back in, then email it back.. Or you could print it, sign it and fax it. However, …

CES – Motorola announce the MOTOLUXE

Motorola have just announced the MOTOLUXE over at CES in Las Vegas which is another android handset with a large touch screen and decent set of specifications.  Packing a 4 inch corner to corner display and an 8 megapixel camera the MOTOLUXE looks quite an appealing choice. Other …

CES – Motorola DEFY MINI Announced

You’ve seen the Motorola DEFY, you’ve had the Motorola DEFY+ .. now, shrink it down and you get this, the Motorola DEFY MINI. Motorola have just announced two new phones, this being one of them. The DEFY MINI is dustproof and water-resistant just like the earlier models. We’re …

Samsung Galaxy SII on Orange now with NFC

The Samsung Galaxy SII is amazing. We know that, you know that. However, when Orange (and Barclaycard) launched their “contactless payment” service the Galaxy SII wasn’t listed as a supported handset. Actually, there weren’t a great deal of phones supporting the “touch to pay” system. To do this …

White Galaxy Nexus Due Next Month

Clove have reported today that the popular Samsung Galaxy Nexus which recently launched will be coming out in white from next month here in the UK (February). Priced just under £500 this gives anyone interested in the Nexus an interesting choice of colour now. Over on the Clove …

App review: IsoSketch for iPad

Worth mentioning first off that I am in no way artistic so when I first saw this I wondered, ‘what’s the point’? I do love isometric drawings and all sorts of 3D so was intrigued but not quite sure what I’d actually use it for. As most techie …

Original Asus Transformer to get Ice Cream Sandwich at some point!

Asus UK have announced on Facebook that their original Transformer tablet will get an update to Ice Cream Sandwich at some point in the future. Don’t you just love these announcements? Hopefully the asap bit means only a few days after the Prime release. Which is meant to …

HTC Getting ready for MWC

More power! Single core CPU’s? Pah, they’re yesterdays news. Digitimes reckon that HTC will be rocking up in Barcelona with many disk and quad-core CPU’s inside their spanky new phones. The HTC Edge is going to be one of them but there’s now rumours of Tegra 3 (quad …

Which Android are you running?

Over at Android Developers, some interesting numbers have come to light. Do we all know what Android OS we’re running on our devices, and do we care? It would appear that more than half the worlds Android devices (54.9% to be precise) are TWO full generations of the …

Asus Prime now selling in the UK

Are you after a Asus Transformer Prime? Are you in the UK? It probably worth checking this thread over at xda-developers . It looks like units are starting to fly off the shelves from PC World and Currys. It seems that the larger PC World stores are the …