A prototype new BlackBerry operating system, designed to bring the struggling Smartphone range up-to-date with its Android and iPhone rivals, has been unveiled and released to app developers early. Followers of Blackberry should not start looking for the ‘phone in the shops though, this is a prototype device created for the purpose of testing BlackBerry [...]
Mobile Phones Archive
4th May 2012
Samsung Galaxy S3, will this rival the iPhone?
Samsung’s pervious model, the Galaxy S2, proved to be very popular within the mobile market. The phone competed alongside market dominators such as Apple’s IPhone 4S. So what made the phone so special? Samsung managed to create a phone with a very powerful processor, alongside the ability to download apps and a very developed camera [...]
28th April 2012
Motorola mobile phones and their many features
Motorola offers a host of different mobile phones depending on what exactly you are looking for. There are many different styles of phones, such as the candy bar, slider, or the clamshell style that also proves popular. A number of the Motorola mobile phones have many standard features including a camera and video. Some of [...]
22nd April 2012
Mobile shortage looms
There is talk in the newsrooms that a shortage of mobile ‘phones is imminent due to a problem that has been highlighted by Qualcomm, the world’s leading supplier of Smartphone and tablet processors, who says it is unable to keep up with the global demand for its chips. The US firm, whose S4 Snapdragon processor [...]
20th April 2012
Bug hits new Nokia Lumia 900 Smartphone
Reports are coming in that a bug has affected one of the Nokia Smartphones, the newest which, although not yet released here has just been seen in the tech shops in the US. The ‘phone is the Lumia 900 and is seen as Nokia’s strongest attempt to take on Apple and Google. According to reports, [...]
14th April 2012
The Sony Xperia S smartphone
The Sony Xperia S smartphone was launched in the UK in spring 2012. It is unique, in that it is the first phone introduced by Sony since the company bought out Swedish telecommunications giant, Ericsson. The outstanding feature of any Sony Xperia S review is the all singing and dancing screen to which Sony have [...]
26th March 2012
What is so special about an Android phone?
Choosing the right mobile phone really is a matter of deciding what you want out of your mobile phone. There are many different types of Android phones on the market today and all have varying features that suit different users. An Android phone is essentially one that runs on the Google operating system called ‘Android’, [...]
17th March 2012
Free apps will drain your battery
Free mobile apps which use third-party services to display advertising consume considerably more battery life, a new study suggests. Everyone likes to have a “freebee” but do we have to suffer because of them. Some research has been done and in this the researchers used a special tool to monitor use by several of the [...]
2nd March 2012
Budget phones for 2012
Whilst the iPhone may have captured the headlines in 2012, it’s not generally a handset aimed at the budget end of the market. However, users looking to pay less than £100 for a handset off the shelf in 2012 will be spoiled for choice anyway. For example, the Nokia Lumia 710 uses the user-friendly Windows [...]
25th February 2012
A Review of the Sony Xperia S
The Sony Xperia S is Sony’s most recent phone to bear the Xperia name (and the first to be branded just Sony, rather than Sony Ericsson), and the Android handset doesn’t disappoint. An intuitive design complete with autorotate, the handset comes in black or white, and offers around 8 hours talk time with over 400 [...]