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Orange creates phone-charging T-shirt for festival-goers
June 26th, 2011 by Samantha
The telecommunications giant Orange has come up with an innovative solution for festival-goers who find themselves running out of phone charge and with no access to a plug socket. Orange has created the ‘Sound Charge T-Shirt’, a garment fitted with a piezoelectric film material which absorbs festival noise in the form of vibrations and turns [...]
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Pay for your new phone with free online bingo cash
June 16th, 2011 by Isabella
Is your phone looking a bit battered and bruised, in desperate need of replacing? Or do you just have your eye on the very latest smartphone? Unfortunately, most decent phones cost quite a bit of cash, especially if you want one of the very latest, feature-filled models. A great way to raise some extra cash, [...]
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53% of UK phone users don’t think they need online security
June 14th, 2011 by Joseph
According to a new survey conducted by internet security firm Bullguard, a total of 53 per cent of UK phone users said that they didn’t think they needed online security. Bullguard’s researchers spoke to 2,000 people as part of the survey, and found the following: • 49 per cent admitted that they had never had [...]
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Everything Everywhere to open 30 mobile phone stores
June 9th, 2011 by Isabella
Everything Everywhere, the new brand created out of the merged phone companies T-Mobile and Orange, is to open a total of 30 new phone stores in the UK this year. The new Everything Everywhere shops are expected to create around 150 new jobs, and will also have benefits for customers. Visitors to the stores will [...]
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Sony Ericsson Xperia Play launched
June 6th, 2011 by Joseph
Sony Ericsson’s much-anticipated new smartphone, the Xperia Play, has now been released. Whilst being described by its creators as a “smartphone first”, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is really for gamers; specifically, for fans of old-school PlayStation games. The model is forgivably chunky, as it has a 4-inch, 480 x 854 screen, a long-lasting battery [...]
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Mobile phone for the elderly!
June 26th, 2010 by Samantha
A mobile phone called the Geemac phone has gone on sale and is targeted directly at the older generation. The phone has large buttons and a big screen for the short-sighted, has been and is designed to help elderly people who struggle to use modern mobile phones due to finding them far to complex. Many [...]
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Motorola launches new square Flipout mobile phone
June 25th, 2010 by Samantha
There are always new mobile phones launching and I am always intrigued to hear about new phones, with a new modern twist. Motorola are launching a new mobile phone, which flips out and is square in shape. It is being aimed at the younger generation with features which include, a full five line Qwerty keyboard, [...]
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First Symbian 3 device to be released in September
May 30th, 2010 by Samantha
Nokia have announced the N8, their first device to use the Symbian 3 operating system. Due to be released in September 2010, it signals Nokia’s desire to re-enter the smartphone market. The phone features include HDMI output, a 12 megapixel camera, a multi-touch capable capacitive screen, GPS, WiFi and 16GB of memory. These specs put [...]
Tags: nokia n8, symbian
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HTC Incredible around the corner
May 28th, 2010 by Samantha
The HTC Incredible, follow-up to the highly rated HTC Desire, is apparently around the corner in Europe. The phone is already available in the USA as the DROID Incredible, but there has been no concrete date issued as of yet. However, inside sources are claiming that the release of the top-end smartphone could be imminent [...]
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Android 2.2 round the corner?
May 18th, 2010 by Samantha
Google’s Android platform has recently experienced a surge in interest and it looks like there is no sign of it stopping soon, as Google ready themselves to announce the newest version at their developer conference Google I/O tomorrow. The event, held in San Francisco, is a chance for Google to show off their new toys, [...]
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