Archive for the ‘General’ Category
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, it [...]
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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 the [...]
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 as [...]
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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, tools [...]
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The £10 phone – is it worth it?
May 12th, 2010 by Samantha
As you may have seen, recently the cheap economy phone has come back into vogue. Handsets costing as little as £10 are now available in most supermarkets, offering the basic functions you’d expect from a phone: voice calls, text messaging and some ability to store phone numbers. Are they actually worth it though?
I’d say a [...]
Tags: economy
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Android outsells iPhone for the first time
May 10th, 2010 by Samantha
The Android smartphone platform has been going from strength to strength lately, with the range of devices supporting it ever expanding to cover every bit of the market from the entry-level user to the alpha geek who must have the top end of everything. But that doesn’t stop the news that it has outsold the [...]
Tags: android, iphone
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First Open Source Symbian phone to launch
April 30th, 2010 by Samantha
The Symbian OS is one which many people will have had experience with over the years. Once the mainstay of the higher-end phone market, its market share has been nibbled away with the advent of the smartphone. Last year we saw a host of mobile phone companies including Nokia and Motorola band together to release [...]
Tags: nokia, nokia n8, open source, symbian
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Prototype iPhone plot thickens
April 28th, 2010 by Samantha
The other day the internet was set ablaze by the leaking of the new iPhone prototype, apparently left in a bar by an Apple tech. It then went on to be picked up by someone who sold the item to tech news site Gizmodo for $5,000. Now it appears the police are involved.
The story is [...]
Tags: apple, gizmodo, iphone, law
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New iPhone creates questions
April 22nd, 2010 by Samantha
Gizmodo seem to have got their hands on a prototype of the new iPhone due out later this year. However, the means by which they obtained the phone is causing a bit of a stir.
According to their own stories posted over the course of the last few days, they claim that an Apple employee who [...]
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