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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tags: apple, iphone
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iPhone OS 4 details released
April 20th, 2010 by Samantha
Apple have announced the latest version of their mobile phone OS, iPhone OS 4, adding features customers have wanted for quite a while such as multitasking, custom wallpapers, a new Game Center (a service similar to Microsoft’s Xbox Live) and new e-mail and enterprise features. While Apple are up against ever-increasing competition, with Microsoft launching [...]
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