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Windows Phone 8 vs BlackBerry 10: The battle for third
April 19, 2013 Simon Hill
To say that Android and iOS are popular mobile platforms is something of an understatement. According to IDC research Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android accounted for 87.6 percent of all the smartphones shipped worldwide in 2012. That figure may be [...]
Read more »Explorers start sharing Google Glass videos, looks awesome
Andrew Boxall
Glass is the name of Google’s futuristic, computer head wear, which features a heads-up display mounted in front of your eyes on a traditional spectacle frame. It was officially introduced last year at Google’s Google I/O conference, where developers with [...]
Read more »Is Facebook Home worth getting excited about?
April 12, 2013 Simon Hill
There’s a good chance that you have a Facebook account and an Android smartphone. If you do then the new Facebook Home release is aimed at you. It is effectively an overlay, or launcher, for Android that focusses your smartphone [...]
Read more »What’s the best budget tablet?
April 5, 2013 Simon Hill
Now that everyone has a smartphone, the market is starting to slow down. Demand has moved on to the next big thing and right now that’s tablets. Wearable tech, like smart watches, might be on the horizon, but today we’re [...]
Read more »4G arrives in the UK, but what does it mean?
March 22, 2013 Simon Hill
The fourth generation (4G for short) of mobile broadband services is starting to roll out across the UK right now. It is based on LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology and, in simple terms, it provides faster and more reliable internet [...]
Read more »Protecting your mobile phone data if your phone is lost or stolen
March 20, 2013 Jenny Simpson
Our mobile phones contain so much information about ourselves, it’s no wonder there’s so much stress if they go missing. What should you do if your phone is lost or stolen? Which apps can help protect you, or even track [...]
Read more »Best smartphones on the horizon
March 15, 2013 Simon Hill
The smartphone revolution has pushed past one billion devices and it’s still going strong. There are new smartphones hitting the market all the time. In this article we’re going to take a look at the best devices on the horizon, [...]
Read more »The race for second place in Android
March 8, 2013 Simon Hill
Android has a comfortable lead in the smartphone market with iOS in second place and BlackBerry 10 battling Windows Phone 8 for third. Around 70 percent of all the smartphones sold worldwide in the last three months of 2012 were [...]
Read more »Google celebrates the Play store’s birthday with gifts for everyone
March 6, 2013 Andrew Boxall
Today, March 6, marks the one-year anniversary of the Android Market becoming Google Play and to celebrate, Google has arranged for some of its favourite developers to give its loyal users some free gifts. The Android Market had been in [...]
Read more »Battery problems and re-charging solutions
Jenny Simpson
In the latest part of our series of posts about what to do when you have problems with your mobile phone we’re looking at batteries and re-charging issues. What can you do to lengthen battery life? Are you wasting energy [...]
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