Virgin Atlantic to allow mobiles to be used in flight
“Where are you?”
Virgin Atlantic passengers will soon be able to use their mobile phones while flying with the airline, thanks to its new Aeromobile initiative.
Rather than use the onboard satellite phones that tend to put a serious dent in your credit card, passengers will be able to use their own mobiles for around the same [...]
BlackBerry Curve 9320 pictures and hands-on
Baby BB curves explored
The BlackBerry Curve 9320 is the new baby of the BB Curve family, effectively replacing the popular 9300, or BlackBerry Curve 3G as it was otherwise known.
The new model is designed to appeal to those looking to make their first foray into the world of smartphones, pitched as an ideal set-up handset [...]
Sony Xperia GX and Xperia SX announced for Japan, could take on Samsung and HTC over here?
13-megapixel camera
Sony Mobile Communications has announced two new smartphones for Japan, the first to carry just the Sony branding. The Sony Xperia GX and Xperia SX handsets are both LTE enabled, come with dual core 1.5GHz processors, Reality Displays powered by the Sony Bravia engine, and the Sony Exmor R sensor for picture taking and [...]
White LG Optimus L7 with Ice Cream Sandwich on sale in UK today
We’ll have chocolate sprinkles on ours
Announced for roll-out across Europe this week, the white edition of the LG Optimus L7 will actually be available in the UK from today, through?Phones 4u. The device is one of LG’s mid-range handsets and comes pre-installed with Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) from the box.
Other key specifications for the [...]
Best iPhone games: shooters
State of the art bang bang
The best iPhone apps are often the games. It’s probably the largest category in the App Store and they’re the one’s that seem to come and go on our handsets more frequently than any others as each in turn is downloaded, mastered and discarded. The bottom line is that you’re [...]
Nokia no longer biggest handset maker as Samsung ends 14-year reign
Samsung top dog
Samsung is now the biggest-selling mobile manufacturer in the world, with the Korean company overtaking Finnish giant Nokia.?
It’s the first time in 14-years that Nokia hasn’t remained on the top spot as the manufacturer has struggled to maintain dominance in the wake of Android and Apple devices.?
According to an industry study, Samsung shipped [...]
Microsoft makes Marketplace changes: No more Zune apps and Windows Phone 7.5 Mango update now essential
Microsoft explains why
Windows Phone users will soon no longer be able to buy apps for their device from the Zune PC software.
It’s the first of two changes Microsoft is implementing, the second being that to buy any new apps, or to update existing ones, your device must be running on Windows Phone 7.5 Mango.?
Apps will [...]
Nokia goes all humble and promises fix for Lumia 900 memory management issue
Update on 16 April
Nokia has admitted that there’s a fault with the Lumia 900 and has promised a fix on 16 April or thereabouts. The phone, which is coming to the UK on 27 April, so will be fixed before release, launched in the US with a massive light show and concert in Times Square [...]
APP OF THE DAY: SMS Backup+ review (Android)
Does what it says on the tin
Remember the bad old days of copying contacts from your phone memory to your SIM card and back again when you got a new phone? Then came syncing with your computer and now, blissfully, we’ve moved almost all of this to the cloud.
The problem of backing-up the content of [...]
Rumoured LG D1L pitched as Samsung Galaxy S III rival
Flagship phone set for May unveiling?
LG hasn’t had the greatest of successes of late, despite releasing smartphones that look promising on paper. Despite setting out a competitive run of handsets at MWC 2012 in Barcelona, it looks like the Korean company is lining up another handset aiming at the high-end, as if the LG Optimus [...]
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