The five coolest British made phones ever

Traditionally however in spite of having booming mobile industry and several very large networks – Vodafone leaps to mind – the British haven't been that great at making mobile phones. There has been the odd start up – and you will be blown away by the sheer ambition of some of the handsets – but in the main we have been happy to let the Scandinavians , Koreans, Japanese and more recently the Americans dictate what handset we buy.

APP OFF! App Store vs Ovi vs App World vs Android Market

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As part of this week’s App Store birthday extravaganza, I thought it might be an idea to compare what Apple has put together with all the different mobile program delivery platforms out there.

I may have described the iPhone service as a pile of novelty nonsense – you can throw your rotten fruit and broken 2007 iPhones at me later – but how does it measure up against its peers – BlackBerry’s App World, Nokia’s Ovi and the Android Market?

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The ten greatest Apple products of all time

32 years old and still going strong, Apple has launched a huge range of hardware and software in that time.

Not all of it was great, and there were some very dark years at Apple in between Steve Jobs’ two reigns. Nevertheless, picking the ten greatest Apple products of all time hasn’t been easy.

Here’s my attempt. I’m sure you have your own ideas.

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10 full HD camcorders you can actually afford

Consumer camcorder technology has come on in leaps and bounds in the past couple of years, as evidenced by the number of high definition models we’ve reviewed on Tech Digest.

All that technology doesn’t necessarily come cheap, though. Is it possible to get full HD on a fairly modest (sub-£500) budget?

Here are ten 1080p-capable camcorders that offer you a way in to high definition film-making.

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