Category: Mobile phones
iPhone FINALLY gets a Google Calendar app
Finally! After years of having to make do with Apple's lacklustre calendar, Google has finally released an official app for its Calendar service. Apart from better and deeper integration with Google's services, the app's major boon is that it allows easy access to an "agenda" list view - something that Apple has inexplicably made trickier…
Will the iPhone 7 have Force Touch screens?
One of the biggest innovations announced in Monday's Apple presser was the addition of a "Force Touch" trackpad to the new Macbook, which will detect just how hard you're pressing down. Now, it seems, the same technology could be making its way to the iPhone. According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple is planning to…
Android 5.1 to stop connecting to crappy wifi
Have you ever connected to a wifi network, only to find it won't actually load anything? Brilliantly, this is a problem that Google is planning to fix in a forthcoming update to Android. According to Android Police, version 5.1 of the mobile operating system will remember what wifi networks it has connected to only to…
WATCH: Apple actually invented “Continuity” in 2002
One of the biggest new features on the latest iteration of iOS and Mac OS is "continuity" - the ability to make and answer calls from your phone on your computer. But it seems the technology isn't as new as we thought. Way back in 2002, which looks like the stone age in comparison to…
Is there a HTC One M9 *PLUS* on the way?
Less than a week ago HTC finally revealed the HTC One M9 to the world... but we're already hearing rumours of another phone from the company. In this case, the M9 Plus. PhoneArena reports that images have surfaced on China's Weibo service (its a bit like Twitter meets Facebook meets unwavering compliance with China's totalitarian…
Ex-Samsung engineer slags off Samsung’s Galaxy design process
Samsung's phone software is "horrible" and the company only cares about revenue at the expense of making good products - that's the verdict of someone claiming to be a former engineer at the Korean smartphone giant. This post on Quora has the details, which are posted by Rezaur Rahman - who after a quick Google,…
Is Nokia making phones… again?!
Could Nokia be working on a new phone? What once might have been unremarkable is now quite unexpected. So, rewind to last year and you'll remember that Nokia sold its mobile phone business to Microsoft - and gradually the "Nokia" name has been phased out of Microsoft's Windows Phones - hence why we have Microsoft…
Is the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge to come in 64GB as standard in the UK?
Could the S6 Edge come in its 64GB version as standard? That's what seems to be implied by the Samsung UK website. According to SamMobile, Samsung UK's website is only listing the S6 Edge as being available in 64GB and 128GB - with no 32GB (let alone 16GB) versions. The website lists the regular S6…
Blackberry announces “Leap” and “Slider”
Over at MWC, Blackberry has just announced a new handset. Blackberry Leap is a sleek attempt at doing a fully touchscreen phone again. It has a 5" display, 2800mAh battery and runs the Blackberry 10 OS. Whether it will make an impact remains to be seen, though could conceivably be attractive to business users who…
Is there a Samsung Galaxy S6 IRON MAN edition on the way?
The above image has surfaced on social media this morning, purporting to show an Iron Man special edition of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge - which would be the same phone, but with a lovely red and gold finish. Of course, we can't verify that this is real - it could just be a fan…
