Category: Mobile phones
Is BT buying EE for £12.5bn good or bad for consumers?
What's the news? BT is getting back into mobile. Years ago BT sold off its BT Cellnet mobile arm to Spanish firm Telefonica, which rebranded it as O2... but BT has confirmed that it is buying EE for £12.5bn. Of course, big money deals with big companies take a long time, so don't expect to…
Windows 10 for Phones preview coming this month?
It looks like early adopters could be playing with Windows 10 for Phones as early as this month - as Microsoft has been hinting at a preview release. The news comes via IB Times, which reports this rumour on the basis of Microsoft denying a more specific rumour, suggesting the preview would land today. In…
WATCH: Awful HTC rap video (!)
If you're going to sell out, at least do it in style - that appears to be the message from PM Dawn's Doc G, who has taken the corporate cash to shill for HTC, in a cringeworthy rap video. "Hold the Crown" features lyrics about the HTC One M8's power saving mode - and how…
iPin will turn your phone into a laser pointer
Ever wanted to use your phone to control a Powerpoint presentation? Or how about as a laser pointer to wind up your cat? Then you might need the iPin. Its a super tiny device, plugging into the headphone socket on iPhone - and will then beam a laser when you press a button in the…
Microsoft Lumia 535 arrives in the UK – here’s where to get it
Microsoft has announced that the Lumia 535 is now available in the UK. The mid-range phone runs Windows Phone 8.1, and sports a 5" 960x540 display, a 1.2ghz quadcore Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 processor, 8GB of storage - as well as a 5MP rear and 5MP front-facing camera. Here's how Microsoft's press release describes some of…
Third party support comes to Google Now
Google has added support for a number of non-Google services to its creepily prescient "Google Now" service, which serves up "cards" relevant to whatever the service thinks you need. For example, if you're about to get on a plane it will show you your boarding card from your inbox, and before a meeting will show…
Dixons Carphone is to launch a mobile network
Dixons Carphone - the company that was formed by the merger of Dixons (Currys/PC World) and Carphone Warehouse has announced its intentions to start its own mobile phone network. The new network will be a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), leasing space from the Three network. Dixons claims that the new network will "bring innovative…
Is Microsoft making a back-up plan by investing in Cyanogen?
Perhaps the most intriguing news of the day is that Microsoft has bought a minority investment in Cyanogen Inc - the company that is behind the popular Android "fork" CyanogenMod. CyanogenMod doesn't come as standard on normal Android phones - instead it is an open source alternative to Google's version of Android that can be…
Huawei Ascend P8 coming in April
Huawei will be launching a new flagship smartphone in April - the Ascend P8 - and it will be makings its debut in London. According to Gizmodo UK, the company won't be announcing this year's iteration at Mobile World Congress, which is being held a month earlier in March because there the focus will be…
Sky planning to launch a mobile network
Sky has announced plans to move into mobile phones - having secured access to create a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), piggybacking on the O2 network. As an MVNO, Sky won't be building its own phone masts or anything like that - but it is leasing space from Telefonica, which owns O2 - similar to…
