Category: Mobile phones
Google ceases production of Nexus 5
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Google has confirmed that it won't making any more new Nexus 5 handsets. The news comes just weeks after the release of the Nexus 6 - which has a massive 5.9" screen, so if you want the (slightly) more diminutive Nexus 5, you better get on it quickly. According to TechRadar, only the…
EE ends “Orange Wednesdays” 2-for-1 cinema promotion after ten years
EE is to end its special offer on cinema tickets, after failing to agree a new deal with cinema's industry body. According to Marketing Magazine EE wanted to roll the promotion, which started life as Orange Wednesdays back before the Orange/T-Mobile merger, into a broader promotion focusing on digital... and obviously digital scares the life…
WATCH: Oppo R5 smashing a walnut
Fair play to Oppo, which isn't the most well known phone maker - if you want to get noticed it turns out that the best way to do is to post a video of your product smashing some stuff. To show off how tough the R5 is, the company used it to smash a watermelon,…
Quick! Here’s how to buy a OnePlus One phone without an invite!
Just in time for Christmas, OnePlus has started selling its much sought-after phone, the OnePlus One without the need for an invite to do so. The Chinese company claims that the all orders should arrive in time for Christmas too - which means you can conceivably pick up an impressively high-spec phone for only £229.…
Could BT be buying O2 THIS WEEK?
It looks like BT could be buying itself an early Christmas present, if reports are to be believed that its purchase of O2 is imminent. We heard a few weeks ago that BT was mulling buying back its old mobile arm (BT used to own Cellnet, which became O2), but according to This Is Money,…
Why You Need a Mobile Payment Processor
This is a partnered post. When talking about mobile payment processing, what comes to mind? A small device you plug into your phone or tablet that lets people swipe credit and debit cards? Or perhaps you think of the company behind those devices and how they function with the cloud in accepting payments from a…
Karbonn announces the “A5S” phone. Let’s not start calling it the “Ass Phone”
Karbonn mobile has announced its new budget Android handset is now available on Amazon in the UK. The A5S is a dual-SIM, KitKat device with a 4" screen and 5MP camera. So far, so standard - but what, sticks out to us is the name. Phone companies often give products "serial number" sounding names to…
Blackphone launching a “privacy focused” app store
Blackphone is hoping to lure business users with promises of a more secure app store, it has emerged. According to The Guardian, the store which will launch in January will carry out a higher degree of vetting on potential apps - checking that they actually do what they say they will. This means that if…
Can Vodafone bring phone calls into the 21st century with HD Voice?
This is a sponsored post. Since mobile phones were first invented around thirty year ago, the technology has changed perhaps faster than we could ever have imagined - and our phones are now an essential tool to be carried everywhere. We've gone from bricks attached to a suitcase to an ultra-thin iPhone 6, sporting a…
Nexus 6 launches TODAY on O2
O2 has announced that the Nexus 6 is available on its network... from today! So get on it if you want one! The phone itself is Google's latest own-branded Android handset and is the company's first phablet - coming with a 5.9" screen. There's also a 13 megapixel camera, and of course it runs Android…
