Category: Smartphones
Motorola launches new budget moto g22 smartphone
Motorola has unveiled the latest addition to the moto g family, the moto g22. Equipped with a 50MP quad-camera system, a fluid 6.5" 90 Hz Max Vision display and a long-lasting 5,000 mAh battery, it will be available from mid-March for £139. Motorola claims that with the new moto g22 users can experience sharper, more…
Nearly half of all Brits rely on smartphone to make payments, claims report
Mobile reseller Buymobiles conducted a nationwide survey on the UK’s payment method habits. Findings showed an overwhelming 70% of participants preferred using cashless payment methods over actual cash. 63% of participants also think that using cashless payments is more helpful when it comes to keeping track of spending. Nearly half of respondents would leave their…
6 in 10 adults couldn’t cope longer than a day without their phone
Nokia phones appear in battery emergency SOS Boxes to showcase the 3-day battery life of the Nokia G11 and Nokia G21 Six in 10 adults ‘couldn’t cope’ longer than a day without their mobile phone, a new study has found. A survey of 2,000 smartphone users found three in 10 never…
Cheese and onion crisps top snack for streaming content
In what seems like perhaps the weirdest - and most pointless - survey in a long time, EE has revealed which snacks we like to eat while watching a TV show or film on our smartphones. No surprise that crisps come out top (41%), though - perhaps more surprisingly - Cheese and Onion are the…
Virgin Media O2 customers will not face EU roaming charges
Virgin Media O2 has announced that its phone users will not face roaming charges in Europe this year after other networks announced there would be an extra fee. From January EE and Vodafone will charge its customers for data roaming, and Three will reintroduce the charges in May. However, customers with Virgin Media and O2 contracts will be able…
O2 launches ‘Phone Retriever’ to fight digital exclusion
O2 in partnership with charity Hubbub has launched its ‘Phone Retriever’ service to encourage the public to rehome their old smartphones and fight digital exclusion this Christmas. As part of O2’s ‘Rehome Your Phone’ campaign, golden retrievers and social media stars Hugo and Huxley will act as Santa’s little helpers by collecting devices in Greenwich…
Norway tops Europe’s e-waste league table, UK in second
Norwegians are the biggest culprits in Europe when it comes to electronic waste, or e-waste, guilty of generating an estimated 57kg per household annually - the same weight as six microwave ovens. That's according to research from Clear It Waste Removal. The UK is in second position with British households guilty of producing an estimated…
3 million people called by stranger contacting previous mobile owner
Three million people have been called by a stranger trying to contact the previous owner of their mobile number, according to price comparison site USwitch.com. Nearly a fifth of Brits (19%) have been called or messaged by someone trying to get in touch with an ex-partner, while one in seven (15%) were contacted by someone…
Xiaomi announces 5G phones, including 11T and 11T Pro
At a real-life launch, held at London's prestigious BAFTA venue and attended by Tech Digest, Chinese phone brand Xiaomi announced a new range of 5G enabled smartphones. And while you've probably never heard, or only vaguely heard, of the brand, Xiaomi - pronounced shau-mee - it is in fact the second-biggest mobile phone manufacturer in…
Mobile phone demand lower than pre-pandemic levels, but recovery due
The mobile phone market continues its recovery in 2021 following the Covid-induced slump in 2020, but is still lacking the momentum to get back to pre-pandemic levels. This is according to a new forecast published by technology analyst firm CCS Insight, which expects 1.65 billion mobile phones (or 52 phones every second) to be sold…
