Tag: smartphones
Best smartphones for 2017
Every year, more smartphones come out offering better specs, bigger screens, superior cameras, newer designs. And every year the question of which phone to buy becomes harder and harder. You want to buy the best phone you can, the one that will match your lifestyle perfectly. But how do you choose? They're all so similar,…
Honor 5X smartphone launches in Europe – one of the cheapest at £189?
The Honor 5X. Costing £189, it's one of the cheapest smartphones on the market Chinese brand Honor has launched its 5X smartphone in Europe in Munich, Germany. Featuring fingerprint technology and boasting a metal finish it's available in three colours – gold, silver and grey – for £189.99. Billed as one…
NJ Poker on Apple’s app store
NJ Poker is available to download free from Apple's app store. It is available for iPad and iPhone users In association with 888 Poker Poker games on Apple's iTunes App Store are booming so we thought we'd introduce one of these featured poker apps to our readers: 888poker NJ. It combines…
Moto X Force – the world’s first shatterproof phone. Perfect for the clumsy!
Every two seconds a smartphone screen shatters, and what’s worse, according to a recent survey, roughly one-in-five users are currently using a device with a cracked or shattered screen. Enter the new Moto X Force, featuring Moto ShatterShield. Billed as the world's first shatterproof smartphone display, the Moto X Force display is made of an integrated…
Germany’s Gigaset unveils trio of smartphones
German company GIGASET has become a surprise entrant in the smartphone arena. At its press conference in Berlin on Tuesday it unveiled three new smartphones - the ME and ME Pure, both of which sport five inch screens, and the larger ME Pro which boasts a 5.5inch screen. The German company, which is a huge…
Yahoo launches messaging app to compete with WhatsApp, Snapchat
Not sure the world exactly needs a new messaging app. But that's exactly what it does have now thanks to the launch of Livetext. Having decided to refocus its brand on mobile and video after losing ground in the search engine market, Yahoo (when did it drop the exclamation mark?) unveiled its new messing app to a…
Britons still prefer to watch television live – on their TVs
As our "second" screens get smaller while our TV screens get larger, it seems that the old adage that "bigger is better" just might hold true. Some new research has shown that despite the growth in watching television via a PC, tablet or smartphone, 90 per cent of viewers still regularly use the TV to…
Water may soon be used to charge your phone
Smartphones and water are not normally best buddies - as anyone who has dropped their handset in the loo can attest - but that all may change soon thanks to some clever scientists. It seems that researchers at MIT (aka the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) could well have have found a way to harness the…
HTC One M8 Review: HTC’s metal monolith turns it up to 11
With the HTC One (M7) being one of the most popular HTC phones of all time, the M8 had a big case to fill. But HTC have outdone themselves, adding a staggering amount of impressive features, both in hardware and software. This is a flagship phone in every way, and it really is almost flawless.…
Samsung unveils three new Galaxy phones – the Trend 2, Core 2 and Young 2
Samsung has announced three new models for its Galaxy line of smartphones in the UK – the Galaxy Trend 2, Galaxy Core 2 and Galaxy Young 2. Samsung says that the Galaxy Trend 2 – called the Galaxy Ace 4…
