Month: April 2013
Hands on with the Camera Demon – a must for outdoor sports lovers
So you fancy taking images and recording video on the slopes - or whatever scary outdoor pursuit that takes your fancy - but you don't want to spend cash on an action cam when you have a perfectly good compact camera at home. What do you do? Well a cool little accessory that is marketed…
John Lewis offers free six months broadband with your gadget
I'd always thought that one day soon hardware manufacturers would be giving their gadgets away with deals for broadband or subscriptions to services. Now it appears that I have got it wrong and the deals are the other way round. Retailer John Lewis has announced that if you buy an internet enabled product from the…
Nokia's Catwalk – high-end aluminium phone – gets leaked
More Nokia rumours this morning. A Chinese site is touting some pictures which it claims show the next generation Nokia smartphone which has been nicknamed the Catwalk. It has that moniker as, to give the handset a more premium feel it is finished in iPhone 5 style aluminium. The phone will be an upgrade on…
Nokia to release a Phablet to rival the Samsung Galaxy Note
The FT has a rumour this morning that yet another manufacturer is about to unleash a Phablet - or a phone with a big screen as non-techies call it. The paper reports sources that say that the company will not only have a Phablet to rival the very successful Samsung Galaxy Note range but also…
Sony Xperia SP on its way to UK via Three
One of the most impressive looking mobiles we have seen in quite a while is the Sony Xperia SP. The phone, which was unveiled last month, is a cut down version of the also very impressive Sony Xperia Z with a smaller screen (4.6inches as opposed to 5inches) and slightly lower specification. It does though…
Apple iPhone 5S, low cost iPhone and iPhone 6 delayed says analyst. But is he right?
Last week we ran a story in which Ming-chi Kuo of KGI Securities suggested that Apple was having serious issues with its range of products for 2013 and that there might be delays in getting them to market. This has now been confirmed by another source who came to the view that the iPhone 5S,…
Massive battery life, super loud ringtone… Is this the ultimate festival phone?
Here is a very smart bit of PR. It revolves around the amplicomms M6900 which as you probably don't know is a basic mobile phone aimed at those who are hard of hearing. Well in a very clever twist its makers are rebiling it as a festival phone. Leave your smartphone at home - they…
Facebook Home coming to iPhone – or is it?
There's a good bit of gossip over at Bloomberg. The news site has a scoop on the future of Facebook Home - apparently it is coming to Apple's iPhone. The user interface, which has been optimised to work with Android devices and debuted on the HTC First could hit the iPhone later in the year.…
YoWindow – the cutest iPhone weather app so far
Weather forecasting apps tend to be a little dull don't they? Well hoping to change all that is YoWindow an app for the iPhone which goes live today in the US and hopefully the UK too. It is a sweet little app in that the scene in the app mirrors the wether you are currently…
Apple iPhone 5S to feature 12 mega pixel camera?
There is a lot of speculation about the upcoming Apple iPhone 5S, but one thing is a certainty and this it will have a better camera than the one on the iPhone 5. But how much better? To keep up with the Samsung Galaxy S4 (to say nothing of the Sony Xperia Z) it will…
