Month: September 2014
People will go to extreme lengths to get an iPhone 6 on launch day
Did you miss out on a pre-order that will get you an Phone 6 on Friday? You're on luck, you can get hold of an iPhone 6 on launch day. You just have to be willing to pay an obscene amount of money to get one. People have been selling off iPhone 6 pre-orders on…
24 iPhone 5 cases from your favourite fashion brands
[nextpage title="Next"] If the launch of the iPhone 6 is making yours feel a bit last season, we can help. Your phone might not be the new kid on the block, but it's been around long enough to be styled by some of the world's biggest, most fabulous fashion houses. Which means you can give it…
Phones 4U has confirmed all iPhone 6 pre-orders are cancelled
Sadly, high street phone chain Phones 4U has gone into administration, putting its future into jeopardy. While there will be no negative repercussions on people who have contracts through the company, it turns out that anyone who ordered an iPhone 6 is having their order cancelled. In a statement to The Huffington Post UK, a…
The Flame Base Layer is a wearable that’ll control your temperature
Just in time for winter, here’s a new wearable that can heat you up when it’s cold outside (or inside, for that matter) and then cool you down again once your body’s adjusted. Unsurprisingly, it comes to us from Canada. (And from Engadget, where we first spotted it.) Alex Huang and Jason Yakimovich, engineers from…
Chrome for Mac will only be 64-bit as of November
Those of you who use Chrome on a Mac that doesn't have a 64-bit operating system might want to look for an upgrade, otherwise you're going to find yourself cut off from the internet come November. According to Google when the 64-bit version of Chrome launches in November, the 32-bit version of the browser is set to…
The week in hashtags: #Phones4U, #WhyIStayed, #LFW and more
#Phones4U After its final remaining network EE cut ties with the company on Sunday night, Phones4U has gone into administration. The store may have been one of the less soothing retail experiences out there, about on par estate agents and the Primark returns queue, but with 720 outlets the cheap and cheerful mobile merchants were…
A 27-inch 5K iMac could be released by the end of the year
We've heard an awful lot about the iPhone 6 and the Apple Watch recently, but what about Apple's other products? What about the Macs that kicked off the company's success all those years ago? We heard some rumours at the end of July about a 4K 27-inch iMac display, but we've heard almost nothing since.…
First love: me, myself and iPod
Last week, we discovered that Apple has quietly killed the iPod classic. While I shrug off the news of most tech deaths with a ‘que sera, sera’, circle-of-life-ish pragmatism, this one has unleashed a wave of nostalgia that I wasn’t quite ready for. I’ve fallen into a Spotify hole and not climbed out for three…
How to buy a smartphone: 8 top things to look out for
[nextpage title="Next"] Buying a phone can be tricky, especially if you don't really know what you need to be looking out for. Or maybe you do know, but all the numbers and component specs confuse the hell out of you. Then again you might understand it all perfectly but find yourself feeling incredibly indecisive - after…
Now China has a special mobiles-only pavement lane
A street in the Chinese city of Chongqing has designated a pavement lane for chatters, texters and tweeters (or Weibo-ers, more likely), according to Engadget. A local publication first flagged up the innovation, which has a sign announcing 'First mobile phone sidewalks in China'. And we probably shouldn't be surprised, given that China is now…
