Author: Holly Brockwell
Editor Holly worked on some of the tech industry's most high-profile smartphone launches before coming to us, and is a self-confessed Android fangirl. She's currently lusting after the Galaxy S6 Edge, and is never seen without her Misfit Shine.
Restaurant defends manager who bit a waitress in terrible TripAdvisor response
You'd think that by now, business owners would have wised up to the fact that insulting their customers on public forums is an extremely bad idea. Only last week, a Manchester restaurant was vilified after branding a party of customers "chav cheap trash" when they had the gall to complain about poor service on the…
Why the Apple Watch is just another way Apple turns its back on new customers
Like many people yesterday, we were forced into downloading Safari to stream the Apple Watch event. There's no technical reason for this, other browsers are equally (more?) capable of livestreaming content. It's purely a power play by Apple, a way of forcing you to use their products. As always, endless people tweeted that they were…
9 must-see videos from Mobile World Congress
You know all about the Samsung Galaxy S6 and the HTC One M9. But what did you miss from the mobile world's biggest annual gathering? Here are the 9 videos you need to see from MWC 2015. Hands on with Alcatel Idol 3 We try out the phone you can use any way up. Hands on…
Tweets about the Apple event were down 85% on last year
It might have felt like everyone was talking about the Apple Watch yesterday, but figures from Amobee Brand Intelligence show that people were a whole lot less engaged with this launch than their last press conference on September the 9th. Here are the stats: During the 1.5 hour presentation, there were 388,710 tweets about Apple. The most…
Enjoy unlimited fitness classes in London with the just-launched ClassPass
We've been looking jealously across the pond for a while now at ClassPass, an American fitness movement that lets you pay a flat fee every month for unlimited classes at a whole range of studios. Well, thank the fitness gods, it's just launched in London and we're pretty happy about it. ClassPass has more than 25…
8 beautiful things that cost less than the rose gold Apple Watch
We're sure we weren't alone in being absolutely entranced by the 18 karat rose gold Apple Watch at the launch event yesterday: Sadly, Apple being Apple, even the rubber-strapped edition of the rose gold Apple Watch is a wince-making £8,000, which puts it just a teensy-tiny bit outside most of our reach. But not to worry, because…
Which phones accept the new SanDisk 200GB microSD card? We asked 7 brands
The whopping new SanDisk 200GB microSD card caused a bit of a stir at Mobile World Congress. When we wrote about it, lots of you asked us whether there are any phones on the market that will take the new card. We asked 7 smartphone brands (ASUS, HTC, Samsung, Sony, Huawei, LG and Microsoft) whether their…
Meet Tara Binns, star of a new range of books for little girls with ambition
Recently, Barbie manufacturer Mattel commissioned a survey and found that "girls like princesses and superheroes equally." No way, you're kidding...! Frustratingly, their answer to this wasn't to give girls some really talented, inspiring heroines in addition to the many princess toys already available, but to create a Princess Power Barbie. Sigh. Talk about missing the point.…
Meet Phantom: the £1400 speaker Devialet don’t need you to buy #MWC15
Sitting in the limousine that Devialet provided journalists to persuade them to listen to yet another sound system, I asked the representative a question. "If your product is sold out almost everywhere," I queried, a can of Fanta Limón in my pampered hand, "why do you want us to write about it? People can't buy it."…
Hands on with the LG G Flex 2: make a fist to take a selfie #MWC15
We tried out the upcoming LG G Flex 2 at Mobile World Congress, including a demo of the 'Gesture Selfie' feature that lets you take a photo by making a fist. Here's our hands-on video: LG G Flex 2 UK price and availability It looks like the G Flex 2 will be out in the…
