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Long term test: Samsung Galaxy Note review
last week | POSTED IN Features
Before it was officially released, the Samsung Galaxy Note landed in our hands. We’re lucky blighters and we’re not even going to try to argue to the contrary. We’re also in a fantastic position to write a re-review of the Samsung Galaxy Note, three months in having used it for work, play and a fair bit of sketching. With its 5.3-inch Super AMOLED HD screen, 1.4GHz dual-core processor and substantial on-board storage, is the Note still impressing us like it did when we first...
Still the daddy?
Samsung Galaxy Note video review
last week | POSTED IN Features
When Samsung first revealed the Galaxy Note at the IFA trade show in Berlin last year in our initial hands-on we referred to it as ’a tab-phone, a back-from-the-dead PDA or a digital etch-a-sketch?’ In reality it’s all of those things. The Samsung Galaxy Note is a phone for making calls, it runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread with access to email and calendar for organising the finite details of your life and it comes with a stylus. Except Samsung doesn’t want you to call it a...
Video review
Nokia Lumia 710 video review
last week | POSTED IN Features
If you’re fan of Nokia or you’ve just in the market for a new smartphone, which won’t break the bank, then the Nokia Lumia 710 is a phone you may well be considering. Running Windows Phone 7.5 (aka Mango) the Nokia Lumia 710 joins the Nokia Lumia 800 in Nokia’s line-up. Both were initially announced at Nokia World last year, but while the Lumia 800 launched last November, we’ve had a bit of a wait for the Lumia 710 to become available in the UK. Retailing at...
Video review
When is a smartphone good value for money, and when is it simply cheap?
last week | POSTED IN Features
As much as we gush over quad-core processors and gorgeous industrial design, the fact of the matter is some people simply don’t need such things. They want more than can be found on a featurephone, but without breaking the bank. The Orange San Francisco delivered that in spades: you may have had to deal with a customized version of Android 2.2, but where else were you going to find a WVGA AMOLED screen and easy hackability for £99? Needless to say, it was a runaway success...
Smartphones, ho!
Friday 5 before 5: tech highlights of the week: 3D imagery, glass and a sinking phone
last week | POSTED IN Features
It's Friday again, which means it's time for our weekly look at the world of technology, where we pick the amazing and er, less impressive things that we've seen this week. 1: Corning Gorilla GlassGorilla Glass is currently used on smartphone screens and is known for being tough, but according to its makers in the future glass will play a huge part in our lives. The video A Day Made of Glass 2: Same Day Expanded, explores how it with Gorilla Glass, a wall becomes a huge interactive...
5 of the best
BlackBerry 10: Ten things you need to know
last week | POSTED IN Features
Alongside showing off the core parts of PlayBook OS 2.0, BlackBerry Bridge 2.0 (using a BlackBerry phone’s touchscreen as a trackpad - so cool) and announcing BlackBerry App World 3.1, RIM’s new President and CEO Thorsten Heins dropped many hints about the shape of BlackBerry to come and what features BlackBerry 10 will entail. Along with the usual PR charm offensive where terms like ‘unified’ and ‘seamless’ were dropped liberally, there was plenty of food...
10 x 10
Friday 5 before 5: tech highlights of the week
2 weeks ago | POSTED IN Features
There are often things we discover when looking for news, mobile gossip or browsing You Tube in the name of research, that might not make it onto Recombu. Going forward, every Friday we’ll be bringing you our top five 'things' we’ve seen. This can include: video clips, new products, websites or photographs - anything with a tech connection. There will also be a few that make the list for the wrong reasons.... If you have any suggestions let us know below, or via Twitter or...
Which smartphone platforms make app developers more money?
2 weeks ago | POSTED IN Features
The iPhone isn’t the only way for mobile app makers to make serious money. Windows Phone may lag behind the Android and iPhone app stores, with 60,000 apps rather than 400,000 and half a million respectively, but a handful of developers say they make more revenue from Windows Phone apps than on other platforms. The number of PlayBook users is modest compared to the 75 million BlackBerry users, but RIM tells us that the top earners in BlackBerry App World are PlayBook games. In general, iOS...
Appy times
Samsung Galaxy S3: rumour round-up
2 weeks ago | POSTED IN Features
After the triumph of the Samsung Galaxy S2, it's little wonder that its successor, the Samsung Galaxy S3 is getting iPhone levels of hysteria in the run up to its reveal. With it looking increasingly less likely that Samsung will unveil this near-mythical handset at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, speculation is still the only thing we have to go by. While we urge Samsung to call us right now and reveal all there is to know about their upcoming flagship, until they do, or until they...
It'll give massages ...
Which smartphone is easiest to create apps for? Apple iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone
3 weeks ago | POSTED IN Features
Android and the iPhone dominate the app store market with more than 500,000 apps submitted for each platform. Windows Phone has a far more modest 60,000 apps, but they’ve all been developed in the last 18 months. Compare that to BlackBerry App World which launched in April 2009 and also has around 50,000 apps, although there were plenty of BlackBerry developers before App World. Sheer numbers aren’t the only measure; the Android Marketplace also has more malware and pirated apps than...
App creative
Motorola MOTOACTV Full Review
1 month ago | POSTED IN Features
Two weeks with the Motorola MOTOACTV. We had it over the Christmas period and hoped it would do its bit to fend off the inevitable belly eating like a king and drinking like a fish would bestow upon our mid-section. Did it work? Well, yes actually. DesignIt’s a watch first and foremost, fascia, strap, buckle. Wrapped around your wrist and there’s no denying that there’s bulk behind it. Not ideal for those with petite appendages but stylish for girthier wrists nonetheless...
We do run run run ...
Android Rooting: What is it? Why do it? Is it for me?
1 month ago | POSTED IN Features
Rooting. What is it?You love your new Android phone. It lubricates your connected cogs, costs a fraction of the price of an iPhone and has oodles of free and paid apps on the Android Market. But there are some niggles - you feel it should run a little bit smoother, have less bloatware, give you the option to overclock it to within an inch of its life - it’s Android for crying out loud! It. Should. Blow. Your. Mind. If this sounds like you, why not root your phone if you haven’t...
Root Strength.
Smartphones: The best of 2011 and which phones to buy in 2012
1 month ago | POSTED IN Features
With 2012 just hours away, we've reviewed 2011's releases and selected three handsets you can be confident in picking up despite a new year of mobiles upon us. Here you'll not only find a list of the best mobiles that can march on head held high 2012, but the noteworthy inbetweeners who juggle the good with the bad and the losers, those mobiles that will forever remain in 2011. WinnersWe have had to choose three phones that can hold their own in the face of a new year. The three...
Top 3? No iPhone?
Last minute Christmas present ideas
2 months ago | POSTED IN Features
Christmas is only two days away and if you are stumped for inspiration about what present too get for your loved loved ones this year, or you just don’t have time to shop, here are a few ideas. We’ve picked products you can buy in store or that offer next-day delivery - if you don’t mind paying a bit extra. Under £100Alcatel OT 355 If your sister needs a handset for keeping in touch via text and making phone calls, this very stylish white number fits the bill...
Cutting it fine
Tablets: The best of 2011 and what to expect in 2012
2 months ago | POSTED IN Features
2011 has arguably been the year of the tablet. Despite the original iPad released in 2010, the genre wasn’t totally carved out until February of this year with the launch of Honeycomb and the Motorola XOOM. Since then, Android tablets have infiltrated the market in every which way and at a range of sizes. Others have tried, with HP’s WebOS landing on the HP TouchPad and the RIM’s PlayBook running QNX, however the tablet wars have been well and truly dominated by iOS and...
The year of the tablet
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