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Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro Review
9 months ago | POSTED IN Reviews
When Sony Ericsson released the X10 Mini Pro last year, we praised it for the solid user experience. It's successor the Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro is probably the smallest Android handset around - well the second smallest alongside it’s near-identical sister handset, the Xperia Mini. Let's find out whether this phone continues Sony Ericsson's run of excellent handsets after the Xperia Arc and Xperia Neo. What we like What sets the Mini Pro apart is that at just 92mm x 53mm...
Accessible mobiles: smart phones for seniors
9 months ago | POSTED IN Features
A few months into the launch of this site way back in 2009, we wrote about how the traditional 12-key mobile interface was going the way of the dodo. In terms of the mainstream mobile market, the touchscreen, once a curio, now reigns supreme. But the disappearance of traditional 12-key mobiles isn’t perhaps quite as complete as we thought. If anything, phones with ye olde keypads and big buttons are due for a resurgence. Figures and data from the Office for National Statistics show that...
Cheap £50 'iPhone' appears in China
9 months ago | POSTED IN Features
Chinese Apple fans can get their hands on the hiPhone, a cut-price coycat version of Apple’s iPhone 4. The iPhone hasn’t even launched in China yet, but the near-identical hiPhone offers the same features as the genuine handset, but with the addition of dual-sim slots and a built-in radio receiver. Despite looking very similar to the Apple iPhone 4, it costs only 500 yuan, which is just shy of £50. Unsurprisingly it’s been hugely successful on online-shopping portal...
Minecraft Pocket Edition arrives in Android Market, Xperia Play only for now
9 months ago | POSTED IN Apps
Yes, it’s finally here, the game that will officially put an end to your social life once and for all. Minecraft Pocket Edition has touched down in the Android Market and is available to download right now. Available exclusively on the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play “for a limited time” according to developers Mojang, the game will be “released to other Android devices after that,” so still ye beating hearts, Galaxy S2 owners. This version of the game according to is...
BlackBerry Bold 9900 Review
9 months ago | POSTED IN Reviews
RIM fans throughout the UK have been eagerly waiting to get their hands on the Blackberry Bold 9900. As well as featuring some design tweaks it’s the first smartphone to run Blackberry OS 7, until the Torch 9860 and 9810 land later this year. What we like Immediately what strikes you about the Bold 9900 is the 2.8-inch TFT LCD screen. Redesigned icons are sharper, far more colourful and eye-catching than the previous white line icons on the Bold 9780, in addition the screen is much...
HTC Sensations on Vodafone to get Android 2.3.4 ‘this week’
9 months ago | POSTED IN Features
Our sources at Vodafone have confirmed to us that updates to Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread will be rolling out to HTC Sensations towards the end of this week. Though there’s been no concrete ETA on when it’ll drop, the red network told us that the update will be arriving in the UK this week, over the air. We got word late last week that an update to Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread was rolling out to unlock and SIM-free HTC Sensations over the air across Europe. Though its a relatively small...
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 vs Motorola Xoom vs Asus Eee Pad Transformer vs Motorola Atrix: Android Keyboard Wizards
9 months ago | POSTED IN Features
A little while ago, we openly pondered if the Motorola Atrix’s Lapdock was the shape of mobile accessories to come or whether it was an idea that’d been scrawled down on the back of a beer mat. With the announcement of the Asus Padphone and rumours abound of a quad-core sequel to the Eee Pad Transformer, it looks like the former and it seems that we are going to be seeing more of this kind of thing. The recently released Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 too, has an optional Keyboard Dock...
Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Review
9 months ago | POSTED IN Reviews
With the original X10 Mini Pro Sony Ericsson created something unique, it was tiny a small, beautifully formed handset running Android that proved immensely successful. A year later and we’ve now got our hands on its successor. What we like With a smooth rubberised back the Xperia Mini feels comfortable to hold, exterior controls like volume and shutter are a respectable size and in a good position. Although it’s small, it's just the right size to hold in one hand, for phone...
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Review
9 months ago | POSTED IN Reviews
The Galaxy Tab 10.1 is the first Honeycomb tablet to arrive from Samsung and arrives after having a drastic redesign following the release of Apple’s iPad 2, to which it’s directly competing with, not to mention the various other Android tablets. Boasting a wide 10.1-inch touchscreen, a super slim frame (256.7 x 175.3 x 8.6mm) Nvidia’s dual-core Tegra 2 chip (the mobile CPU du jour) and coming in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB versions, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 offers power, style and choice...
Best Android work and productivity apps: Keyboard and office apps, file sharing and file management
9 months ago | POSTED IN Features
Your Android phone is a modern day Swiss Army knife; it’s a gaming machine, a digital camera, a satnav, a social networking tool and last but not least a phone. But as the old saying goes, all play and no work makes a smartphone a dull toy. Same goes for Android tablets, which are now finally hitting the shelves after the initial rush of excitement earlier on this year. Your Android device, as well as bursting at the seams with entertainment goodness, can be equally applied in the process...
How your smartphone can make you money
9 months ago | POSTED IN Features
There’s an awful lot of power in your smartphone - and admittedly you’ve paid for it, so perhaps it’s time it starts paying its way. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to do this without simply selling your phone (but we’ll cover this at the end), that mostly involve getting apps to make or save money. Sell stuff with your phone The eBay app is a great place to start. Everyone has kit they want to sell and the app could well be easier and faster to use than your...
Best mobile phone accessories for summer
9 months ago | POSTED IN Features
Whether you are going camping in the Cotswolds or sunning yourself on a Spanish beach this summer, a smartphone is a holiday essential. To get the best from your mobile phone, it's worth investing in some extra accessories, whether it's protection for your phone, some beach-friendly headphones or some portable speakers, here’s our pick of the best summer mobile phone and tablet accessories. Under the article you find out how to get your hands on some beach-ready Sennheiser...
Competition: Recombu and T-Mobile’s Samsung Galaxy S II Giveaway
9 months ago | POSTED IN Features
THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED T-Mobile has launched it’s Truly Unlimited Internet plan, which means exactly what it says: unlimited data without limits or extra charges. So you can browse the Internet, stream music from Spotify or send an email without worrying about fair use! To celebrate this the generous people at T-Mobile are giving away the stunning Samsung Galaxy SII. A sliver at just 8.59mm deep, this smartphone runs Android 2.3 and is powered by a cutting edge dual-core...
iPhone 5: Features we don’t need
9 months ago | POSTED IN Features
We're sure the iPhone 5 is going to stun us all over again, and we've already covered what we're hoping to see on the next, although there's next to no chance of another antennae-gate, there are several things we wouldn't mind missed off the iPhone 5 spec sheet. High resolution front-facing camera If it drops £20 off the price-tag, we’d stick with the VGA model found on the iPhone 4. More pixels means more data, meaning the iPhone 5 will have to work harder for...
iPhone 5: Features we need
9 months ago | POSTED IN Features
We've heard the rumours, we've seen some of what the software can do, but what do we want to see in Apple's next iPhone, version 5? Here's what we'd like to see. Add your own thoughts in the comments below, or let us know on Twitter A bigger screen Smartphones have come a long way since iPhone redefined portable screens with its retina display. Whilst it still leads in the sheer amount of pixels per inch, Android smartphones have, in particular, upped their game with huge...
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