Mobile phone help and guides from the Recombu team
Video: Guide to Orange Swapables
3 days ago | POSTED IN Guides
Orange has a range of tariff's, the top Panther plan, offers free minutes, email and unlimited texts. But that's not all. If you're a new customer or already on the Panther plan you might not be aware that you can get one or two free Swapables a month. A Swapable is a subscription entertainment service you can get directly to your phone, which doesn't use your data allowance. Until February 24th on the Panther 26 Tariff you can get a Samsung Galaxy S2 free on £26 a month...
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Video: Guide to T-Mobile's The Full Monty plan
3 days ago | POSTED IN Guides
Smartphones aren't just for calling and texting, they can be used for checking email, browsing the internet and updating social networking websites - all of which use data. Most tariffs include a data cap, which can be anything from 100Mb to 1GB, go over this cap and it will cost you extra. If this is something you have done, then it might be worth checking out T-Mobile's new tariff: The Full Monty. As well as unlimited calls and texts, you get unlimited data, with no cap or fair use...
The full what?
Samsung Galaxy Ace: Tips and Tricks
6 days ago | POSTED IN Guides
To coincide with yesterday’s round-up of the best Samsung Galaxy Ace prices and deals currently going, we’ve thrown together our top ten Tips & Tricks for getting the most out of your Galaxy Ace. 1. Install Drivers, enable USB data transferTo make life easier going forwards, one of the first things you should do is plug your Samsung Galaxy Ace into your computer. Once all of the drivers are installed on your main computer, whether it’s a PC or a Mac, it’ll make...
Pointers for aces
Five useful things you can do with your phone or tablet’s screen capture feature
last week | POSTED IN Guides
Taking screengrabs of things on your phone is really useful. We’ve gotten used to doing it on our iPhones for ages now, stumbled across the fact that most Android phones running 2.2 Froyo can do it (albeit with a bit of a workaround) and we’re pleased to learn than you can do this natively with phones and tablets running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. We’ve yet to see this simple but uber-useful feature make it to the Windows Phone platform or anywhere else just yet. But until...
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Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime tips and tricks
last week | POSTED IN Guides
If you’re lucky enough to own an Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime then you’re probably more than familiar with how it blazes through apps, web pages and even the most gruelling of 3D gaming with its quad-core Tegra 3 processor. Odds are that you’re also pretty au fait with its keyboard dock and trackpad, single USB slot on the side and full sized SD card slot to complement the micro SD card slot located on the tab itself. We’re guessing when we use the term Android shortcut keys you know...
Prime of your life.
Video: Guide to T-Mobile You Fix
3 weeks ago | POSTED IN Guides
There’s nothing worse then getting to the end of the month and finding out that with a bit of extra browsing every day and calling a few 0845 numbers, your £35 phone bill is £45 or £55. T-Mobile (along with Tesco Mobile) has the solution with it’s You Fix tariff, which enables you to fix your monthly spend. Go over your monthly minutes or text allocation and get more by topping up. The You Fix tariff doesn’t encompass every phone in T-Mobile’s range...
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How to: Re-set your voicemail PIN, protect your voicemail from hackers
1 month ago | POSTED IN Guides
Stories of voicemail hacking doing the rounds in the press at the moment conjure images of hard nosed, mac-wearing, er, hacks (for lack of a better word) setting up complicated wiretaps and relying on all kinds of Mi5-level surveillance technology. But the truth is that it’s pretty easy to hack in to someone’s voicemail if you know, or can guess, their PIN number. To get in to your phone’s voicemail, all somebody has to do is call your phone, wait for the voicemail message to...
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Best practice: Improve your mobile phone's battery life
1 month ago | POSTED IN Guides
One of the most common questions we get at Recombu is "How can I improve my mobile phone's battery life?" There's not a lot we can do about the batteries themselves but we can offer you some advice on how to get the most out of your phone's battery. Don't be flashy Perhaps a no-brainer but the higher the brightness on your phone's display settings the more it'll drain the battery. Some phones automatically adjust the screen's brightness depending on...
Battery life saver
Smartphone Security: Top Tips
1 month ago | POSTED IN Guides
You’ve just got a new phone for Christmas and it’s amazing. It’s got a great camera, it can hold thousands of MP3s and it does everything. By now you’re fairly enamoured with it and it’s already become a part of you. You wouldn’t know what to do if you lost it, somebody stole it or... it doesn’t bear thinking about. The sad truth is that people do lose phones and phones do get stolen. Especially fancy, expensive ones that’ve been given as...
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How to set up and use Gmail on your Android phone
1 month ago | POSTED IN Guides
If you’ve unwrapped a Samsung Galaxy S2, Galaxy Nexus or an HTC Sensation XL over Christmas, then you’ll have already gone through the basic set up process which sees you either logging in or setting up a Google Account. Your Google Account is your mobile lifeline. Any new number you add will automatically get synced to the account, as will any app purchases you make. So any games or apps you buy will be able to be re-downloaded again (for free) when you get your next Android phone...
Gmail of the species
How to transfer photos from your iPhone
1 month ago | POSTED IN Guides
If you’ve taken a lot of photographs this holiday using your Apple iPhone, at some point you'll want transfer them to a computer, either to back them up or edit them using picture editing software like Photoshop. But how do you do that? Here we'll explore both Mac and Windows PC methods of transferring digital photographs and look at how Photo Stream can help. Mac To back up photographs using a Mac, iPhone users need to import them using a photo application. For most Mac users...
Back up those pics!
Blackberry Bold 9900 tips and tricks
1 month ago | POSTED IN Guides
The Blackberry Bold 9900 is RIM’s top of the range smartphone. Offering standout features like secure push email and Blackberry Messenger, along with a full QWERTY keyboard. It’s also one of the first devices to run Blackberry OS 7, the latest version of RIM’s smartphone operating system. Blackberry’s are known for being very user-friendly, but there are still a few shortcuts that can make your life easier. Here’s a selection of tips and tricks, let us know below if...
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How to set-up email on your iPhone and email settings tips
1 month ago | POSTED IN Guides
If you’ve unwrapped a shiny new Apple iPhone 4S, iPhone 4 or if you’ve inherited an second-hand iPhone, then it's highly likely you'll want to set up a new email account. Apple makes this a far more straightforward process than some other operating systems, but there are many customise options that may not be obvious. Here are some tips on setting up your email and some advice to help ensure it looks and functions exactly to your requirements. Initial set-upIf you are...
Push it!
Video: Pay as you go phones from T-Mobile for under £15
2 months ago | POSTED IN Guides
Not everyone needs all the advanced features offered by smartphone, for many people a phone is all about making calls and sending texts. In fact if you want a basic phone - or feature phone - as they are called for this, you only have to spend as little as £10. Here's our pick of four stocking-filler phones from T-Mobile retailing at under £15. We're also taking a look at the Vivacity, T-Mobile's Android smartphone. Check the video out below.
Vivacious!
Camera phone: 3 tips for better photographs
2 months ago | POSTED IN Guides
Once you've gotten your head around our jargon buster, it's time to start shooting - here are the three best ways to help turn your phone snaps into great pictures: 1.Touch to focus - use it if you've got it! This will only be applicable if you’ve got a phone with touch to focus enabled such as the iPhone 4S, HTC Sensation or Samsung Galaxy Nexus Tap your touchscreen and your camera will focus on exactly what you want it to This is ideal for close-up objects which can...
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