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Ben Kersey

Writer

A freelance writer and contributor to Recombu, when he's not deliberately watching bad movies, Ben can be found obsessing over the latest and greatest gadgets.

He strives to get his hands on phones and tablets of all shapes and sizes. Over the years he's wrangled strange and peculiar devices such as the Samsung BlackJack, the OQO Model 2 Plus, the Viliv S5, and a toaster.

He continues his quest with modern day smartphones and tablets, yet he still thinks flip phones are cool.

Latest posts

Apple iPad 3 event official: March 7th

6 months ago | POSTED IN News

It's official, folks: Apple are due to hold an event in San Francisco on March 7th to launch the next iPad. Judging from the provided image, Apple are indeed set to include a "Retina"...

Quad-core iPad 3 to launch next week, according to CNBC

6 months ago | POSTED IN News

The promised time is almost upon us, friends: the iPad 3 launch is immiment. CNBC are reporting that the iPad 3 will launch next week, with a quad-core processor and 4G LTE connectivity. Apple are...

HTC One X, S, and V coming to O2 in April

6 months ago | POSTED IN News

O2 have updated their Coming Soon page today to include HTC’s latest handsets, the One line. From the looks of it, O2 will be offering all three handsets. No exact date (quelle surprise)...

Opinion: The three phone play - are Android OEMs finally starting to get it?

6 months ago | POSTED IN Opinions

On the run up to MWC, everyone was expecting Android OEMs to come out guns blazing with the latest and greatest specs. Everyone would be pushing Nvidia’s latest quad-core monster of a processor...

Clove: LG Optimus 4X available in June, to cost £456

6 months ago | POSTED IN News

Clove just updated their blog to let the world know when we can expect to see the LG Optimus 4X, the latest superphone announced at MWC this week. Clove are expecting the phone in June, a little later...

Android 5.0, Jelly Bean, to arrive later this year?

6 months ago | POSTED IN News

We’re willing to bet you don’t even have Ice Cream Sandwich on your phone yet, but already we’re hearing about the next version of Android, Jelly Bean. The name has been floating...

SwiftKey releasing full SDK to Android OEMs

6 months ago | POSTED IN News

Remember SwiftKey? It’s a clever keyboard available for Android that has crazy word prediction skills, achieved by a combination of their Natural Language Processing technology, and optionally...

ZTE PF112 announced: Snapdragon S4 Krait, 720p display

6 months ago | POSTED IN News

Ready for another 720p smartphone? Good, because ZTE have one coming straight at you. The ZTE PF112 was just announced this morning in Barcelona at MWC, and it has all the juicy specs you would expect...

Mysterious Toshiba AT270 is a 7.7-inch quad-core Tegra 3 tablet

6 months ago | POSTED IN News

While HTC and ZTE are keen to boast about Nvidia’s quad-core Tegra 3 chip, Toshiba seem content to silently stick one in their latest tablet and hope you stumble across it on the MWC show floor...

Lumigon T2 is a designer smartphone that won't break the bank

6 months ago | POSTED IN News

How many dual- and quad-core smartphones have we seen at MWC so far? Too many to count. Interesting then to see Lumigon head in the opposite direction, sidestepping brute power and instead focusing on...

Intel lays out smartphone chip platform, Atom Z2000 to bring performance on a budget?

6 months ago | POSTED IN News

Intel busted out a new roadmap yesterday, laying out the plans for the Atom line of processors destined for smartphones. We know about the Z2460 already, which will be used in the upcoming Orange Santa...

LG committed to Android Jelly Bean update for their 2012 smartphones

6 months ago | POSTED IN News

Never mind the fact we have almost no details on the next version of Android, Jelly Bean, or even when it’ll be released, but LG are saying that they’ll provide updates to their new line of...

Carphone Warehouse: Nokia Lumia 900 due in June

6 months ago | POSTED IN News

Yesterday we brought you pricing news for the Nokia Lumia 900 release here in the UK, and Unlocked-Mobiles also pegged it for a May 21st launch. Carphone Warehouse have updated their Lumia 900 landing...

HTC waiting on Windows Phone Apollo before releasing new handsets

6 months ago | POSTED IN News

One thing that’s been sorely missing at MWC 2012 is a range of new Windows Phones from HTC. They were keen to announce the Titan II at CES, a 4G LTE phone destined for AT&T in the United States...

iPad 3 to bring price hike over current models?

6 months ago | POSTED IN News

Potentially bad news for those looking to score an iPad 3 when it’s eventually released: you could be looking at a price increase over the iPad 2. MacRumors points to information from Weibo, the...

Nokia Lumia 610 and Nokia 808 PureView get pricing and availability

6 months ago | POSTED IN News

There’s some more Nokia related pricing and availability for you this morning, folks. This time it’s the Nokia 808 PureView with that crazy 41 megapixel sensor, and the Nokia Lumia 601, the...

Nokia release untouched 808 PureView photos

6 months ago | POSTED IN News

So Nokia blew your mind this morning with their 41 megapixel camera on the Nokia 808 PureView. “Pffft,” we hear you say. “That means nothing. I demand sample pictures!” Ask and...

Samsung Galaxy S III to feature 4.8-inch 1080p display? Probably not.

6 months ago | POSTED IN News

It’s days like these that we’re glad Recombu HQ is located smack bang in the middle of a salt mine, because this latest rumour is certainly a whopper. BGR claim to have the latest details...

BBC iPlayer app for Android updated with 3G streaming, we go hands-on

6 months ago | POSTED IN Apps

BBC took to Twitter today to let the world know that the iPlayer app for Android phones has been updated. What’s new? 3G streaming support and an updated player. Won’t you join us for a quick...

Phones4u to exclusively offer white LG Optimus L7

6 months ago | POSTED IN News

While we’re partial to pink phones here at Recombu HQ, it seems white is still all the rage right now. If you like the look of LG’s recently announced Optimus L7, and you love white, then...