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Nokia Lumia 710 video review

2 years ago | 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...

When is a smartphone good value for money, and when is it simply cheap?

2 years ago | 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...

When is a smartphone good value for money, and when is it simply cheap?

Friday 5 before 5: tech highlights of the week: 3D imagery, glass and a sinking phone

2 years ago | 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...

Friday 5 before 5: tech highlights of the week

2 years 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...

Friday 5 before 5: tech highlights of the week

Which smartphone platforms make app developers more money?

2 years 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...

Which smartphone platforms make app developers more money?

Which smartphone is easiest to create apps for? Apple iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone

2 years 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...

Which smartphone is easiest to create apps for? Apple iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone

Motorola MOTOACTV Full Review

2 years 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...

Android Rooting: What is it? Why do it? Is it for me?

2 years 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...

Android Rooting: What is it? Why do it? Is it for me?

Smartphones: The best of 2011 and which phones to buy in 2012

2 years 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...

Smartphones: The best of 2011 and which phones to buy in 2012

Last minute Christmas present ideas

2 years 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...

Tablets: The best of 2011 and what to expect in 2012

2 years 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...

Tablets: The best of 2011 and what to expect in 2012

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 vs Motorola XOOM 2

2 years ago | POSTED IN Features

IntroductionDespite the Motorola XOOM 2 priced slightly lower than the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and featuring a little more power under the hood, it is bulkier, has more angles and looks less refined. From the offset...

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 vs Motorola XOOM 2

Are tablets just big smartphones?

2 years ago | POSTED IN Features

Android phones and tablets, iPhones and iPads, BlackBerry and PlayBook, Windows Phone and Windows tablets; when you get a device with a much larger screen, what really changes? There are some obvious differences &ndash...

Alphalabs: inspiring creative Windows Phone apps that will wow you

2 years ago | POSTED IN Features

Mobile app development competitions are two a penny; it seems like every smartphone platform is offering coders money and fame to write apps that will make particular devices stand out. Microsoft and Nokia ran a...

Alphalabs: inspiring creative Windows Phone apps that will wow you

Cloud music services: Spotify vs iCloud vs Google Music vs the rest

2 years ago | POSTED IN Features

Ask someone what ‘The Cloud’ is and they’ll either look at you like you’re mad, tell you it’s a UK-based provider of public Wi-Fi, or explain that it’s a series of tubes in the sky...