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Phones from last year that are cheap and still awesome

If you’re after a great, feature-packed phone but can’t afford the latest handsets, check out the best mobile tech from 2013 instead. Not only are…
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Samsung Galaxy Alpha vs Apple iPhone 6 Plus: Which is best for me?

Samsung is a company known for producing big, powerful smartphones, whilst Apple has been the last Bastion of the compact flagship – most recently in…
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Top 10 Halloween apps for kids

Halloween is here and we are sure your little kids’ excitement is at feverpitch. To coincide with this, we’ve compiled a list of the top…
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How to speed up your creaky old smartphone

If your mobile phone is stuttering and slowing down in its golden years, don’t retire the old boy just yet. First, try these quick and…
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Bye Pad, or Why the iPad Mini is well and truly dead

Ding, dong, the Mini’s dead. Apple’s iPad Mini 3 will almost certainly be the tiny tab’s unfortunate swan song, reports Dean Quinn, and here’s why….
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EE’s LTE-A average speeds outstrip BT’s superfast FTTC headline rate

EE has finally launched LTE-A in London and it’s capable of delivering average download speeds of 90Mbps. The key word there is average –…
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Google Nexus 9 (by HTC) hands-on review

We’ve had a fiddle with the Google Nexus 9, a serious iPad Air rival rocking the latest Android (Lollipop), a powerful Nvidia processor and 2K…
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Self-driving cars: Absolutely everything you need to know

Self-driving cars are the future – or so we are being told by companies currently working on them. But just what are autonomous cars all about,…
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Apple iPad Mini 1 vs Mini 2 vs Mini 3: Which is best for me?

Apple’s iPad Mini 3 just hit stores, but with only a couple of changes over last year’s iPad Mini 2, is it worth the extra…
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Chromecast vs Amazon Fire TV Stick vs Google Nexus Player vs Amazon Fire TV

With the announcement of the Fire TV Stick Amazon has launched another small streaming device into an already crowded market. How does it compare to…
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How Samsung’s Galaxy S6 could be the best smartphone ever

Samsung’s 2014 output started with a whimper, but built to a bang. So our hopes for Samsung’s Galaxy S6 are already high… Note: This feature…
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How to get your driving license on the cheap

The cost of learning to drive is extraordinarily high, but there are a few things you can do to reduce your spending on driving lessons,…
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EE TV vs rivals: How does it stack up?

With the launch of EE TV imminent, there are now even more digital TV services to choose from. Here, we take a look at the…
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What is the Nexus Player? Google’s Lollipop-powered Chromecast and Android TV hybrid

Alongside a new Nexus phone and tablet, Google has unleashed its latest TV set-top box – the Google Nexus Player. Made by Asus, the Nexus…
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Tesla Model D: Everything you need to know

The all-electric Tesla Model S will soon be joined by a scarier, cleverer variant known unofficially as the Model D. Elon Musk took to the stage…
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Copper’s not dead yet: Superfast broadband trials in BT’s G.fast lab

BT has been busy rolling out superfast broadband to millions of premises across the UK. But what happens next? How far can the old copper…
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Best budget tablets for Christmas 2015

We round up the best-value tablets you can buy yourself or as a present for Christmas 2015, including family-friendly tablets, Amazon’s super-cheap £50 slate and…
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Skype hopes to tackle instant video messaging with Qik. We go hands-on

We met up with Skype at Microsoft’s London offices to go hands-on with a new mobile-focused video chat experience dubbed ‘Skype Qik’. When you hear…