In a move that seems to be something of a death knell for the Xperia Play, Sony have announced that the phone-games-console hybrid won’t be getting the highly desired Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade. Sony’s announcement contradicts their previous statements that the Play would be jumping on the ICS bandwagon around the end of [...]
Several weeks ago, we reported on Windows Phone teaming up with Nokia for the UK Dare to Live Challenge. The challenge saw users of rival smartphones and OS’s compete in one-on-one contests against Microsoft employees to see which phone completed the set-out tasks faster. Those who win the challenge get £20 in cash. Those who lose [...]
At the same time as unveiling their latest budget offering – the Lumia 610 – Nokia also revealed that they’ve been secretly working on ‘superhydrophobic’ technology (that’s a mouthful, isn’t it?). Conor Pierce, VP of Nokia Western Europe, began explaining the technology in slightly cryptic terms, saying, ’What happens when a drop of water lands on [...]
Three have always been renowned for offering some of the best contract deals on the market. The One Plan – offering all-you-can-eat data, 2000 any-network minutes, 5000 Three-to-Three minutes and 5000 texts – could be nabbed from as little as £25, with recent phones such as the HTC One X costing just £29 on a £34p/m [...]
While the Nokia Lumia 900 has landed in the UK to a pretty welcoming market, little has been heard about the Finnish phone giant’s latest budget offering – the Lumia 610. The silence surrounding the phone has now been broken, however, and Nokia have stated that we can expect to see the phone released in [...]
Remember the time when one of the best things about watching your favourite videos and programs online was that you didn’t have to spend half your time watching banal adverts? It may feel like an eternity ago now, but weren’t those great times? In a way, it was inevitable that video ads would start encroaching [...]
There’s no hiding the fact that RIM have fallen on tough times. Their Blackberry 10 unveiling was such as flop that their share prices plummeted the following morning, handset sales are waning, and they lack a powerful phone to match the oncoming breed of superphones. One thing that Blackberry has always had going for it, [...]
If ever we needed proof of how important smartphones are becoming not just in day-to-day life, but in matters of national and international interest, what better endorsement to have than that of the President of the United States? Yesterday, US President Barack Obama ordered all of the government’s federal agencies to make two services relevant [...]