With the Motorola MILESTONE finally touching down in Europe and opening up for SIM-free pre-orders in the UK, we thought it a fine time to pit the Android-wielding monolith against the current celebrity of the smart phone sector, the Apple iPhone 3GS.
Can the DROID (as it is known in the US) back up its angular styling and Android pedigree by putting Motorola firmly back on the map, or will the Cupertino cutie claim another scalp with that gorgeous user interface and licence to print money t... Read Full Story
Eager to play down recent statements, Gameloft have issued a press release unveiling plans to launch High Definition gaming on forthcoming Android phones including the Motorola DROID/MILESTONE and Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10, as well as cementing their support of current generation Google-powered devices.
Earlier this week, Gameloft’s finance director Alexadre de Rochefort spoke of scaling back investment for the fledgling platform, citing iPhone sales as being 400 times higher than on A... Read Full Story
A great new Google update for cinephiles now, with an update to the super search engine that makes planning a trip to the movies easier than ever.
Searching for movies on a smart phone (namely Android, iPhone and the Palm Pre, who can say what happened to Windows Mobile?) has now been enhanced from the usual IMDB and Wikipedia results to provide a wealth of extra content, from the precise distance to the nearest cinema (gleaned from your phone’s GPS information), movie trailers from You... Read Full Story
New SIM-only network Giffgaff launches today which claims to be “the first people powered network” and raises the exciting proposition of a forward thinking network that actually listens to its customers.
Taking it’s name from an old Scottish phrase meaning ‘mutual-giving’ and apparently inspired by the socially-minded phenomena such as Wikipedia, Giffgaff allows Giffgaffers (see what they did there?) to redeem the costs of their top-up through active involvemen... Read Full Story
New SIM-only network Giffgaff launches today which claims to be “the first people powered network” and raises the exciting proposition of a forward thinking network that actually listens to its customers.
Taking it’s name from an old Scottish phrase meaning ‘mutual-giving’ and apparently inspired by the socially-minded phenomena such as Wikipedia, Giffgaff allows Giffgaffers (see what they did there?) to redeem the costs of their top-up through active involvemen... Read Full Story
The mobile industry is alight with the news that the Apple iPhone is coming to Tesco Mobile in time for Christmas, according to the BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones.
The technology reporter recently tweeted that the coveted smart phone is coming to the supermarket chain, and “hopefully” by the festive period according to Tesco’s PR.
Tariffs and pricing details regarding iPhone deals are set to follow, but there is already a registration page up for the 3GS model on the Tesco ... Read Full Story
Following on from the announcement of their heavy-hitting Nokia X6 music phone, the Finnish manufacturer has given us a glimpse of what we can expect in early 2010 – namely a pair of socially savvy handsets.
The Nokia 6700 Slide is for those who like to be noticed, arriving in six bright and bold colourways. Fronted by a relatively staid aluminium model, alluring pastel blue, green, red and purple and pink variants available.
The 6700 Slide isn’t just a style statement however, i... Read Full Story
Nokia takes music handsets into high-end territory from this Friday, releasing the new Nokia X6 through Phones4U from the 27th of November.
An Orange exclusive, the Nokia X6 is certainly the most luxurious phone to play tunes on with a mammoth 32GB of storage (enough for over 7,000 songs), a gorgeous 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen and a 5 megapixel Carl Zeiss lens camera.
It is also equipped with Nokia’s snazzy ‘Comes With Music’ service, enabling users to choose from a s... Read Full Story
Not content with undercutting pricey touch screen phones with the Genio Touch and bringing a bargain BlackBerry clone in the form of the Genio QWERTY, the Samsung B3410 offers an affordable slider handset, aping the form factor of smart phone successes like the HTC Touch Pro 2 and Motorola’s DEXT.
With a full four row keyboard hidden behind a 2.6″ TFT touchscreen, the B3410 has a gorgeous – if familiar – design that is only hamstung by entry-level specs.
The Carphone ... Read Full Story
The impressive HTC HD2, the slender smart phone with a huge 4.3-inch capacitive touch screen and super fast processor, is now available in O2 stores from today.
The first HTC handset to debut on O2, the HD2 brings Windows Mobile 6.5 functionality buffed up to a sheen with the Taiwanese manufacturer’s own impressive ‘Sense’ user interface.
Pricing for the HTC HD2 on O2 is very competitive to offerings from Vodafone – the first network to bring the HD2 to shelves R... Read Full Story
