In our first look at the Google Nexus One, we loved its honking great 94mm (3.7-inch) AMOLED screen and speedy Android 2.1 user interface. Google will be bundling the phone with a Vodafone contract starting in the spring, but why wait? You can buy it right now without a contract — and either way, the …
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The Motorola Devour is chomping its way into the USA, offering the brain of the Motorola Dext packed into a body like the Motorola Milestone. The Devour has Motoblur, the user interface and online backup tools that we saw on the Dext, with home-screen widgets that automatically update with Facebook statuses and tweets. It also offers a universal inbox that …
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Sony Ericsson is dreaming in green, taking yet another GreenHeart phone from prototype to reality. This time it’s the suits that get to flaunt their eco savvy, with the Sony Ericsson Aspen, a Windows Mobile phone with a full Qwerty keyboard and a touchscreen. This is one of the few times we’ve seen a phone that rocks a Qwerty keyboard …
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T-Mobile is promising to sort out the heaving, steaming morass that is mobile phone tariffs by revamping its entire pay-monthly price structure. Starting on 1 February, the confusing medley of ‘combi’ and ‘flexi’ deals will be replaced with a new range of contracts. Customers will choose from typical bundles that include minutes, texts and data, and add a choice of …
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Why is the mobile phone signal in our house like a holiday in Saudi Arabia? They’ve both got no bars. Honk! So we’re happy to see Vodafone’s signal-boosting femtocell, the Vodafone Sure Signal. Previously known as the Vodafone Home Gateway, the Sure Signal plugs into your home broadband connection and beams out a bubble of 3G goodness. That means no …
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Tech blog Boy Genius Report is leaking Apple rumours like a spine-tingling sieve, including a possible first glance at what’s in store for iPhone owners with the next version of Apple’s iPhone operating system. BGR reports that its anonymous source has seen more ways for applications to run in the background to allow multitasking. There’s also a simplified and streamlined …
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A teeny-tiny phone with a worldwide roaming SIM is just one of the products we’re looking forward to at the huge mobile phone event of the year, Mobile World Congress, which starts on 15 February. Roamobi is a SIM card and a range of super-cheap phones especially designed for you itchy-footed travellers who don’t want to pay extra for calls, …
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New photos and videos of the Google Nexus One have got us fired up about the mythical Google phone. Could it be even closer to being released into the wild? The Nexus One is made by HTC, and it was given to a few thousand lucky Google employees. In a blog post, Google called the phone a “mobile lab” for …
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Google has stomped into world of mobile phones like Godzilla, but is it leaving giant mutated dinosaur footprints all over its competition, or is it a case of the bigger they come, the harder they fall? We’ve pitted the Google Nexus One against current heavyweights iPhone 3GS, the Motorola Milestone and the HTC Hero, to see which should find a …
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We’re snowed in at Crave Towers today, huddled around a cheerfully crackling fire of old PC magazines while we spin tales of gadget glory. But we could be out making fresh tracks in the snow with ViewRanger, the off-road sat-nav app for mobile phones. ViewRanger, which works on Symbian S60 phones, including the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia N97 and Samsung …
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