Luke Westaway

Nokia teases camera

Nokia has teased its newest gadget ahead of next week, when the Finnish firm has a bash planned to show off the mystery mobile. The clip of the cryptically concealed mobile appeared on Channel 4, during a break in The Inbetweeners Movie. There’s little to glean from the chic teaser, though the new device looks to …

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Galaxy S4 storage woes subjected to BBC Watchdog probe

Samsung’s Galaxy S4 will come under fire from the BBC’s Watchdog programme, as the consumer rights show examines the 5-inch smart phone’s spurious storage claims. Since its launch at the end of April, the Galaxy S4 has been criticised for having less storage space than advertised. The 16GB model has roughly 8GB of usable storage, with Samsung’s own-brand software hogging …

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Galaxy S4 and HTC One get Facebook Home compatibility

Facebook Home, the downloadable chunk of software that smothers your Android phone’s homescreen in Facebook features, is now available on the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4. Owners of the year’s two biggest smart phones (so far, anyway) can now install the Facebook skin, which has received, um, mixed reviews since it launched last month. The HTC One and Samsung Galaxy …

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Amazon building a holographic 3D smart phone, report says

Amazon is cooking up a slew of new hardware treats to follow the Kindle, according to new rumours — including a high-end smart phone with a holographic 3D display. The rumoured mobile will have a 3D display that doesn’t require glasses to use, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing ‘people familiar with the company’s plans’. That kooky-sounding display will apparently …

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Samsung Galaxy phones get new ITV app in exclusive tie

ITV has given its ITV Player catch-up app a revamp, but only Samsung devices will get access to the new service — at least for now. The refreshed service, which apparently will boost playback performance, is exclusive to Samsung’s range of smart phones and tablets, including the newly-minted Galaxy S4 smart phone. Other gadgets that get early access to the …

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Nokia Windows Phone alliance blasted by irate investors

Nokia boss Stephen Elop is the focus of investor ire, as people with a financial stake in the company have reportedly blasted his laser-focus on the Windows Phone operating system. An annual general meeting in Helsinki saw Nokia’s Lumia devices come under fire, as one investor told Elop, “Are you aware that results are what matter?” according to a Reuters …

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Nokia Lumia 928 confirmed, as metallic ‘Catwalk’ 925 spied

Nokia’s long-rumoured Lumia 928 has finally entered the realm of the real, as the Finnish phone-maker has shown off its new Lumia toy in an official teaser image. The snap, hosted on Nokia’s website, doesn’t mention the suffix ‘928’, but that name does appear in the site’s URL, and is also given in a magazine ad spotted by Engadget. The …

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Samsung Galaxy S4 ‘Zoom’ tipped as 16

The Samsung Galaxy S4 could be getting a camera-centric little brother, in the shape of a rumoured smart phone dubbed the ‘Galaxy S4 Zoom’. The so-called ‘Zoom’ mobile will sport a whopping 16-megapixel camera, SamMobile reports — the same number of pixels you can find lurking within Samsung’s Galaxy Camera. The screen meanwhile is tipped to measure 4.3 inches on the diagonal, …

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Samsung defends 16GB S4’s mere 8GB of usable storage

Samsung’s Galaxy S4 has drawn criticism as phone fans discover the 16GB version of the 5-inch smart phone actually only has around 8GB of useful memory. Samsung has defended its flagship blower, saying you’re getting more features and a higher-res display in return. Nearly half of the S4’s storage space (after a factory reset, our 16GB Galaxy S4 showed 8.49GB of available …

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Skyfall leads 37 per cent Sky rise in UK movie downloads

Brits are locked inside their houses, shunning the sunny outdoors in favour of on-demand movies, new stats from Sky show. During the first three months of 2013, the average number of weekly downloads from Sky’s catalogue of on-demand TV was a whopping 460 per cent higher than it was in the same period last year, the firm has boasted. That …

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