The Trooper 445L. Cheap LTE is the name of the game here. Kazam Kazam, the phone company formed by British ex-HTC executives, has unleashed its latest salvo in the battle to make a name for itself, lifting the lid on a host of new gadgets, including cheap LTE phones. Heading up the charge is the …
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A green leaf adorned the Apple logo on Earth Day. The company makes much of its environmental credentials. John Moore, Getty Images Apple has vowed to build two enormous new data centres, which it says will power Europe’s access to its most popular online services. Data centres are the lifeblood of tech companies’ online services, housing all the equipment necessary …
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Virgin Media says its upgrade will bring an £8 billion boost to the UK economy. Andew Cowie/AFP/Getty Images Virgin Media is giving its network a boost, pumping £3 billion into upgrading its existing hardware — a plan that the network says will bring broadband speeds of 152Mbps to 4 million more UK homes. The provider’s strategy, called “Project Lightning”, will …
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Josh Miller/CNET The Samsung Galaxy A5 and A3 are on sale in the UK from today, giving gadget fans who lust after metal mobiles two more options to consider. Both the A5 and A3 have metal casings, which is a departure from Samsung’s usual reliance on plastic chassis. Both feature 4G LTE and 5-megapixel front-facing cameras — which should make …
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Freeview is taking the fight to YouView. Freeview Freeview is going toe-to-toe with the likes of YouView with a new online service called Freeview Play that will combine live TV with on-demand programming delivered over the Internet. A free-to-receive terrestrial TV service that launched as a joint venture between the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Arqiva and Sky, Freeview has been …
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Sony Sony’s improving your view by building YouView into its UK TVs, granting access to a range of on-demand channels through the TV guide. YouView, launched in 2012, is a TV service that combines on-demand viewing of previously aired programmes with its live TV listings, letting you scroll back through time to watch shows that have already been broadcast with …
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The Pi 2 packs much more power, its creators say. Luke Westaway/CNET Microcomputing fans take note — there’s a new Raspberry Pi in town. The all-new board brings a host of new hardware, including a Broadcom 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor and 1GB of RAM. Those upgrades, the Raspberry Pi Foundation says, make the Pi 2 Model B a much …
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Speeds will hit a “few hundred megabits per second” by 2020, BT says. BT BT is plotting a new broadband technology for the UK, with trials due to start within the year. The ultrafast broadband is called G.fast, which is a technology that serves as an upgrade to existing DSL copper phone lines, promising speeds of up to 500Mbps. BT …
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Sky Sky is wading into the mobile market, confirming plans to kick-start its own network in 2016. The news comes at a time of great upheaval for the UK’s mobile and TV market, with BT announcing its intention to buy EE — a deal that would see BT laying claim to a massive mobile network, as well as TV, phone …
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The metal design of the Galaxy A5. Jessica Dolcourt/CNET A double-helping of phone news for UK shoppers this morning — two new Samsung smartphones have been given UK release dates, while Amazon tries a radical move to drum up sales of its Fire Phone. The Samsung Galaxy A3 and A5 , both of which have metal frames, will hit shop …
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