LG’s mighty new flagship smart phone, the G2, is invading the UK with a killer one-two punch of a Snapdragon 800 processor and a sub-£500 SIM-free price tag. Online retailer Unlocked Mobiles has the Korean company’s newest blower on sale for £490, with a free case that has a useful little window so you can …
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Tech companies dominate a new list of the world’s most valuable brands, with Apple taking the top spot from perennial champ Coca-Cola in the respected Interbrand global survey. The half-eaten apple is worth a staggering $98.3bn to the Californian company, according to Interbrand’s analysis, up a whopping 28 per cent on last year. But Google is snapping at its heels …
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The hilarious deeply serious iOS 7 bug that emerged last Friday, where you could enter an iPhone’s images and share them on Facebook and Twitter without entering the phone’s password, has sadly thankfully been patched. iOS 7.0.2 is available to download now — just go to Settings > General > Software Update. It took me about 20 minutes to download …
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Google’s next Nexus has just blithely strolled onto benchmarking site GFXBench and — whistling jauntily, no doubt — raised the bar for Android smart phones. The specs section of the benchmark also sheds light on the Nexus 5’s hardware, and it doesn’t disappoint. Its max CPU frequency of 2.3GHz hints that the rumoured inclusion of a turbo-charged Snapdragon 800 chip …
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Vodafone is quickly expanding its 4G service beyond London, with five cities in the heart of England set to be blanketed in warm, loving waves of high-speed data this weekend. Birmingham, Coventry, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield will all have LTE from Vodafone turned on this Saturday, the bright-red network has announced — and Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester will have 4G …
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Two little tidbits of Samsung news could combine to become a fabulous new phone. The Korean giant is reportedly working on an even more expensive super-premium phone, possibly called the Samsung Galaxy F — and it’s definitely got one in the works with a curved screen. The Galaxy F rumour is from Korea’s ET News, which reliably predicted much of …
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If you’re looking for a free iPhone 5S on a contract, I reckon Tesco Mobile has the best value deal. The phone-flogging supermarket is selling the top of the range Apple mobile for free on a £39.50-per-month two-year contract, which also nets you 1,000 minutes, 5,000 texts and a mighty 2GB of data. Stock will be available “in the coming …
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Apple has admitted there’s a bug in its brand-new iOS 7 software that lets you access and share photos without unlocking the phone. The bug, which was discovered by Jose Rodriguez, a soldier from the Canary Islands, takes advantage of the new control centre in iOS 7. Control centre is a set of essential phone functions such as the camera, …
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To the tune of Sleigh Bells’ Ring Ring (and you have to wonder if the New York duo had phone ads in mind when they composed this catchy song), Apple reveals its new iPhone 5C to the world. Not the keynote-following, tech-literate world, but the rest of the world — the ones who’ll buy this hyper-coloured mobile. The ad is …
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Vodafone is set to launch a 4G version of its budget own-brand Android phone, the Vodafone Smart 3. That’s according to a cache of documents on the US FCC website, spotted by Engadget, which shows a Vodafone Smart 4G seeking approval to use the American airwaves. Quite why it’s bothering is not clear — Vodafone doesn’t operate in the US …
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