We’re only days away from the biggest date in the mobile phone calendar, and we’ve had a glimpse of another new phone to look forward to: the Sony Xperia SP. Details of the the SP have leaked ahead of its launch. It’s a 4.6-inch phone with a high-definition 720p screen for crisp and detailed films, …
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You’re wasting your money paying for telly — because the best shows are free. That’s according to Freeview, the free TV service, which I caught up with to talk about YouView, 4G breaking your telly, and why you’re paying £200 a year too much for Sky and Virgin Media. As technology fans, we’re usually concerned with the early adopters, the …
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Now playing: Watch this: Orange Lumo, San Remo and Nivo offer 4G, Jelly Bean in… 1:33 Orange has announced three new affordable Android phones for Europe. The carrier offers a choice of wallet-friendly 4G with the Orange Lumo, cheap and cheerful smart phone smarts with the Orange Nivo, and a big screen without the big price tag with the Orange …
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The Google Nexus 4 and Galaxy Nexus are the only only phones powered by the new Ubuntu smart phone OS for a whole year, as we won’t see official Ubuntu phones until 2014. Smart phones powered by Ubuntu software were set to launch in October this year, but have now been put back until the first quarter of 2014. That’s a …
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The BBC Sport app has kicked off on Android. You can get your sporting fix on the go on your Samsung Galaxy S3, Google Nexus 4 or an Android tablet up measuring up to the 7-inch size of the Google Nexus 7. The app pipes the latest sporting news and videos into any Android device up to 7 inches, including …
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Ubuntu for tablets is a new operating system for slates, joining Ubuntu for phones — and you can try out features such as phone apps sharing the screen with tablet apps on your Google Nexus 7 or Nexus 10. Although it’s optimised for the ARM chips that power tablets, the tablet version of the OS shares most of its code with …
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Nokia could unveil four phones in less than a week. Clues point to a quartet of new Windows Phone 8 devices in the Lumia line-up, including the already-rumoured Lumia 520 and 720. The unknown phones have appeared in logs for US network Verizon, spotted by Windows app wonk Alan Mendelevich. The gang of mystery blowers consists of the Nokia RM-914, …
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It seems 4G isn’t for us after all. As EE’s 4G headstart fast runs out, it seems the lure of the Samsung Galaxy LTE, BlackBerry Z10 and Nokia Lumia 920 hasn’t seen British customers signing up to 4G in droves. The number of people to sign up to the UK’s first 4G network is one figure notably absent from EE’s …
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Using a smartphone can be tough for seniors, so Fujitsu and Orange have teamed up to make the Stylistic S01, an Android smartphone that respects its elders. Sold by the France Telecom-Orange network, the 4-inch, water- and dust-resistant S01 is Fujitsu’s first major smartphone to go on sale outside Japan. It’s loaded with features designed to make things easier for …
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Android 4.2.2 has arrived, but has it stopped your phone from randomly restarting? The latest version of Android Jelly Bean software is now available for the Google Nexus 4 and Galaxy Nexus smart phones, as well as the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 tablets, but we’re still having problems. The new software landed on the Nexus devices last week. It …
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