The Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 charge without the aid of wires, making it possibly the most significant gadget yet to use wireless charging. To charge your Lumia 920 or Lumia 820, simply place it on the charging pad — or accessory such as the Fatboy recharge pillow — and the battery fills up …
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Stand by your beds! Apple has officially announced the date for what is widely believed to be the unveiling of the new iPhone 5: as rumoured, it’s 12 September — and the invitation does a bit of foreshadowing of the new phone’s name. As with previous big Apple announcements, the event will take place at the Yerba Buena Center for …
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You can now pay for things just by waving your Samsung Galaxy S3 at the till, as the S3 becomes the first Android phone to do Orange and Barclaycard’s Quick Tap contactless payment. And if you’re not convinced about paying for things with your phone, Orange and Barclaycard will give you fifty squids free money to try it out. Whether …
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You can now take Doctor Who on holiday, Top Gear on the Tube and EastEnders anywhere you like. The BBC iPlayer app for iPad and iPhone now downloads new episodes to your device to watch without an Internet connection. That means you can watch BBC programmes when you’re out and about even if you don’t have a 3G iPad, or when …
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The HTC One XL could be the UK’s first 4G phone. The souped-up 4G version of the HTC One X is set to be the first to fire up Orange and T-Mobile’s fast-approaching next-generation data network. The One XL is the popular quad-core One X with added LTE, the super-fast mobile data technology popularly referred to as 4G. Already on …
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O2 customers with a Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray, Xperia Arc or Xperia Neo aren’t getting Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Although Sony has sent the update winging its way to unlocked phones, O2 isn’t happy with the update and has decided Ray, Arc and Neo owners will have to do without. Android updates are released by Google to the manufacturers …
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The new iPhone 5 could have new earbuds. Lugholes of the world rejoice! New photos also show the new iPhone assembled and compared to the iPhone 4S and iPhone 3G. Pictures of the alleged bits that will make up the new iPhone have been leaking left, right and centre, and Chinese site Sohu has cobbled those components together to see …
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Desi-i-i-i-re, as U2 might put it. The recently spotted HTC Proto prototype is reported to be heading for shops as the HTC Desire X (pictured left), named after not one but two phenomenally successful phones — the HTC One X and the original HTC Desire. Taiwanese retailer ePrice reveals the suspected specs, which suggest the Desire X isn’t as desirable …
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If you had to come up with names for phones, you’d probably run out of ideas every now and again. On that note, say hello to HTC’s prototype HTC Proto. The Proto shares the rounded look of the HTC One X, in a case The Verge reports to be just 9.62mm thick. Squeezed inside is a 1GHz dual-core Qualcomm processor, …
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They’re supposed to be works of genius, but it seems Apple’s adverts aren’t so clever after all: the Californian company has ditched its recent Genius adverts featuring well-informed Apple Store employees in all manner of japesome scrapes. The new adverts featured a blue t-shirt-sporting Apple Store employee helping people in real-life situations — with hi-lar-ious consequences. They were first aired …
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