The Samsung Galaxy S3 is safe for work — in fact it’s SAFE. But does that mean other Android phones are unsafe? The S3 is the first phone to be certified SAFE, or ‘Samsung Approved For Enterprise’. The Korean company reckons this new scheme will make its phones and tablets secure to keep your work …
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HTC is changing the way it makes the HTC One X to sort out the phone’s Wi-Fi issues. With many users complaining of signal problems, HTC has apologised, although it still claims the problem is an isolated issue. Phone fans who’ve bought the quad-core HTC flagship phone have noticed that Wi-Fi signal isn’t as good as it could be until …
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Microsoft is set to announce a Windows 8 tablet later today — but new rumours suggest it’ll involve US bookseller Barnes & Noble. Does that mean it’ll be a rival to the Amazon Kindle Fire rather than the iPad — and does it mean it won’t come to the UK? We were expecting a Microsoft-branded tablet that shows off Windows …
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I’m looking through you — you’re not the same, as birthday boy Paul McCartney memorably put it. This cool advert for a possible future iPhone 5 definitely isn’t the same — and you can look through it. The first glimpses of the next iPhone have started to emerge, revealing that the phone is set to have a new widescreen design. …
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The Samsung Galaxy S3 and its Galactic chums could be getting a next-generation stylus, which you can use to chat to your friends as well as for the usual scribbling and scrawling. Spotted by Patent Bolt in a recent patent application, the digital stylus is designed for writing or tapping on the screen of your phone or tablet — but …
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The Dark Knight Rises is coming to iPhone, iPad and Android phones. Keep reading to check out the first trailer to the official iOS and Android movie tie-in game, arriving this summer. In the bat-game, you take on the bat-mantle of the Caped Crusader, beating seven shades of bat-guano out of assorted wrong-uns in a 3D Gotham City — mainly …
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The Kobo Vox, rival to the Amazon Kindle Fire, just got more interesting: it now has access to thousands of apps and games from Google Play. The Vox, a 7-inch Android multimedia tablet that beat the Kindle Fire to the UK, can now download apps from Google’s official app store. Google Play, formerly known as the Android Market, is home …
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has revealed how Siri earned the thumbs-down the day it was bought by the company he helped build. After proclaiming the voice-controlled personal assistant to be the future, Woz reveals it was ruined when it turned up on the iPhone 4S. The 61-year-old blasted Siri while visiting Woz, a horse named after him at Peaceful Acres …
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Vodafone has taken to the streets to reveal how it tests phone signal in hard-to-reach places. From shopping centres to offices, pedestrian testers are roaming Britain equipped with special phones that automatically call, text and surf the web — all in the interest of maintaining those crucial signal bars. James Watt is one of Vodafone’s network of pedestrian testers, roving …
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Bad news if you fancy a cheap HTC phone: the company says it won’t take on the low-priced phone market, as it doesn’t want to harm its brand. “We don’t want to destroy our brand image,” says HTC head honcho Peter Chou in an interview with the Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch. Instead, HTC plans to continue to compete by selling …
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