The government is to spend £150m on bars — signal bars. Chancellor George Osborne plans to invest the cash in better mobile phone reception in areas where signal leaves something to be desired. Osborne promised to improve coverage for “up to 6 million people” in areas where there is little or no mobile phone signal, …
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In what may qualify as the understatement of the year, Sony Ericsson’s boss has admitted his company should have taken the iPhone more seriously. “It’s safe to say that Sony Ericsson should have taken the iPhone more seriously when it arrived in 2007,” Sony Ericsson chief muckamuck Bert Nordberg told the Wall Street Journal. Nordberg wasn’t in charge then, but …
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The iPhone 4S is here! But never mind iOS 5, an upgraded camera, and dual-core processor — where’s our bigger screen? Where’s our new design? Where the chuffin’ heck is our iPhone 5? Whenever the euphoric glow of an exciting new gadget begins to fade, our thoughts inevitably turn to what’s missing. After this Apple announcement, that euphoric glow faded …
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iOS 5 will be yours to play with on 12 October. The latest update to Apple’s software for its mobile devices will be magically available for your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch a week tomorrow, almost the same day as Android Ice Cream Sandwich is expected to launch. iOS 5 adds a bunch of new features. It offers loads of …
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Looking forward to the Samsung Galaxy Note? Then consider this your official Note notice: it’s hitting UK shops on 17 November. The dual-core Note is Samsung’s oversized Android smart phone — or, depending on your perspective, it’s Samsung’s undersized Android tablet. The screen measures 5.3 inches across, making the Note about the size of a sachet of cup-a-soup. Seriously, that …
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus is an upgraded version of Sammy’s original 7-inch Android tablet, now boasting dual-core power and Honeycomb software. The 7.0 Plus comes minus excess fat: it’s thinner than the original Galaxy Tab, measuring just 9.96mm in width and weighing 345g. The new Tab is powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, with 1GB RAM. It runs …
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The first Nokia Windows Phones will be the Nokia Sabre and Nokia Searay. That’s according to a slip of the keyboard from Microsoft, which accidentally revealed the names of the Sabre and Searay — or Sea Ray? — as well as phones to be named the Samsung Yukon and Samsung Wembley. Eagle-eyed entrants to a Canadian competition spotted the phones …
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Samsung and Google are teaming up for an announcement on 11 October. Are you thinking what we’re thinking? Because we’re thinking Nexus Prime and Ice Cream Sandwich. What do you mean you were thinking about Batman? Concentrate for a second, dude. Samsung is holding a press conference at the CTIA mobile industry shindig in California in just over a week, …
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The iPhone 5 will boast a new giant-sized 4.3-inch screen, CNET France has discovered. Bonjour le grand iPhone Cinq! Our French is un petit peu on the rusty side, but we checked the details with our Gallic gadgeteer chums at CNET France. They were shown a new smart phone today — not by Apple, but another manufacturer familiar with its …
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If you’re on a network that begins with O, stand by to get your Windows Phone Mango update. If you’re on Vodafone, you may have to wait. The new update to Microsoft’s Windows Phone software was unveiled to the public yesterday, but will be reaching phones on different networks in stages. Hopefully it won’t be a long wait, as Microsoft …
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