Virgin Media is bringing the V Festival to your living room — minus the mud and annoying teenagers — with a new TiVo app. Virgin Media TiVo is a rather clever set-top box that learns what telly programmes you like. It also offers apps, like the V Festival app stuffed with musical goodies from interviews …
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The war between Apple and Samsung has claimed its first casualty: the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. The Android-powered 10.1-inch tablet has been on sale in Britain for barely a week, but must now be yanked from shop shelves. The two companies are locked in a bitter dispute over claims that Samsung’s Galaxy range of smart phones and tablets copies the …
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The Samsung Galaxy R will be the first Galaxy smart phone to pack the dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 chip. The Android-powered phone will arrive hard on the heels of the popular Samsung Galaxy S2 — and it will even have its own games. Previous Galaxies have used Samsung’s own 1GHz Hummingbird Cortex-A8 processor. Other phones powered by the Tegra chip include the …
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Mobile phones stolen in London, Birmingham and Manchester will be blocked in a matter of hours. Phone retailers and networks have confirmed they will block stolen phones, as normal, so we recommend you look carefully at the deal if you’re considering buying a second-hand phone or any kind of gadget in the wake of the riots. Electronics stores have been …
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We’ve had the Samsung Galaxy S2 in our sky rocket for a while, so we’ve decided to reward you with a monster of a review. With a software update and even a white version on the cards, everything you need to know about the phone is in our Samsung Galaxy S2 review, so take a look. Samsung has now updated …
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London awoke today to more smashed and burned streets after a third night of violence. As looters took to the streets of Hackney, Peckham and Croydon, services such as Twitter, BlackBerry Messenger and even the PlayStation Network were once again in the spotlight, with a rumour spreading across social networks that BlackBerry Messenger would be shut down. Through a combination …
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The BlackBerry Colt is quick on the draw as the first a new generation of smart phone. Last week saw the announcement of the BlackBerry Bold 9900, Torch 9810 and 9860, a trio of phones using the latest BlackBerry 7 software, but the forthcoming Colt is the first phone to be powered by the QNX software that fires up the …
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London burned this weekend as rioters and looters took to the streets of Tottenham. It’s been widely reported that the trouble was co-ordinated through Facebook, Twitter and even BlackBerry Messenger, but can we really blame social-media software? The spotlight has mainly focused on BlackBerry Messenger. BlackBerry phones have a reputation for being worn in the belt holsters of power-suited executives, but they’re …
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As a nation, we’re apparently addicted to our blowers, yet phone networks aren’t the ones cashing in, as contracts get cheaper and we use more data. Ofcom‘s annual report on mobile-phone use reveals that nine out of ten people in Britain own a mobile phone, and nearly a third own a smart phone. Not only are mobile phones ubiquitous, but one in seven households has ditched …
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Ready for a curve ball from BlackBerry? Photos have emerged of the BlackBerry Curve 9360, a new phone mysteriously left out of the big BB launch this morning. The BlackBerry Bold 9900, Torch 9810 and Torch 9860 were announced today alongside international variations. But the 9360 was conspicuous by its absence. BlackBerry launched the three new phones this morning, and …
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