Forget fumbling for change or worrying about the weirdo behind you seeing your PIN — this summer, you’ll be able to pay for things with just an airy wave of your mobile phone. Orange and Barclaycard have teamed up to finally make contactless mobile phone payments a reality. After Orange kicks things off, contactless payments …
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Free Wi-Fi! Getcher free Wi-Fi! We love a free wireless connection for faster Internet and video gubbins while we’re aht an’ abaht, all without eating up our 3G data allowance. Three cheers for O2, then, which is about to open up a national Wi-Fi network free of charge, to everyone, whether they’re O2 customers or not. And there isn’t even …
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The Google Nexus S by Samsung could soon be available in white, cocking a snook at a certain fruit-flavoured competitor. Google’s second smart phone is currently on sale in black, but leaked photos show an icy makeover. The front of the phone stays black, and the back is white, for a classy two-tone effect. That’s according to German website Bestboyz. …
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“Evolution is Fate.” We don’t even know what that means, but we do know the sequel to the blockbusting Samsung Galaxy S is only weeks away from being revealed. The S2 has been teased in the invitation for Samsung’s launch event on 13 February. The Samsung Galaxy Successor is codenamed ‘Seine’. It’s rumoured to pack a dual-core 1GHz ARM Cortex …
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Apple is screwing around with your iPhone yet again. This time JobsCo is preventing you from taking your iPhone apart by using proprietary pentalobular screws. The pentapointy screws were first used by Apple in the MacBook Air but they’re more commonly seen in cars. The Japanese and other international iPhones are held together by pentalobular screws, while US versions that …
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Usually when we refer to something as a Mickey Mouse phone, we’re not being generous. Today is different. Disney. Japan. Android. Smart phone. Boom — four of our favourite things, coming together like two dogs hoovering up a piece of spaghetti, as Disney stamps its distinctively eared brand on an Android phone. The Disneyphone will run version 2.2 of Google’s …
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There’s a storm brewin’ — the BlackBerry Storm 3, that is. After the BlackBerry Curve Apollo and Dakota rained upon us earlier today, high pressure has swept photos of RiM’s newest Storm onto the interwebs. Boy Genius Report reveals the threequel to the BlackBerry Storm and BlackBerry Storm 2, which introduced an unusual clicking touchscreen. The prototypes have been codenamed …
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The next version of Android is apparently called Ice Cream Sandwich, unless Googlechief Andy Rubin is having a right old laugh. The update that will follow Android 3.0 Honeycomb will share its name with a biscuity, ice-creamy treat. TechCrunch reports a chat with Rubin, in which he let slip the name of the update that will follow hotly anticipated Honeycomb. …
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Oldboy director Park Chan-wook has shot his latest dark-tinged opus with the Apple iPhone 4. The phone’s 720p camera was employed to shoot nightmarish short Paranmanjang for cinema release. Paranmanjang is a half-hour film that tells the story of a middle-aged man who lands a woman’s body while fishing one night, only for the pair to become entwined between life …
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Blu-ray strikes back in 2011 as the Star Wars saga arrives in glorious high definition. Star Wars: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi plus prequels The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith are available to pre-order right now ready for hyperspeed delivery in September. Twentieth Century Fox announced the …
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