Honor is a new mobile phone brand from Chinese manufacturer Huawei. Andrew Hoyle/CNET Shall we do the honours? Huawei has launched a brand new brand of mobile phones, called Honor, starting with the Honor 6 smartphone . But why does the Chinese manufacturer need a new name? It’s all about convincing phone fans to feel …
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Josh Miller/CNET The Amazon Fire Phone is now on sale in the UK, locked to O2. O2 is the only network offering contracts on Amazon, for the Fire Phone and a range of other smartphones. O2 is the first network to offer phones and contracts from Amazon, including 3G and 4G contracts and pay-as-you-go and pay-monthly deals. Amazon started in …
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Lenovo It takes a lot to stand out from the crowd of wearable fitness trackers in the running to take your money. So even with smartwatch-style features and the ability to unlock your computer, the Lenovo Smartband SW-B100 has some catching up to do. The SW-B100 joins the ranks of activity-tracking wristbands like the Samsung Gear Fit , Fitbit Flex …
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Microsoft The first Lumia device to lose the Nokia name is coming soon, says Microsoft, but the Nokia brand isn’t disappearing from phones completely — it’ll still adorn entry-level phones. Microsoft bought Nokia’s phone business in April for $7.2 billion, a deal that will see the division continue to pump out phones with the Lumia name stamped on them. The …
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Hailo is an app that connects taxi drivers with passengers instead of driving round looking for fares. Hailo E-hailing app Hailo has unveiled a couple of new features to try and run Uber off the road. Hailo is driving defensively after the wheels came off the app’s US operations earlier this month. So it’s introduced Pay with Hailo, which allows …
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Sarah Tew/CNET Amazon Fire TV is now available in the UK for £79 — but it faces heated competition from rivals including Apple TV, Google Chromecast and Sky’s Now TV. Amazon Fire TV is a 17.5mm streaming box that plugs into your television, packing a quad-core processor and pumping out 1080p HD video with Dolby Digital Plus surroundsound. When you …
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Press play for Spotify tunes thanks to Matt Brailsford’s Raspberry Pi-powered tape player and NFC cassettes. Matt Brailsford Remember what it felt like to press play and record at the same time? Back before streaming and downloading and blogs and YouTube, music meant CDs and Smash Hits and the NME and taping off the radio — and this delightfully retro …
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TV’s Judy Finnegan and Richard Madeley with their daughter Chloe Madeley, who has received threats online. David M. Benett/Getty Images The British government’s top legal figure has branded trolls a “baying cyber-mob” of “cowards” ahead of proposed laws to put online abusers in prison for as long as two years. “These Internet trolls are cowards who are poisoning our national …
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Mikael Bang Andersen If you’re excited about the ease of paying for stuff with a wave of your bank card but you’re worried about security, and you just can’t put your finger on why, fear not: MasterCard has teamed up with Zwipe for a contactless payment card with a fingerprint sensor on it. Started in 2009 by Norwegian entrepreneur Kim …
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Archos Fancy stepping into a game on your phone without stepping too far into your bank account? The Archos VR Glasses are a cheap way to turn almost any phone into a virtual reality extravaganza before your very eyes. Only the VR best Virtual reality is more than just video games This Sony researcher wants to put you in someone …
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