Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet, and when it comes to phones, that means buying SIM-free. Except when it’s a new iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C, which you can’t buy from phone shops without a contract. When we trawled London’s West End, meeting the hardy souls camping out for the new iPhone 5S …
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Rewarding Nokia boss Stephen Elop with a staggering fat cat bonus for his role in the company’s disastrous decline is “outrageous” and even “a threat to social harmony,” according to the Finnish government. Finland’s favourite phone-fabricator Nokia has on Elop’s watch slipped from its long-held position as the biggest manufacturer of mobile phones in the world, struggling to compete with …
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Hackers claim to have beaten Apple’s Touch ID fingerprint security already, using movie-style fake fingerprints to break into the iPhone 5S. The iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C went on sale last week, and have already seen a number of security problems. To crack the 5S, hackers from the Chaos Computer Club lift a fingerprint from glass or glossy surface, dusting …
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You don’t have to be off your trolley to take home a cheap tablet. The Tesco Hudl, officially confirmed today, is an affordable 7-inch tablet that you can pop in your trolley on your next big shop — and it’s out next week. The Hudl (pronounced ‘huddle’) costs £119, or less if you have lots of Tesco Clubcard points. In …
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iOS 7 has smashed records, doubling Internet traffic as phone fans race to download the software and update iPhone and iPad. The new iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C — on sale today — may have left many of you cold, but iOS 7 proved enormously popular with owners of older iPhones and iPads. Broadband bigwigs BT Retail told the Guardian that British …
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Android KitKat is coming next month. That’s the word from the chocolatiers at Nestlé who lent their name to the next update for Google’s operating system for mobile phones and tablets — which could mean the Google Nexus 5 is imminent too. Each new Android update is shown off by a new Nexus phone, and if KitKat is coming then …
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iOS 7 is out now, and across the world phone fans are racing to update iPhones and iPads with the dramatic new facelift to Apple’s software. Except quite a few people can’t. Error messages abound as overworked servers labour to distribute the iOS 7 update to eager Apple fans. Even those that have started the download are facing a wait …
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Your iPhone and iPad are getting a facelift with iOS 7, the next generation of Apple software for your phone or tablet. You can download the Apple update today for a new look and a fistful of new features. It’s about time iOS 7 gave the ageing Apple software a fresh and colourful new look, as well as adding new features, …
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Apple fans across the globe have barely begun downloading their iOS 7 update — but the next update, iOS 7.0.1, is reported to be on its way. The iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C come with iOS 7 already installed, yet are set for their first update as soon as you open the box. As phone fans fume at error messages …
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The iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C might not be the big payday everybody hoped. British networks report pre-orders for the 5C are a disappointing fraction of what was expected, or seen in previous launches. According to The Guardian, one network says pre-orders are as little as a tenth of the number of early orders placed for previous iPhones. Previous launches …
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