Richard Trenholm

BBM app for Android can be downloaded, but doesn’t work

BBM for Android and iPhone is out — but it doesn’t work. The BlackBerry Messenger app for your Android phone has leaked ahead of the as-yet-unnamed release date, but you can’t use it. Thanks to the BlackBerry addicts at CrackBerry, you can download what appears to be the official BBM app and install it on …

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Samsung Galaxy Gear 2 in the works for more phones

The next Samsung Galaxy Gear smart watch could be on your wrist early next year, and this time it’ll actually work with your phone. This news comes from the file marked “No shizzle, Sherlock”, but Korean news site Daum reports that a Galaxy Gear 2 is in the works to follow the Gear, Samsung’s first major venture in the much-hyped …

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iPhone 5S and 5C give a sneak peek inside

The iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C are just days away, and Apple has given us a glimpse inside the new phones. Apple has posted schematics that tell us a little more about what’s inside the brace of smart phones. The schematics show case manufacturers where they need to allow internal components to breathe. For example, cases shouldn’t cover the top …

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iPhone 5S prices revealed by EE

EE has revealed more prices for the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C ahead of the new phones’ release date this Friday. The cheapest 4G deal for the 5S costs £26 per month for a paltry 500MB of data. On that plan, the 5S costs £260 up front for the 16GB model, £350 for the 32GB version, and £420 for the …

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Nokia 108 is a super

The Nokia 108 is a cheap-as-chips new phone aimed at people who have never owned a phone with a camera before, and want to change that by owning a phone with a really, really awful camera. Announced today, the 108 has a 0.3-megapixel camera. It’s a perfectly respectable budget phone — on paper anyway — but you have to wonder …

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New Google Nexus 4 shows up in leaked snaps

Is this the next Google Nexus phone? My money’s on yes. The hotly-awaited follow-up to the bargain-tastic Google Nexus 4 has been spotted in new leaked photos. Previously glimpsed only in mock-ups by phone fans and a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo in Google’s KitKat video, the new Nexus turns up in snaps filed with the FCC in the US. The pictures don’t …

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Nokia gets Sirius with rumoured Windows tablet

Why so Sirius? More details are emerging of the rumoured Nokia Windows 8 tablet, codenamed Sirius. The Nokia Sirius is tipped to be a 10.1-inch slate running Microsoft’s latest Windows 8 software. It’s expected to pack a quad-core Qualcomm 8974 processor with 2GB of RAM under a high definition 1080p screen. WinSuperSite reports that the 4G Sirius slate, pictured above …

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HTC One going for gold in leaked photos

Gold! Always believe in your soul, and so on. Hard on the heels of the new gold iPhone 5S comes a golden version of the HTC One. Revealed by Phandroid in leaked photos, the gold HTC One joins the original silver and black versions, a lesser-spotted blue model, and a big red One. The new iPhone 5S, announced this week and …

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Siri rival Cortana coming to Windows, phones and Xbox One

Look out Siri: Cortana is comin’ for ya. Inspired by the voice in Master Chief’s ear, Cortana is a forthcoming voice control system for Windows, Windows Phone and the Xbox One. Cortana is named after a character in Microsoft’s Halo games, an AI who doles out help and advice to you as you play the role of Master Chief. The …

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iPhone 5S and 5C without O2 4G until November

If you’re planning to buy a new iPhone 5S or 5C from O2 on launch day, don’t expect dizzying data from day one: O2 4G won’t be turned on for the iPhone for as much as a month or more. O2 yesterday admitted that the new iPhones would not be able to use 4G at first, claiming Apple needs to …

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