Richard Trenholm

HTC Desire 200 pocket

The HTC Desire 200 is a compact little phone roughly the size of a credit card that wants to make sure you never leave home without it. As high-end phones balloon in size into vast slabs of keck-stretching glass and plastic and aluminium, the Desire 200 goes the other way: it’s a new 3.5-inch Android …

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Microsoft Surface goes 4G with reports of Qualcomm chip

Microsoft is resurfacing the Surface. Reports suggest a new, 4G Microsoft Surface RT tablet is on the cards as Windows 8.1 comes our way, the updated slate powered by Qualcomm chips. Bloomberg reports that some new versions of the Surface will run Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 processor, which could mean adding 4G extra-fast Internet. There are currently two versions of the Surface: …

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 first prices revealed

How much will the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 tablets cost? The first prices have been revealed for the dual-core Galaxy Tab 3 7-inch, 8-inch and 10.1-inch slates, complete with Android Jelly Bean and brand new features from the Samsung Galaxy S4. There are three Tab 3 tablets: three dual-core slates, two of which have high-definition screens. The first two sport …

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Sony Xperia Z Ultra, Galaxy Note rival, smashes test records

The numbers are in — and if they’re right, the Sony Xperia Z Ultra phablet could be the stiffest competition yet for the trailblazing Samsung Galaxy Note 2. The Note was the first in-between screen bridging the gap between phone and tablet, with the Note 2 building on the original Note’s success. Other phablets haven’t captured the imagination, but if …

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Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini comes with free Galaxy Tab 2

The Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini is nearly upon us — and if you go 4G, you could get yourself a free Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7-inch tablet too. The Mini is the new cheaper version of the Samsung Galaxy S4, first of a range of S4 spin-offs. It’s available to pre-order now from Phones 4U, with a free 7-inch Samsung …

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Sharp’s 90

If you’ve got a spare twelve grand in your sky rocket and a bare wall the size of, well, a sky rocket, then have we got news for you: Sharp’s 90-inch telly — largest LED TV in the world! — is now on sale in Europe. Sharp reckons the Sharp Aquos LC-90LE757 is the biggest yet and we can believe …

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iOS 7 secret settings revealed

iOS 7 is stuffed with secrets, as revealed by an intrepid developer unearthing a fistful of new features in the next generation of iPhone and iPad software. iOS developer Hamza Sood popped the bonnet and went for a tinker inside iOS 7, discovering new features buried in a secret settings menu. The hidden options include new ways to control apps …

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Motorola Moto X phone isn’t the Android you’re looking for

Will the Motorola Moto X phone have the X factor? Judging from new leaked specs, it seems the hotly anticipated Moto X may not be as world-beating as we’d hoped. Why are we excited about the Moto X smart phone? Because since Google bought Motorola we’ve been hoping for a perfect marriage between Google software and Motorola hardware. Google has …

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See iOS 7 on the iPad in first screenshots

This is what iOS 7 will look like on Apple’s iPad with retina display, iPad 2 and iPad mini. Apple unveiled its new iOS mobile software last week, but hasn’t really shown off how it will look on the iPad tablet. iOS 7 will come to the iPad at the same time as it hits the iPhone later in the …

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Sky Sports nets free broadband to tempt BT customers

Sky has fired another broadband broadside in the war with BT. The satellite TV broadcaster is offering free broadband to anyone who subscribes to Sky Sports TV channels, even if you currently get your Internet from BT. New and existing Sky customers get a free year of Sky Broadband Unlimited, paying just the £14.50 line rental fee each month. Or …

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