Best known in Australia for its Blu-ray players, Chinese electronics company Oppo has turned its hand to the state-of-the-art Find 5 phone. Oppo’s Find 5. (Credit: Oppo) The Oppo Find 5 was teased several months ago, but recent news from Beijing has made the device official, and revealed some truly impressive specs. A 5-inch 1080p …
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Sharp’s ICC Purios has the only THX Certified Ultra HD TV, but at AU$30,000 can it make a splash on the market? (Screenshot by CNET Australia) We said recently that cheaper and smaller Ultra HD TVs were on the way. We still stand by that statement, but Sharp has thrown us a bit of a curve ball with the ICC …
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You may have paid only $200 for your latest smartphone, but if you had to replace that device before you became eligible for a subsidy from your carrier, it could cost you more than $600. Is it worth it to get device insurance? That’s the question I answer this time in Ask Maggie. I also offer some advice to an …
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Update, December 15 at 9:10 a.m.: Samsung posted an announcement Saturday, saying the workers in question were of legal age. See the note at the bottom of this story. A labor rights group said it has uncovered evidence that a Samsung supplier employs underage workers, among other abuses. China Labor Watch today said that an HTNS Shenzhen Co. factory that …
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Good news, Londoners! Wi-Fi in Tube stations is going to stay free for the foreseeable future. Bad news: it’s only if you’re a customer of Virgin Media, Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile or EE. If you’re not signed up to one of those companies, you’ll have to pay £2 per day, £5 per week or £15 per month to check your email …
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How big is the Galaxy S4 going to be? It might seem silly, but it’s one of the gadget world’s most important questions for 2013. Will Samsung keep making bigger and bigger phones? Will the S series merge with the Note, or will the Note get even more ludicrously enormous again? With Samsung such a massive force in the industry, …
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Related stories Verizon updates Samsung’s Galaxy S3 to Android 4.1 Samsung Galaxy S3: Android excellence Using Kies to sync media to Galaxy Tab Samsung’s Kies desktop software can sync your Samsung smartphone or tablet to your computer. If you haven’t used Kies before, then you may not know that it can also back up the data on your Samsung device. …
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Sony and Watchdata have teamed up in the latest effort to further the use of contactless payments. The consumer electronics giant has signed an agreement with Singapore-based smart card company Watchdata to integrate near field communication (NFC) and Sony’s FeliCa technology into Watchdata’s SIMpass solutions next year. As part of the agreement, Sony and Watchdata will “provide NFC functions to …
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From bigger screens and better cameras to multicore processing and NFC, 2012 has been a momentous year for fancy new phone technology. But how practical is any of this cutting-edge gear? Read on as we dive into the gee-whizzery this year’s smartphones brought to the table and whether they were huge flops or represent fabulous mobile innovations. Stylus or no, …
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The Google Nexus 4 makes waves with its super-cheap price — but it seems no-one told Three, which is now selling the Nexus 4 at an inflated price. If you buy the Nexus 4 direct from Google, it costs a bargainous £240 for the 8GB model or £280 for the 16GB model. But Three — and O2, which also sells …
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How’s the signal round your end? Vodafone has crafted a new version of its Sure Signal 3G booster, granting its customers who live in mobile black spots the chance to natter away on the phone or download the odd app without dodgy signal spoiling their fun. As you can see in the snap above, the new model is considerably smaller …
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The Motorola Atrix HD is getting its chance to bite into Jelly Bean according to AT&T. Related stories Samsung Galaxy S III (AT&T) gets Android 4.1 Android 4.1 Jelly Bean a sweet Android update Motorola Atrix HD review The Android 4.1 software update is available immediately for Motorola Atrix HD owners, reports the nation’s second-largest carrier. AT&T subscribers can manually …
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Like a suffering office worker the morning after a Christmas party forlornly mixing an Alka-Seltzer, EE has dropped two tablets. With a plink and another plink, the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 LTE and Google Nexus 7 are the first tablets to fizz up the UK’s first 4G network. The Nexus 7 isn’t actually a 4G device, but comes with a …
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The Microsoft Surface is in shops at last. It hits shelves at John Lewis this weekend and the retailer’s never knowingly undersold website today. Up until now you’ve only been able to get hold of the Windows 8 tablet online, or at Microsoft Stores in the US. But from tomorrow you can pop down to your local John Lewis, which …
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Japan-based Softbank is limiting how much Sprint can pay to acquire Clearwire, a new report claims. Sprint Nextel yesterday confirmed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it’s willing to pay $2.90 a share to buyout the remaining shares in Clearwire. The total cost would be $2.1 billion. Some Clearwire shareholders, however, are saying that Sprint should up its …
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