Ever had a few pre-drinks before a night out, jumped into a taxi and realised you’ve forgotten your changer and your phone is guaranteed to run out before you even enter the club? Of course you have, we all have and unless you’re Lady Ga Ga who apparently has beef with being contacted when she [...]

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The US Army is set to get its own smartphone and Apple and Microsoft won’t be happy as it’s going to be running Android. Apparently the phone will be “A prototype device running Android called the Joint Battle Command-Platform (JBC-P Handheld), developed by tech nonprofit MITRE, is undergoing tests.” this will allow soldiers to quickly [...]

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The Gadget Show kicks off to the public from today and the one and only piece of exclusive tech that probably hasn’t been seen by anyone was the HTC Sensation – which is their new high-end dual core smartphone. We were on hand to have it demonstrated by the chaps from HTC, featuring a laptop [...]

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Taiwanese Smarphone maker HTC are on a flyer at the moment after it announced that they had tripled its earnings in the last quarter, thanks mainly to the boom in sales of its incredibly popular Android smartphones. According to a report on Bloomberg, the Taiwanese company earned £332 million in the quarter ending March 31st [...]

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Before I continue let’s make something clear. This ‘radiation detector’ is not going to transform your smartphone into a Geiger counter. It’s got nothing to do with the type of radiation causing problems in Japan (ionizing radiation.) In fact we’re talking about a different type of radiation (non-ionizing radiation.) This is what the app records. The reason [...]

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Recent statistics show that almost half of smartphone users use their device to get some sort of local news information. This figure is set to bloat as traditional newspapers die out and the smartphone craze continues to take hold. Then there’s tablets of course. Not one to miss a trick freedom of speech hater Rupert Murdoch [...]

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What is the one place in your home which can offer you a sea of peace, calm and tranquillity?  Kitchen…no, bedroom even…not likely.  Whether you would like to admit it or not it has got to be the good old bathroom. Locking yourself in the bathroom might be sanctuary from the screaming kids or maybe [...]

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As phones and contracts keep shooting up in price with no sign of stopping any time soon, it’s nice to see a network offering a reasonable contract. In fact Virgin Mobile’s latest deal is better than reasonable, it’s great. With their new Sim-only deal you can get unlimited texts*, unlimited Virgin-to-Virgin calls and 100 minutes [...]

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