Archive for the ‘Mobile Phones’ Category

Mobile phones may be great but they are also incredibly annoying for a huge variety of reasons.  Here are just some of our gripes with the humble mobile phone -
1.    Battery life – We’ve all been through this one.  You get your phone out of your pocket to make an important call but the battery [...]

Supermarket giant Tesco have announced today that they are to offer the iPhone 3G and 3GS in Tesco phone shops and online in the UK.  This move, which comes just in time for Christmas, further increases the competition between phone companies for iPhone customers.
It’s not clear yet how much the Tesco iPhone will retail for, [...]

One of the latest smartphones to emerge from Acer has been highlighted as a possible alternative to similarly-equipped handsets like the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, HTC Touch Pro2 and Nokia E75.According to Niall Magennis in an article for Trusted Reviews this week, the company’s M900 device is one of a trio of models that made [...]

The news that two of the UK’s biggest mobile operators will merge is both good and bad news for consumers in terms of how it will affect the service they receive, an industry expert has advised.According to a spokeswoman for Informa Telecoms & Media, a group which specialises in the provision of business intelligence for [...]

Two of the UK’s largest mobile network operators are in talks to join forces in a move which could see them become the biggest single provider of products in the UK.With network exclusives like the Toshiba TG01 and the LG Watch Phone, Orange is already a company which supports the handsets of many people in [...]

A new survey has highlighted the popularity of social networking use via modern mobile phones – such as the Apple iPhone 3G, BlackBerry Curve 8900 and Sony Ericsson W995. According to Facebook, there are now even more people than ever checking messages, updating statuses and keeping in touch with their friends and family via the [...]

The government has announced the development of “tough” measures aimed at fighting the abuse of mobile phone technology.In question are the wave and pay systems being trialled by certain companies and banks in the UK. These allow consumers to simply swipe their handset over a sensor in order to pay for goods and services.However, the [...]

The question of what effect Spotify for the Apple iPhone will have on iTunes is one being pondered this week by an expert in the sector, who asked whether the application will kill the music, TV, film and podcast retailer.Will Cooper is deputy news editor at New Media Age and commented on Apple’s approval of [...]

Last week a new consumer mobile phones website launched and we like it a lot! Recombu was launched with Andrew Lim at the helm (Andrew was previously the mobile editor for CNET UK) and primarily provides mobile phone reviews and news in an easy to read format and style.
Andrew realised that people read reviews because [...]

Suggestions that consumers on low incomes would be the ones to suffer if plans to change the way in which calls are charged become implemented are familiar and inaccurate, it has been advised.This is the belief of a spokeswoman for the Terminate the Rate campaign, who was commenting on recent speculation from network provider O2 [...]


  • Ahmad: Samsung i8910HD is the best I test it it's nice mobile phone in the world. thank you [...]
  • ash: which one would be recomendable to sum one who texts alot and likes to have a fast phone which does [...]
  • R Campbell: Very useful review of phone features. Do you have any comparisons we could access? [...]
  • James Duncan: Don't get me wrong, I'm not iPhone bashing as no other phone has come close in my opinion but the ne [...]
  • Murphx: I think copy and paste should have been there from at least v2 of the OS, but the other stuff I thin [...]