Posted By Malcolm Owen On February 3, 2012 at 6:37 pm ADD COMMENTS

Just when you thought there couldn’t be another Galaxy-named product from Samsung, they announce the Galaxy S Advance.

A dual-core 1.0Ghz processor, 4.0″ Super AMOLED display, Gingerbread and a 3.5mm headphone socket appears to be the main draws, but then there’s also the 5MP camera, Samsung’s “TouchWiz” UI and “Find My Phone”.
That last feature appeals as [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On January 23, 2012 at 6:03 pm ADD COMMENTS

Wanted a Samsung Galaxy Note but couldn’t bear to get the black version because it clashed with your all-white decor? UK residents can now get hold of a white version of the Galaxy Note from John Lewis in Oxford Street, London as of today. It doesn’t look like the black one here.

Just to be clear, [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On November 8, 2011 at 11:02 pm Comments Off

I fancy an icecream sandwich.  Sadly, all I have is a press release about the Samsung Galaxy Nexus being released in the UK on the 17th of November.
Featuring FacePalm Facelock (Unlocking your handset by showing it your face) a 720p 4.65″ HD Super AMOLED display, a hefty amount of Google+ integration and a thickness of [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On September 15, 2010 at 11:39 pm Comments Off

HTC has announced the Desire HD and Desire Z, along with “connected services” through HTCSense.com
The new handsets are fairly hefty upgrades to the Desire. The HD gets the capability to do 720p HD video recording thanks to it’s 8MP camera. On the other hand, the Z (apparently it does not stand for Zoolander) gets a [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On September 14, 2010 at 9:13 pm 1 COMMENT

Do you feel that you aren’t getting enough giant robots in your life? Well, the Softbank 945SH is now Gundam themed to celebrate 30 years of cartoons involving fighting in space using mobile suits.

The phone has tones and sounds similar to the anime series and it looks like it could easily be in it.
But wait, what if [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On August 25, 2010 at 9:52 pm Comments Off

Google are now making it as simple as they perceive it is possible to make a phone call to anyone in the world: from Gmail.

Whilst in Gmail, users in the US can now call people by clicking “Call Phone” in their contact list and either selecting the person’s name that they want to call (if their number is [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On July 6, 2010 at 9:24 pm Comments Off

It’s not often that Tesco’s advertising makes me want to say good things, let alone Tesco warranting a blog post on a tech site, but they’ve done it.
In this advert, Tesco Mobile manages to pastiche the generic empowerment and “blue sky thinking” that you get in the average mobile phone adverts and give a basic [...]