Tag: 3G
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Mobile Tech Made $3.3 Trillion in 2014
As the new year draws in, facts and figures about the year gone by are coming in thick and fast – we’ve already seen the announcements of gaming’s biggest titles in 2014, and now it’s the turn of the mobile industry, with reports of staggering revenue being generated by mobile tech companies during the year.…
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LG Shows Off Prototype WebOS Smartwatch
CES 2015 showed off some great new things for 2015 – including new plans for wearables from Intel and Qualcomm, two of the biggest chip makers in the computing world. The two sectors of the industry specializing in mobile devices and traditional computers are coming together as the wearable world evolves and blossoms. But what…
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90% of People Will Own a Mobile By 2020
The future as a concept is changing very radically, of late time honored visions of rayguns, hoverboards and other staples from the elder days of science fiction have mostly vanished from the silver screen, or at least been thoroughly revamped – the same can be said of the 80’s-90’s era of ‘grimy future’ stories… all…
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London Study Says EE’s 3G The Worst
If you’re a regular commuter to London you might already know that EE doesn’t have the best performance with regards to 3G data connections as you head into the capital. Now a study by Global Wireless Solutions, a network testing company, has released a study into the wireless signal quality for commuters as they travel…
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Three Drops Roaming Charges in France, Switzerland, Israel, Finland and Norway
In August last year Three (the mobile network, not the number) decided to remove data roaming charges in 11 countries, the US, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Macau, Australia, Italy, Austria, Hong Kong, Sweden, Denmark and the Republic of Ireland as part of their ‘Feel At Home’ initiative. The scheme allows you to web browse, call and…
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Apple Acquires Novauris Speech Recognition for a Siri boost
Possibly as a quick way to upgrade Siri to compete with Microsoft’s new Cortana speech recognising assistant, Apple has acquired speech recognition company Novauris, who for a while have been working on speech spftware that allows the user to work offline – meaning that in the future Siri could be used without an active internet…
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Three UK’s 3G mobile network is down for everyone
We awoke this morning to find that we had mobile signal but no mobile internet on the Three network. Odd, we thought. Then at Gadget Helpline HQ we discovered that everyone in the office on Three had the same problem. We’ve spoken to Three who have confirmed that EVERYONE in the UK currently has no…
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Google releasing 32GB 4G and Key Lime Pie variant of Google Nexus 4 next month
Next month Google will be holding its annual I/O Developer Conference and it’s normally the time that the company announces its new line of Android-based products and even a newAndroid OS itself. Well, it’s widely expected that Google will be announcing a new Google Nexus smartphone (as the name states, the 5th in line), but rumours…
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Sony to lower 3G PlayStation Vita price and discontinue?
Sony has been having a hard time recently with its portable PS Vita console, with the sales of the gaming device dwindling so much that it’s looking like the company will be dropping the 3G version of the console. This speculation comes after the 3G versions of the PlayStation Vita have seen massive price cuts…
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Google Nexus 7 3G now in stock at Google Play Store
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Google is now stocking its consistently sold out Google Nexus 7 3G tablet at the moment after stock delays and it being sold out online and virtually everywhere. Customers who have been waiting for the device to come into stock can now pick one up online from the Google Play Store, which will mark the first…
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iOS 6 glitch causes multiple audio downloads resulting in unexpected data charges
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Upgrade to iOS 6.0.1 to prevent the issue happening to you!
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Jargon Busted: What exactly is 4G LTE?
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4G LTE is the latest tech buzzphrase in the UK, but what is it?