Tag: Mobile Phones
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FBI Slams Anti Snooping Encryption Methods
Big shady government organisations are much more common in the US than here in the UK. More often than not, the biggest ones are quite opposed to the idea of tech companies embracing new ways to keep user data out of the hands of government snoopers, with some new mobile phones possibly being ‘snoop-proof’ due…
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ARM’s Mali-450 GPU Ready for 2013′s Mid-Range Smartphones
ARM holdings have today provided us with some details about the company’s upcoming Mali-450 graphics processor which is based on ARM’s Utgard architecture.
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Ofcom Wants 0800 Numbers to be Free to Call from Mobile Phones
The fear of calling 0800 numbers from your mobile could soon be banished, as UK regulating body Ofcom has proposed that calls to such numbers be free for all UK phones, including mobiles. 0800 numbers are classed as “Freephone” numbers, and when calling from a UK landline they are indeed free, but when calling from…
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Three Introduces New Tariffs to Stop Out-of-Bundle Data Charges
With Three’s new tariffs, you’ll never go over your data limit again
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Everything Everywhere Plans to Launch 4G LTE Network in the UK this Year
Everything Everywhere, the merger between Orange and T-Mobile, has announced plans to construct a 4G LTE mobile network in the UK this year, ahead of anybody else. The company is currently carrying out some very small trials of 4G technology in Cornwall, but has now announced plans to install the relevant infrastructure in major cities…
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HD Voice calling coming to more phones on 3 network
UK network 3 has announced that crystal-clear HD Voice technology will be made available on more handsets later this year. At present, customers can benefit from HD Voice calling if they have the HTC Desire S, Nokia C7, Nokia E7, Nokia N8 and Samsung Omnia 7. Three say that come this autumn, the “majority” of…
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The Top 5 Android Phones
Now that Android has been confirmed as the most popular OS with phone users (having managed to beat Apple), here’s a rundown of the most popular Android-based mobiles: Samsung Galaxy S II Google’s Android 2.3 Gingerbread is one of the most talked about operating systems around today, and the system comes as standard on the…
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Feature: Re-Marketing the ‘Brick Phone’ – Simpler Phones, New Technology
There was a time before apps my friends, a golden age when ringtones were polyphonic and Sony’s Walkman phones brought us a magical technology known as ‘MP3 Playback’. A time when we looked to our phones as the means of being part of our own personal social network, when ‘likes’ were verbal, and most importantly,…