Tag: mobile
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Samsung Galaxy Folder 2 – Hinged Android Smartphone in Leaked Photos
You may or may not be aware of Samsung’s strange side project, a gadget called the Galaxy Folder 2 – but this throwback to a bygone era of hinged or “clamshell” design mobiles is like technology’s very own Jurassic Park. Just to glance at it is to ask “what year is this?” But despite its […]
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The Moto Z Motorola’s 2016 Flagship
Introducing the Moto Z the latest reveal from Motorola, The Moto Z is planning to appeal to the higher end of the Smart Phone market. A slender metal frame, referred to as “the world’s thinnest premium smartphone.” An ambiguous title though, at 5.19mm (0.2in) I will admit it’s certainly one of the thinnest. It has […]
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Reduce Nuisance Calls to Mobile with Just One Text
A service has been launched that should help seriously reduce the number of nuisance calls for mobile phone users, and all it takes is just one text. The Telephone Preference Service (TPS) with support of Ofcom set up the scheme whereby texting TPS along with your email address to the code 78070 you can be […]
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Microsoft Lay-offs Signal End of Nokia Mobile Division
Microsoft has let go another 1,800 employees of its Nokia mobile division based in Finland signalling the end is near for the combined smartphone brand. After first dealing with the Finnish company in 2011 to launch the initial Nokia-made flagship smartphone, the Lumia 800, Microsoft completed its total buyout the mobile maker in 2014 embarking on […]
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Smart Alternatives: Ubuntu Touch Mobile Operating System
Smartphones come in a variety of operating systems from the ever present iOS and Android to Blackberry 10 and Windows. But we’re not here to talk about those this week. We are here to talk about something else. A Smart Alternative in the mobile operating system market called Ubuntu Touch. Many of you already know […]
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Nintendo Miitomo Pre-Registering Begins
Nintendo has launched a website inviting gamers to pre-register for its new Miitomo mobile app. Miitomo.com is now live and offers free registration and some more information and images of the new ‘social go-between’ app which uses a player’s Mii avatar and an automated questions and answers system as a means of learning more about […]
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Nintendo Releases Details about Its First Mobile App Miitomo
Five years ago Nintendo’s late great Worldwide President Satoru Iwata stated that developing software for mobile devices was “absolutely not under consideration”. Despite investor pressure to follow modern trends and hook up with smart devices and criticisms that the company was stuck in the dark ages of gaming, it seemed like Nintendo was fixing to […]
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Miitomo – Nintendo’s First Smartphone Game Announced
Nintendo and mobile developer DeNA’s first smartphone app has been announced as a ‘free-to-start’ social game called Miitomo. As the title suggests, Miitomo will be based around Mii avatars and will allow Nintendo players to engage in simulated conversations between their Miis and other Miis across the Nintendo Network via their smartphones. Players will have […]
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Cola Maker Pepsi To Release Smartphone
Expansion into the tech industry is widely considered to be the most lucrative option for anyone with vast amounts of capital at their exposure. Be it buying into new startups, or simply coming up with your own product, business giants are all currently flocking to the high tech mobile device and app world It […]
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Are Handheld Games Consoles In Decline?
With games in this console generation being almost entirely relegated to the XBox One, PS4, Wii U and PC, a lot of us are wondering just where the handheld fits in anymore. Graphics on the Xbox One and PS4 have pushed out the boundaries of what we’ve come to expect from games, plus the PC […]
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Nintendo Reveals Pokemon Go App Game
The trailer is somewhat intense, but we can confirm that somehow Nintendo is bringing an augmented reality Pokemon title to smartphones that basically overlays your favorite digital monsters over real life using your phone’s camera – and yes, you can battle, trade, catch and do just about every other thing we’ve come to expect from […]
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Ofcom Mobile Coverage Checker Goes Live
The UK’s communications regulatory body OFCOM has launched a clever new service which allows businesses and private mobile owners to check signal quality across the major network providers. The Mobile Coverage Checker has been made available to all and offers live online checks on 3G / 4G data network and voice call status with data […]