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The world’s first Windows XP phone WILL go into production!
Way, way back in the dim and distant days of yore June, I ran a blog post about the xpPhone, the first ever phone in the world to run on Windows XP. Back then, I said that if it ever actually made it into production, I wanted to have a play with one,...
Mobile phones spotted (and are about the only sane things) in Wanted
Gawd bless my sister and her Lovefilm subscription. And gawd bless my sister for having a broadly similar taste in films as me. Oh, and of course, gawd bless her for accidentally telling me her username and password, so I can add films I want to see ...
Future Nokia phones won’t actually look like anything you’d call a ‘phone’…
Synchronicity is a wonderful thing, innit. Me and m’good buddy were talking about future phones the other night, after seeing the Xperia Pureness, with its translucent display, and we both agreed that the future would be phones stamped directly...
Nokia officialy announce N97 Mini, and X3 and X6 music phones
There must be something in the air, today. That’s three separate phones, launched today, that have got X in the name. The first one was, obviously, the Sony Ericsson X2 Xperia. But before I get round to those two, the other big news, according ...
Vertu to launch their own virtual network in Japan
Ahhh, here we go, another one in my ongoing series of blog posts, where I point at luxury phones and go, “Er, how much??” You’ve probably seen some of these posts before, and if so, you’ll know that one of the main targets I p...
Nokia N900 goes official, Technical Markus goes “WANT! NOW!”
It’s well-known that I’m a Sony Ericsson junkie. since 2003, every one of my phones has been a Sony Ericsson smartphone. I loves ‘em. So when I say that a Nokia phone is currently the one I’m most excited about, it should give...
Rumour – Nokia smartphones to switch from Symbian to Linux?
Hmmmm, ok, here’s a story fresh off the rumour mill. According to Register Hardware, people are starting to speculate that Nokia are going to stop using Symbian on their top-end smartphones, and focus instead on using the flavour of Linux that ...
The Nokia N900 Rover – changing their internet tablet into a genuine phone?
Now then, there’s a part of the market which isn’t really mobile phones, and isn’t really laptops. They’re kind of a halfway house between the two, and they’re called Mobile Internet Devices, or quite frequently, Ultra-M...
Retro-ise the hell out of your Nokia N97 with the Cityman 450
Ahhhhh, there’s nothing quite like stupid phone accessories to raise a smile. Things that, let’s be honest, serve no practical purpose whatsoever (despite what they say on the box), and which are sheer lunacy. Well now, according to All A...
Orange launches Monkey, the new music-sharing PAYG tariff
Normally, I wouldn’t bother running a story about PAYG tariffs, because frankly, they bore me to tears. But when Orange launch a tariff that’s so patently new, and has a new bizarre animal naming convention, well, let’s just say I s...
Rumour update - Nokia N97 Mini does exist after all?
You may remember, ages (well, about a month) ago, I ran a blog story about the rumour that there was going to be a Nokia N97 Mini released onto the market. There was a fair bit of to-ing and fro-ing on the Vodafone forums about whether it really did ...
Blyk shuffles off this mortal coil, it ‘as ceased to be, it is an ex-network…
Sad, but not entirely surprising, news has been announced today, concerning the virtual network Blyk, so I thought I’d do my first and only blog post on this unique network, now that they’re properly heading down the swanny. We’ve n...
The Nokia Surge gets remixed for the UK as the Nokia 6760 Slide
Something you see more and more of, these days, are phones with QWERTY keyboards. And I don’t just mean top-end smartphones and email handsets, like the famous Blackberry range. Nope, you find QWERTY keyboards all over the shop now, specificall...
Cseries and Xseries - Nokia adding two new brands of phone?
Now, here’s an intriguing story for fans of all things Nokia, courtesy of The Boy Genius Report. We’re all familiar with Nokia’s Nseries by now, it’s been their top-end range of smartphones since 2005, and it’s currently...
Symbian Horizon - the mobile app store with a difference
App stores, as we all know by now, are the big thing at the minute, with the Apple one doing well, the Android Marketplace doing well, and the Windows Marketplace on the way. On-device app stores have brought them out into the public eye more, but mo...
Nokia back into the toughphone game with the 3720 Classic
It still surprises people that, despite my intense nerd-love for top-end smartphones, one of my favourite phone genres is ‘the tough phone’. You know, phones like the Sonim XP3, that you can pelt rocks at and douse in water, and they won&...
The Guardian says Nokia will use Android - AND THEY’RE WRONG!
I’m well known, in my house, and in fact, wherever I go, as someone who never, ever buys a newspaper. If I buy one, I’ll just end up seeing something depressing, or something that makes me want to punch the entire world in the face. And a...
Brand new Symbian UI on its way, S60 UI to be put out of its misery?
I’ve always been a fan of Symbian (well, more specifically, of UIQ), and long-time readers will know I’m putting a lot of faith in the fact that the next version of it, the one being built by the Symbian Foundation (which I shall hereafte...
Future phones to all use one standard mains charger
You know how annoying it is when you lose your charger for your phone? You search for hours, only to completely fail to find it, and then decide you’ll try your old charger. And then you realise that your old charger was for a different make of...
Rumour - Nokia N97 Mini coming to Vodafone?
By now, everyone must be aware of the Nokia N97. It’s a beast of a phone that really does look the canine’s conkers. However, the N97 might not be the only version of the, er, N97 that we see before the end of the year. According to IntoM...
Mobile phones spotted in Prototype on the XBox 360!
I’m a bit disappointed. I’ve just got the game Prototype for my Xbox. And I’m disappointed. Not in the game, the actual game rocks like nothing I’ve played in a long time. No, I’m annoyed because according to Eurogamer, ...
Nokia to make phones that get power out of thin air
One thing I always love, ‘cos it’s really sci-fi-ish, is seeing devices that can be charged up wirelessly. I reckon it’s probably because I first saw the idea of wireless power in Action Force: The Movie (GI Joe, to any American rea...
The xpPhone - a phone that runs Windows XP?
It’s been said many times (quite often by me) that smartphones are slowly evolving into true mini-laptops. And to add a bit of fuel to that argument, the Nokia N97 is even being billed by the Finnish manufacturer as a ‘mobile multimedia c...
New luxury phone the samurai sword of the mobile world?
Ah, here we go, another luxury phone for me to look at and moan about in slight disbelief, before picking it to bits. Hmmm, maybe my proletariat leanings are coming to the fore when I see a phone worth more than I am. Ah well, never mind. Today’...
Nokia boldly goes where no phone has gone before
Ever since it was announced, I’ve been avoiding the new Star Trek movie like the plague. I’ve been convinced, all along, that it would be rubbish. I mean, come on, as good as Simon Pegg is, how well could he ever possibly play Scotty? Wel...
Symbian phones get the next version of Flash
The internet on your mobile phone is more massive than ever, with browsers like Safari and Opera Mobile bringing an incredible experience to users. But there’s still one thing a lot of phones lack. Flash. Or, more specifically, Flash Lite, the ...
Samsung i8910 HD - now available to buy!
Well, it’s been on site for a couple of days, but what with one thing and another, I’ve not had chance to shout about it, so it’s time I rectified that. Samsung’s new high-end (and I do mean high-end) flagship phone is now on ...
Motion sensors will make future phones aware of your activities?
A story from the pages of Unwired View, that’s either really cool, or really scary, depending on your point of view. It’s all to do with a new patent by Google, that uses accelerometers and motion sensors in a whole new, innovative way. I...
FLOW - the Ikea flat-pack of mobile phones
Android, as we all know, is a completely open source operating system. Anyone can get hold of it, and mod it to make their own mobile phones. According to Engadget Mobile, it’s found a new home, in a brand new phone. Only this one is a bit diff...
Nokia-Siemens - new battery-saving way to do voice calls
Mobile phones are getting more and more data-oriented, with the internet being commonplace nowadays… but the thing is, most people still use mobile phones for voice calls, most of the time. And it’s voice calls that clog up the network, a...
