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Mar 5 2009

JVC ‘Hybrid’ Camera Shoots HD Video & Photos Simultaneously

‘Hybrid’ is the buzzword in cameras this month and JVC’s Everio GZ-X900 falls into this category, combining a Full HD camcorder with a 9MP camera. The party trick for the new camera is the [...]


Feb 27 2009

Dumbest [And Most Expensive] iPhone Yet

Recession aside, we have covered quite a few blinged iPods and iPhones in our time, many of which make Bernard Manning seem like the ambassador of good taste. This one though - [...]


Feb 27 2009

VIDEO: Blackberry Ad Blows Hole In Apple

Apple’s been having a fine time in recent years taking the mickey out of Windows-based PCs with its ‘Mac Vs. PC’ ads, but now the company is the butt of a new Blackberry Storm [...]


Feb 26 2009

Smart Kids Use More Text Jargon, According To Study

Kids tend to get a bit of stick from grumpy old folks (like us) for using too much nonsensical jargon in their text messages, but this might actually be masking a higher intellect than [...]


Feb 26 2009

Nokia Eyes The Laptop Market

Not content with ruling the mobile phone market, it seems Nokia has set its world-conquering eye on the cut-throat laptop arena. It certainly seems like a strange move but when you have Nokia’s clout, [...]


Feb 26 2009

Sony’s First OLED Walkman Gets UK Price

We saw the first slinky Sony Walkman with a touchscreen OLED display at CES last month and it was indeed impressive. Now, it’s been priced for the UK but, before you think this [...]


Feb 25 2009

Germans Trial Street Lamps Activated By Mobile Phones

German inventor Dieter Grote has come up with an interesting energy saving idea that involves switching off street lights to save power until they are actually needed. He’s not plunging the German village [...]


Feb 24 2009

LG’s ‘Phone Watch’ Could Cost £1,000

Oh dear. Remember the very cool LG Phone Watch, the recently unveiled GD910? Well, according to industry sources, Orange is planning to charge up to £1,000 for the sexy touchscreen device as part of a [...]


Feb 24 2009

Sony Kills Go! Messenger Service

A lack of users is being blamed by Sony for its decision to shut down its Go! Messenger service for the PSP in Europe. Launched just 9 months ago with BT, Go! Messenger allowed [...]


Feb 18 2009

MWC 2009: Solio Announces In-Car Solar Hands-free Gadget

We’re all for green products and utilising renewable energy sources to power our gadgets, but we think Solio may have gone a little too far with this one. The purveyor of all things solar [...]


Feb 18 2009

MWC 2009: Modu Reveals Accessories For Modular Phones

The Modu modular phone, which we reported on last week, seems like quite an interesting idea and predictably the MWC has revealed a few innovative ways in which it can be used. Amongst the [...]


Feb 17 2009

MWC 2009: Mobile Phones To Standardise Chargers By 2012

More phone news now but of an interesting and frankly long-overdue move to standardise phone chargers, which in the future will all be micro-USB. A universal connection would mean that you won’t have [...]


Feb 17 2009

MWC 2009: Nokia Unveils The 8MP N86 Camera-Phone

Nokia has finally dived into the 8MP camera-phone market with the N86, which was unveiled yesterday at the MWC. This is very much a camera-oriented phone, with a Carl Zeiss Tessar lens, [...]


Feb 16 2009

Nokia Unveils GPS-Oriented Handsets At MWC

Nokia will obviously be pretty busy announcing swathes of new mobile phone models and technologies at MWC 2009 this week, two of the more interesting of which so far are the 6710 Navigator and [...]


Feb 16 2009

Tattu Octopus - Bluetooth Audio With A Twist

Tattu Mobile has announced a new product for the Bluetooth market today in the shape of the Octopus, a versatile adaptor designed to stream your music through a range of devices. Sadly it’s not [...]


Feb 12 2009

Modu Wants To Turn Mobile Phones Inside Out

At next week’s Mobile World Congress show, Israeli firm Modu will be looking to turn some heads when it finally unveils the first line-up of its modular phone concept. Modu’s approach to the [...]


Feb 11 2009

O2 Launching ‘Free’ Samsung Laptops

Mobile phone operators have been using the popularity of netbooks to push mobile data packages and O2 is about to join the fray by announcing that it will be offering a series of [...]


Feb 11 2009

Sony Rolls Out C903 Cyber-shot & W395 Walkman Phones

With the Mobile World Congress just around the bend, Sony has decided to get in ahead of the rush with the release of its latest midrange Cyber-shot mobile phone, the C903. The C903 [...]


Feb 10 2009

Virgin Mobile Offers UK’s Lowest Tariff And Choice Of Handsets

If you’re looking to save a few pennies here and there at the moment then it might be worth taking a look at your mobile phone tariff at some point, an area where people [...]


Feb 10 2009

LaCie’s d2 Blu-Ray Burner Hits 8x

We’re pretty sure that blank Blu-ray discs will never be as popular as blank DVDs, largely because of the heart-stopping price. After all, why bother backing up your movies to blank Blu-ray discs that [...]