With the rise of the Micro SIM, and the outright sensibility of picking from the growing pool of SIM-free mobile phones instead of tying yourself into a lengthy, inescapable contract, the need to cut SIM cards down to Micro SIM size is all too common. Many SIM-only, rolling-monthly contracts come with full-sized SIM cards currently, [...]
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Monday, January 30th, 2012Otone Aporto USB/Battery Powered 2.0 Speaker Review
Monday, January 30th, 2012I’ve never been a huge fan of portable speakers, this is probably because they’re traditionally quite awful. The Otone Aporto, however, combines reasonably decent sound with a quirky transforming trick. Its creator, Otone Audio, is a home-grown rising star in the audio world, headquartered in Manchester. They’re a relatively new and largely unknown company who [...]
Official Samsung Micro USB to USB Converter
Friday, October 21st, 2011USB On-The-Go (USB OTG) is hardly new, but its uptake is reasonably small so mobile devices which can take advantage of USB peripherals such as memory sticks, hard drives and even MIDI Keyboards are few and far between. Apple hit the nail on the head with the Camera Connection Kit, which provided a USB adaptor [...]
Motorola’s Next… RAZR?
Monday, October 10th, 2011Out of a blue comes a YouTube advertisement from Motorola. The imagery seems to suggest a new RAZR, with… well… a razor being shown alongside things getting sliced in half. But this will be a smarter, faster phone which suggests an Android-powered handset with the famed RAZR moniker. I’m a fan of Motorola’s recent Android [...]
Three Huawei E586 High-Speed Mobile Broadband Router Reviewed
Thursday, October 6th, 2011Ever since I first reviewed the Novatel MiFi 2352 I’ve been evangelising mobile broadband routers to everyone who’ll listen. And for a good reason, too; they’re awesome. Why? Well, rather than buy a 3G version of, for example, an iPad; you can buy a mobile router and share its connection with every WiFi-enabled device you [...]
Samsung Galaxy S2 For £27/Month And No Upfront Fee
Friday, September 23rd, 2011Although I’ve been an iPhone fan since the 3G, I’ve often strayed away from Apple’s handset to explore other avenues. The Nokia N900 stole me away from the 3Gs, and now the rush of newer, better Android phones are threatening to steal my attention from the iPhone 5. At the moment the Samsung Galaxy S2 [...]
Motorola DEFY Review
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011I haven’t tested a Motorla handset for a few months now, but the last two that I tried were the Droid, which I disliked, and the DEXT which somehow endeared itself to me. The former felt somewhat rushed and unfit to hold it’s title as a heavyweight smartphone. It was sluggish, bulky, ugly had an [...]
Native Union POP Phone iPhone 4 Headset Reviewed
Thursday, September 1st, 2011In the race to create the most hilariously unnecessary but somehow strangely cool product, Native Union are out in the lead with the POP Phone; a phone-shaped headset ( actually, it’s more a handset! ) for the iPhone 4 and other supported devices. Designed by David Turpin, it’s certainly not the first product of its [...]
Nokia X7 Launched On Three
Monday, July 4th, 2011The 4″, 640×360 pixel AMOLED display and 8MP camera boating a dual LED flash alone make the new Nokia X7 a drool-worthy Symbian phone. Add to that the ability to record 720p HD video, and a 16GB storage card ( it will take up to 32GB ) in the box that you can record to [...]