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The first text message was sent on this day in 1992. It was sent by Neil Papworth who used his computer to wish “Merry Christmas” to Richard Jarvis, of Vodafone, on his Orbitel 901 mobile phone. Sadly Papworth didn’t get a reply as there was no mobile texting yet, that arrived in 1993 with the [...]

Nokia were once the be all and end all of mobile phones; this was until the jump to smart phones where they were comprehensively beaten down by competitors such as Apple. However, Nokia are about to release their latest phone, the Lumia 920, in November, and it looks like it is a return to form [...]

Sony has launched their first wave of post-Ericsson smartphones, and they’re just a wee bit sexy. Could 2012 be the year of the Sony Xperia?

Ahh it really does ease my fragile mind when I see that some companies out there are working on sane, calming, beautiful tech. All hail Nokia for having the vision and ambition to work on the tech needed to bring the concept phone in the following video to life. Wow… Nokia call this concept the [...]

It seems a long time ago when it appeared like everyone had a Nokia mobile phone. How many people had the 3310 model? I for one did, and had a couple more Nokia models at the time after that iconic phone. Nokia have lost their market dominance as manufacturers such as Apple, HTC and Blackberry [...]

The future’s bright. The future’s…a bright green Nokia? That can’t be right! Well actually, according to the Nokia Conversations blog, it’s entirely possible. The Finnish tech giant has joined a number of research centres of excellence around Europe in the study of a futuristic material called graphene. Graphene is, according to its Wiki entry, “an [...]