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Is augmented reality just a tech fad? Tech news was once rife with how AR would become an everyday occurrence. Well I’m still waiting for that day. A video recently caught my eye and I’ve come to the conclusion: AR is fun for about 5 secs, as this video proves. Wow! You can change a can of beer into 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 [...]

It has emerged today that Facebook IS going to make a smartphone which may be launched next year. According to a report by The New York Times, smartphone experts have been employed to work on a phone for Facebook. The report goes on to say that this will be the third attempt they have made to [...]

Android Inc. was founded in 2003 with a secret mission to develop more dynamic software for mobile phones. Google purchased the company in 2005 and while most didn’t realise the significance of this acquisition, it had long been suspected that the search engine giants would make a move into the mobile sector. In 2007 the company [...]

Today has seen the launch of Samsung’s newest addition to the Galaxy range, the Nexus, and what makes this phone so exciting is that it’s running the latest Google Android 4.0 operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich. The phone was made available today through O2’s on-line store and at a few of their high street outlets. [...]

The majority of the population now owns or has access to a smart phone. I still remember the times when dumb phones were the norm and the thought of the things that are possible now would not have been believed. So what else is getting smart? I stumbled upon the I’m watch which claims to [...]

My phone is dumb. It can’t even spell Kardashian. It doesn’t understand Daylight Saving Time at all. Sometimes the red phone key just decides not to work. It can send photos, but it cannot receive photos – and it always tells me there’s “some text missing.” I look around me. I stare in awe as [...]

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 creators of Firefox are beginning development on a project which they are calling Boot to Gecko or B2G. As the name suggests, B2G is a mobile OS for devices such as tablets and smartphones which is based on Gecko, the rendering engine which drives Firefox and Mozilla’s email programme Thunderbird.  The aim is to create [...]

The anticipation is over: Apple have finally gone and posted the anticipated Google+ iOS app on iTunes and Twitter! It was anyone’s guess for a while on whether or not Google+ would even be picked up. Apple and Google haven’t had the best of relationships in the past, with Apple being reject happy on quite [...]