A new gadget from Samsung might be just what you need to help you keep your keep your mobile topped up with juice. It might even let you help out your friends when their batteries run low too. It is called the Power Sharing cable and it is a sort of battery sharing device that lets you use the power from one phone or tablet to charge up another. It is a double ended cable which ends with micro-USB connectors. What this means is that it can be used with any device that accept micro-USB cables. The latest Samsung devices which can be used...
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We already know by now that mobile phones are very important to most people these days. However, a new survey has revealed just how much men love them. The answer is that they love them a lot. Sometimes more than should probably be admitted to the wider world. The survey by the mobile gaming site Mobile Slots found that close to 1 in 5 single men would choose to have an iPhone 6 instead of a girlfriend. In total, 17% of the men who took part in the research said that they would choose this brand new phone over a woman if they had the choice. 2%...
Flip phones aren’t as common as they used to be, but they still hold a certain amount of sway with people who want a bit of retro phone style in their lives. Its good news for those people then that LG is bringing out the brand new Wine Smart phone. This piece of phone nostalgia comes with the latest Version of Android on it, so it’s not as retro as it looks. The LG Wine Smart phone also has an 8 megapixel front camera on it and a 0.3 megapixel rear one. The touchscreen is 3.5 inches in size and has 480 x 320 resolution. Apart from...
The latest BlackBerry device to hit the news is the upcoming model called Q20 but widely known as the BlackBerry Classic. A series of leaked images have given us an idea of what to expect from it, although the official launch looks like it won’t happen until November. The new BlackBerry was announced at this year’s Mobile World Congress but there were no photos made available at the time. Now that we can see the new device is apparently going to look like. The Q20 looks to be a good deal bigger than the previous BlackBerry release...
The latest cut price phone to come out from Microsoft will cost a mere £15. That sounds great, so what’s the catch? The problem with the Nokia 130 is that it doesn’t have a data connection, meaning that you can’t go online, download apps or do any of the other cool stuff that you really want to do. What is does allow you to do is make phone calls, send text messages, used an LED flashlight, plug in a microSD card and watch your videos. The Nokia 130 is the firm’s latest statement of intent in the budget phone market, even though...
The Nokia Lumia 520 has proved to be a massive success, becoming one of the best selling budget phones of all time. However, it now has some competition in the face of, well, the new version of the Lumia. The Nokia Lumia 530 has recently been announced by Microsoft and it promises to provide another affordable entry level phone. Classed as the “most affordable Lumia to date”, the 530 is expected to sell for around £70 in the UK. It looks very similar to the Lumia, with the main changes being an improved 1.4 quad core Snapdragon processor...
It has been reported that both Google and Microsoft will be adding kill switch functionality to their future phones. This change would ensure that Android and Windows phones could be made utterly useless if they are stolen. Of course, the idea is that this stops people from stealing them in the first place. The figures on mobile phone theft across the world are pretty shocking. For a start, US figures show that over 3 million devices were stolen in 2013, which was an increase of close to 100% on the previous year. In Europe, it has been...
Mobile phones have been out of reach for visually impaired people up until now but not anymore. The world’s first ever Braille phone has been produced by London firm OwnFone and has been released on sale already. How did they do it? Well, according the company behind this revolutionary Braille phone, the front and back were printed off using a 3D printer. This has the added advantage of meaning that it can be customised to suit the individual customer’s needs. In fact, this isn’t the very first Braille mobile phone ever made. However,...
How fast can you charge your phone battery? If the answer is more than 30 seconds then you might be interested in the latest device to be shown off by Israeli firm StoreDot. Their new type of battery was shown off at Mircosoft’s Think Next Conference, as it charged a Samsung S4 from dead to fully charged in just 26 seconds. The battery is made of biological structures and at the moment it is just a prototype. It is expected that it will take at least 3 years for the product to be made commercially available. The device in the demonstration...
A new report suggests that using a smartphone for too long could be damaging to your eyes. The suggestion comes following a survey of around 2,000 phone users, which was carried out by a group of independent opticians. The survey results revealed that the average smartphone user looks at the screen for almost 7 hours each day and feels anxious when they don’t have their phone to hand. Users under the age of 25 check their phone an average of 32 times a day. The opticians behind the survey state that this level of use could increase...