Smartphones

Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, And Microsoft’s Cortana Are Set To Hit The Road With Four Major Car Brands

CES 2017: BMW, Ford, Nissan, and Hyundai all look to add virtual assistants into their vehicles

8 years ago

Huawei Mate 9 Is First Smartphone To Host Amazon’s Alexa AI

CES 2017: Amazon looks to expand the reach of its smart virtual assistant

8 years ago

Academics Develop Cigbreak Free Mobile App To Stub-Out Smoking

The app aims to use gaming to encourage smokers to stick to New Year's resolutions to kick their habit

8 years ago

Honor 6X Targets Stake In Mid-Range Android Smartphone Market

CES 2017: The Huawei sub-brand looks to replicate the success of the Honor 5X

8 years ago

Samsung Galaxy A5 And A3 Are Mid-Range Water-Resistant Smartphones

The new Galaxy A phones are the first out of the blocks at CES 2017

8 years ago

Apple Sued Over FaceTime Car Crash

American parents sue Apple after a driver killed their child, whilst using FaceTime app

8 years ago

Nokia Smartphone Leak Prompts New Year Return Rumours

Smartphone shakeup? New sketches suggest new Nokia Android smartphones are set for early 2017 arrival

8 years ago

Nokia Sues Apple For Smartphone Patent Violations

Round two of smartphone wars, after Nokia hits back at Apple with multiple lawsuits for patent violations

8 years ago

Government Aims To Create Smartphone Signal Blocking Tech For Cars

The Department for Transport is looking to work with telecoms, tech and car companies to stop drivers from using mobiles…

8 years ago

Apple iOS 10.2 Brings More Emojis And Boosts iPhone Security

Apple's latest version of iOS 10 also brings with it a host of word replacing emojis

8 years ago

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Latest: Software Update Will Kill Unreturned Handsets

UPDATED: Samsung is releasing a software update that will essentially brick Galaxy Note 7 handsets that have not been returned…

8 years ago

Police Ambush Criminal To Bypass iPhone Security

How to get around the problem of a locked smartphone? Just ambush the criminal when he is using it. Simples

8 years ago

Windows Phone Users Grill Microsoft’s Satya Nadella On Mobile Strategy

What are you doing Satya? Microsoft boss faces shareholder questions over Redmond's mobile strategy

8 years ago

Apple Offers Tool To Check For Faulty iPhone 6S Batteries

Apple admits some iPhone 6S handsets have a battery fault and offers free battery checking tool

8 years ago

Nokia Returns To Making Mobile Phones

Famous Finnish brand returns, but can it hope to compete against the Samsung and Apple powerhouses?

8 years ago

Million Google Accounts Hacked by ‘Gooligan’ Android Malware

Android malware has compromised more than one million Google accounts, warns Check Point

8 years ago

Apple iPhones Hit With Calendar Spam Touting Cheap Designer Goods

Unwanted event invitations continue to appear in iPhones calendars, but Apple remains silent on the matter

8 years ago

Apple iOS 10.1.1 Update Appears To Be Rapidly Draining iPhone Battery Life

Users are seen the battery life of their iPhones drain in mere seconds after upgrading to iOS 10.1.1

8 years ago

Apple iPhone Users Beware Of ‘Prank’ Video

Another iOS flaw...seemingly innocent video crashes all Apple iPhones, forcing hard reboot

8 years ago

UK Exclusive HTC Evo 10 Debuts With Android Nougat And Water Resistance

HTC looks to be back targeting the smartphone mid-market

8 years ago

Apple Launches £146 Service To Fix iPhone 6 Plus ‘Touch Disease’ Flaw

An issue in the installation of a touchscreen controller chip has been identified as the core of the flaw

8 years ago

Apple And PayPal Enable Payments Through Siri Voice Commands

The integration of Siri and the PayPal iOS app indicates Apple’s desire to broaden the scope of its virtual assistant

8 years ago

Ireland Readies EU Appeal Over Apple Tax Demand

Irish eyes are smiling on Apple, as government readies appeal on tax ruling by European Commission

8 years ago

Samsung Galaxy S8 Set To Get An AI Virtual Assistant

Samsung is planning to launch a virtual assistant to rival the likes of Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s Cortana in is…

8 years ago

Tales In Tech History: Windows Mobile

Before the Windows Phone and Nokia debacle, Microsoft struggled to gain critical mass with Windows Mobile

8 years ago

Huawei Mate 9 Smartphone To Take on Google Pixel XL And iPhone 7 Plus

The Mate 9 could be the replacement for the ill-fated Samsung Galaxy Note 7

8 years ago

UK’s Wileyfox Reveals Swift 2 And Swift 2 Plus Cyanogen Budget Smartphones

The brace of smartphones take aim at the budget mobile market to take on the likes of Moto

8 years ago

Pilot Lets 999 Calllers Livestream Emergencies From A Smartphone

999EYE livesteam service will provide real-time information back to emergency service control rooms. aiding their response

8 years ago

Tales In Tech History: Palm And The PDA

Palm was a smartphone pioneer and a leading personal digital assistant provider, but HP's acquisition sealed its fate

8 years ago