Smartphones

Apple Labels Bent iPhone 6 Plus Issue As ‘Extremely Rare’

Apple breaks its silence on reports that the new iPhone 6 Plus bends if carried in a trouser pocket

11 years ago

Apple Tells iPhone 6 Users To Downgrade To iOS 8 After Bungled Update

iPhone 6 and 6 Plus users say they lost signal and Touch ID functionality after installing iOS 8.0.1

11 years ago

BlackBerry Reveals All-New, All-Square Passport Smartphone

Physical keyboards make a comeback alongside voice recognition and BB 10.3 OS

11 years ago

How The iPhone 6 Can Be Hacked With A Fake Fingerprint

The iPhone's in-built security has not evolved enough over the last year, according to one security expert.

11 years ago

Apple Shifts 10m iPhone 6 And iPhone 6 Plus Devices In Three Days

Apple hails record-breaking first weekend ahead of wider iPhone 6 launch this Friday

11 years ago

iPhone 6 And Apple Watch Will Popularise New Tech In A Way Android Can’t

Smartwatches, NFC and 802.11ac Wi-Fi have long been available on the Android platform, but it's Apple that will make them…

11 years ago

Apple Pulls Health App From iOS 8 Due To HealthKit Bug

Apple admits to iOS 8 issue but says a fix might not be released until the end of the month

11 years ago

Apple Releases iOS 8 For iPhone And iPad

IOS 8 will be rolled out to iPhone 4S or later, iPad 2 or later and iPad Mini later today

11 years ago

Apple Releases U2 Removal Tool

Apple gives angry iPhone and iPad users the chance to get rid of Bono and The Edge from their devices

11 years ago

Apple Claims Record 4m iPhone 6 Pre-Orders

Apple says it has received four million orders for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus ahead of Friday's launch

11 years ago

Google Launches First Android One Smartphones In India

Android One programme aims to create cheap but high quality smartphones as Google and partners target emerging markets

11 years ago

BlackBerry To Offer Dual-Billing After Movirtu Acquisition

BlackBerry Enterprise Service (BES) users will be able to fairly and accurately split the bill between corporate and personal use

11 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: iPhone 6 And Apple Watch

Apple made a splash with several announcements this week, but what do you know about its new products and services?

11 years ago

GSMA: Two In Three Mobile Devices Will Be Smartphones By 2020

GSMA predicts low cost smartphones and increased availability of LTE will fuel smartphone demand

11 years ago

ICO Says Mobile Apps Demand Too Much Information

The ICO says smartphone applications make excessive demands and don't say how personal data will be used, leaving users exposed

11 years ago

4.7-Inch iPhone 6 And 5.5-Inch iPhone 6 Plus To Reach UK On 19 September

Apple releases two new, faster, bigger iPhones with superior camera features and NFC payments

11 years ago

Tesco Scraps Plans For Budget 4G Smartphone To Focus on Hudl 2 Tablet

Tesco says an increasingly competitive market and the need to focus on the Hudl 2 have forced it to cancel…

11 years ago

Amazon Fire Phone Slashed To 99 Cents Ahead Of UK Launch

Amazon has begun accepting pre-orders for the Fire Phone, but sluggish US sales have prompted a price cut

11 years ago

IFA: Motorola Ready For The Big Leagues With Second Generation Moto X

Motorola’s flagship device offers gesture control and more customisation options than any of its competitors

11 years ago

IFA: Sony Unveils Xperia Z3, Its New Flagship Smartphone

The waterproof handset features a wide-angle camera with ISO 12800 sensitivity and support for PS4 Remote Play

11 years ago

Apple Reveals Most Common Reasons For App Store Rejection

Buggy apps, incomplete contact details and design flaws will see your app rejected from the App store

11 years ago

Google Nexus ‘Shamu’ Priced At £349

Google's next-generation Nexus smartphone is to be priced at a level that reflects high-end components, according to a report

11 years ago

One In Four UK Consumers Have Fallen Victims To Smartphone Thieves

You are most likely to get your phone stolen in a pub between 12pm and 5pm

11 years ago

iPhone 6 Set To Include NFC Support, Will Debut 9 September

Apple confirms event for 9 September, where an NFC-enabled iPhone 6 could make its first appearance

11 years ago

BlackBerry Khan $2k Smartphone Gets Release Date

Rumour has it BlackBerry's next luxury Porsche smartphone will be a $2000 device called Khan

11 years ago

Mozilla Launches £20 Firefox OS Smartphone In India

Intex Cloud FX has a 3.5-inch screen, a 1GHz processor and 128MB of RAM

11 years ago

BlackBerry Creates New Business Unit For Most Promising Services

BlackBerry Technology Solutions will deal with QNX, Certicom, Paratec and Project Ion

11 years ago

The World’s First Smartphone, The IBM Simon, Enters London Science Museum

IBM's Simon, the first mobile phone with a touchscreen PDA will be seen at London's Science Museum, 20 years after…

11 years ago

Android Factory Reset Does Not Erase Data, Warn Researchers

Data from a pre-owned device can be easily recovered using free software

11 years ago

Free ‘UnTRUST’ Tool Promises To Protect Against iOS Backdoor

Digital forensics firm Stroz Freidberg says it has verified the existence of an iOS backdoor and has issued advice and…

11 years ago