smartphones

Samsung Bixby Personal Assistant Arrives In UK

Samsung Bixby is now available to users in the UK and 200 other countries - but only in Korean and…

7 years ago

Android 8.0 Oreo Places Emphasis On Speed, Security And Multitasking

Google takes wrap off Oreo as Android prepares to take on iPhone and iOS 11 this autumn

7 years ago

Mobile Payment Values Rise Threefold As Importance To Retailers Grows

Worldpay figures show 336 percent rise in mobile payment values thanks to wider adoption and wider support

7 years ago

Nokia 8 Hopes Polished Exterior And Dual Camera Streaming Will Capture Android Market

Nokia 8 is revived brand's attempt to capture high end market with premium exterior, immersive streaming and pure Android

7 years ago

What Samsung Must Do Right With Upcoming Galaxy Note 8 Smartphone

ANALYSIS: When the new Note 8 is unveiled later this month as expected, it will supersede the troubled Note7 smartphone…

7 years ago

Tales In Tech History: Apple iPod

Goodbye iPod and thanks for the music, as Apple continues to wind down its iPod range

7 years ago

Apple Revenues Boosted By Solid iPhone Sales And Revived iPad Demand

Apple revenues rise 7 percent despite prospect of the new iPhone on the horizon

7 years ago

Motorola Bets On Modular Future With Moto Z2 Force

Motorola will try and succeed where the likes of LG have failed

7 years ago

Government Ploughs £246m Into UK Battery Tech Development

The Faraday Challenge will look to support the research, development and deployment of cutting-edge battery technology

7 years ago

OnePlus Admits Emergency Calling Fault With Some OnePlus 5 Handsets

The Chinese phone maker will fix the flaw with a software update

7 years ago

Samsung To Recover 157 Tonnes Of Rare Metals From Galaxy Note 7

Metals including gold, cobalt and silver are to be recovered and components such as cameras and OLED screens reused from…

7 years ago

Vertu Collapses As Luxury Smartphone Market Dries Up

The rich and famous will have to get their high-end phones from somewhere else

7 years ago

Tales In Tech History: Windows Phone

Windows Phone is officially dead, but it was much loved by those that used it. Why did it fail and…

7 years ago

Microsoft Support For Windows Phone Officially Ends

Microsoft finally kills of Windows Phone 8.1 as mobile division faces unclear future

7 years ago

Apple Opens Office Near Imagination’s Headquarters As Dispute Intensifies

Apple is setting up an office a few miles from Imagination Technologies' premises, fuelling concerns it could poach key staff

7 years ago

Hydrogen One Is A £1,200 Android Phone With A ‘Nanotechnology’ Holographic Display

Camera maker RED enters the smartphone fray with an innovative handset

7 years ago

TfL: More Than 1bn Contactless Journeys Are Made On London Transport

TfL figures show contactless payments now account for two fifths of all journeys

7 years ago

Tech Quiz: The iPhone At Ten

What do you know about the iPhone? Test your knowledge here

7 years ago

Ten Years On: How The iPhone Changed Mobile And IT Forever

ANALYSIS: Love it or hate it, you have a lot to thank the original iPhone for

7 years ago

How The iPhone Transformed Business Computing In A Decade

ANALYSIS: Disguised as a phone, Apple introduced a versatile pocket-sized computer that could be used by anyone and was a…

7 years ago

Police Warn On Privacy Dangers Of Snapchat ‘Snap Maps’ Feature

Users - and particularly young people - may not realise Snap Maps is broadcasting their precise location whenever the app…

7 years ago

OnePlus 5 Aims To Be An Android And iPhone Flagship Killer

The OnePlus 5 sports a dual lens camera array, Snapdragon 835 chipset and a premium design

8 years ago

Samsung Refreshes Affordable Galaxy J Series Android Smartphones

The new wallet-friendly smartphones could be good for an enterprise wide mobile roll out

8 years ago

Consumers ‘Overwhelmingly’ Prefer Biometric Security For Financial Services

Nine out of 10 consumers and banking professionals want biometric authentication put in place, but a skills gap stands in…

8 years ago

Apple & Nokia Settle Patent Infringement Dispute

Apple agrees to pay Nokia for its intellectual property and the two firms will work together on digital health

8 years ago

Waitrose Quick Check Mobile Scan App Combines Best Of Physical & Online Retail

Waitrose Quick Check lets customers scan items as they move around the shop, saving time, boosting sales and giving supermarket…

8 years ago

BlackBerry KEYone Arrives In The UK With A QWERTY Keyboard

The device comes with a QWERTY keyboard and Android 7.1 Nougat, but will it boost BlackBerry's fortunes?

8 years ago

Vodafone Mobile & Smartwatch App Assists Sub-Two Hour Marathon Attempt

Can Vodafone's real time data tracking application help an athlete run a marathon in under 2 hours?

8 years ago

IT Life: Therese Jamaa, GSMA General Manager, Mobile World Capital

Therese Jamaa talks the future of mobility, the IoT and her secret singing ambition

8 years ago

10 Of The Best Business Apps For Windows 10 Mobile

Silicon has a rundown of apps to maker your mobile a Windows 10 productivity suite

8 years ago