Mobile Phone Blog:

Okay, now I’m excited. I’ve been going on about Sailfish OS for absolutely ages, now, ever since it was first unveiled. Today, though, we’ve seen our first glimpse of the actual proper phone that’ll be the first phone to officially run the Sailfish OS. Say hello to the phone that’s simply called the Jolla…

I’m not entirely sure what I was expecting, but I definitely wasn’t expecting them to bring us the future, next-generation, hyper-advanced version of the XpressOn covers that Nokia made famous, that’s for sure. That’s damnably intriguing, that is… (more…)

I’m in the midst of pricing up a new PC, right, and part of it’s because I finally want a PC I can do the whole gaming thing on (‘cos my current PC uses onboard graphics and is generally a bit rubbish). So, thanks to scooting about trying to find a decent rig that won’t cost me an arm, a leg, and the soul of my firstborn, I’ve been seeing a lot of stuff about liquid-cooled PCs.

Brilliant timing, then, ‘cos according to The Inquisitr, NEC has just announced the world’s first liquid-cooled smartphone. It’s called the NEC Medias X, and since liquid-cooling’s been a thing in computers since as far back as 1982 (with the Cray-2), I suppose it was inevitable it’d end up in phones one day. So, what’s the crack? (more…)

Y’know, a lot of people out there (and yes, I’m one of them) have said that the HTC HD2 is the phone that will never die. Seriously, far from becoming obsolete when Microsoft unceremoniously binned old school Windows Mobile, the HTC HD2 has gone to be the phone that pretty much every smartphone OS is being ported to. Android’s been ported onto there. Windows Phone’s been ported onto there. Granted, iOS hasn’t, for obvious reasons, but hell, people’ve even managed to port Windows XP onto the chuffing thing.

Basically, HTC made the most versatile phone ever, and now, one of the clever forum users at xdadevelopers has ported Firefox OS to it. So, what’s the crack? (more…)

Ye gods, now there’s a blast from the past! The last time I wrote about this particular subject was three years ago, when Emblaze confirmed that the First Else phone was officially dead, but that the UI would live on. It turns out that they weren’t lying, ‘cos it’s now been released as a launcher app on Android! Say hello to Splay…

So there you have it, the UI that was designed to be brilliant for one-handed use is back from the dead, and because it’s available on Google Play for free, I’ve tried it out. So, what’s it like? (more…)

Well, that’s the bank holiday over with, so it’s time to get back into the action! Let’s start with an Engadget video I watched earlier (of a new phone you’ve never heard of, and neither have I, called the Vivo Xplay), with a particularly nifty new feature called Free Touch…

Yes, it’s a one-handed mode, and that’s rather cool, that is. As the blokie in the video said, Samsung has made it socially acceptable for people to have massive phones (consider the gargantuan Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3, a phone that truly lives up to its name), so this one-handed feature could well be rather useful indeed. But how does it work? (more…)

[The opinions expressed in the blog post are entirely those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Mobileshop.com.]

And here we go again; another day, another bit of advertising designed not to show how good someone’s own product is, but instead, to slag off the opposition. Well, actually, in this case, it’s to slag off the opposition’s users. Yes, it’s a new ad for the Nokia Lumia 920 that… well, see for yourself…

Riiiiiiiiight. You remember how I did a post a couple of months ago about how Windows Phone has some really overzealous fans, and that it’s Microsoft’s own fault? Yeah, adverts like that are why… (more…)

Nowadays, we all take phones for granted, and people sometimes forget that the history of the telephone can be traced back to the pioneering work of one Alexander Graham Bell, the man who came up with the first practical telephone. Oddly though, considering what he invented, no-one knew what Bell sounded like. Well, until now, that is…

Yes, that is the voice of the man who made the first ever phone call, recorded at the Volta Laboratory, in 1885. If you love your phone, whether you’re using a cheap PAYG special or a top-end Samsung Galaxy S4, you owe it to that man. So, how did they manage to capture his voice after this long? (more…)

Wow. Isn’t that just the most shocking headline you’ve ever read?! Who would’ve ever thought, right, that a Google-made mobile product would run on Google’s mobile operating system?! The shock, all around the world, is absolutely, definitely, indubitably palpable!

Okay, I’ll stop being sarcy…

Yes, that’s the news, today; after a ton of rumours and questions about what operating system Google Glass would be using, with some saying that it’d be a proprietary thingie separate from Android, Larry Page has gone on record (according to TechCrunch) as saying that, basically, duh of course it runs on Android… (more…)

There’s been rumblings, for absolutely yonks, that Apple would eventually release a budget iPhone, presumably to try and take on the likes of the mid-range, Android-powered Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini. The same rumour seems to get trotted out every single year, and up until now, it’s been complete cobblers. Every single time.

Today’s rumour, courtesy of Tactus, is a bit different, however. This time, the rumour comes with a photo attached, which purports to actually show the body shell of this possibly mythical, unicorn-like budget iPhone, in the flesh.

So, therefore, it’s time once again to ask that question: is this real or cobblers? (more…)

[The opinions expressed in the blog post are entirely those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Mobileshop.com.]

Y’know, I’m quite sure that I’ve had a good old mither about companies deciding to market themselves by slagging off the competition. You see it all the time, and it gets right up my nose, so it does; every time I see it, I can’t help but think that the parents of whoever’s doing the slagging off didn’t raise their kids properly. Apple does it all the time, even HTC has done it, and now, apparently, it’s time for Microsoft to have another pop at their arch-nemesis.

The guy’s name is Terry Myerson, he’s the Microsoft VP in charge of Windows Phone, and he’s been interviewed by AllThingsD.

So, what’s he been saying? (more…)