Mobile Phone Blog:

Ever since Motorola released the Milestone, a phone that seriously impressed me, I’ve had a bit of a soft spot for them. There was a time, so many years ago, when I viewed them as being rubbish, but then the Milestone came out, and it was a brilliant phone (hell, it was my phone of the year, that year). So, what I’m saying is that I like Motorola (even if I’ll never love them as much as HTC, but that’s a given, ‘cos I’m an HTC fanboy).

So, when I see a story about them bringing out new phones, I get interested. That’s exactly what’s happened today, ‘cos according to Mobile.163 (Google-translated link, enjoy the grammatical lulz), they’ve shown of three new Android phones in China, and they’re all button-less… (more…)

Now then, here’s an interesting thing. It’s well known that the Nexus range is made entirely of Google’s own, untarnished view of what Android phones should be like, without any additional interface on top. The last phone to be released in the range was the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, and everyone seemed to love it, which is fair enough, really, ‘cos it was brilliant.

According to CNet, though, Google might be planning on expanding the Nexus range, ‘cos they apparently filed a patent back in January for a new sliding phone. And the thing is… it turns out that there’s a couple of rather compelling reasons to suspect this will indeed lead to a Nexus slidephone going on sale… (more…)

Yes, folks, this is in fact my third post about Waterloo Road in less than a year, but there’s a very good reason for me doing so many posts about the show. Well, okay, two good reasons, in fact. The first is that it consistently features mobile phones, so it’s easy fodder for this blog, but the second reason is a bit weirder.

Basically, I’m completely in awe over how many utterly ludicrous things Waterloo Road includes in its storylines. Last night was the series finale, and I am now firmly convinced that the show’s writers are high, or at the very least, trolling their audience.

I’ll get back to that (hoooooooo boy, will I get back to that), but first… (more…)

Right then, I’ve done a couple of posts about what I reckon will be the single best camera phone ever made, the Nokia 808 PureView. However, when I say “best”, I mean best in terms of camera quality, not in terms of general brilliance. I don’t mean it’ll be the best phone ever, because it won’t. Because it runs on Symbian. When ye see a Windows phone with a PureView camera, that will be the time to get excited.

According to WMPoweruser, that day might not be too far away, ‘cos a leaked pic has emerged, which purports to show the very first Nokia Windows phone to include PureView camera technology. I’ll be honest, though, I’d be more excited if it didn’t look so weird… (more…)

Right then, remember how I did a blog post about the rumour that Google were working on Android-powered glasses? Well, Google have released a new video which shows evidence that they, in fact, are. Say hello to Project Glass…

Okay, let’s first get past the fact that the guy in the video appears to be an insufferable git (and so did his mate). Also, who goes to a rooftop to play a ukulele? Well, granted, someone probably has, at some point in history, but it does feel like an unbearably smug thing to do, right? So yes, let’s get past that, and look at the actually idea that is Project Glass… (more…)

Right then, we all know that Google have a specific range of phones, which is designed to show off the core Android experience, without any extra adornments to take away from Google’s own vision of a phone. It is, of course, the Nexus range, and the most recent phone from that range is, of course, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus.

However, there’s a rumour going about that they’ll extend to the Nexus range to introduce a tablet device, with the core Google experience, and according to PocketNow, this might be it. But as usual, it’s now time for us all to put our sceptical trousers on. Yes, we need to ask the question we always ask, when we get a leak like this: is it real or cobblers?  (more…)

You may have noticed, in the post I did yesterday about Angry Birds Space, that, while phones like the iPhone 4S get the game, one of the three big smartphone platforms was conspicuous by its absence. Yes, one of the big three platforms doesn’t have the game yet, and that platform is Windows Phone. Now, why might that be?

Well, according to IntoMobile, it’s quite simple. Angry Birds Space isn’t available on the Windows Phone platform, yet, because it will take a complete, ground-up rewrite of the game to make it work. Basically, Windows Phone uses the XNA development platform used on the Xbox, so porting it across is kind of a big deal. That’s not to say it won’t happen, though, ‘cos it will…  (more…)

Right folks, time for a story that, in all honesty, made me go, “Er, wait, what?” It comes courtesy of TechCrunch, who are reporting that mobile video provider Vuclip ran a survey, to find out why people buy the phones they do, and as these things always turn out, they found out why men and women choose the phones they, respectively, choose.

The results may surprise you, ‘cos they certainly surprised me, at least until I thought about it (and even then, it still surprised me a bit). The number one decider in why women choose the phone they choose is, apparently, the list of features it includes, while for men, the big decider is the phone’s price. Since I really badly want the HTC One X, I’m not entirely sure what that says about me…  (more…)

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: I love the Humble Bundle. I love everything it stands for. And I loved it when they brought the Humble Bundle to Android phones like the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. So, not that they’ve brought a new Humble Bundle to Android phones, you can probably guess how I feel about it…

Yes folks, the pay-what-you-like games bundle is back, and it’s brought another selection of top games with it. In fact, it’s a selection of top games that, if you bought ‘em separately, would cost you about 36 quid. And you can pay what you want for them. And that’s awesome. However, that’s not all… (more…)

Right then, we’re all familiar with the act of customising our phones, even if it’s just doing something as simple as changing the wallpaper on them (or in the case of my mum, getting me to change the wallpaper for her). If you’re also old enough, like me, to remember the Nokia 3210, then you’re familiar with the idea of customising the outside of your phone, too (‘cos of XpressOn covers). However, imagine if you could change the look of your phone’s body as easily as you can change the phone’s wallpaper…

Well, that’s not what Samsung are doing, even though I wish that was the case. No, according to IntoMobile, Samsung want to literally add a physical wallpaper to their phones…  (more…)