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Orange To Launch Quick Tap ‘Treats’

James Richardson | February 24, 2012 |

We all like a treat. Orange today unveiled ‘Quick Tap Treats’ – the UK’s first mobile contactless retail reward scheme, in partnership with the EAT. restaurant chain. Quick Tap Treats will allow all Orange customers with NFC enabled handsets to simply tap their mobile phone on specially designed posters at any of the 110 EAT. […]

It’s not Tegra 3, it’s 4-Plus-1

Gareth | February 24, 2012 |

NVIDIA wants to make sure that consumers get the full skinny on their new Tegra 3 chip’s architecture. Sometime last year we did an article sharing that the Tegra 3 is actually a 5 core chip, rather than just a quad-core chip. It has 4 primary cores for running intensive calculations, but also has a […]

Fujitsu announce some insane specs

Gareth | February 23, 2012 |

Fujitsu are set to make their debut in the phone market later this year. According to the Unwired View, Fujitsu’s handset will come packing a Nvidia 1.6GHz Tegra 3 processor – a quad-core chipset, a 4.6in screen (no further details there unfortunately), a 13.1MP camera, a fingerprint sensor, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, as well […]

Googles lucky unlocky screen

Gareth | February 23, 2012 |

It looks like the crafty folks at Google have decided to "head Apple off at the pass", when it comes to Apple’s slide-to-unlock patent disputes. Google engineers and/or patent experts have just filed for a patent on a new way to unlock devices. In case you haven’t followed the Apple vs. the "world" news much, […]

Red Bull Charges Onto Samsung SMART TV

James Richardson | February 23, 2012 |

Samsung Electronics, the UK’s number one TV brand with the most awarded TV range, today announced the availability of Red Bull TV on its SMART TV platform. The high-octane channel brings extreme sports coverage and original programming to the world’s most engaging home entertainment system. Red Bull TV brings the world of sports, urban lifestyle, […]

Everything Everywhere’s 4G LTE getting closer

James Richardson | February 23, 2012 |

Everything Everywhere, the UK’s biggest communications company, has unveiled significant progress in its network integration and evolution and outlined the path toward the roll out of 4G LTE. The roll out of a nationwide HSPA+ (3.5G) network – the latest milestone in the company’s network evolution project – will provide 50% faster data speeds for […]

ZTE set to unveil LTE, Windows Phone and multi-core Android devices at MWC 2012

James Richardson | February 23, 2012 |

ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”) will next week announce a significant extension of its Smart Terminal capabilities – both in its product range and routes to market – including a major new quad-core flagship handset. ZTE will unveil eight new devices, delivering significant advances in power, high definition multimedia capabilities and design. Based on technology innovations including […]

The Acer A510 looks pretty smart

Gareth | February 23, 2012 |

Acer’s next high-end Tablet, the Iconia A510 has just passed through its FCC certification hoops. The tablet is due to come out in Europe sometime in April. The tab has some fairly impressive specs: 1.3GHz quad-core Tegra 3 processor 1GB of RAM 10.1-Inch screen with resolution of 1280 x 800 16GB, 32GB and 64GB versions […]

UK launch date announced for Samsung Series 9 notebook

James Richardson | February 22, 2012 |

Following the recent global launch at CES, Samsung today announced the highly anticipated new look Series 9 premium notebook will be available in the UK from 25th February 2012. “For those seeking the ultimate notebook, it doesn’t get any better than this. We have tailor made the components so that they fit into the notebook’s […]

Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 157: Blackberry Playbook updated

Gareth | February 22, 2012 |

This week Gareth and James are joined by Chris Vesey, a writer from Tracyandmatt.co.uk to discuss the latest mobile news. RIM launch Version 2.0 of the Playbook’s operating system and James is quite excited by this, Chris is playing with the HTC Explorer and Gareth continues his quest for value from Vodafone.