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Angry Birds Rio – Coming Soon

James Richardson | January 30, 2011 |

Calling all Angry Birds fans. It looks like we have a new addition coming in the next couple of months. The word on the street is that Angry Birds Rio will be with us in March and this time Rovio in conjunction with 20th Century Fox will release sporting 45 dedicated levels that are based […]

Grant for scientists to develop faster broadband in the UK

Vince Chan | January 30, 2011 |

The University of Southampton’s ‘Photonics HyperHighway’ project, in partnership with Essex and BBC R&D, has been awarded £7.2 million to create new fibre optic technologies that could make connection speeds 100 times faster than your standard fibre optics. The money, along with £10 million from the EU will be spent trying to develop new materials […]

HTC to unveil Facebook phones?

Vince Chan | January 29, 2011 |

With Mobile World Congress on the horizon, speculation is building that HTC are to announce two Facebook branded phones in Barcelona in just a few weeks time. Both City A.M. and BGR believe that these phones will features tight Facebook integration such as having status updates and messages pushed to the homescreen, as well as […]

Motorola Atrix 4G release date leaked?

Vince Chan | January 29, 2011 |

The Motorola Atrix was announced in CES and while no release date was specified, Amazon.com had a misplaced page up with a launch date of February 11th. Although it’s on AT&T in the States, it’s also coming to the UK on Orange – perhaps that date is an indicator of when it will arrive here […]

Panasonic changes the Digital Photo market forever

James Richardson | January 29, 2011 |

Following a year of great success in 2010, Panasonic is ready to kick start 2011 with a bang as tomorrow marks the launch of the next great Lumix G camera, Lumix GF2, in a store near you.  Already awarded 5 magazine awards since announced in November, the GF2 is the smallest and lightest system camera […]

Everything Everywhere contactless phone payments

James Richardson | January 28, 2011 |

Fancy using your mobile to pay for goods on the High Street? Well, you will be able to later this year as Everything Everywhere have teamed up with Barclaycard to allow contactless payments with a new free online credit card processing software. The UK’s first commercial contactless mobile payments service, to be rolled out by […]

BlackBerry CDMA roadmap leaked

James Richardson | January 28, 2011 |

The guys over at crackberry.com have got hold of a real beauty. Details of RIMs CDMA roadmap which not only seems to confirm the device leaks we saw last week but also an extra addition – the BlackBerry Curve Touch. Now we clearly don’t have CDMA here in the UK but i would be confident […]

Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 104: Tangents R Us

Gareth | January 28, 2011 |

Gareth, Andy, James and Tracy run riot on the recent ramblings from the mobile world. Sony Ericsson’s big announcements about gaming, PlayStations and phones prove popular. Samsung yawns and four mobiles pop out. Tracy updates us on the Orange’s on-going problem and an impromptu bargain gets James all excited. Direct Download iTunes Download the iPhone […]

O2 BlackBerry – An Office On The Move

James Richardson | January 27, 2011 |

With the likes of Android and Apples iOS now steaming upwards in Smartphone market share we mustn’t forget the good old trusty BlackBerry. Shunned by many the BlackBerry is still an invaluable solution for millions of business users around the world. Here in the UK, O2 are still great believers in the BlackBerry Smartphone solution […]

O2 to launch free Wi-Fi for everyone

James Richardson | January 27, 2011 |

O2 have very generously announced that their Wi-Fi will be available to all mobile users in the near future and not just O2 customers. Initially 450 venues will be made available for use and these sites will be situated in key venues. Why is it free and what is the catch you may ask? Well […]