14 October 2014 2:43 PM
Between the two new iPhones, the iPhone 6 feels best in my hand. It's thin, elegant, performs really well, and has many of the features I need. But it lacks extra battery life and optical image stabilization, which I care about. So do you go with the more expensive, larger iPhone 6 Plus? I wish...
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14 October 2014 2:36 PM
Classy plastic build
We can all breathe a sigh of relief. This is the first time in the history of the Note line that Samsung hasn't increased the size of its supersize phone. The black, white, gold, or pink Note 4 holds steady at 5.7 inches, which is plenty big for both viewing and...
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28 September 2013 12:00 AM
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 - Design and Screen Quality
What is the Samsung Galaxy Note 3?
The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is a slightly larger-screen stylus-equipped alternative to the Galaxy S4. It’s arguably a much more interesting phone than the Galaxy S4 too, although at £600 SIM-free...
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20 September 2013 12:00 AM
Same look, small screen, big potential
I'm tempted to call the iPhone 5S the iPhone 5P, for "potential." This is Apple's half-step year, a rebuilding year. It's telegraphed by the name itself: adding an "S" versus giving the phone a whole new name. The 5S...
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19 September 2013 12:00 AM
The iPhone 5C is kinda, sorta, technically a new product -- colorful, cute, with a variety of interchangeable color cases much like the recently released Motorola Moto X -- but under the hood it's really aniPhone 5 with a new paint job, and a cheaper price: $99 on contract (or even less, if you shop...
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01 July 2013 12:00 AM
What is the BlackBerry Q5?
The BlackBerry Q5 is only the third BB10 handset to make it to market, and the first to target a more affordable price point. A replacement of sorts to the BlackBerry Curve range, the Q5 is the mid-market sibling to the touchscreen BlackBerry Z10 and the fellow QWERTY...
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08 April 2013 12:00 AM
In the year 2013, few things are as hyped as a new premium smartphone. There were adverts for the Sony Xperia Z all over the national press, technology journalists (ourselves included) are falling over themselves to pick up on any rumours about the Samsung Galaxy S4 and even staid, businesslike...
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08 April 2013 12:00 AM
BlackBerry, the company formerly known as Research in Motion, showed off its upcoming Qwerty BlackBerry Q10 smartphone at the BlackBerry Jam developer conference this week, and V3 got some hands-on time with the device.
Although BlackBerry said the Q10 is finalised in hardware design, there are...
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28 March 2013 12:00 AM
After months of speculation, the Samsung Galaxy S4 has finally been unveiled at an event in New York. With a larger screen, faster processor and range of new features, it's the company's new flagship smartphone.
As such, it's got more power and more up-to-date features than the iPhone 5 and...
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28 March 2013 12:00 AM
BlackBerry has been all over the news recently, and not usually for the right reasons. The once-dominant smartphone manufacturer has seen its stock sink in recent years as it struggled with the competition from Apple and Android.
The company's certainly not going down without a fight,...
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28 March 2013 12:00 AM
The Xperia Z is Sony's flagship phone for this year, and continues the screen size and resolution arms race with its 5in, 1,920x1,080 display. It also has all the specifications you would expect from a high-end smartphone, including a quad-core 1.5GHz processor and a camera with a huge 13-megapixel...
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25 January 2013 11:46 AM
Ease of Use
With smartphones increasingly becoming the number one default device via which Mr Average takes snapshots - helped, somewhat ironically, by Samsung's own well reviewed Galaxy handsets - and with sales of compact cameras in decline, manufacturers now need to present a pretty...
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25 January 2013 11:41 AM
It's true: we're a bit late reviewing Google's latest Nexus-branded Android smartphone, which went on sale in the UK in November 2012. That said, stocks have been limited so far: a lot of keen would-be early adopters had to wait a while to get their handset, and the Nexus 4's big marketing push...
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25 January 2013 11:32 AM
The rumors were true: HTC has been working on a new flagship phone with a 5-inch 1080p display, and we got to see it in Tokyo today. It's the HTC J Butterfly, and it's set for a release this December on AU / KDDI. A follow-up to the previous HTC J, the Butterfly uses the same red and black color...
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19 November 2012 11:00 AM
On the Nexus 10, icons at the bottom of the screen emphasise Google's media products available through Play. Click on a picture of film to watch movies, headphones to listen to music and a book to, well, read books. Another icon gets you to the Play store to obtain more content and...
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