Mobiles & PDAs

Logitech’s Solar-Powered Keyboard Case

Logitech’s Solar-Powered Keyboard Case

A case and a bluetooth keyboard are two of the must-have accessories for every iPad owner. Logitech have done the sensible things and created a new gadget that combines both these features, and does so in style. The Logitech Solar Keyboard Folio is the newest product in the company’s line of tablet accessories. It functions as a case, protecting the front and back of your…

The Rise of the Budget Tablet: How Reduced-Price Tablets are Impacting the Market

The Rise of the Budget Tablet: How Reduced-Price Tablets are Impacting the Market

The release of Apple’s first iPad changed the mobile technology market forever. Since then, many competitors have been quick to jump on the tablet bandwagon, and the market has sprung to life. While the majority of tablets have been targeted at the businessman, the busy commuter, or the freelancer, lower-priced ‘lifestyle’ tablets are now starting to creep onto the market. One such tablet is the…

Squash drop and knock damage with tough iPhone cases!

Squash drop and knock damage with tough iPhone cases!

I often look on in horror at anyone who doesn’t have his or her iPhone tucked safely inside a case. Although my dismay at ‘caseless iPhones’ probably has a lot to do with the fact that my iPhone, despite being only six months old, has been dropped by my two young boys on several occasions, only to bounce back unscathed, protected by a superduper rubber…

What Makes the Perfect Tablet?

What Makes the Perfect Tablet?

As Toshiba unveils its new Excite 13 tablet, its latest offering has stirred discussion among critics about what it is exactly that makes a tablet a tablet. At 13 inches, the Excite 13’s screen is bigger than the Apple iPad’s 10 inches, and rivals Apple’s smaller laptops. Critics agree that, while 10 inches is big enough for a table, 13 inches takes the portability out…

Logitech Keyboard Cover: Carry your iPad with confidence

Logitech Keyboard Cover: Carry your iPad with confidence

Your iPad is an accident just waiting to happen. Sure, they may be extremely portable allowing you to take them with you pretty much anywhere, but you also expose the touch screen to all sorts of dangers and hazards along the way. A scratch on the screen can render it useless, so Logitech’s new Keyboard Cover is like a gift from the gods for the…

Barclaycard PayTag: Mobile NFC system

Barclaycard PayTag: Mobile NFC system

I’ve never had a problem emptying my bank account, but just to be on the safe side, Barclays yesterday announced the launch of the Barclaycard PayTag. Extending a regular credit card account, the PayTag sticks to the back of a mobile handset and siphons cash – although obviously only when you tell it to – PayTag’s not a snitch. The PayTag is a third of…

Get on the case to boost your iPhone’s battery

Get on the case to boost your iPhone’s battery

Smartphones are getting better all the time, but as the screens get bigger and more impressive, they start to drain the juice from the battery. There are several was to get round this – carry our charger with you at all times and – ahem – borrow electricity whenever you get the chance to plug it in and give your phone a boost or splash out…

Griffin Helo TC Assault: Android and iOS-powered helicopter dogfights

Griffin Helo TC Assault: Android and iOS-powered helicopter dogfights

As a child of the 80s I have a love for helicopters that is almost entirely based on the TV show Airwolf, in which Stringfellow Hawke, a loner who lives in a cabin outside of LA, accompanied only by his Bluetick Coonhound, “Tet”, and his priceless collection of paintings, serenading eagles with his equally priceless Stradivarius cello, flies a top secret military helicopter. They don’t…

The New iPad (3): Review of reviews

The New iPad (3): Review of reviews

The iPad 3/iPad HD/”iPad” (we’ll stick to the first option to avoid confusion) is out, and so are the reviews. While the aesthetic differences between the first iPad and iPad 2 were obvious, one look at Apple’s newest version of its beloved tablet will show that not much has changed. Until you activate the screen… The Name Apple’s newest iPad is called The iPad. “Didn’t…

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 2 attempts to take on the New iPad

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 2 attempts to take on the New iPad

Hoping to tap into a marketplace currently dominated by iPad 2 and soon to be dominated by the New iPad, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 is the successor to the original Galaxy Tab (which was released back in 2010) and holds the distinction of being the first Samsung tablet to run on the Android 4.0 operating system or Ice Cream Sandwich as it is known…

FilmOn Air Tuner: Corrie and Eastenders on iPhones, on the go and legally!

FilmOn Air Tuner: Corrie and Eastenders on iPhones, on the go and legally!

Want to view your favourite TV shows from your iPhone or Android smartphone, live and legally? Well now you can thanks to FilmOn.com and its new FilmOn Air tuner. FilmOn.com’s clever little device, which aesthetically, with its red background and silver logo, resembles a Swiss pen knife rather than a pioneering smartphone tuner, neatly plugs on to the bottom of a smartphone and gives users…

MWC 2012 wrap up

MWC 2012 wrap up

As the Mobile World Congress wraps up for another year, we showcase the highlights of the conference. The range of smartphones and tablets didn’t disappoint, and all the usual suspects were present, including Samsung, Sony, HTC and LG, with the latter three using the event to announce their smartphone releases for the year ahead. Newcomers Mobile service provider Orange unveiled its first smartphone at MWC,…

MWC 2012: Android’s coming of age party

MWC 2012: Android’s coming of age party

This year’s Mobile World Congress was the best ever. No – this isn’t one of those super-positive articles that vapidly attempts to befriend everyone. It genuinely was the best. Why? How about this: 41 megapixel camera; projecting mobile phone; a phone that plugs into a tablet. Does your iPhone do any of that? MWC 2012 – or as we like to call it, Android’s coming-of-age-party,…

Five top speaker docks for the iPad

Five top speaker docks for the iPad

Almost simultaneously with the launch of the Apple iPod, masses of speaker docks arrived leaving a confused consumers dizzyingly deliberating over which one to buy. Whilst the spawning of the iPod’s tablet sibling, the iPad’s speaker docks have been much slower to emerge and only now is beginning to gather up speed. From just over £50 to almost a grand, check out our top five…

Vodafone unveils designer phone-charging bag

Vodafone unveils designer phone-charging bag

Not content with merely sponsoring London Fashion Week, Vodafone UK have gone one step further and collaborated with British designer Richard Nicoll to produce a women’s tote bag that also doubles as a phone charger. The bag was revealed at LFW on Monday as part of Nicoll’s Autumn/Winter 2012 collection. The designer, whose previous clients include Julianne Moore and Kylie Minogue, has solved a long-running…