Mobile Phones

We review and play with the latest and greatest mobile phones, from the cutting edge smartphones right through to an easy-to-use phone for your grandparents! We also review mobile accessories and related gadgets.

CES 2011: ZTE light and other goodies

CES 2011: ZTE light and other goodies

ZTE used to be a bit camera shy. It’d hide its achievements behind mobile phone brands like Orange or Vodafone, despite being responsible for 99.8% of 3G dongles on the UK market. Then last year, the Chinese company launched a series of smart-priced Android smartphones that established the brand. In…

Acer liquidmini: DLNA magic in the palm of your hand

Acer liquidmini: DLNA magic in the palm of your hand

You probably know Acer for their desktops and laptops. Last year they ventured into phones and introduced the liquid range. Now they are follow up the powerful Acer liquidmetal with Acer liquidmini. It is the smallest phone in the liquid range with a 3.2” screen but it certainly packs a…

CES 2011: Xperia ‘arc’, Nexus S, Motorola Atrix & LG Revolution

CES 2011: Xperia ‘arc’, Nexus S, Motorola Atrix & LG Revolution

This year you weren’t anyone if you didn’t announce a new smart phone, the majority of which are now powered (or based upon) the Android operating system. Being “Latest Gadgets” rather than “Latest Phones” meant that we only focused on the phones that caught our eye, rather than trying to…

TomTom and NIKE team up to motivate runners

TomTom and NIKE team up to motivate runners

If this is the year you plan to run a marathon (or indeed run around the block in a bid to get fit), here’s a gadget designed to make the experience a bit more interesting. Sports legend Nike has teamed up with satnav specialist TomTom to produce the NIKE+ Sportwatch…

GEAR4 Unity: The ultimate iPhone remote control?

GEAR4 Unity: The ultimate iPhone remote control?

GEAR4 turns your iPhone into a universal remote without ridiculous plug-in hardware. Instead of connecting your iPhone to a bulky and usually unflattering add-on peripheral, the UnityRemote sits in the centre of the room and interacts with the iPhone via Blueooth, meaning no physical connection is required. As soon as…

Google and Samsung Nexus S review of reviews

Google and Samsung Nexus S review of reviews

Another month, another potential iPhone-killer. Normally they fall short of grabbing the Smartphone Crown with some pretty basic mistakes – a plasticky-feel to the case, for instance, or a poor camera. Sometimes they’ll even forget to include HD video recording, or iPhone-beating features like a micro SD expansion slot. Will…

Mili iPhone Power Pack 4 – Just in case

Mili iPhone Power Pack 4 – Just in case

You’d be churlish to deny that smartphones are a wonder of the modern age. Whichever fruit or robot-based feudal camp you find yourself attached to, the fact that for a relatively low price, people can walk around with a tiny computer in their pockets is amazing. I love my iPhone…

Nexus S: Google and Gingerbread – just in time for Christmas

Nexus S: Google and Gingerbread – just in time for Christmas

While mobile phone reviewers are still pleasantly surprised when they encounter a phone that incorporates Android’s 2.2 version, the Google Nexus S is taking things to the next level, offering Android 2.3. ‘Gingerbread’ as it is called, is not the only new thing on the phone – it also boasts…

Proporta TurboCharger 5000: Get fired up on the move

Proporta TurboCharger 5000: Get fired up on the move

Between mobile phones, tablet PCs, cameras and whatever other gadgets so many of us cart about all day, it’s sometimes hard to keep up with what’s been charged and what hasn’t. And if you’ve got a gadget that’s juice-hungry, it can be really easy to run out of power even…

The Adventures of Simon Pegg: A digital comic for Android, iPhone and the iPad

The Adventures of Simon Pegg: A digital comic for Android, iPhone and the iPad

You’re scared of mice and spiders, but oh-so-much greater is your fear that one day the two species will cross-breed to form an all-powerful race of mice-spiders, who will immobilize human beings in giant webs in order to steal cheese. Lines like that made a generations of young adults fall…

TWIG: Three’s Human Hotspots, Chilli WatchCam and LG’s NetCast

TWIG: Three’s Human Hotspots, Chilli WatchCam and LG’s NetCast

The Week in Gadgets If you see one of these dudes in the streets, sidle up to them, they’ll probably have something you’ll find useful  – wifi. The ‘Human Hotspots’ will use Three’s MiFi®, which uses Three’s 3G network to create a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot. I own a MiFi (I…

HTC Wildfire review: Slow and unsteady loses the smartphone race

HTC Wildfire review: Slow and unsteady loses the smartphone race

I entered my HTC Wildfire experience with an open mind. Android is a noble warrior. It’s battled against the iPhone monopoly, offering perhaps the only other fully-featured smartphone operating system. On a high-end phone, like the HTC Desire, the powerful internal specifications make Android fly. Unfortunately, that’s not true of…