Posts Tagged ‘mobile’
Turn your phone into a games console with the Gametel
Turn your Android smartphone or tablet into a portable games console with the Gametel.The Gametel, produced by Swedish gaming peripheral company Fructel, is a wireless controller that helps you play games on your mobile device. The Gametel looks familiar to gamers – with its D-pad, four buttons and two shoulder triggers. It is compatible with phones and tablets running Android 2.1.1 Éclair or later and connects to your device using…
Bluetooth Robot Sound Box: This is the droid you are looking for
It’s a truth universally acknowledged by everyone who’s ever turned an amp all the way up to 11 – music sounds great loud. PMPs and smartphones of all shapes and sizes are pretty incredible music devices – they can store gigs of musical data and even better, can hook up to services like Spotify and tap into an infinite jukebox. But their built in speakers aren’t designed to blow you…
Get the message with the Cel-Fi signal booster
Do you constantly miss calls and messages, or struggle to get on the net with your mobile? Are you always asking callers to hang on, while you wander around the house, step into the garden or even hang out of the window, to get a better signal? If you do, a signal booster could be the answer – but at a tad under 500 quid, we hope your calls are…
Doro PhoneEasy 610 and 615 flip-phones review
Disclaimer: Jack Ratcliffe may have written this article, but the opinions are his parents. Mainly. Doro mobile phones aren’t like ordinary mobile phones. They’re more like Fisher Price phones – they boast simple lines, simple materials and simple colours, making the phones almost child-like in appearance. This is odd, because Doro mobiles are aimed at the other end of the spectrum: the older user. A company started by one of…
Loud and proud: the Amplicom Powertel M4000 mobile phone
I’m starting to turn into my mother – only the other day I moaned at my sister for not hanging on the phone long enough for me to first hear it, and then dig it out from the bottom of my bag. Since I got my iPhone, I’m constantly missing calls because I don’t hear it ringing – and I thought my hearing was actually okay – but if I’m…
There’s no smoke without Firetext
You’ve got your fire alarm, you’ve checked the batteries, but have you ever thought – well, that’s all very well and good, but what if no one’s around to hear the thing go off? Obviously that’s what the good folk behind Firetext thought too, because they came up with a smoke alarm that uses text messages to alert home owners when the alarm is activated. The Firetext was one of…
iTrack protect: Mobile tracking technology
It has crossed everyone’s mind at some point – where is your child, your relative, your partner? In the interest of safety and wellbeing – and cunning, curious Sherlock Holmes ingenuity – tracking the location of people has always been a hot topic of interest. The itrack Protect is billed as ‘James Bond style technology’ in its marketing information, but the mobile phone tracking system seems less super-spy and more…
Doro: Accessible mobile phones for the elderly
Latest Gadgets had a little bit of a sit down chat over olives with Doro MD Chris Millington about their new range of accessible mobile phones. There are few things more sexy in the tech world than the Dieter Rams-a-riffic iPhone 4, with it’s shiny mix of metal and glass. Conversely, there are few things less sexy than a range of feature phones for the elderly. So we went into…
Connected Creativity: New entertainment and technology event is in the Cannes
The entertainment, mobile, media and technology industry has a new event to take off to this year – in one of the best-known cities on the French Riviera, Cannes, usually associated with the ultra-glamorous Cannes Film Festival. The new event, entitled the Connected Creativity Forum, will also be highlighting innovative work within the industry. The competition to reward innovation is entitled CC Ventures and finalists include three UK companies –…
The Royal Wedding Phone: Grossly patriotic? Or fun and affordable?
For some, the only vague spark of interest caused by ‘Wills and Kate’s’ wedding this month, is the fact the date of the wedding has been made into a public holiday. Whilst for others the excitement over the ‘Royal Wedding’ is so intense, that joining in the Will and Kate Wedding Walk in London is imperative, likewise so is purchasing all memorabilia associated with the happy couple. If you are…
