Posts Tagged ‘smartphone’

Connected Car: Glympse Partners with BMW and Mini for Location Sharing

Connected Car: Glympse Partners with BMW and Mini for Location Sharing

BMW hasn’t pushed it smartphone app integration as much as its competitors like Ford or GM, but at last week’s New York motor show the German car manufacturer announced new partnerships with Glympse, Rhapsody, TuneIn and Audible. Each app, as you’d expect shows up on the LCD in BMW models…

Sony Xperia Z Review Roundup

Sony Xperia Z Review Roundup

We had a play with Sony Xperia Z, most of which involved dunking the giant smartphone into tanks of water and marvelling at how it still functioned. Packing a huge screen, great camera and a zippy processor it’s everything you want from a modern Android smartphone. What do the experts…

Accel’s Voyager: Connected Car Smartphone Technology

Accel’s Voyager: Connected Car Smartphone Technology

Considering integrated GPS and mobile telephony has been around for many years now, we all have something we use in our cars for hands free communications or navigation, via either Bluetooth connectivity or built right into the car’s console display system. Either way, the technology is no stranger. However, in…

AirStash A02: Stream Theatre

AirStash A02: Stream Theatre

I’ve just purchased an iPad mini. And in a dramatic break with tradition I didn’t max out on storage space as I have with pretty much every other Apple device I’ve purchased since my first foray into Mac Life in 2003 (with a PowerBook that still boots and gets online)….

Huawei’s Ascend Mate smartphone featuring World’s largest screen

Huawei’s Ascend Mate smartphone featuring World’s largest screen

Bucking the trend of waiting until MWC in Barcelona, the team at Huawei chose last week’s CES to unveil their Ascend Mate smartphone. The company bills the Ascend Mate as having the World’s largest smartphone screen. This comes in the form of a 6.1-inch HD IPS+ display, with a native…

Hue light up my life – Philips lightbulb technology

Hue light up my life – Philips lightbulb technology

I spent almost two hours talking about lightbulbs yesterday and didn’t yawn once. “Impossible” you cry, but oddly enough it’s true. Philips invited me into a tucked away Central London to meet “hue”, the latest and greatest in lightbulb technology. Philips first started making lightbulbs 121 years ago and haven’t…

ASUS PadFone 2: Two Become One

ASUS PadFone 2: Two Become One

Asus have unveiled the PadFone 2, the follow-up to the successful original PadFone. Combining an Android smartphone and a dockable tablet for ultimate mobile flexibility, this new PadFone model comes with a range of specifications designed to improve performance and improve the user experience. If you’re wondering what a PadFone…

ZTE Grand X: Redefining medium range

ZTE Grand X: Redefining medium range

I’ve been meeting with ZTE on and off for the past few years to play with their latest handsets. Normally they trot out a decent, affordable but decidedly low-end handset like the F930 or the ZTE racer. Nice but nothing to write home about. But it’s clear from conversations with…

Review: Griffin in-car smartphone mounts

Review: Griffin in-car smartphone mounts

We got our hands on two of Griffin’s recently released hands-free mobile car kits. Aircurve Window Mount, RRP £24.99: Designed for the iPhone 4 and 4S, the Aircurve has been designed to cradle your phone securely and increase its audio output by up to 25 decibels thanks to some clever…

HTC One S review: Recipe for a great handset

HTC One S review: Recipe for a great handset

HTC had a difficult time during 2011; too many handsets watered down their brand and subsequently saw the Asian handset maker lose market share to both Apple and Samsung. Well, they’re back with a new focus and three new handsets – we got our hands on the HTC One S,…

Acer Liquid Express: Because smartphones certainly aren’t getting any dumber!

Acer Liquid Express: Because smartphones certainly aren’t getting any dumber!

Acer is extending its range of smartphones with the Acer Liquid Express – But will it live up to other premium smartphones? Following on from the launch of Acer’s first Liquid smartphone equipped with Android, Acer’s latest model is the company’s first NFC-equipped device. For those of you unaware of…

Kenzo and Proporta team up to make smartphone cases

Kenzo and Proporta team up to make smartphone cases

For all the disappointed raging nerds on the internet, furious about the lack of external change in the iPhone 4S, there were many more relieved iPhone case manufacturers delighted that they didn’t need to suddenly scramble to revise their product lines over night. And with good cause, as the case…