History is populated by unfortunate anecdotes involving mobile phones and water.
There are tales of phones that fell into the sink while applying hair dye, handsets falling out of trouser pockets while boarding a boat, and so on.
A few year...
Most visitors to our website will appreciate the benefits of a SIM only contract.
Costs are lower than for monthly handset rental contracts, and there’s no expectation that your perfectly serviceable handset will need replacing in 18 mont...
This century is littered with unsuccessful or ill-advised mergers and takeovers, from AOL Time Warner to Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia.
However, occasionally tech brands hit the jackpot. Think Google buying YouTube, or Facebook’s $19...
There’s an interesting disparity in the way we pay for home internet and 4G services.
While broadband costs sometimes increase along with achievable line speed, 4G tends to be priced by data volumes.
Deals on our website can be ordered ac...
Brand loyalty is sometimes difficult to justify in the cold light of day.
Consumers often develop an innate bias towards (or against) a particular company’s products, based on anything from first-hand experience to anecdotal evidence or n...
Unless you sign up to an all-you-can-eat mobile data contract, you’re probably going to run out of data at some point.
And while that might be problematic for a satellite broadband customer, whose line speed is instantly throttled back, s...
Few of us will retain a mobile phone until its screen lights up for the very last time.
Given our reliance on these miniature computers, many people start researching new handsets as soon as their existing unit becomes glitchy or stops hold...
Until fairly recently, photographs taken at night looked pretty unedifying.
Unless the photographer had a tripod and a natural flair for aperture settings, images tended to appear gloomy and rather amateurish.
This would be exaggerated by u...
Addiction is an integral part of the human psyche, and the addictive qualities of alcohol, tobacco and gambling have long been understood.
However, we’re only just beginning to recognise the equally addictive nature of digital technology....
There are two types of electronic devices nowadays – those we repair, and those we regard as disposable.
A mental checklist of personal possessions quickly identifies which might be serviced, and which would be discarded without thinking....
