Around the turn of the century, text messaging became a revolutionary new way to communicate.
An entire new lexicon was born. Emoji proliferated, abbreviations flourished, and academics wept at the English language’s desecration in the ha...
Traditionally, if you wanted to buy a smartphone, you looked to the east.
Japan gave us blue-chip brands like Sony, and South Korea is home to Samsung and LG.
Europe is modestly represented by Nokia and Doro, while Apple’s dominance of Am...
Despite being invaluable (and often inseparable) companions nowadays, smartphones remain surprisingly fragile.
Manufacturers make bold claims about Gorilla glass and toughened chassis materials, and most modern smartphones are suitable to u...
In many respects, the battle to achieve smartphone supremacy can be likened to a game of chess.
There tend to be two main protagonists – Android and iOS, Google Assistant and Siri, etc.
A battle of moves and counter-moves ensues, as both ...
As we move towards a data-powered society underpinned by cloud storage and streaming services, data usage is becoming an increasingly significant issue.
Because SIM only deals of the kind listed on our site tend to be priced according to mo...
Towards the end of each decade, anticipation starts to build about the technological developments and breakthroughs we can expect during the next decade.
The late 1990s saw feverish predictions about how the internet would evolve, and this ...
With long days and short nights currently the norm, we tend to spend more time outside than at any other time of year.
And since almost every modern smartphone has a built-in camera, photo opportunities are never far away.
From flaming barb...
Summer is here (allegedly), and millions of Brits are about to embark on long-awaited holidays abroad or to far-flung corners of the United Kingdom.
This generally means boarding a plane, in turn necessitating cabin crew announcements that ...
In the beginning, there was the mobile phone. And it was good.
So good, in fact, manufacturers began packing more and more features into each handset.
Over time, basic handsets evolved into web-enabled and app-powered smartphones.
In 2010, ...
If your first name is Sheikh, or your idea of jumping in the car involves summoning a chauffeur, overseas data roaming costs probably aren’t much of a concern.
For most of us, however, the costs of using our phones abroad can be quite fri...
