Mobile phones are more likely to experience faults than other domestic electrical appliances, since they lead hard lives of near-constant use.
Sometimes, issues are remedied by an overnight software update, or by reinstalling a troublesome ...
Mobile phones tend to lead hard lives.
Thrust into pockets and handbags, clattered against worksurfaces and knocked off bedside units, these compact devices endure a great deal of unintentional misuse.
Despite being rigorously tested in fac...
The fifth generation of mobile data networks has been anticipated like no other before it.
When 3G launched in 2003, it attracted little interest – and few people noticed earlier this year when its pioneer Three (no coincidence) announced...
If you’re reading this article after discovering your phone has been stolen, you have our commiserations.
If it’s any comfort, you’re not alone.
In the year to March 2017, a third of thefts from the person in England and Wales involve...
As mobile phones become more sophisticated, offering extra features and providing ever-faster connectivity, costs are spiralling.
Some people spend more on monthly mobile contracts than they do travelling to work, or on socialising.
Pay-mon...
If you live in a built-up area, you won’t have to worry about mobile network coverage.
There’s a time-honoured pattern for infrastructure roll-outs – begin in London, progress to major cities, expand into highly-populated regions and ...
The UK’s mobile phone infrastructure has been evolving since the mid-1980s, and many mobile networks have long since bitten the dust.
If you’re old enough to remember Maureen Lipman advertising British Telecom, you might occasionally fe...
If you’ve found yourself in a self-service checkout queue recently, you might have noticed people paying for their purchases by waving their phone at the terminal.
Unless you’re familiar with concepts like NFC and biometric fingerprint ...
As mobile phone numbers become increasingly central to our online identities and social media profiles, changing mobile numbers should be avoided wherever possible.
As well as having to notify friends and businesses about new contact detail...
There are many scenarios where phone battery life becomes a problem.
Like the range anxiety experienced by owners of electric vehicles, a depleted battery soon becomes a major inconvenience in today’s smartphone-reliant society.
But if th...
