There’s been a lot of news this year, from last-ditch Brexit negotiations to significant mobile phone industry changes.
Yet there has only really been one news story since March. It’s the topic that 2020 will forever be remembered (and ...
With 2020 almost over, the internet is awash with that-was-the-year-that-was reviews. And most of them will be unutterably depressing.
With that in mind, let’s turn to something more positive – a rundown of the best new smartphones of ...
If anyone had hoped the internet would bring a newly connected world closer together, they’ve been sorely disappointed.
The schisms and national hostilities which have sprung up this century have often been driven by antipathy towards a p...
Few of us pay much attention to the connectors and cables we use on a daily basis, but one type of plug has become increasingly ubiquitous in recent years.
The USB-C connection is increasingly the default method for connecting and powering ...
Over the last twenty years, there have only been a handful of truly game-changing smartphone innovations.
The introduction of a camera on Sharp’s J-SH04 in 2000 formed the genesis of today’s selfie generation. Without camera phones, Ins...
The importance of smartphones is reflected in how their uses have expanded far beyond the basic functions they’re theoretically meant to provide.
Today, we use our mobiles as mobile data hotspots, tethering them to computers for impromptu...
Unboxing a brand-new smartphone is an exciting moment, and turning it on for the first time is also a thrill.
The phone will never be this clean, this fast – or this free of apps.
The average smartphone has between 60 and 90 apps installe...
In the mid-Noughties, a BlackBerry handset was a real status symbol.
These smartphone precursors combined email, 3G web access and basic productivity tools with normal cellular connectivity.
This futuristic amalgam of office computer and mo...
When new technology is launched, it usually improves on its predecessor in clearly identifiable ways.
Sony’s PS5 offers 4K gameplay and a better user interface than the PS4. The iPhone 12 is the first Apple smartphone to offer 5G. And so ...
In the olden days, you bought a computer game at a shop. It would be supplied in a box far bigger than it needed to be, with screenshots from a system better than the one you owned.
You’d take it home, insert the cassette or disc, and pla...
