History is littered with unfortunate incidents involving smartphones.
The slow-motion drop onto the floor of your local chippy…the toddler who knocks it off your patio furniture onto a flagstone…the sheer horror of seeing it descend int...
However diligently we look after them, smartphones have a degree of in-built obsolescence.
Components wear out, battery cells degrade, software conflicts multiply and touchscreen responsiveness begins to reduce.
Then there’s more delibera...
On paper, taking a screenshot on your smartphone might seem like a simple process.
In reality, this pre-installed utility is complicated by platform inconsistencies and practical issues.
For one thing, screenshots aren’t always the most e...
If you’ve been a mobile phone user since the Noughties, you’ll have encountered various charging cables and connections throughout your ownership history.
Each provided charge at different rates, to devices whose ability to store power ...
There’s an oft-quoted statistic that three quarters of the photos taken on smartphones are never looked at once they’ve been saved to the device’s memory or the cloud.
That’s a damning indictment of the disposable nature of photogra...
The evolution of smartphone news services is one of the more debatable advances in mobile technology.
Historically, if you wanted to know what was happening in the world, you loaded a news website or installed an app like BBC News.
In the e...
With every passing week, there is growing awareness of the things being sacrificed to maintain lockdown, and the price being paid to keep infection rates low.
These repercussions will last for many years, ranging from individual mental heal...
Ask someone born this century about the importance of SMS messages, and you can expect to receive a glassy stare.
Yet to most Millennials, the humble text message will have been a formative part of their childhood and youth.
It’s often di...
When the history books are written, they will divide the early 21st century into two distinct parts – pre- and post-coronavirus.
We’re only just beginning to identify the profound changes this virus could wreak on our lives, from the ab...
Each new generation of smartphone communication represents a huge improvement over its predecessor.
Despite the best efforts of EDGE in the late 1990s, the 2G network was never really suitable for internet access, with EDGE offering maximum...
