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Your top tips to Music Festival survival!

The Glastonbury Music Festival’s tickets have sold out for next year in a little over an hour! At £210 a ticket, they are like gold dust, but if you missed … Continue reading

October 9, 2013 · Leave a comment

40 years of the mobile phone, The top 20 facts you don’t really need to know!

The first mobile telephone call was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper, a former Motorola inventor, who is known as “the father of the cellphone”. From Sixth Avenue … Continue reading

September 30, 2013 · 1 Comment

Does your child NEED a mobile phone?

A recent survey showed the average child gets their first mobile handset before turning 12 – just in time for the start of secondary school. While the same study showed that … Continue reading

September 2, 2013 · Leave a comment

Apple trying to STOP the trade in counterfeit chargers

Apple trying to STOP the trade in counterfeit chargers…. Apple has announced a global programme to replace all third-party and counterfeit USB power adaptors. The move comes after a Chinese woman … Continue reading

August 7, 2013 · Leave a comment

Could the next iPhone feature a slow-motion camera? Hidden code reveals secrets about what Apple may have in it’s new update

The iPhone 5’S’ could have a slow-motion camera, according to even more rumors about Apple’s upcoming handset. Code hidden inside Apple’s iOS 7 software suggests that the next iPhone could … Continue reading

August 2, 2013 · Leave a comment

The New Samsung S4 Active ‘Waterproof’ handset!

From cups of coffee to being dropped from on high, playing with the phone when the kids have a bath, to the popular ‘dropped down the toilet’ many a parents’ … Continue reading

July 30, 2013 · 1 Comment

Apple’s budget iPhone named as ‘iPhone 5C’

For a while now, Apple has been expected to launch a new entry-level iPhone along side the flagship iPhone 5’S  and now the new handset may have finally been given a name. After … Continue reading

July 29, 2013 · Leave a comment

Mobile Phone Etiquette

I don’t know if you saw the news last week about the checkout operator in Sainsbury’s who refused to serve a customer until they had finished their phone call?  It … Continue reading

July 9, 2013 · Leave a comment

iOS 7 – What’s new?

As usual when Apple announce a develop conference, rumours up a notch and the web, blogs and social media are full of predictions claims of ‘leaks’ and promises of what … Continue reading

June 10, 2013 · Leave a comment

Smartphone Photo Tips

Light. When taking photo’s, try and make sure you’ve plenty of light. When shooting in a low-light environment, your smartphone knows. Your phone adjusts the exposure to let in as … Continue reading

May 21, 2013 · Leave a comment