Rugged phones are nice, but they are almost invariably crap. According the Wall Street Journal, Samsung is making a move to kick that trend with an upcoming waterproof, dustproof Galaxy S4. Read More >>
Featured comment by electroweb:
"Ports and buttons are irrelevant in the nano-coating systems. The whole phone is treated in a gas chamber, rendering it entirely splashproof. Quite am..." More »
In addition to the long curly cords, and the part where they are permanently attached to a wall, old-fashioned landlines have something else that we've lost in the cell phone revolution: a dial tone. What happened to that thing? Read More >>
Featured comment by spank86:
"no phone "needs" a dial tone, It's a comfort tone nothing more, they all are, produced by the exchange to reassure you that the phone's actually worki..." More »
Vertu, the purveyors of luxury cell phones, has announced its latest waste of money. Called the Ti, it's handmade in England and can be yours for the princely sum of £7,000. Read More >>
Samsung's latest addition to its Galaxy line-up — the Grand — has just been announced. Sadly, it's clear that it doesn't exactly live up to its name. Read More >>
Featured comment by markcgrant:
""but in the meantime it’s probably not worth getting terribly excited about."
It depends, some people have the budgets to be high end early adop..." More »
We all know Japan is losing its technological edge to the likes of Apple and Samsung, but people still think of the country as a tech mecca. Sure, they may have invented the Walkman, and their toilets really do play music, but after living there for eight months, I was surprised to learn the UK is actually ahead of Japan in some technological areas. Here's a quick run-down of debunked Japanese tech myths, to boost your pub-trivia skills at the very least:
Featured comment by Southern:
"I was going to say something about "om nom nomihodai" and realised that given what nomihodai means, it would be a great marketing slogan for vistors :..." More »
Seen any massive painted eggs on your travels within London this morning? No me neither, but today marks the start of The Big Egg Hunt, which partners fancy egg-jewellers Fabergé with Action for Children and the Elephant Family for the world’s biggest (only?) egg hunt. It’s not even Easter yet, but keep your eyes peeled, there’s £100,000 to be won. Read More >>
We saw Panasonic unveil its Eluga yesterday, and although it’s a looker (see above), we were a tad disappointed by its weakish specs. But it seems that’s just the first of a range of Euro-centric smartphones headed our way including a Lumix-branded and more premium models, which we’ll see at MWC next week. Read More >>
Featured comment by kwiiiq:
"Looks like we're in for a rather action-packed MWC this year. Everyone seems to be debuting something new and seemingly lustworthy." More »
How could living in North Korea be worse? Hmm. Maybe if your dinner caught on fire every night, or clothes were made out of a cactus, or if using a phone potentially earned you the death penalty. Sounds about right! Read More >>
If you think the mobile phone explosion of recent years has somehow been kept at bay by prison walls, you would be greatly mistaken. Technology, like water, permeates every crack. Today on Lockdown, we're talking phones in jail. Read More >>
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