The next monthly update for Microsoft’s Xbox One console is set to bring a feature that has been sorely missed ever since the console’s launch over a year ago: voice messaging. This feature was originally available on the console’s predecessor, the Xbox 360, but found itself mysteriously lacking on the Xbox One. It will be […]

After what must feel like a lifetime of waiting for the swathes of religiously dedicated Instagram fans, the company has finally released its first photo collage app: Layout. As a fully-fleshed app users will be able to download it and operate it outside of Instagram, with the option to share their creations to Instagram (and […]

When downloading from the iOS App Store you are prompted to enter your password. TouchID, should you have an iPhone capable of it, has mostly taken away the hassle of it. That said, there are still numerous occasions (such as turning your phone off and on again) that will force you to re-enter your password. […]

Those of you who’ve been on Facebook for more than, say, four years – why do you still use it? In fact, do you even still use it at all? Or do you just log on and scroll through simply out of a deep-seated habit? For many the only reason Facebook still sees and action […]

Being a verified celebrity on Twitter can be hard work. Even if you’re not one yourself it’s not all that hard to imagine – hell, you’ve probably already seen it before. Under every tweet from big celebrities the @replies are usually a torrent of unrelated abuse. It’s sad, but something there’s not really anyway of […]

Google’s constantly pushing out new features for Android, but this one has snuck out a little more quietly than most. We’re not sure why though, considering its certainly an interesting concept. It’s called ‘on-body detection’ and it prevents your device from unlocking whilst in your possession. It’s a new feature to Google’s Smart Lock service that works […]

[alert type=alert-blue]Technical details[/alert] Price £199 OS Android 4.4 KitKat Processor 1.3GHz quad-core Screen 5 inches Resolution 720 x 1,280 pixels Memory 1GB RAM Storage 8GB/16GB MicroSD compatible? No Rear camera 13MP Front camera 2MP Video 1080p Connectivity 3G Dimensions 140.5 x 69 x 7.5mm Weight 110g Battery 2,100mAh [alert type=alert-blue]Introduction[/alert] Acer isn’t a company you’d […]

We talk about the extensive customisation options of Android a lot, and with good reason. It’s a massive part of the operating system’s appeal, and one of the few factors which really differentiates it from Apple’s rival iOS. But if you really want to customise your Android experience, you simply aren’t doing it right without […]

Final Fantasy XI has been in the news an awful lot this week for a game that’s more than a decade old. Earlier it was announced that Square Enix would be shutting the title down on PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 next year. This isn’t particularly surprising – the thought of thousands of people coming […]

Android Device Manager, Google’s less-snappily-named equivalent to Find My iPhone, is finally available on Android Wear. Now you should never not be able to find your smartphone – so long as you’ve got your smartwatch on. Simply stating the command, “OK Google, Start. Find my phone” into your Android Wear timepiece will make the connected […]

Here are two statements you’d struggle to argue with: The Nintendo Wii is very popular, and gaming on Chromecast is under-utilised. Introducing: Motion Tennis, by Rolocule. Motion Tennis is a new app for mobile and Chromecast that makes use of some very cool features. With the main game playing out on your television screen your […]

If you’ve been eyeing up a OnePlus One lately, you may want to do your best to secure one before next week. Due to current weak standing of the Euro, OnePlus has stated that it is going to increase the price of its handset in Europe. The Chinese manufacturer revealed in a recent blog post […]

With continuous, regular updates and features being added to Facebook Messenger we are now on the cusp of the biggest change yet. Facebook has begun rolling out the ability to send money directly to friends within the app. The feature is currently being trialled in the US, with more regions on the horizon. First-time users […]

It may not have been the biggest service, or the most popular, but it has been announced that as of July 15th PlayStation Mobile will be shutting down. Sony’s gaming app store offered an array of mobile titles to both Android and PS Vita users, but will soon cease to exist. This means that if […]

[alert type=alert-blue]Technical details[/alert] OS BlackBerry OS 10.3 Processor 1.5GHz dual-core Screen 3.5 inches Resolution 720 x 720 pixels Memory 2GB RAM Storage 16GB MicroSD compatible? Yes, up to 128GB Rear camera 8MP rear-facing, 2MP front-facing Video 1080p Connectivity 4G Dimensions 131 x 72.4 x 10.2mm Weight 177g Battery 2,515mAh Ah, BlackBerry. No mobile maker has risen so high […]

Brace yourselves – the news all gaming fans have been waiting (begging) for has finally arrived. Nintendo is to begin making games for mobile. Games. On your mobile phone. Made by the most iconic house in the videogames industry. It almost sounds too good to be true. …In fact it is. Sort of. The truth […]

Ever bought a laptop made by Sony? If you did, there’s a high likelihood that it was a VAIO – just about every laptop made by Sony from 1997 onwards bore that acronym across its case. Around this time last year Sony announced that it was selling the VAIO brand due to dwindling sales, and […]

[alert type=alert-blue]Technical details[/alert] OS Android 4.4.4 KitKat Processor 2.7GHz quad-core Screen 5.6-inches Resolution 1,600 x 2,560 pixels Memory 3GB RAM Storage 32/64GB MicroSD compatible? Yes, up to 128GB Rear camera 16MP Front camera 3.7MP Video 4K @ 60fps Connectivity 4G Dimensions 151.3 x 82.4 x 8.3mm Weight 174g Battery 3,000mAh [alert type=alert-blue]Introduction[/alert] Samsung takes a very […]

We’ve been so inundated with new Angry Birds titles in recent years that it can be hard to keep up. In fact, this latest title has seemingly surfaced from out of nowhere. It isn’t just another spinoff, though – Angry Birds Under Pigstruction is the true sequel that we’ve all been waiting for. The original […]

Of all the smartphone lines that we’d love to see make its way to the UK one day, Lenovo’s Vibe range is right near the top of the pile. We’ve already fawned over the beastly Vibe Z2 Pro before, and the Vibe X2 is equally desirable. Rather than leave us be to wallow in our sadness, […]

There are nerds, and then there are nerds. If you’re on this website, you’d probably consider yourself a bit of a phone nerd – sure. But have you ever considered using Ubuntu before? Do you even know what Ubuntu actually is? Perhaps not, and we certainly don’t blame you. True nerds do though, and we suspect […]

BlackBerry is hanging in there, and it’s got a new device that it hopes will resuscitate its presence within the consumer market. The BlackBerry Leap is its name, and it’s an altogether more conventional device. In recent months we’ve seen both the Passport and the Classic launch to mixed receptions, but the Leap is noticeably […]

We like wireless charging. We’ve written about it on more than one occasion in the past, to say the least, yet still we find it just isn’t that big of a deal. Why is that? One reason could be that, despite what you may want to believe, it isn’t really all that useful. Think about it: if […]

Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge smartphones at Mobile World Congress. The manufacturer took the wraps off the devices in front of a packed auditorium of some 2,000 people at the Centre de Convencions International de Barcelona. They will go on sale from April 10th and initially be available in 20 […]

It is not a stretch to say that the HTC One M8 was our favourite phone of 2014. It picked up five stars in our review, got an Editor’s Choice badge, and also received the Editor’s Choice Award in the 2014 What Mobile Awards. So€¦ No pressure on the sequel, eh? The HTC One M9 […]

Still a relatively new company, Kazam hasn’t exactly gone the right way about promoting its latest smartphone. In fact, the promotion has been banned. The ASA (Advertising Standards Authority), the UK’s regulatory body on adverts, has decided to not allow Kazam’s new promo onto British television screens as it ‘objectifies women’. We put that last […]

Pebble, one of the progenitors of the smartwatch and an all-time great Kickstarter success story, is back with a new product – and it’s breaking even more Kickstarter records along the way. The Pebble Time is Pebble’s first colour display smartwatch. It reached its initial goal of $500,000 in just 17 minutes. It then went […]

We’ve been talking about diversification of Emojis for a while now… for some reason. About seven months ago Unicode Consortium, the Japanese company behind those little emoticons, revealed a potential list of new Emojis. Amongst them was a potential skin colour scale which would see every human Emoji offered up in multiple, ethnically diverse variations. […]

[alert type=alert-blue]Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G[/alert] Now comfortably one of the biggest forces in Asia, Xiaomi has launched its first ever 4G handset to be available in India: the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G. Unlike most handsets released in the subcontinent, the Redmi Note 4G is actually a rather high-end device (at least comparatively speaking). It’s an […]

BlackBerry is on the verge of releasing its latest software update for its mobile devices, and it will contain one of the most important additions in the operating system’s history. All devices running BlackBerry 10.3.1 out of the box will have the Amazon App Store installed by default. This app store grants BB users access […]

Samsung is one of the biggest names in the world when it comes to technology. When it comes to mobile tech, it’s undeniably in the top two (alongside Apple). What sets Samsung apart from Apple, however, is the company’s pedigree in the field. As it turns out, Samsung has been at the forefront of communications […]

The Xiaomi Mi4 is the latest flagship handset from China’s fastest growing manufacturer. It caused quite the disturbance in its homeland upon release, but Xiaomi is clearly keen to keep the hype machine rolling with of this latest video. Instead of a standard drop test or laboratory stress test, Xiaomi has decided to show off the durability of […]

Project Ara is quite possibly the most exciting programme in mobile technology right now, and it only gets more exciting the more we see of it. This latest update has presented us with the first ever working camera module for the device, courtesy of Toshiba. We’ve seen a very early functioning prototype of Project Ara […]

After a failure to launch with the G Watch, followed by a quietly impressive followup in the G Watch R, LG is back with its third Android Wear smartwatch. It’s called the LG Watch Urbane, meaning it’s dropped the serviceable ‘G Watch’ branding in favour of something altogether worse. As questionable as the naming is […]

There are some stories that simply speak for themselves. Sometimes you can’t provide any context or explain anything, and you simply have to let the words (or images) do the talking. This is one such story. At a recent HTC end of year party, CEO Peter Chou and Chairwoman Cher Wang got on stage to […]

[alert type=alert-blue]Technical details[/alert] Price £267 SPECS OS Windows Phone 8.1 Processor 1.2GHz quad-core Screen 5 inches Resolution 720 x 1280 pixels Memory 1GB RAM Storage 16GB Micro SD compatible? Yes, up to 128GB Rear-facing camera 10MP Front-facing camera 0.9MP Video 1080p Connectivity 4G Dimensions 139.4 x 70.7 x 8.5 mm Weight 150g Battery 2,200 mAh […]

[alert type=alert-blue]Technical details[/alert] Price £365 SPECS SPECS Android 4.4 KitKat SPECS 2.3GHz quad-core Screen 5.2 inches Resolution 1080 x 1920 pixels Memory 2GB RAM Storage 16GB Micro SD compatible? Yes Rear-facing camera 13MP Front-facing camera 13MP Video 1080p Connectivity 4G Dimensions 151.7 x 73.8 x 8.5 mm Weight 154g Battery 2,400 mAh [alert type=alert-blue]Introduction[/alert] HTC’s never been quite […]

[alert type=alert-blue]Technical details[/alert] Price £249 SPECS OS Android 4.4 KitKat Processor 1.86GHz quad-core Screen 10.1 inches Resolution 1920 x 1200 pixels Memory 2GB RAM Storage 16GB Micro SD compatible? Yes Camera 8MP rear-facing, 1.6MP front-facing Video 720p Connectivity 4G Dimensions 255 x 183 x 7.2 mm Weight 619g Battery 9,600 mAh [alert type=alert-blue]Introduction[/alert] We’ve seen […]

[alert type=alert-blue]Technical details[/alert] Price £319 SPECS OS Android 5.0 Lollipop Processor 2.3GHz dual-core Screen 8.9 inches Resolution 1536 x 2048 Memory 2GB RAM Storage 16GB/32GB Micro SD compatible? No Rear camera 8MP LED flash Front camera 1.6MP Video 1080p Connectivity Wi-Fi, LTE optional Dimensions 228.2 x 153.7 x 8 mm Weight 425g Battery 6,700 mAh […]

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has been running for a remarkable 47 years, and has seen the likes of the VCR, CD player, plasma TV and Blu-Ray player unveiled to the public for the first time. Frankly, nothing as important as any of those things was unveiled at this year’s show. But we did get […]

A week or so ago images first leaked of a brand new smartwatch made entirely of e-paper. We weren’t sure if they were images of a prototype product or simply computer generated renders, but the appeal was immediately clear. By creating the entire watch of flexible, functional and reasonably cheap e-paper you could have the […]

German engineering is renowned the world over for being sleek, effective and industry-leading, no matter what it’s applied to. Cars, kitchen appliances… chocolate. It’s all good stuff. So how does a German-made smartphone sound? The Linshof i8 is the first to ever be created within the country, and we’re both slightly surprised and extremely pleased […]

This article was originally published on 16th September 2014 Not so long ago we reviewed the Samsung Galaxy K zoom. Almost exactly half digital camera, half smartphone it combined two things we really like to created something we really didn’t. It was too bulky and ugly, and it just didn’t work. But what’s this? A […]

Concerned/aggrieved parents and gamers of the world: rejoice. The Apple has now ceased labelling free-to-play games as ‘Free’ within the iOS App Store. As of today the download button reads ‘Get’. You can probably guess the reason why. Mounting pressure from the European Union combined with what seems like weekly horror stories from parents with […]

There’s no denying that the biggest story for a good while broke yesterday, when Nokia revealed its new Android tablet the N1. No one could have seen that coming. Except for one company perhaps: fellow Finnish tech-team Jolla. Today Jolla put a new crowdfunded project up on Indiegogo. At the time of writing this article, […]

We’re going to level with you: despite spending all day everyday obsessing over the mobile industry and working hard to bring you all the news that’s fit to consume… we don’t have a clue what’s going on at Nokia. We thought we did, but we don’t. There’s no use in pretending. Just when it looked […]

One of the big draws of Apple’s devices is how nicely they play with one another. With the release of its latest desktop operating system, OSX Yosemite, Apple has made the collaboration between your various devices more fluid and seamless than ever. iOS may come under criticism for its closed nature compared to Android, and […]

One of the biggest faults of the Android operating system is the market fragmentation. Buy an iPhone? Then you know you’re gonna get the latest iOS update. But with Android? Who knows when you’ll get that latest update. Android 5.0 Lollipop is the latest update from the Google team, and one of the biggest in […]

It’s funny, in a rather cruelly ironic sense, that despite no individual Android Wear smartwatch impressing all that much they’re actually capable of some rather impressive things. Silly, impressive things, such as running a full version of Microsoft’s Windows 95 operating system. Is there any need for it? Of course not. Is it kinda cool? […]

There’s a few things you could have told us in the year 2000 about the year 2014 that we’d struggle to believe: that the USA would have a black president; that Manchester City would be reigning Premier League Champions; that the dad from Malcolm in the Middle would be one of the hottest properties in […]

Apple catches a lot of flak (perhaps rightly so) for its overtly insular ecosystem. The upside is that you get a lovely co-operative operating system in iOS which plays nice with all of your other Apple products. One major downside, however, is that there can be unforeseen consequences when it comes to attempting to leave […]

An operation started by the FBI in 2012 is beginning to come to fruition. The target was Android app pirates, a market which had never actually seen a prosecution before despite costing the app industry millions of dollars every year. Assisted by the French and Dutch police the FBI took down three illegal Android app […]

WhatsApp, the most popular mobile instant messaging service in the world, has recently changed. It’s nothing to do with the introduction of iOS 8 or even Android L. In fact, it’s not really to do with any external factor – the change is actually rather minor. You may (or more likely may not) have recently noticed […]

It was no surprise that the launch of Apple’s iPad Air 2 was the tablet event of 2014 – this is to be expected whenever Apple reveals a new device. It may have only taken place a few weeks ago, but already we may have a rival for hottest tablet of the year. At least […]

Ninety-four thousand: that was the number of votes we received for the What Mobile Awards 2014, almost double our highest ever tally. The votes were placed by you, the reader. You voted on everything from the best handset of the year to the top accessory retailer, and we’re very glad you did. Choosing between them […]

Jawbone, the creators of What Mobile favourite the UP24, is back with two new wearable trackers. One is a low-cost fitness-oriented tracker, whilst the other is a fully-fledged sequel to the aforementioned Jawbone UP24. Let’s start with the exciting one, shall we? The Jawbone UP3 is, as you may have suspected, the third edition of […]

Even if the Motorola Moto 360 didn’t quite live up to the highest of expectations when it came to delivering a comprehensive smartwatch experience, we should all be eternally grateful that it alleviated the collective standards of what a smartwatch should look like. The Moto 360 was universally praised for its conventional, subtle good looks. […]

When the Phonebloks project was first announced it was met with a great deal of excitement. Then, a fair deal of derision as a ‘modular phone’ was deemed to be nearly impossible to make. Then, Google decided to take Phonebloks team and make its idea a reality, and we all went back to being very, […]

We’re gonna cut straight to the point: Not only is the new Oppo R5 insanely skinny enough to be called the world’s thinnest smartphone, but it’s also a remarkably good smartphone. Whoever the engineers are at Oppo they’ve put the rest of the industry to shame by managing to cram such incredible specifications in to […]

It’s been a while since we reviewed the Fitbit Flex (spoiler alert: we liked it), so it’s with a great deal of excitement that we get to take a look at the company’s latest offering – the Fitbit Surge. Fitbit’s successor to the Flex, the Force, is still yet to see a release within the […]

Amongst all the hype surrounding Apple’s latest ventures like iOS8, Apple Pay and the Apple Watch, somehow one major creation has gone largely neglected: Apple CarPlay. As you may have sussed from the name it’s Apple’s attempt at an in-car operating system. One central command unit from which you can access all of the features […]

Amazon may be the seventh most visited website on the entire internet and the undisputed king of online retailing, but it was powerless to stop a surprising $1 billion loss for the third quarter of 2014. What’s slightly less surprising is one of the key reasons for that loss: the Amazon Fire Phone. To say […]

Android Wear may not have quite taken off in the way that Google would have hoped in the four months since its launch, but the company isn’t sitting around complaining about it. It’s working hard on rolling out new features to the device to make it a little more appealing. And what new features would […]

Just how serious are you about unlocking your phone? Or about biometrics? You think that using your fingerprint to unlock your iPhone is cool? You’re a casual, get the hell out of here – this guy loves connectivity so much that he went and got an NFC chip implanted in his hand. It may sound dumb, […]

This article was originally published on 11/09/14 Leaked documents (see above) from within the Microsoft camp have revealed that the company plans to drop the ‘Nokia’ branding from its Lumia line of handsets. When the American tech powerhouse purchased the Nokia mobile brand a year ago, it was suspected that the change would come at […]

This article was originally posted on 08/08/14 As you surely all know by now, the Xbox One is more than just a top-of-the-line games console, it also serves an an entertainment centre. With the variety of apps available, plus its outstanding connectivity, it’s meant to be the device to retire everything else sat around your […]

You don’t have to be a core Android user to know that each different version of Google’s mobile operating system contains an Easter egg. It’s always particularly easy to find as it stays in the exact same place every year. You simply head on over to the Settings menu, tap on About Phone, and there […]

Hands up, how many of you play games on your smartphone? Ah, yes, everyone. Of course. Now, how many of you play games online against other people on your smartphone? Considerably less, we’d be willing to wager. But what if there was a way to make the online mobile gaming experience a little less impersonal? […]

Apple just can’t let Google have any fun can they? Just a day after the new Google Nexus 9 tablet was unveiled, the latest and best iPad has been shown off to the world for the first time. The iPad Air 2 is the world’s thinnest tablet, or so says Apple Senior VP of Global […]

Surprise! Google has launched its new Nexus range! We knew it was coming soon, just not that soon. Still, we’re not complaining – the whole Nexus range is wildly popular, with many Android fans waiting for these latest iterations to drop before deciding to upgrade. The Nexus 9 is Google’s tablet offering, and it looks to […]

It’s getting to the point where we’re actually getting accustomed to Vertu’s decadent brand of madness. There’s only so many times you can release multi-thousand pound phones made of unicorn skin before we simply get desensitised. That said, this new handset is a slightly different type of ridiculous. The Vertu for Bentley has a price […]

It seems that when it comes to really pushing the physical limits of the smartphone you may want to look slightly further abreast of the usual big names like Samsung and Sony. Recently we’ve seen the release of the Gionee Elife 5.5 – currently the world’s slimmest smartphone this was an Indian brand offering a […]

You may have heard already, but the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are now available. Well, ‘available’ if you’re fortunate enough to live in high-priority regions like the UK, the USA or Australia. There’s still a huge number of other major nations which have had to wait. Worse than the waiting, though, is the not […]

Apple may be one of the world’s largest companies, but it’s always had its fair share of detractors. We would never have guessed that the Prime Minister of Finland was one, though. Alexander Stubb said on Monday that, “We have two champions which went down. A little bit paradoxically I guess one could say that the […]

In a bid to both keep DVDs relevant and to boost its waning BlinkBox service, Tesco has announced that every physical film purchase from one of its stores will be accompanied with a free digital version. This applies for both DVDs and Blu-Rays, and works thanks to BlinkBox and cloud service Ultraviolet. When you purchase […]

Just when we thought Microsoft was going all-out with its hardware agenda, it’s managed to surprise us with a little of what it does best. It turns out that it’s working on some software for Android Wear, Google’s wearable device OS. Still at the prototype stage, Microsoft has called its new app Analog Keyboard. It […]

Good news for the extremely important or extremely paranoid (or both): Blackphone is creating a tablet. The company released its first mainstream device earlier this year, the Blackphone BP1. It runs on a proprietary operating system called PrivatOS, with everything geared to be as unhackable, untraceable and generally as secure as possible. “We are in […]

What do you look for in a tablet/laptop hybrid? Great design? A slim form-factor? Performance? Creative input from Two and a Half Men star Ashton Kutcher? Well, you’ve certainly got some oddly specific tastes, but as it should happen we have just the device for you. The Lenovo Yoga 3 is here, and at a […]

Chances are you don’t care all that much about your smartphone’s voice-assisted service. It’s sad to say, but it’s true – people just don’t spend that much time sat around talking to the artificial intelligence inside their handset. These services certainly have their uses, but the majority of us see them more as an amusing […]

Could life be any sweeter as a OnePlus One owner? Not only are you fortunate enough to have one of the most exclusive, and best, Android handsets on the market, but now this: there’s a major update headed to your handset. Entitled CM11S (83R) (catchy, we know) it should be rolling out right about now, […]

It’s been a pretty great year for HTC so far in terms of devices. In fact, the HTC One M8 is still our favourite handset of 2014. Unfortunately, it seems like the one thing it definitely won’t be releasing this year is a great smartwatch to go with it. HTC’s Head of Americas Jason Mackenzie (pictured, […]

Samsung Electronics has predicted a 60% fall in profits for the third quarter of 2014 compared to Q3 2013. The Korean monolith has stated that it expects operating profits of ‚©4.1 trillion (£2.5 billion) for the period of July to September’s end. This is considerably lower than the ‚©5.2 trillion (£3 billion) analysts previously predicted. Despite […]

John Legere has done it again. The T-Mobile CEO has never exactly been afraid to speak his mind, and as such has offered up some very frank views on what has been dubbed ‘bendgate’. During an on-stage interview at the GeekWire Summit 2014 tech conference, one of Legere’s interviewers brought up that Legere had an […]

You know that famous internet fact about how a modern Microsoft Word file wouldn’t fit on a traditional floppy disk? It’s so interesting because it’s hard to believe just how rapidly computing technology advances. What we have here is something along the lines of the next step in the evolution of that fact. It turns […]

Ever paid for Wi-Fi at a hotel before? It’s not pretty – not only can the process be rather time consuming and poorly plotted, but more often than not it’ll cost you an absolute fortune. If you’re a frequent flier, it can make more sense to purchase a personal Wi-Fi hub or dongle. With these, […]

Reviewed on Xbox One There was a time when you would fall in to one of two camps: FIFA or Pro Evolution Soccer. That time is long since passed. Sadly, Pro Evo hasn’t been relevant since a few years into the shelf life of last generation’s consoles, as the unstoppable money machine at EA actually […]

Cloud computing is rapidly expanding, and one of the greatest developments the advancement of this technology has brought us is iCloud. The thing is, it’s not necessarily the ability to save files and data to some magic, ethereal storage space that’s the most impressive thing about iCloud (although that’s definitely pretty cool). Most iOS users […]

Remember when the Pebble smartwatch first launched? We don’t blame you if you can’t – January 2013 was an awfully long time ago, particularly in the world of wearable tech. It can be hard to stay relevant, particularly when you’re a comparative minnow. The Apple Watch may have been announced last month, but Pebble isn’t […]

iOS 8 users be warned – there’s a pretty serious fault in Apple’s operating system that could potentially leave you very upset. It turns out that a usually standard, harmless option within your iPhone or iPad’s settings menu can lead to the irreversible deletion of some of your most important documents. The option in question […]

[alert type=alert-blue]Technical details[/alert] Price: From £639.99 Specs OS Windows 8.1 Processor 1.5GHz Intel core i3/2.9GHz Intel core i5/3.7GHz Intel core i7 Screen 12 inches Resolution 2160 x 1440 pixels Memory 4GB/8GB RAM Storage 64GB/128GB/256GB/512GB Micro SD compatible? Yes, up to 128GB Camera 5MP rear-facing, 5MP front-facing Video 1080p Connectivity Wi-Fi only Dimensions 292.1mm x 201.4mm x […]

Welcome to the world of tomorrow: you can now use your mobile phone on an aeroplane, from gate to gate, start to finish. If you live in Europe, that is. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has permitted smartphones to be safe for use for the entire duration of flight, even at take-off and landing. […]

The iPhone 6 has been a huge success at launch, with over 10 million devices ordered. iOS 8 has proved popular with a 50% adoption within the first week. What’s not gone down so well is Apple’s first update to its latest operating system version. The iOS 8.0.1 update has been pulled after a flood […]

Remember when Google made you start using your real-life name on your Google account? Remember how much you, and everybody else, hated that? Google doesn’t. At least, that’s the only conclusion we can draw from an upcoming change to the terms and conditions of the Google Play Store. This change will mean that any and all app […]

When releasing a new flagship handset, every manufacturer’s priority should be making it faster than its predecessor – and it usually is. Apple take a bit of stick for not necessarily putting processing power at the top of its to-do list, but iPhones are so well optimised they are usually greater than the sum of […]

Attention Nintendo 3DS and 2DS owners: stop whatever you’re doing right now and head on over to the Nintendo eShop. The Super Smash Bros. demo is now live. It’s unquestionably the release of the year for Nintendo’s handheld – in fact it’s probably the title that will make or break the platform all-together, and you can […]

Frequenters of What Mobile will know how pleased we were with the Samsung Galaxy Alpha. Ordinarily Samsung churning out an identikit device would make us roll our eyes with apathy, but this one was different. The Alpha actually looked great. And it wasn’t made of plastic, either. Had Samsung managed to turn a corner in […]

How much would you pay for a book? £1.99 from your local second hand store? £11.99 for a premium best-selling hardback from a high-street chain? How about £229? That’s the price of Amazon’s fully-specced, top-of-the-line new e-reader. The Kindle Voyage is its name, and the company which revolutionised reading obviously feels that there’s a market […]

Moto Maker was a privilege previously reserved only for those lucky enough to be born in the US of A. Motorola’s customisation suite has now landed in the UK, though, and it’s a tonne of fun. A bit like how Nike ID lets you create customised sneakers, Moto Maker lets you do the same for […]

The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus may not be available for another day yet, but Apple has decided to spoil us by releasing iOS 8 a day early. This latest version of the iPhone and iPad operating system is compatible and available to download on the following devices: iPhone 4S iPhone 5 iPhone 5S […]