British mobile manufacturer Kazam is to launch three new phone ranges, including the company’s first 4G LTE-enabled device. The Kazam Thunder2  range will launch at the beginning of the second quarter of this year and include  the Kazam Thunder2  4.5L – the aforementioned 4G LTE-enabled phone – and  a five-inch model, the Kazam Thunder2  5.0. […]

How much would you pay to never lose your keys again? Would you pay $30? Because that’s what Nokia is charging for their new gadget, the Treasure Tag. In a first for a phone manufacturer, Nokia’s NFC/Bluetooth combo device will function solely with with Lumia smartphone handsets. Simply attach the small, colourful device to your […]

Mobile instant messaging service WhatsApp has today been purchased by Facebook for an eye-watering $19 billion. Founded in 2009 by former Yahoo! employees Brian Acton and Jan Koum (also CEO) WhatsApp found one hell of a niche in the mobile instant messaging market. The fact that their service was available cross-network and cross-platform meant that […]

Developer Bethesda has today announced that  Wolfenstein: The New Order  has a UK release date of 23 May on  Xbox One,  PS4, PC and older consoles. The company has also revealed that those who pre-order the game will get exclusive access to Doom beta, consequently confirming that  Doom 4  is very much still in development. […]

In a bid to stand out amongst the jam-packed Chinese smartphone marketplace, Indian manufacturer Gionee has created the world’s thinnest smartphone. The Gionee Elife S5.5 measures in at 5.5mm (makes sense). For comparison, the iPhone is almost 50% thicker at 7.6mm. As far as gimmicks go it’s probably the most practical, and there’s few people […]

Today’s ICYMI looks at the Samsung Galaxy S5’s confirmed fingerprint scanner, PS4 selling over 5 million units, and China spends over $1.6 trillion via mobile.

Product announcements are becoming a regular feature in the run-up to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in just under a week from now. Not to be outdone by its rivals, Chinese manufacturer ZTE has announced that it will unveil two new devices at the event. The products in question include the ZTE Grand Memo […]

China witnessed 1.67 billion mobile payment transactions last year worth an incredible 9.64 trillion Chinese Yen (CNY) ($1.6 trillion), according to the People’s Bank of China. In an indication of the booming popularity of mobile payments in China, the number of transactions soared 213 percent year-on-year while the transaction value leaped by 317 percent. Mobile […]

If you didn’t spend all of this weekend playing the freshly-released beta trial for Titanfall, then congratulations on your self-restraint/positive life choice decision making. The rest of us  though, were thoroughly engrossed. If you cannot afford to read any further than the end of this sentence (again, an excellent life choice) just know this: Titanfall […]

If you live in the North or West of London, we’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that you’ll soon have free Wi-Fi hotspots installed across your borough! Hooray! The bad news is that you’ll only be able to use 30 minutes of it every day. Boo! Still, this […]

Apple’s mergers and acquisitions department has been very busy over the past 18 months, snapping up everything from startups to search engines across the globe. The company, however, is also interested in other – relatively untapped – sectors for consumer electronics manufacturers such as cars and medical devices, according to SFGate. Rumours suggest that  the […]

It seems that smartphones and tablets have a long way to go before they impact TV viewing habits in the UK, with the average Briton watching less than three minutes a day on mobile devices. The average UK viewer watched three hours and 55 minutes of TV per day last year, according to industry figures, […]

Is Samsung preparing to enter the health and fitness tracking arena alongside Nike, Adidas and Jawbone? That seems to be the case according to a tweet from mysterious gadget leaker evleaks. See below: Samsung is working on a device codenamed K Sport. — @evleaks (@evleaks) February 14, 2014 Although the tweet is low on on […]

Workaholic iPad owners could only have a few short months left for the app that they’ve surely been waiting for. Microsoft Office could be released as early as June this year. Microsoft’s Office brand is the  office suite, reportedly used by over one billion people worldwide. Yes, there have been many imitators available for the […]

Blackberry could join Apple in the 64-bit smartphone club by releasing its own device later this month. The mystery smartphone will apparently come with a 64-bit octa-core processor, which matches up with previous rumours of an eight-core Snapdragon MSM8994 chip being used. An Adreno 430 GPU and 4GB of RAM are also on the cards […]

Steel Diver: Sub Wars is the first Nintendo free-to-play title to be released on the 3DS eShop. During yesterday’s  Nintendo Direct livestream, the company also announced  Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball, a mini-game collection that will let players  haggle  over the price of DLC expansions. Could this mark Ninetendo’s first cautionary steps toward mobile gaming? Despite […]

From  April onwards, classic Game Boy Advance games will be available in the Wii U eShop. Nintendo have announced that this Spring popular titles like Metroid Fusion, Yoshi’s Island: Super Mario Advance 3 and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. A great list which is sure to get gamers excited, but once again Japan have got […]

The mobile communications app Viber has been acquired by Ratuken, the Japanese version of Amazon, for $900 million ( £540 million). Viber is one of Skype’s biggest rivals with over 300 million users worldwide. The app was the first to introduce 3G VoIP  on the iPhone and allows users to call  all any land-line or […]

Gamers in the United States spent $15.39 billion on games in 2013, up by 1 percent from 2012, according to new research published by the NPD Group. Digital content (full-game sales, DLC, subscriptions, mobile games, and social network games) made up the lion’s share of that amount, accounting for $7.22 billion. This strong growth for […]

2013 will be forever remembered as the first time smartphone shipments broke the billion barrier worldwide. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given its broad developmental and commercial uptake, Android was the operating system of the vast majority of those sales. Approximately 793.6 million Android phones were shipped, forming a 78.6% market share. Equally unsurprisingly, iOS was a strong […]

Apple’s next-gen TV streaming box could debut in April and be made available for retail by December. The new device, which plugs into a television set, will have a faster processor than the previous version and an upgraded interface to make it easier for customers to navigate between TV shows, movies and other online content. […]

LG have finally released their successor to 2013’s G Pro, the inventively-titled LG G Pro 2. The colossal phablet boasts bigger figures in just about every department. The 5.9 inch display is sure to be as divisive as ever, but phablet fans will no doubt love it – particularly when they take a butcher’s at […]

This is the exact reason the iPhone 5c was conceived. And this is the exact opposite of the effect Apple would have hoped it would have. Figures have shown that in 2013 Samsung was China’s most popular smartphone manufacturer, whilst Apple could only crack the number five spot on the list of the world’s biggest […]

Yesterday we reported that the Nokia Android phone could be revealed this month. Today we’re hearing that more handsets from the company using Google’s OS could be inbound. Tech.qq has allegedly been tipped that other Androids will follow the phone, including higher-end models. However these new phones will apparently be revealed in May – June, […]

The nominations for the 2014 Game BAFTA awards has been announced, with Naughty Dog’s The Last Of Us leading the way. The PS3 exclusive racked up 10 seperate nominations, including Best Game and Performer for both Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson’s parts. Grand Theft Auto V follows closely behind with nine nods. Surprisingly, it’s Tearaway […]

Smartphone uptake in the US continues to rise with 65 percent of all Americans now in possession of at lease one of the devices. According to consumer research firm Nielsen, smartphones are now more common than game consoles (46 percent) and digital cable (54 percent). The figures published in the firm’s most recent Digital Consumer […]

Today’s news round-up video includes talk of the possible release date of Nokia’s new Android phone, Virgin Atlantic’s trial of Google Glass at Heathrow airport, and the US release of the PS Vita Slim.

Microsoft’s Surface Pro 2 has been cleared for use in airline cockpits in the US by the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA). The device now joins the Apple iPad on the FAA’s list of approved pilot EFBs (Electronic Flight Bags) for use in all phases of flight. Apple’s popular tablet is already in use by American […]

Reports are suggesting that Nokia will unveil their brand new Android-powered smartphone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later this month. Currently known as ‘Normandy’, but expected to be named the Nokia X upon launch, Nokia’s first Android phone will use a modified ‘forked’ version of Google’s popular OS. Previous Nokia smartphones have all […]

The tech industry’s big Oscars-style awards event the Crunchies took place in San Francisco last night and the big mobile winners included Snapchat, Tinder and Candy Crush Saga. The ephemeral photo app Snapchat, which is rumoured to be valued at over $3 billion ( £1.8 billion), managed to nab the Best Mobile App award despite […]

Sony has made a few big announcements for the PS Vita today, confirming the slim model for US release and dating two of its upcoming games. The new PS Vita is due to arrive in the US this spring. It’s 20 percent thinner and 15 percent lighter than the original version, although it doesn’t pack […]

Virgin Atlantic  is equipping  some of its concierge staff with  Google Glass  at London’s Heathrow airport in an effort to customise its customer service. Virgin is testing Google Glass for a six-week trial period during which it  will be used to take  Upper Class  passengers through the check-in process. Additionally, it will also allow staff […]

Batman: Arkham Origins’ developer Warner Bros. Games Montreal has stated that it does not plan to address the game-breaking bugs plaguing the title. Instead, the developer is busy creating a DLC for the game’s story mode. Batman: Arkham Origins has suffered from numerous minor bugs since its release, but also game breaking bugs  like corrupted […]

Reports have surfaced that iOS 7.1 could be scheduled for a March release. It will be the first major update for Apple’s latest mobile operating system. Users shouldn’t expect too much out of it though, as most of the changes will be taking place under the hood through a variety of minor bug fixes and […]

EA’s FIFA 14 has regained the top spot in the weekly UK video game charts, having been topped by Tomb Raider last week. Following up in second place is Call of Duty: Ghosts. One of the few new releases this week, Fable: Anniversary, came in third, with Tomb Raider falling back to fourth. Other than […]

Deutsche Telekom has bought the remaining parts of T-Mobile’s Czech Republic division in a deal reportedly worth $800 million euros ( £665 million). The German telecom operator acquired the outstanding 40 per cent stake in  T-Mobile  from investors Mid Europa Partners and Al Ain. The deal forms part of Deutsche Telekom’s  plan to offer an […]

The creator of iOS game Flappy Bird has removed his creation from the App store. Developer Dong Nguyen removed the popular app without much in the way of an explanation. “I am sorry ‘Flappy Bird’ users, 22 hours from now, I will take ‘Flappy Bird’ down. I cannot take this anymore,” Ngyuen posted on Twitter. […]

Today’s video looks at the rumours surrounding the launch of Google’s Nexus 8 phablet, Apple’s decision to go bitcoin free, and EA Sports disappoints Xbox One and Playstation 4 users by restricting Fifa World Cup Brazil to the Xbox 360 and PS3.

Samsung has announced black editions of both its flagship Galaxy S4 and smaller S4 Mini. Both phones retain the same spec sheet but now boast a leather-like dark backing and bezel. Also built-in are eight new wallpapers and new ringtones. The S4’s traditional colour is white, though this . We’re expecting the Galaxy S5 to […]

German airline Lufthansa has added a mobile phone service to its long haul flights that allows users to text and browse the web while on the move. The airline has already introduced mobile connectivity on eight of its planes flying between Munich and Frankfurt and North America and the Middle East, and it expects to […]

The day that a million RPG purists have been waiting for is finally at hand – Final Fantasy VI is now available on the Apple iOS App Store. Whilst this may not be particularly surprising, as Square Enix has already brought the preceding five titles to Apple’s handheld devices, it’s arguably the most important release […]

The Nexus 8, a device that’s been rumored since the end of last year, could be arriving at the end of April. DigiTimes is reporting as much. The outlet cites Taiwan-based sources in saying that the Nexus 8 will launch towads the back end of Aprill following unsatisfactory sales of the 2013 Nexus 7. Also […]

Zombie survival game The Last of Us was the big winner at the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences annual D.I.C.E. awards, taking 10 prizes including the coveted game of the year award. Other award winners on the night included Grand Theft Auto 5, Bioshock Infinite and Fifa 14.  Mobile game of the year went […]

They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity, so it would be interesting to be a fly on the wall in HTC’s head offices right now. Yet another leak of their upcoming flagship smartphone (at this stage named the ‘M8’) has hit Twitter – this time providing a first look of the device’s homescreen. […]

Today’s video looks at Sony’s potential decision to sell its PC division, Samsung’s UK NotePRO 12.2 launch, and Apple’s mysterious new wireless charging patent.

A new landline phone launched by BT in the UK contains the Android operating system. The handset known as the Home Smartphone S comes with a 3.5 inch touchscreen and uses wi-fi to connect to your internet router to allow users to access all the features of a smartphone – including web browsing, apps and […]

KnowRoaming’s kickstarted international SIM stickers have now been shipped to its first 500 backers. The product is designed to help travellers better understand roaming fees, as well as dramatically reduce them. Customers need only apply the small sticker to their SIM card using the bundled applicator and download the KnowRoaming app. Once abroad the sticker […]

If you look at this week’s cinema releaes you might think that the future of law enforcement is cyborg police officers. In reality, it might be Google Glass. The New York Police Department is testing out Google’s wearable device for work. Apparently the force has already purchased ‘a few pairs’ of the specs. They’re being […]

If you’re using an Android handset at the moment chances are it’s running version 4.2, dubbed Jelly Bean. But did you know there’s a new update for the operating system? Named Android 4.4 KitKat, the latest version of Google’s software is designed to optimise your phone/tablet’s performance and add a host of new features. So […]

Motorola have announced a price cut to their latest smartphone, with the moto G now costing just £100 when bought with a £10 pay-as-you-go top up. The moto G dropped in the UK in November of last year at what was already a thoroughly reasonable £135 for the 8GB model, but in an effort to […]