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Android users more frisky on a first date while Blackberry fans hit the bottle

February 2nd, 2012 10:30am No comments

Android users more frisky on a first date while Blackberry fans hit the bottle

According to a fabulously pointless new survey, users of Android phones are supposedly more likely to have sex on a first date and embark on more one-night stands than owners of other smartphones.

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How big is that thing in your pocket? Nifty website lets you compare phone sizes

January 27th, 2012 10:21am No comments

How big is the thing in your pocket? Nifty website lets you compare phone sizes

If you’re not sure if that latest phone is going slip discretely into your pocket or leave you with an unwanted trouser bulge, this handy new site lets you compare relative proportions of different smartphones.

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Ghastly Porsche Design P’9981 BlackBerry goes on sale at Harrods for £1,275

December 29th, 2011 5:22pm No comments

Ghastly Porsche Design P’9981 BlackBerry goes on sale at Harrods for £1,275

The Porsche Design BlackBerry P’9981 designer smartphone has just been priced up for the UK, and it comes with a price tag every bit as ridiculous as its uber-macho, all-metal design.

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Android hold on to dominant share, HTC and Samsung creeping up on Apple: Millennial research

November 22nd, 2011 11:20am No comments

Android hold on to dominant share, HTC and Samsung creeping up on Apple

New figures from mobile ad analysts Millennial Media show Android remaining king of the smartphone OSs, hogging a hefty 56 per cent global share – double the share of its nearest rival, Apple’s iOS, who only have 28 per cent.

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Surprisingly amusing AT&T Blackberry Torch video promo goes viral

November 9th, 2011 10:30am No comments

Surprisingly amusing AT&T Blackberry Torch video promo goes viral

We don’t usually associate AT&T and Blackberry with the concepts of ‘fun’ and ‘amusing promos,’ but their new video for the Blackberry Torch smartphone actually managed to raise a smile in the battle-hardened offices of Wirefresh.

It seems to be striking a chord with others too, with the video rapidly gaining ‘vital’ status online.

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Brits go crazy for Android as iPhone market share crashes

October 31st, 2011 3:00pm No comments

Brits go crazy for Android as iPhone market share crashes

New research has revealed that the UK is feeling the Google Android love, with the OS running on over half of all smartphones sold – a hefty 100% increase in market share from a year ago.

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Porsche Design P’9981 BlackBerry Por Homme – a beastly macho design stuck on a Blackberry

October 27th, 2011 3:22pm No comments

Porsche Design P'9981 BlackBerry Por Homme - beastly macho design stuck on a Blackberry

Cover your eyes! It’s the new Porsche Design P’9981 Smartphone from BlackBerry, a hideous slab of Top Gear-esque macho design that truly is a beast to behold.

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Blackberry boss gets grovelling with video apology for rubbish service [video]

October 13th, 2011 1:59pm No comments

Blackberry boss gets grovelling with video apology for rubbish service

There’s large servings of Blackberry-flavoured humble pie being served up right now, with Research In Motion founder Mike Lazaridis forced to release a public apology to BlackBerry subscribers about the major service outage that is now entering its fourth day.

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Users fume as Blackberry borkage goes into third day

October 12th, 2011 12:13pm 2 comments

Users fume as Blackberry outage goes into third day

RIM are struggling enough as it is, but things have been going from bad to worse for the Canadian company as millions of BlackBerry users now go into their third day of being unable to access the internet on their handsets.

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Poll: Samsung Galaxy S2 the most lustworthy phone of all, twice as desirable as iPhone 4

September 23rd, 2011 12:54pm No comments

Poll: Samsung Galaxy S2 the most lustworthy phone of all, twice as desirable iPhone 4Phone

Tech site TechRadar conducted a poll amongst  its readers to find out which phones were causing the maximum moistening of gussests – and the Samsung Galaxy S2 emerged triumphant, bagging more than double the votes of Apple’s iconic iPhone 4.

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Android rules the US smartphone market; Samsung the #1 mobile brand

August 31st, 2011 11:04am No comments

Android rules the US smartphone market; Samsung the #1 mobile brand

A study by stat-juggling spods comScore has found that Google Android remains on an unstoppable trajectory in the States, with their smartphone market share reaching 41.8 per cent – a huge rise from the 36.4 per cent  share it held in April this year.

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Samsung introduces ChatON cross-platform messaging service

August 29th, 2011 10:56am No comments

Samsung introduce ChatON cross-platform messaging service

After seeing Apple totally rip off Blackberry Messenger, Samsung has decided to get in on the act too, announcing their new me-too free messaging service called ChatON.

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Gartner slaps iPhone off top spot and declares Nokia the #1 smartphone vendor, with Android still the top OS

August 11th, 2011 3:56pm No comments

Gartner slaps iPhone off top spot and declares Nokia the #1 smartphone vendor, with Android still the top OS

Recent reports from Nielsen, Strategy Analytics and IDC all placed Apple at the top of global smartphone vendor list, based on their second-quarter smartphone sales, but UK based stats firm Gartner is having none of it, declaring Symbian to the sultans of smartphone sales.

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Mobile gaming by numbers: 81% of all downloads are free, Angry Birds rake it in [infographic]

August 3rd, 2011 3:30pm No comments

The busy folks at Geekaphone – an online resource for the mobile industry – have been ticking boxes, totting up totals and compiling lists, with the results being slapped together in a neat infographic.

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Samsung Galaxy S II outsells the iPhone 4 for three months in a row in the UK

August 2nd, 2011 1:21pm No comments

Samsung Galaxy S II outsells the iPhone 4 for three months in a row in the UK

The dual core Samsung Galaxy S II continues to be Britain’s most popular smartphone, once again outselling the Apple iPhone 4, according to new figures from uSwitch Mobile Tracker.

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