Nostalgia can evoke wonderful feelings when it stems from childhood homes revisited, 8mm home movies rewatched or old friends reunited. But it’s altogether disconcerting when it’s induced by a brand new mobile phone. Such is the experience of using BlackBerry’s brand-new-yet-all-too-familiar
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Now this is a handy little device! If you have to keep track of your business mileage for tax purposes, you’ll know what an inconvenience it is having to enter the details into a logbook every time you go anywhere. The GPS Log Book is an ingenious product that automates the process
Soon the Nokia name will vanish from high-end devices. Nokia has sold the Lumia and Asha trademarks to Microsoft as part of their €5,4bn deal, announced on Tuesday, but Nokia’s name will vanish from smartphones. Curiously, Microsoft will continue
Would you do more exercise if you could tell how much you’d already done on any given day and had set a goal you hadn’t yet reached? With its range of personal activity monitors, US-based Fitbit’s banking on the answer being “yes”. Of course, so, too, are Nike, Jawbone
It must be tough being LG Electronics sometimes. Despite building excellent appliances, televisions and mobile devices, the biggest name in electronics from Korea remains its main rival, Samsung. LG remains intent on outdoing Samsung, even if that means mimicry combined
China’s fast-growing Huawei — it’s pronounced wha-way — is better known for its network gear than its consumer devices. The company has been making Android-powered budget smartphones for a number of years, but it’s never managed to take on the big names at the top end of the market
The star of the compact action video camera market is undoubtedly GoPro and its Hero range, but competition is hotting up and Drift Innovation wants a piece of the action with its new HD Ghost, which offers a built-in display, remote control and rotating lens. The HD
The Titan shock- and water-resistant Android-powered Rugged Phone has been designed for the toughest conditions a mobile phone is ever likely to encounter, and it certainly looks the part. It doesn’t offer the latest and greatest in smartphone specifications, but it’ll probably survive an adventure
Huawei’s smartphone strategy is clear: cheap, Android-powered handsets made to look higher end than the hardware they contain and targeted at the budget conscious and first-time smartphone buyers. The Ascend G510 fits this mould perfectly. The first thing you’ll notice
It’s often the case that the bigger and more successful the company, the more difficult it is to innovate because of the number of conflicting agendas at play. The creative team may be wanting to push boundaries, but with executives watching the bottom line, left-field ideas often live and die on the drawing board