Tag Archives: phone

Relativity Research has created a new smartwatch which requires no smartphone to function, and can be used as a stand-alone wrist worn wearable phone thanks to the included SIM slot. As you can see from the image above the team have taken inspiration for the styling from a popular brand, …

The Nokia 150 is the first mobile phone as part of the partnership between Nokia and HMD, although this is a budget mobile phone and not the new Nokia Android smartphones everyone is interested in. This new Nokia mobile phone comes with a 2.4 inch display and an FM radio, …

There are more than 45,000 phone boxes in the UK but BT is planning to remove a third of them. But it’s not just phone calls that these red boxes are used for.

India is one of the fastest growing mobile phone markets in the world. But it’s also a country with more than twenty languages and hundreds more dialects. So how can smartphone makers engage such a diverse market? Sameer Hashmi went to find out.

T-Mobile’s pitch is simple, “We’re dragging the phone number into the internet age.” The actual functionality is a bit trickier, which is why the carrier looked to do a little bit of analyst handholding and a consumer Twitter QA (at 10:30AM PT today) ahead of launch. The underlying idea is to tie …

Google is rolling out a pilot program today that introduces a new way to pay cashiers — and it involves leaving your phone in your pocket. It’s called Hands Free, and it’s a way to basically connect your phone with a point of sales system using the sensors on your …

Earlier this year, Google announced its plans to bring Android Auto, its phone-centric in-car infotainment platform, “to every car” by launching it as a stand-alone Android app, too. It’s taken a while, but the company today launched an update to the Android Auto app for — well — Android that …

Lebara Mobile has today announced its new Lebara Plus scheme, which gives its customers an extra 2GB of data or credit worth up to $20 – if you agree to see advertisements and “special deals” every time you unlock your phone. While there is no minimum time limit, this offer only applies to …

Microsoft has joined up another piece of its Windows 8/Windows Phone 8 puzzle by launching a SkyDrive app for the Xbox 360 — allowing users of its cloud storage service to view and access content via the Xbox. The news was announced in a post on Microsoft’s Inside SkyDrive blog. Microsoft …