Mobile

Nokia are going to release a new smartphone with 48 days standby battery life, costing only $99. The Asha 501 will be shipping with a 1200 mAh battery which will allow for 17 hours of straight talk time and 56 hours of music playback before a recharge. They will supply …

Looking at people while you talk to them is a dubious pleasure. A quick straw poll around the various KitGuru offices reveals that many of us have had video call capability built into our phones for a long while – but never really use it. Then along came Apple. And …

Now that the Sony execs have done their UK tour, including Vodafone's head office in Newbury, it seems that more and more details of the up coming Apple/HTC name coupling ‘i1' are leaking out from our special sources close to the action. KitGuru polishes off another cup of tea and …

There was a time when mobile phones would not even capture a photograph, yet the new products being planned by Sony for the end of August will take video processing into a whole new realm for a smartphone. KitGuru has been listening to the rumblings and is ready to report …

2013 is proving a tougher year for Apple, as they face an increasing challenge from competitors such as Samsung. One of Apple's biggest selling products is the iPad Mini, so it makes sense for them to enhance its capabilities. According to the latest reports, Apple have two refreshes of the …

Just when you thought there wasn't any more room in the Smartphone universe for another Galaxy, Samsung comes along and shows off another. This one known as the Core, is a budget version, designed to offer a functional contemporary handset for a smaller fee than it's bigger brothers. Thanks to the TechRadar …

Check out the publicity documentation for almost any high end vehicle these days, and you can be sure of one thing. There will be greater investment options available for the in-car entertainment than there will for things like the breaking systems. Luxa2 has launched a neat little product that will …

US government officials could be the next poster boys and girls for the Samsung Galaxy S4, after the Pentagon gave the nod of approval for its Knox security software – meaning the S4 handset will soon be getting access to some of the world's most secretive information. Approval from the …

Google Glass has been getting a lot of heat lately. Whether it's discussions on its abilities, or even just that people have already found a way to gain root on it, Glass is making headlines. But not everyone thinks this is the smartphone trend of the future, but more the …

Apple have started to offer larger flash storage options for their 21.5 inch iMacs. These Macs have been shipping with a 1TB Fusion drive option now for some time, at a price premium of £200. As the image above shows, Apple are now offering a 256GB SSD at £240.00 extra, …

The U.S. Department of Defense has cleared Blackberry 10 smartphones and PlayBook tablets for use on their networks.  Reports hit yesterday that the department may also clear devices by Apple and Samsung. The company, which were formerly known as Research In Motion announced in November that their BlackBerry 10 platform …

Facebook has announced a significant boost in earnings over the past quarter, after it saw a big jump in revenue from mobile advertising and perhaps more impressively, an increase in user numbers, seeing active users on the site reach 1.1 billion throughout the quarter. While Facebook has been the world's …

Remember Peter Molyneux's high concept social game? Curosity? You know the one with all the cubes? Well when it was launched, there was a big furore over what was at the centre of the cube. Molyneux said it would be life changing and for a while, a lot of sites …

Lenovo have announced a new laptop to join the ThinkPad ranks – dubbed the S431. The new notebook has a multi finger touchscreen which opens to 180 degrees. The company have also included a huge touchpad and a backlit keyboard. The ThinkPad S431 has incorporated a 14 inch screen into …

Until the recent release of Blackberry's 10 series of handsets, you might be forgiven for forgetting the business centric firm ever had that much of an impact on the smartphone game. After all, it's been a while since Blackberry was considered up there with the big names in the game. …

While a lot of news outlets have reported that the Samsung S4 Mini was scheduled for launch between May and July, KitGuru's sources are saying that August or even September are much more likely dates. We look at the pressures surrounding launches into a softening market. When the market for …

We already published a story this morning on the new ‘bendy' LG OLED television set and researchers at Queen's University Human Media Lab in Belfast have just developed a new prototype smartphone which can change shape to alert the user, such as when receiving calls. The phone is built around …

Samsung are proving a major problem for Apple, in the last 6 months they have driven their own sales at the expense of Apple. There seems no sign of the Korean company slowing down either with announcements for a whole new range of devices targeting a wide audience. Interestingly, Samsung …

According to a new report, the best laptop to run Windows is an Apple MacBook Pro. The report gathered information from a plethora of crashes, long boot times and application hangs. The study comes from a company called Soluto. They provide remote management tools for PCs, and they recorded information …

Apple are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their iTunes service. If you head into the iTunes store there is now a feature called ‘A Decade Of iTunes'. The famous day is April 28th. The new feature allows the user to browse a timeline of events and stories following the growth …

Known for their range of Android based mini-PCs, Giada is announcing a new tablet based on Android, the T720. This is a significant step up for Giada showing a growing sophistication in design and engineering. The T720 is Giada’s latest Android tablet and the sleek design and hardware features make …

Microsoft has released an update on the intended release date for its Surface Pro tablet, letting eager UK buyers know that it'll be here before the end of the May and by the close of June, there won't be many places in the world you can't buy one. According to …

iPhone 4 owners who filed claims against Apple in a class action lawsuit have begun to receive their money. A $15 settlement cheque in the mail. The money started arriving this week, according to TUAW. People were apparently so surprised that they didn't even know what the money was for …

The war of the smartphone manufacturers is continuing unabated across the world and in the court room, with Nokia now managing to secure a block of microphone parts for HTC's One smartphone, with the judge ruling that Nokia invented the part and has an exclusive production deal for it. The …

Apple are expected to post a drop in quarterly profit when they issue their next financial report. The shrink may be their first drop in the last decade, hurt by products with lower profit margins and slower iPhone sales growth. According to Bloomberg fourteen analysts have reduced their estimates for …

Games Workshop, the company behind such hit tabletop experiences as Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000 and Blood Bowl, has continued its expansion into the digital realm, with a reimagining of the hit boardgame Talisman, set for a launch on iOS and Android devices on 25th April. Don't get too excited though, as …

The new cost effective 10 inch tablet from Acer will be produced by Compal Electronics. Shipments are due to start in August 2013 according to an unnamed source I spoke with this weekend in Taipei. Compal were able to get the order from under the nose of Wistron according to …

The latest news from China show that Foxconn have received 5 million iPhones back for repair, due to sub standard chassis or faulty functions. The report was filed with the China Business Journal this weekend. The Taiwan based manufacturer have received 5 million phones back on March 15 according to …

Apple generally release their new iPad model around March/April, but due to the late refresh last year, it would appear the company won't be refreshing their tablet until later this year. KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that he doesn't feel the next generation iPad will hit until ‘the fall'. …

If like me you're sat here feeling rather jealous that you can't afford or don't have the connections to get yourself a set of Google's Glass eyewear, you're about to get even more so – as there's potential there for multiplayer gaming via the little device. Ron Amadeo over at …