Huawei S7 Android Tablet

A couple weeks back we pondered the sweet spot between mobile phones and the PC, particularly with the advent of the tablet category. We compared the 5-inch mid-tablet Dell Streak with the nearly 10-inch Apple iPad. Well, this week – we have a new contender that sits neatly in between at 7 inches. We take [...]

Orange Power Wellies for Glastonbury (2012)

This time every year, campers and music lovers gear up for a summer of festivals. Anyone who has been – knows all too well – what happens at the end of the day…. your mobile phone runs out of juice and there’s no place to charge it. Well unless you get your hands on the [...]

Android Serves an Ace

If you’re going to Wimbledon, the updated IBM Seer app for iPhone and Android mixes augmented reality, location-based video streams and real time data to offer you a more tech-enhanced tennis experience.

Dell Streak vs. Apple iPad

Remember when phones were enormous? Think 1980′s. As technology advanced, phones and personal computers became smaller, thinner and cheaper. Then something changed on the mobile side: phone screens grew larger. Now, as phones are getting larger and computers are getting smaller – are the two converging to the same point? And what’s the size of [...]

Smashing Mobiles

The latest smartphones are expensive and can be delicate. When my Nexus One suffered a cracked screen, after only ten hours of use, I decided to ask other Londoners about their broken phones and investigate what could be done about it.

The Ultimate Earphones

If you settle for the earphones that come with your music player or mobile phone, the quality is often so poor that everyone can hear your music except for you. In this Press/Play, I test out the Klipsch Image X10, Creative Labs Aurvana in-Ear 2 & Etymotic Hf2 on both London’s underground and buses to [...]

iPad or iFad?

I finally got my hands on the much-hyped tablet device to check out some iPad apps and speak with Future Workshops about whether it’s destined to be the third screen. Watch the video!

The Curious Case of Mobile Phone Cases

As iPhones, Blackberries and the various Androids become ubiquitous, us users are starting to look like sheep – all carrying around the same phones. So how does the modern mobilista stand apart from the flock? The mobile phone case, that’s how.

(Augmented) Reality Bites

Augmented Reality – AR for short – is the hot topic of the moment. So I have been augmenting my London-based activities with some of the latest AR mobile apps to find out how life-enhancing they really are. Check out the video:

Samsung Beam (Android 2.1)

Samsung is making a big splash about the Wave, the first device to run on its Bada platform. But I’m more dazzled by the Samsung Beam – the first Android phone with a projector. Check out the video!