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Fancy the idea of getting Siri on your mobile phone, but don’t have an iPhone 4S? Well, move over Siri, as Evi is here, and she runs on a much wider range of smartphones and tablets. Evi, created by developers True Knowledge, is a credible rival to the voice recognition service for iOS, known as [...]

Despite rumours to the contrary, the Symbian mobile phone operating system is alive and well, apparently. An updated version of the mobile phone platform, Symbian Anna, has just been released. This will run on the Nokia N8 (pictured here), Nokia C7, Nokia E7 and Nokia C6-01 handsets. The update offers some new icons, updated to [...]

Got a smartphone? Don’t you just hate it when you visit a website, only to be served with a “mobile optimised” version of that site. Now, we know those sites are in place for our benefit… they load faster, and typically exclude Flash, ads, and other junk that slows down the mobile experience… but now [...]

Great news for mobile phone users travelling to Europe. As of the 1st of July 2011, it’ll be cheaper to roam. The costs of using your mobile hone abroad have always been high, but the good news for consumers is that prices have been steadily dropping. New European Union rulings that come into effect today [...]

The Royal Wedding’s drawing ever closer, and we’ve found an offer for those of you looking to bag a collector’s edition handset for just a pound. The limited edition souvenir phone is a fairly basic model from Alcatel, and it’s pictured here to the right. To add to its collectability status, it has a screensaver [...]

Apple has finally confirmed what most iPhone 4 owners know – there’s a problem with reception on the new handsets. Known as the “Death Grip”, if you hold the phone in a way that causes contact with the antenna on the bottom left-hand side of the iPhone 4, you’ll see a drop in signal strength. [...]

Nokia’s announced a new smartphone, the Nokia N8. Expected to be available in the late Summer, this will have a 12 megapixel camera, be capable of shooting HD video at 720p, and have an HDMI output. It’s loaded with a touchscreen and face detection software. Here’s an odd video we’ve been sent, that shows just [...]

News of a new offer from T-Mobile. Their “get yourself two free SIM cards” offer just got a little better, as they’re now offering “free texts for life” with their Pay-As-You Go SIM cards. Top up £10 a month and you can send unlimited texts. Get yourself two free SIM cards by entering your name [...]

Time to put that high-powered smartphone in your pocket to some good (and fun) use. Download a free app called “Waze” and take part in this social mapping project. Drive around with the app running, and you’ll help map out the roads in your area, to build up an accurate map of the UK. You’ll [...]

Could this be the purrfect phone? It makes such a change for us to read through the spec sheet for a new phone, and raise a smile – this new phone, from the sports folk at Puma, promises to be a little different. Aimed at us healthy folk, the PUMAPHONE is a keep-fit phone with [...]

Fancy two free SIM cards with unlimited Skype-to-Skype? 3 are offering each household two free SIM cards with free Skype-to-Skype calls and free Windows Live messenger chats. You don’t even need to top up the SIM to get these benefits. If you do top up your SIM, you also get free text messages, free Internet [...]

If you’re not able to get a strong Vodafone signal where you live, you may be pleased to know that Vodafone offer a solution. Known as a Femtocell, this is a box that plugs into your fixed broadband connection and uses the Internet to provide you with your own mobile phone base station. Vodafone launched [...]

It seems that Sky is about to turn off their ‘Sky Anytime’ mobile TV service. Two of our team have received the following text message today from Sky: “We regret to say our Sky App will no longer work from 29 Nov. If you have Mob TV you can still watch via VF Live. For [...]

At last, you can now get a wi-fi base station in your pocket. If you’re out-and-about and need mobile Internet, there have been three options open to you: Use a mobile phone, get a USB mode for you laptop, or hope you’re in range of a wi-fi hotspot. Now, there’s a fourth option – a [...]

Mobile Phone firms T-Mobile and Orange are set to merge, it’s just been announced. Due to the complexities of such a merger, the super-network won’t come into being until 2011 at the earliest, and is still subject to regulator approval. Assuming the deal goes ahead, the new company would control around 37% of the UK [...]

An interesting month for Mobile Phone watches. Orange has just released their Watchphone, manufactured by LG. The watch, priced at £500 in the UK is a litte pricey, but is an impressive piece of kit. At the moment, to get one, you need to go to Orange’s store in Central London. However, for less than [...]

If you’ve got an old mobile you’re no longer using, you might as well try to get a few quid for it. There are a bunch of companies out there that will exchange your old mobile phone for cash, and now we’ve made things just a little easier for you. We’ve now added a handy [...]

We’ve now added a review of the impressive new o2 XDA Orbit mobile phone. This is powered by the latest version of Windows Mobile software, so has all the features you’d expect from a smartphone (Bluetooth, wi-fi, media player, email, web browser, PC sync, etc), but it has an extra feature… GPS This phone has [...]