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Texts, drugs and rock 'n' roll...  

Monday 05 January at 3:44pm

Texts, drugs and rock 'n' roll...

by Dallas Campbell

Sir Francis Bacon once said that knowledge is power. Or was that Richard Bacon? We forget. Anyway, if that statement’s true then having a way of attaining (relative) omniscience at your fingertips…

Samsung announces Android phone for 2009  

Friday 19 December at 12:40pm

Samsung announces Android phone for 2009

by The Gadget Show

The Androids are coming! No, not robots called Ann, these are the Google Android phones that are so coveted. Having seen T-Mobile’s G1 this year, and with the announcement that Sony Ericsson will be…

BlackBerry Slings when it’s ringing  

Thursday 18 December at 2:16pm

BlackBerry Slings when it’s ringing

by The Gadget Show

Calling all Slingbox owners! From December 30, you’ll be able to tap into it wherever you are in the world, with SlingPlayer Mobile for BlackBerry. ...

BlackBerry 8900 Curve out today!  

Friday 12 December at 3:26pm

BlackBerry 8900 Curve out today!

by The Gadget Show

T-Mobile has thrown a bit of a Curve ball (see what we did there?), and nipped ahead of the competition by grabbing a shipment of spanking new BlackBerry 8900 Curve handsets. What that means is…

Mobiado 105GMT Gold gets the Midus touch  

Tuesday 09 December at 12:15pm

Mobiado 105GMT Gold gets the Midus touch

by The Gadget Show

It seems that the only prerequisite for making luxury mobile phones is to have a silly name. First there was Vertu, and now Mobiado. The purveyor of hay clarse comms, Mobiado has been around for a…

Does your microwave emit electrosmog?  

Thursday 04 December at 2:45pm

Does your microwave emit electrosmog?

by Dallas Campbell

The microwave oven: a triumph of technology that’s been gracing our kitchens since the late 1960s. There’s no better bit of tech for reheating our pre-prepared TV dinners. Mmm, delicious….

Nokia N97 super-phone announced!  

Tuesday 02 December at 9:44am

Nokia N97 super-phone announced!

by The Gadget Show

Nokia really built up some anticipation about the announcement of its N97. A big countdown clock on its website lead us to believe it was going to be something big, and the mobile experts didn’t…

Nok Nok. Who’s there? The new Nokia 6260  

Tuesday 25 November at 3:59pm

Nok Nok. Who’s there? The new Nokia 6260

by The Gadget Show

Looks just like any other old Nokia, right? You couldn’t be more wrong, brother. This is the Nokia 6260. Admittedly, it has more than a hint of its older sibling, the 6220 Classic about it, but what…

LG Prada II out now!  

Tuesday 18 November at 5:32pm

LG Prada II out now!

by The Gadget Show

It’s the second coming. The original fashion phone is back: the LG Prada Phone II. ...

Official: JCB Toughphone is World’s Toughest Mobile  

Tuesday 18 November at 4:20pm

Official: JCB Toughphone is World’s Toughest Mobile

by The Gadget Show

And you thought Chuck Norris was tough. Pah! Guinness has officially confirmed what we already knew: that the JCB Toughphone is the World’s Toughest Mobile Phone. ...

Apple hit with another lawsuit  

Tuesday 18 November at 2:39pm

Apple hit with another lawsuit

by The Gadget Show

Apple is fast accruing more lawsuits than a lawyer’s bespoke tailor. The Cupertino-based company is facing yet another accusation over the performance of its iPhone 3G on US network AT&T. What’s…