Mobile Phone News

ITV and Shazam have announced an agreement that will see ITV running Shazam-enabled adverts, allowing the 10 million users of Shazam to access additional content during ad breaks. Shazam already use their audio recognition technology on ads in the U.S., with ads airing during major [Read the rest of this entry...]

Barclaycard has announced Barclaycard PayTag, a stick on NFC enabled card, which can be stuck on the back of a smartphone, for quick NFC mobile payments. Indeed, the small NFC enabled sticker can be stuck to anything, not just a mobile phone, however the benefit is clear, for those [Read the rest of this entry...]

A study of mobile phone data in the Scientific Reports journal has shown that women contact their spouse more often than anyone else from their mobile phone. The study shows that this remains the case until daughters become old enough to have children of their own, at which time the [Read the rest of this entry...]

Researchers at the University of Texas have created an imaging chip, which in theory could give ‘X-Ray’ vision to mobile phones, allowing them to see through walls, woods and plastics. The chip is capable of detecting Terahertz frequencies, without need of special lenses. The exact [Read the rest of this entry...]

Samsung are ramping up the marketing ahead of next week’s much anticipated launch of the Samsung Galaxy S III. A countdown site, found at www.tgeltaayehxnx.com (an anagram for ‘The Next Galaxy’) has reached zero, revealing a Teaser video for the forthcoming release. The teaser video [Read the rest of this entry...]

Spectators of the Open Championship, to be held at the Royal Lytham and St Anne’s Golf Course, will be able to use their mobile phones this year, according to the R&A. The ban on using mobile phones at the Open was put in place in 2006, after a number of incidents of golfers being [Read the rest of this entry...]

It’s a well-known fact that I love super-advanced smartphones, with the most recent example of my obsession being my utter adoration of the HTC One X. However, it’s a lesser-known fact that I also love tough phones, like the ones Sonim makes, and one of the first of that [Read the rest of this entry...]

Yup, it’s another post about the HTC One X, because, as I’ve said so many times, I’m completely obsessed with it. Seriously, I’m talking about a kind of Kathy Bates in Misery level of dedication to the phone, to the point where I’ll even do a blog post [Read the rest of this entry...]

A study by researchers at Stanford University has found that poorly designed Mobile Sites can have a significant impact on the drain effect of a smartphone battery, leading to a poor user experience. The study used an Android smartphone, and accessed leading sites such as Wikipedia [Read the rest of this entry...]

Right, it’s Friday, so time to get all frivolous. Well, okay, it’s time to talk about mobile games, which are anything but frivolous for their makers, but are fun for us. So, here’s a new game for Android and iOS that’s caught my eye, and it’s called [Read the rest of this entry...]