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  • Camera phones: are the megapixel wars over at last?

    Posted 8th March 2010 by Joe Minihane

    Exactly what's causing the apparent ceasefire in the cameraphone megapixel wars? Top 10 Mobile Phones' Joe Minihane investigates.

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  • The ideology of the iPhone

    Posted 11th February 2010 by Jonathan Leggett

    As Gillette is no doubt finding post-Tiger Woods and Thierry Henry debacles, it can be difficult to shake off negative brand associations. So spare a thought for Research in Motion today, which must be cursing the analysts behind a new study into the profile of typical BlackBerry owners.

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  • Mobile phone thefts surging at gigs

    Posted 7th December 2009 by Jonathan Leggett

    Mobile phone thefts at gigs are on the rise, the Metropolitan police has warned. And instead of the opportunist criminals that you might expect, it’s organized gangs we’ve got to look out for.

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  • iPhone fanboys have no sense of history

    Posted 9th November 2009 by Jonathan Leggett

    In this week’s ever-excellent Gadget Show, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x trumped the iPhone in the Hall of Fame challenge. But the show's viewers beg to differ. Shame on them.

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  • iPhone obsessives refute Armitage upgrade theory

    Posted 29th September 2009 by Jonathan Leggett

    Yesterday's BBC4 Upgrade Me doc made some thought-provoking points about our mania for technology. But host Simon Armitage’s assertion that we increasingly ditch tech before we’ve time to establish a personal relationship with it is wide of the mark.

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  • Why do Nokia mobile phones founder in the US?

    Posted 25th September 2009 by Jonathan Leggett

    The mystery of why Nokia mobile phones have never caught on in the US is one that perplexes industry experts almost infinitely. But one marketing guru-cum-analyst reckons he’s stumbled on the answer.

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  • I’m ‘appy. You’re ‘appy. Everybody’s ‘appy

    Posted 14th September 2009 by Jonathan Leggett

    In his latest opus, author Douglas Coupland dubs the current crop of 18-25-year-olds ‘Generation A’. But according to a new study, the young ‘uns now reveling in telling us Daddy-Os to ‘f-f-f-fade away’ are better characterised as the 'Appster Generation'.

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  • Mobile phones calling time on alarm clocks

    Posted 26th August 2009 by Jonathan Leggett

    Sales of alarm clocks have hit a seemingly irreversible decline. And it’s all the fault of mobile phones, a report suggests.

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  • BlackBerrys aren’t causing work/life imbalance

    Posted 25th August 2009 by Jonathan Leggett

    BlackBerry mobile phones are eroding divisions between home life and working hours, a new report claims. Surely not.

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  • Tide of text messages transforming mobile phone habits

    Posted 17th July 2009 by Jonathan Leggett

    According to BT’s advertising blurb, it’s good to talk. But increasingly it seems a good old fashioned chinwag is being superseded by text communication via SMS messages and tweets.

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  • Kids picking BlackBerrys?

    Posted 15th July 2009 by Jonathan Leggett

    Tech sites are today awash with leaked specs for the BlackBerry Storm 2. But in the normally serious-minded business news provider Reuters that story has been crowbarred off the front page by another nugget of RIM related news. And for that we’ve a plucky kid to thank.

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  • Teens and mobile phone tweeting

    Posted 14th July 2009 by Jonathan Leggett

    This week’s papers are full of reports of typically iconoclastic teen and Morgan Stanley intern Matthew Robson’s dismissal of Twitter on mobile phones as ‘pointless’ and of little interest to his peers. Not so, a new survey shows.

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  • iPhone obsessives on the rise

    Posted 1st July 2009 by Jonathan Leggett

    When the iPhone 3G S landed last month it was greeted by a media blitz that made it almost impossible to avoid. But for some of us, fatigue had set in even before the latest edition of the handset arrived, due to the presence in our life of an obsessive iPhone fan.

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  • iPhones favoured by older consumers

    Posted 12th June 2009 by Jonathan Leggett

    If you were asked to picture a tech enthusiast, it’s likely you’d visualise a teenager or twenty-something with plenty of disposable income to spend on gadgets. But if new iPhone ownership figures are to be believed, in fact, it’s people of a somewhat older vintage who are the real early adopters.

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  • Nokia phones stay top of teens’ wishlists

    Posted 4th June 2009 by Jonathan Leggett

    Given all the hyperbole that surrounds Apple iPhones, it’s very easy to get the impression that they are the number one, accept-no-substitutes, must-have handsets among tech-hungry teens. It’d be easy. But it’d also be wrong.

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  • Greenbacks not green agenda fuelling recycling scheme boom

    Posted 26th May 2009 by Jonathan Leggett

    More and more consumers are looking to recycle their mobile phones, a new study has shown. But if you’re thinking that this heralds a new dawn of eco consciousness among the populace of Albion, think again.

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  • We want your tales of mobile-related misery

    Posted 14th April 2009 by Jonathan Leggett

    Despite the launch of super-robust phones such as the JCB handset and the Samsung Xplorer B2100, responses to a BBC survey show that consumers are still finding increasingly inventive ways of losing the use of their phone. Here we take a look at some of the best…

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  • Mobile phones shaping up to be the new SWAG bags and stripy tops

    Posted 8th April 2009 by Jonathan Leggett

    The combination of mobile phones and numbskull criminals are making the world a safer place, says Jonathan Leggett.

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  • Mobile phones on Tube? No thanks

    Posted 18th March 2009 by Jonathan Leggett

    Plans to bring mobile phones to London's Tube network have been suspended. And a good thing too, says Jonathan Leggett.

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