Best kosher phones for 2020
Phone technology is advancing all the time, so if you want a kosher phone that is a little more up to date but still only provides access to the basic and necessary features you want, then now is a good time to be looking at upgrading your kosher phone to a newer model. We have […]
Working from home – what are my options?
Many people are now considering (or are being told to) work from home. There are 2 things to consider here: your mobile phone and connecting with your office phone system. Starting with your mobile, whilst it can greatly help you with being at home, you need to take into account if you have enough call […]
Android Go – designed for smartphones with less RAM
Android Go is a cut-down version of Android designed to run on phones with 2GB of RAM or less. The latest version is modelled on Android 10 and optimises the OS, Google apps and the Google Play store to provide a faster experience on handsets with less hardware power. Android Operating System The operating system […]
New features in 2020 for Google Assistant
At CES in January, Google announced a raft of new features we can expect for the Google Assistant this year. These include: Linking non-Google smart devices – this will make it easier for you to connect non-Google made smart home devices to your account. With this update, when you add a new device you will […]
When will my Samsung smartphone upgrade to Android 10?
Are you (like me) still waiting for your Samsung to upgrade to Android 10? After all it has been out for a while now and Samsung haven’t been prompt about upgrading before. But their own skin that sits on top of Android has now been updated – One UI 2 – so the upgrade must […]
KaiOS – getting on board the next 1 billion mobile phone users
There are still vast groups of people locked out of the digital revolution. In emerging markets, over three billion people don’t have basic internet access. In mature markets, close to 20% of mobile users still use basic phones because they can’t or don’t want to use a smartphone. For all these people, not being connected […]
Project Ara – Google’s Modular Phone
With the current focus on the environment, it is not surprising that mobile phones get a bad press with their resource hungry construction and the owner’s desire to change them every 1-2 years, even if they are still working fine. Now with the Fairphone 3 offering users a modular phone that allows you to replace […]
How did Microsoft get the smartphone market so wrong?
It’s hard to imagine today, sitting her surveying a smartphone market dominated by Android and iOS, that not so many years ago, there was a third contender – Windows Mobile. Why is it not still around today? Unlike Android and iOS, that are based on the look and feel of the original windows concept, designed […]
10 Things About Android 10
Android 10 has been rolling out since early September. Although most of us haven’t yet got it, it seems likely that in the coming months many more phones will. So, while you are waiting for it to arrive, we thought we would outline 10 things worth knowing about it focused on innovation, security and privacy […]
Top 5 features for smartphones in 2020
It’s getting to that time of the year when people dust off their crystal balls and try and predict what will happen in 2020. Well, here at RCUK, we are no different and so have decided to put down what we expect to see in the smartphone world next year. So, our top 5 predictions […]