Nokia 4.2 – classy style but not brilliant performance
Released mid-way through 2019, the Nokia 4.2 is very much a budget smartphone but with an up market feel to it. Sadly, this appearance let down by not very good performance when you start to do anything other than light use. Let’s start by looking at the basics. It has a glass front and rear […]
Realme X2 Pro – 90Hz refresh screen and 5 cameras
Designed to sit firmly in what is now called the premium-mid range of smartphones, the X2 Pro is Realme’s latest flagship offering to try and capture western markets. It certainly comes well specified with a stand-out screen, good battery and five cameras. But, is it enough to make it stand out from the crowd? With […]
What to do if your Samsung Smartphone switches off or restarts unexpectedly
Samsung Smartphones are set up so they can switch themselves off unexpectedly to protect themselves from damage. For example, in extreme temperatures when it is getting too hot or cold. If your device is switching itself off frequently you need to check to see if there is any correlation between when it happens and what […]
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 […]
Asus ZenFone 6 – motorised camera and a huge battery
Asus are probably better known for their laptops, but they have been making smartphones that have been flying under the radar for many years. Their latest offering, the ZenFone 6, may change all that though. It appears to have been designed deliberately to stand out from the mid-range crowd it sits in with its clever […]
Lumigon T3 – first smartphone with night vision camera
Although it has been around for a few years now, the Lumigon T3 is still worth a look if you want to stand out from the crowd with your smartphone. When launched, back in 2016, it was the world’s first smartphone with a night vision camera. So, it is ideal for all you budding nocturnal […]
Fairphone 3 – environmentally friendly phone designed to last
In 2013 Fairphone set out to make a smartphone that was both eco-friendly and concerned with the welfare of the workers in its supply chain. This approach meant that it was concerned with things as diverse as making the phone as modular as possible to ensuring that the workers who mine the metals it uses […]
Motorola Razr 2019 – It’s Back As A Smartphone
It might be 15 years since the original Razr, but now Motorola has gone back to it for inspiration for its new foldable phone. Rather than go with the trend for horizontal folds like the Samsung Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X, the new Razr does it vertically mimicking the clam shell setup of the […]
Huawei Mate X – Better Than The Samsung Galaxy Fold?
Following hot on the heels of the Samsung Galaxy Fold, the Huawei Mate X is the Chinese smartphone leader’s take on the foldable big screen handset. Slated to be available in the UK on Vodafone, EE and Three during 2020, the Mate X takes a slightly different route to the Fold. Whereas the Fold’s screens […]
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 […]
