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I'm addicted to gadgets, it's as simple as that! You'll find me on my Motorola Droid during the day and reading my Kindle at night.

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Samsung Galaxy Note Review

Samsung Galaxy Note Review

[ 1 ] April 13, 2012

The Samsung Galaxy note is a stupid idea. It’s the Korean giant’s forced marriage between a phone and a tablet, with a screen clocking in at a borderline hilarious 5.3 inch high resolution display and integrated pressure sensitive pen dubbed the S Pen. Samsung are gunning to replace your whole mobile arsenal. So is it worth chucking [...]

HTC Sensation XL Review

HTC Sensation XL Review

[ 0 ] February 1, 2012

Mobile phones – they’ve undergone a strange design path since their inception. From massive blocks of limited ability, through increasingly smaller and smaller frames and then one day, suddenly, they started getting bigger. Arguably starting with the introduction of the first generation 3.5″ iPhone, smart phones have steadily taken over the limelight, driving the screen sizes [...]

Nokia Lumia 900 now official, and the perfect smartphone is born

Nokia Lumia 900 now official, and the perfect smartphone is born

[ 0 ] January 9, 2012

  They say that opinions are subjective however for me, Windows Phone 7.5 is the single best looking mobile operating system on the planet. Couple that stellar operating system with the newly announced hardware of the Nokia Lumia 900 and in my eyes, you near enough have the perfect smartphone. So what hardware are we [...]

HTC Radar Review

HTC Radar Review

[ 1 ] January 1, 2012

Windows Phone. It’s a curious beast, isn’t it? Formally the laughing stock of the mobile industry for its steadfast determination to turn your phone into an under powered PC, it underwent a complete, ground up transformation in 2010 where it became something entirely new. Since then, we’ve had one wave of standardized devices running the software, so how does [...]

LG Optimus 3D review

LG Optimus 3D review

[ 0 ] September 2, 2011

The LG line of Optimus smartphone’s began some time ago with the cheap and cheerful Optimus One (we reviewed and liked it, it’s still a great budget smartphone). Now 11 months on LG has seen fit to grow that brand into something much bigger just like Samsung with their Galaxy line, and with with various [...]

Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo review

Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo review

[ 5 ] August 3, 2011

Ah, the mid range. The hardest fought area in the whole of smartphone-dom, every manufacturer wants to produce a relatively cheap phone with the kind of build quality and specs to deal with the big boys. So what about the Xperia Neo then? Does it have what it takes to stand alongside such peers are the Desire [...]

HP Touchpad update rolling out today

HP Touchpad update rolling out today

[ 0 ] August 1, 2011

It’s been a busy week for tablet updates, first the luscious EEE Pad Transformer got updated to the freshest version of Android and now HP’s very own foray into the world of tablets, the WebOS packing kid, HP Touchpad. Sure, it might have received lukewarm reviews because of it’s not quite out of the oven software, but HP did promise a over [...]

Google unveils new search UI for tablets

Google unveils new search UI for tablets

[ 0 ] July 31, 2011

The internet was not built with your chubby flesh pointers in mind, it was built on the proud ideal of the pixel precise keyboard and mouse combination. So what to do when you’re the worlds very favourite search provider and the owner of an increasingly popular tablet UI? Why, you revamp your tablet search of course! New we have [...]