July 2012 Archive
31st July
- Nokia 808 PureView Review: In Depth
- Fibre broadband: why doesn’t my BT cabinet have FTTC when my exchange is ready?
- Sky’s Now TV: Now available for iPhone and iPad
- Winner of Recombu Sony Xperia Unleashed competition announced
- Asus Nexus 7 Review: In Depth
- How to find free WiFi hotspots in the UK
30th July
- How to contact your network operator: Useful numbers
- Tips for using your phone at the Olympics
- New 2013 Mercedes-Benz C-Class tweaks explained
- What’s inside your smartphone?
- How to watch the Olympics on your mobile phone
27th July
- Mobile Phone Insurance: Comparing the best deals
- Week of the happy Yorkshireman: Digital Voices 27/07/2012
- Kia Sportage vs Nissan Qashqai vs Hyundai ix35
- Digital Region, Superfast Cornwall, BT’s 11 million: Broadband Rollout Roundup: 27/07/2012
- TalkTalk East Anglia outage: what’s happening?
- App Friday: Tom Daley Dive for iOS
- Samsung Galaxy S3 local search removal update set to be reversed, say Samsung
- London 2012 Olympic Games Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone: all you need to know
- How to improve your Samsung Galaxy S3 battery life
- LG Optimus L3 Review: In Depth
- Apple UK wins ruling against ‘Samsung didn’t copy the iPad’ ads
- Will we see an official Facebook phone from HTC in 2013?
26th July
- How to track your mobile data usage on holiday with Orange
- London 2012 Olympics: Will my ISP be able to handle it?
- Baked – Episode 2: 7 or 10-inches? Disgo 9104 tablet and Zappar
- How to pair Bluetooth devices to your smartphone
- Sony Xperia Go Review: In Depth
25th July
- Olympics lanes: Your questions answered
- How to watch the Olympics in HD, 3D and Super Hi-Vision
- How to perform a complete data wipe on your smartphone
- TalkTalk says we’re paying £480 more for broadband than we should
- Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 Review: In Depth
- Why can’t I get BT Infinity fibre broadband yet?
- Sky price rises: how much is it going up and why?
24th July
- Do you need a separate tariff for BlackBerry services?
- YouView data collection: Big Brother TV or paranoid conspiracy?
- Artist builds London Bus that does push-ups
- Harman lets you control your car through Kinect-style gestures
- BT free TV with broadband: what do you get?
- Humax YouView box goes on sale 26th of July
- Three customers data usage doubles: What’s a data allowance and and why are we using more?
- Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 Hands-On Video
- Apple iPhone 5 to use new 19-pin dock connector?
- Competition: Win a Sony Xperia S with Xperia Unleashed
- Asus Transformer, Prime, TF700 and 300: Price, specs and release dates
- Sony Xperia S Review: In Depth
- Motorola Xoom Jelly Bean update confirmed
- Ofcom: 4G auction to start 2012, no rollout ‘til mid-2013
- Virgin Media TiVo goes gold with 1 million customers, Martin Kemp celebrates
23rd July
- Samsung Galaxy Note 2 launch confirmed for August 15th?
- Cooking with a Corvette engine: Robert Llewellyn’s V8 car-b-que
- BlackBerry Curve 9320 Review: In Depth
- Samsung Galaxy Note 2 benchmarks leaked?
- Qantas introduces customer and pilot iPads
- Sony LT29i ‘Hayabusa’ photos appear
- TalkTalk answers Sky’s Now TV with free LoveFilm for a year
- Google stops orders for 16GB Google Nexus 7 in the US
- Backtracking: HTC confirms no Android ICS for HTC Desire HD
22nd July
21st July
20th July
- MG to supply MG6 cars to Jamaican Olympics stars
- England, Scotland and Wales: Broadband Rollout Roundup: 20/07/2012
- O2 gets generous to say sorry for network outage
- Best London Transport Apps
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies arriving on Android
- Pure Stream with Sensia 200D Connect: A digital radio that plays your phone’s music
- CyanogenMod 10 now running Jelly Bean on the Samsung Galaxy S3
- View21: Freeview+ HD with apps and smartphone control, but it’s not YouView
- Virgin Media to bring rural fibre broadband to Lincolnshire villages
- HTC One X, HTC One XL and HTC One S confirmed to receive Jelly Bean
- App Friday: Magic Town
19th July
- UK broadband 8th best in the world says OEDC
- Volvo V40 Review
- Pure Sensia 200D Connect confirmed: hands-on pictures
- Asus Transformer Pad Infinity TF700 Review: In Depth
- Samsung’s 75-inch, gesture-controlled, Angry Birds-playing, Smart TV: The ES9000
- Smart TV plays catch-up for online viewing vs connected TV boxes, consoles and PCs
- Everything Everywhere says 4G to be 5-7 times faster than 3G
- The Dark Knight Rises on Virgin Media TiVo (in app form)
18th July
- ZTE Grand X hands-on photos, video, pricing and availability
- Smart TV is no big deal for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 owners, says Ofcom
- As a nation we’re talking less and browsing more
- Superfast broadband: 60 per cent reach but 6 per cent take-up
- Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Jelly Bean) vs Apple iPhone 4S
- BT broadband hiccup in Shetlands: The second time within a month
- Internet refuseniks aren’t tempted by an online lifestyle
- Orange U24 offers free data, calls and texts to under 24s
- Broadband, TV and phone bundles beat single service deals
- LoveFilm soars as Netflix dips in March according to Ofcom figures
- Asus Eee Pad Transformer TF101 and Slider SL101 to get Jelly Bean
- Virgin Media gets spanked twice as ad watchdogs side with Sky
- Samsung Galaxy S3 64GB to be cancelled?
- 1Gbps fibre broadband piped into London luxury pads by Hyperoptic
- Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 Unboxing Video
17th July
- Chevrolet Cruze Station Wagon Review
- Huawei Ascend P1 unboxing video
- Samsung Galaxy S3 vs Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Jelly Bean)
- Sony Xperia handsets to receive CyanogenMod 10 Alpha builds
- Pure Contour 200i Air review
- HTC Era and BlackBerry Armstrong on T-Mobile US in September?
- BT beats Fujitsu in £70m North Yorkshire rural broadband competition
- The Only Way Is FTTC: Essex villages win extra BT fibre broadband
- Worcestershire rural broadband pilot scheme delayed by EU competition fears
- BMW 3 Series Touring Review
- SmartKey TV HDMI Android 4.0: Convert your dumb TV for £92
- BMW M135i Review
- Scottish broadband plan should help community projects get connected
- Galaxy S3 sales help Samsung overtake Apple
- My Xbox Live for iPad updates with virtual Xbox Companion controls
- BMW ActiveHybrid 3 Review
- Sony Xperia Go Unboxing Video
- Asus Transformer Pad Infinity Unboxing Video
16th July
- Now TV for YouView: Hands-on demo
- Apple iPhone 5 enters production in China
- Nokia Lumia 900 drops to $49.99 in the US
- Now TV on iPad: Hands-on video demo
- Sky’s Now TV: What do you get for £15 a month?
- Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean runs on the HTC HD2
- Can broadband get cheaper than Primus Saver’s £1.20/month package?
- iPhone 5 glass frontage appears in black and white
14th July
13th July
- LG Optimus L7 Review
- Jelly Bean VS Ice Cream Sandwich video
- App Friday: Amazing Alex
- Samsung Galaxy S3 S-Beam demo video
- ‘Worst weather in 100 years’ keeps BT engineers at their limits
- BT bad weather blues and community fibre: Broadband Rollout Roundup 13/07/2012
- HTC Vertex appears as HTC’s secret quad-core tablet?
- FTTP community broadband is the future says Cumbrian MP
- Android takes the largest overall market share in the US
- VLC laser Wi-Fi gadget plugs into your iPhone: Enter the TR01
- BBC Olympics app comes to iOS and Android
- BBC plots to run local Freeview network and get its money back
- Digital Economy Act old before its time, says Entanet
- Assembled iPhone 5 prototype appears alongside iPhone 4S
- BT reprieved from broadband price controls by Euro digital chief
- Stephen Fry and Richard Branson kung fu fighting for Virgin Media TiVo
- HTC One X successor with 1.7GHz quad-core benchmarked
- Mass rural speed test to demonstrate mid-Wales’s broadband not spots
12th July
- Freeview 3D could run alongside HD using DVB’s new spec
- Samsung Galaxy S3 in Garnet Red coming to AT&T
- S4C’s HD channel Clirlun to close at the end of 2012
- Freeview MD: Ofcom and Government should trial 4G Freeview in limited areas
- O2 services are back. Are you entitled to compensation?
- Medisana ThermoDock hands-on
- Wireless churches send rural broadband speeds spire-ralling
- ZTE gaming phone incoming: Xperia Play slayer?
- 5GHz wireless bridge streams HD around the home: Technicolor MediaAccess TG233
- Playboy and Hustler apps discreetly arrive on Philips Smart TVs
- Sony LT30p Mint appears: Could this be the Xperia Z?
- Samsung Galaxy S3 loses Local Search in the US to appease Apple
- BT rural broadband: “We don’t cherry pick the easy areas”
- Aston Martin lifts lid on V12 Vantage Roadster
- Vauxhall Adam pictures released
- Camera Comparison: Nokia 808 PureView VS iPhone 4S VS HTC One X VS Nokia N8 VS Samsung Galaxy S3 VS Sony Xperia S
- Nissan Leaf police cars to be used by Portuguese cops
11th July
- AppToyz AppQuiz hands-on
- Man builds working hover bike prototype
- Android TV will kill Google TV. It’s the natural way.
- OnLive coming to Google TVs, put that in your pipe OUYA
- MeeGo smartphones back this year?
- Proporta and National Gallery launch iPhone and iPad cases
- OUYA Android-based games console for under $100 could take on Xbox
- HTC Flyer successor destined for the UK
- BT slates pay-TV movie ruling: wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong again
- AAISP’s Etherway super business fibre gets a rocky start with BT
- Baked – Episode 1: OS Wars, Nokia 808 PureView and Asphalt 7
- Fujitsu pulls out of Cumbria broadband but not out of UK
- Apple iPhone 5 engineering sample photographed in China
- Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean update arrives for Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Google Nexus 7
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 vs Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) Video
10th July
- Motorola MOTOSMART confirmed: hands-on photos
- Sony launch Xperia Unleashed: offer prizes for finding their lost robots
- iPPea Android 4.0 ‘thumb PC’ dongle smartens up any HDMI TV
- Angry Birds on a hacked Google Nexus Q: Smart TV Tuesday
- Samsung Galaxy Note Android ICS update on AT&T arrives
- British Gas: Use your iPhone to control central heating away from home
- Six Nokia and Samsung Windows Phone 8 devices discovered
- Samsung Galaxy S3 for £135: Real or fake?
- Claranet Soho joins TalkTalk in offering opt-in adult content filters
- Samsung Galaxy S2 Android ICS 4.0.4 update emerges
- Rich pensioners to lose TV licence, says Conservative MP
- Samsung Tocco Lite 2 unboxing video
- Inspiration Works’ Kurio 7 Android tablet hands-on
9th July
- Ravensburger augmented reality 1000 piece puzzle hands-on
- Ken Block turns San Francisco into urban playground for Gymkhana 5
- Microsoft Windows 8 coming in October
- Solwise Value HomePlugs: Powerline networking from £18.41
- Female only car park opens in China
- ‘Superfast broadband will be the railways of the 21st century’: Yorkshire MP
- Sky Fibre Unlimited Pro 76Mbps available to all customers
- Driver fined £60 for looking at pretty pedestrian
- Motorola Defy Pro QWERTY/Touch Android revealed
- Land Rover Defender XTech Special Edition brings sexy black
- TalkTalk: ‘We’re the Rebels, BT and Sky is the Empire’
- Sony Xperia Play XDark ICS ROM brings full touchpad support
- ITV Player comes to Samsung Smart TVs and Blu-ray players
- Smart TV Alliance: LG and Philips aim for a standard Smart TV app platform: UPDATE
- Nokia Lumia 1001: The first Windows Phone 8 device?
8th July
7th July
- 2012 British Grand Prix qualifying results
- Bacon, rabbits and Freeview on steroids: Digital Voices: 07/07/2012
6th July
- Appletics Event: what to expect from the future of apps
- Watch hackers steal a BMW 1 Series in 2 minutes.
- 3D Gotham City teased by Nokia and The Dark Knight Rises
- BT launches 330Mbps Fibre to the Premises for all Broadband Rollout Roundup: 06/07/2012
- Communications Data Bill: Government wants your thoughts on Snooper’s Charter
- Convertible McLaren 12C Spider is stunning in pictures
- App Friday: Best Formula One apps
- CyanogenMod 10 to offer Jelly Bean 4.1 alternative Android
- BT responds to Ofcom’s price proposals for BT Wholesale lines
- Hauppauge Broadway streaming TV box adds PVR style recording
- Samsung Galaxy S3 success leads to record profits for Samsung
- Sky to buy TalkTalk and overtake BT?
- Archos 97 Carbon: Affordable ICS tablet, with 9.7-inch screen
- 300 Wi-Fi taxis hit the streets of London ahead of Olympics
- Apple fixes bug causing iOS app crashes
- Sony Xperia P Ice Cream Sandwich update coming early August
- Amazon looking to make its own smartphone?
5th July
- Google’s Nexus 7 tablet: Is it worth your time and money?
- Electric B-Class Mercedes will use Tesla power
- ACTA rejected by European Parliament
- BT to loan killer RABIT to other ISPs on three month trial
- Samsung Galaxy S3 wins out in flagship battery face off
- Virgin Media TiVo gets Teletext Holidays app
- Motorola Atrix HD revealed, looks like a RAZR
- Apple iPad redesign to prevent overheating
- 14 least exotic cars by Pininfarina
- Ofcom proposes prices for BT Wholesale business fibre broadband
- Quad-core LTE Samsung Galaxy S3 coming to Korea, maybe the US too?
- Sky Sports iPad: Split-screen Formula 1 action races into App Store
- Breffo Spiderpodium Tablet: the most versatile tablet stand?
- Death of a Smartphone: One in five Brits want phones with simpler features
4th July
- The most iconic movie mobile phones
- iPhone 5 to utilise in-cell touchscreen technology
- 2012 Audi A3 Review
- YouView: Hands-on with the Humax DTR-T1000 set top box
- Opinion: Why you should think twice about YouView
- Sky’s Now TV coming to YouView: Sky Movies available from launch
- YouView Humax DTR-T1000: What do you get for £299?
- O2 and Nike team up to offer O2 Priority Sports
- Channel 4 4seven catch-up service launches on Sky, Virgin Media, Freeview and Freesat
- Non-US Nexus 7’s lack half of Google’s features
- Samsung Galaxy S3 US carrier availability
- Sky Go for Android update adds on-demand channels
- Sky Go for Android updates: On-demand Sky Movies and Sky Atlantic, ICS support
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 ICS update begins
- Samsung Galaxy Nexus to get software update to avoid sales ban
- Virgin Media: 41 London Underground stations now have Wi-Fi
3rd July
- Infinitec Pocket TV; a Smart TV that looks like a USB dongle: Smart TV Tuesday
- Handgrip iPhone charger improves your golf skills and battery life
- Best iPhone 5 concepts
- 330Mbps Fibre to the Premises: Who is signing up for BT Openreach’s new broadband?
- Nissan Deltawing Vs Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
- 90 per cent 24Mbps broadband coverage won’t happen by 2015, says CLA
- Direct Save Telecom to monitor connection charges for 118 118 calls
- HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE coming to Verizon
- Sony Xperia Go and Xperia Miro up for UK pre-order
- Gingerbread still the leading Android OS, Froyo second. Where’s ICS?
- US beats UK for data requests in Twitter Transparency Report
- Tooway Direct launches up to 18Mbps speeds on satellite broadband
- Zen Internet to launch 330Mbps FTTP broadband
- BlackBerry 2013 roadmap leaks, shows off BB10 lineup
- Nokia claim patent infringement against Google Nexus 7 tablet
2nd July
- Audi R8 GT Spyder Review
- Best HTC One X cases
- Are new Euro tyre labels too dumbed-down to be useful?
- Bubbles used to create the thinnest transparent display on the planet
- Samsung confirms Android Jelly Bean update for Google Nexus S
- Gary Lineker may transfer from BBC’s Match of the Day to BT Vision
- HTC One V launches in the US on Virgin Mobile
- Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini gets Android Ice Cream Sandwich update
- Is Android Nokia’s plan B if Windows Phone 8 fails?
- Netflix nabs Arrested Development exclusivity via 20th Century Fox deal
- Plusnet trialling 330Mbps fibre optic broadband
- Sony Xperia S successor spotted?
- Tinker Tailor Solider Spy director and screenwriter Q&A with LoveFilm
- Apple pays $60 million to use the iPad name
- Samsung Galaxy S3 Olympic Edition unboxing
- BT opens up 330Mbps FTTP fibre optic broadband to other ISPs
- Arqiva to buy Spectrum Interactive’s Wi-Fi network for £23.4 million
- Samsung appeals Apple’s Galaxy Nexus ban