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Order Dominos Pizza From Your Smartwatch
Dominos has launched a new app for Android Wear and Pebble smartwatches, allowing users to order pizza on the fly and check to see the delivery process. Using the familiar Dominos Tracker tool, users will be able to order a pizza and see which of the five steps the... Read more
Oband Aurora Smartwatch Review
One of the current gadget crazes is the smartwatch, with everyone from no-name startups to Apple getting in on the expensive fun. With a wide spectrum of pricing for this type of gadget, it’s not just the features that will vary, but the quality, too. First of all, what’s... Read more
IKEA To Put Wireless Phone Chargers In Their Furniture
If you use a smartphone, charging cables are a necessary evil; they wear out, they fray, they stop working – and perhaps more often than not (according to my wife, at least) they vanish into thin air never to be seen again – until you buy a new one,... Read more
HTC One M9 Announced: Same Design, Better Specs
HTC decided Mobile World Congress was where it would launch all of its new devices, including the HTC One M9, Vive VR headset and the Grip wearable. The One M9 is the biggest announcement as it will be the flagship for 2015, but in terms of upgrades the smartphone... Read more
Huawei Announces New Circular Android Wear Smartwatch
Huawei has launched its first Android Wear smartwatch at Mobile World Congress earlier today, featuring a circular display similar to the Moto 360 and LG G Watch R. The China-based company is going for style points with its first smartwatch, focusing on the design and making it look like... Read more
Samsung Pay Coming Soon to Rival Apple Pay
In a direct challenge to Google and Apple, Samsung are to launch the Samsung Pay mobile payments system. On Sunday, the world’s biggest maker of Android phones started a major campaign to challenge Apple Pay and Google Wallet. The electronics firm said it will not be long before they... Read more
Samsung Galaxy S6, S6 Edge Announced At MWC 2015
Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge at Mobile World Congress, the two new flagship smartphones for 2015 to propel the South Korean-company back into the mobile race. The Galaxy S6 represents a new vision by Samsung, one aligned with Apple and HTC on design and... Read more
Just What Else Will the Apple Watch Do?
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook is on a tour around Europe before the launch of the Apple Watch, the company’s first product launched under the new CEO. The success of the Apple Watch will mean more than an additional bit of revenue for the company, as many consider Apple lacking... Read more
The Cradle That Lets You Use Your Phone To Rock Your Baby
As a young parent of two kids, I am acutely aware of how hard it can be to get them to go to sleep sometimes. We try everything – music, rocking them in a rocking chair or in their car seat, walking up and down the hall with them,... Read more
Samsung Trimming Down Bloatware On Galaxy S6
Samsung is serious about convincing users the Galaxy S6 is the best smartphone, according to a new report from Sam Mobile, the South Korean electronics giant has removed almost all of its bloatware from the TouchWiz UI. It follows previous reports on “Project Zero”, Samsung’s internal project to start from scratch... Read more
First 10 Kindle Scout Titles Available For Pre-Order
Amazon’s new discovery and upvoting tool Kindle Scout lets the people who matter most in the publishing process–the readers–have a say in the titles that get published. Through the company’s ebook imprint Kindle Press, books that have been nominated for publication have a chance to get published and put... Read more
Apple Pay Coming To Europe By End Of Year
Apple CEO Tim Cook has been visiting Europe to check up on Apple’s progress in the region, according to new reports. While in Germany, Cook apparently revealed Apple Pay would be available across all of Europe by the end of the year. The chief exec reportedly spilt the beans... Read more
Are Waterproof eReaders Really That Important?
If you’ve ever dropped your smartphone in the toilet then spent the next 48 hours offering sacrifices to the device as it sat in a bowl of rice to dry out, you may wonder why every single object you own isn’t encased in carbonite like Han Solo. Wouldn’t it... Read more
Apple Creates New Diverse Emojis
Apple’s been hard at work on their next mobile and desktop operating system updates, and while we don’t yet know everything that’s coming with those updates, we do know at least one thing they’ve been creating: Ethnically diverse emojis. In other words, they’re making more than just “white people”... Read more
Pebble Time Kickstarter Launched, Full Color Smartwatch
Pebble has announced the third smartwatch in the range, called the Pebble Time. The smartwatch has been released first on Kickstarter and raised over $5m in just a few hours. Announcing the news with a Kickstarter campaign, Pebble is returning to its old roots to make a break in... Read more
This Smartphone Dongle Tests For HIV In 15 Minutes
Phones have come a long way in the last couple of decades. What we once only used to talk to people we now use to check the weather, do mobile banking, listen to music, watch television shows and movies, play games, message people, update all of our social networks,... Read more
Want to Remove Superfish From Your Device? Good Luck
Once news broke about the months-long intentional consumer activity tracking by device manufacturer Lenovo, it wasn’t long before experts began to look for ways to remove it. Despite early warnings that the only surefire way was going to involve a hammer and the hard drive, that doesn’t appear to... Read more
Juicer Cable Leeches Power From Other Phones To Power Yours
Sometimes your phone’s battery dies when you need it the most, and the best smartphone in the world can’t function without any power. (And is it just me, or does this always seem to happen when there’s no power outlet nearby?) So what do you do when this happens?... Read more