Featured Kickstarter: Tripwire 21

By Sami Mughal Here we love to feature a local Kickstarter, and here we feature TRIPWIRE from London. This is them in their own words: 2013 is a milestone year for TRIPWIRE. This year, we celebrate twenty-one years of publication, moving from a primitive stapled fanzine to a full colour lavish magazine with high production … Read more

Fixing a broken HTC ONE X, and recovering your old software

In this article, Becca tells of her tale when her HTC ONE X started to show some battery issues. She goes through how she reported the problem, how HTC responded, and what she had to do to get her phone back in its original state. I’ve had my HTC One X for just over a … Read more

Review: Vodafone Mobile Wi-Fi R205

Today we give you the Vodafone Mobile Wi-Fi R205, or as I like to call it – “the white thingy”. What is mobile Wi-Fi? Well, it’s a portable router which uses cellular network connection to distribute internet goodness to up to (in this case) five devices. That is, of course, if you’re in a good … Read more

Weather apps on Android–a comparison for Oxford!

With this post we welcome Becca Chaplin (@ox_bex) to our team of writers. She starts off by doing a comparative analysis of the different weather apps available on Android and how well they work in the lovely city of Oxford. One of the things pretty much all of us have on our smartphones and/or tablets … Read more

Review: LA robe cover for iPad Mini

By Sami Mughal For our latest review, we are covering the be.ez’s LA Robe cover for the iPad Mini. The one they sent us for a review is the Black Allure, which is very sophisticated with the stripy design despite being very neutral in it’s appearance. A perfect companion to your iPhone 5 case, if … Read more

Review: be.ez LA cover for iPhone 5

By Sami Mughal The latest thing that we have been trying is the be.ez La Cover, sent to us in the Allure Black range. We covered the cases earlier this month in the following post: https://www.oxgadgets.com/2013/03/beez-la-allure-iphone-5-cases-available.html Here is what we thought of it: The case is a perfect fit, as you’d expect from any case … Read more

Vodafone R205 Wifi Modem: First Impressions

By Sami Mughal Vodafone have sent us a ‘Mobile Wi-Fi R205’ device to try out. It is a device they give out on a Pay Monthly basis and it acts as a WiFi modem wherever you go, without having to worry about your phone’s network/data charges as well as internet availability. It works on 3G, … Read more

LG Launch 55” OLED for the British Market

By Sami Mughal TVs of the world are certainly not as straight forward as they used to be. There is an amazing choice out there and they are almost as sexy as sports cars now. LG are an upfront name on the market and they have just announced the latest in their range for the … Read more