Twenty years of mobile innovation

We wake up in the morning with the alarm clock on our phone. We consult the day’s events via our phone calendar. We check the news, weather, train times and even the activities of our friends through a range of smartphone apps. And we might even make a phone call! So how has the humble … Read more

Opinion: Samsung stops making smart watches

Shaun McGill’s Lost In Mobile is one of my favourite technology blogs. A true blog in a very saturated market, his opinions often express the logical voice, despite his love for Apple. Anyway, jokes apart, he has a great passion for watches, so after Samsung announced they won’t be making smart watches any more, I … Read more

How to roll your own local app store with F-Droid

There’s a tendency for people who release Android apps to treat the Google Play store as the single monopoly app repository. If a company’s got an app ‘on Android’ that’s usually short for ‘on Google Play’, assuming that every device running Android has got access to Google Play. That’s probably true for most users, but … Read more

Review: Mi Fitness Band

What is it? In a market starting to get heavily saturated with fitness bands and devices, the Mi Fitness band by the Chinese company Xiaomi is a breath of fresh air. Why? It offers a 30 day battery life on a single charge, is waterproof, monitors your sleep without having to activate it, has a … Read more