19 March 2013 ~ 0 Comments

Timeout Tuesday: Mobile Eavesdropping

Check out this hilarious prank video. A guy is at a coffeeshop in town and gets a call he really wasn’t expecting. Sounds like something’s gonna go down and it’s not going to be good for someone.

This joke is something you can try out yourself but we really wouldn’t recommend it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBfJJayl4G8

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18 March 2013 ~ 0 Comments

New Giffgaff review and tethering article

Just a couple of quick updates for you today.

Firstly, we’ve been working hard on updating our Giffgaff review for 2013. We started again completely from scratch and think we’ve come up with the most comprehensive analysis of our top-rated network every. It clocks in at over 4,000 words and covers every aspect of our experience with them over the last few years from getting and starting porting a number in to the latest goodybags and new features. Go check it out now.

giffgaff review preview

We’ve also got another Giffgaff-related bonus for you. The thing is that we’ve been fielding a lot of questions on Twitter and by email recently about tethering your internet connection. To put everything in one place, we wrote up a short article and FAQ all about it. So if you have any queries about tethering at all, chances are you’ll find the answers over here. We’re also inviting you to ask any questions you have on the topic in the comments section there too so if you’re still confused, just ask away.

tethering article

That’s it for now, keep tuned for more news, videos and commentary next week 🙂

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15 March 2013 ~ 0 Comments

End of an Android era

androidGoogle have just announced that Andy Rubin – the Android co-found and pioneer for the last 10 years – is no longer going to be working on the mobile operating system. CEO Larry Page announced that he will leave his post as Senior Vice President of Mobile and Digital Content and take on a new rôle in the company. His replacement will be Sundar Pichai, who has been with Google since 2004 and helped introduce familiar products such as Google Chrome, Chrome OS, Google Maps, Gmail and the new Google Drive.

Andy Rubin first founded Android Inc. in California in 2003 and it was quickly bought out by Google in August two years later. However, it wasn’t until 2008 that Google’s software was first available on a publicly-released mobile phone. The first smartphone to use Android as its operating system was the HTC Dream.

Since then, of course, Android has been on the up-and-up buoyed by Google’s financial backing and expertise. Google claims to have activated over a quarter of a BILLION Android handsets to date and it ships on well over half of the smartphones sold worldwide. Even the app store Google Play [link] is doing very well with over 25 billion apps now downloaded. And handsets are getting better and better – the latest and greatest Android smartphone is the Google-branded Nexus 4.

However, although it seems nothing can contain the freight train that is Android growth, analysts don’t’ believe it can expand at the current rate perpetually. Even though well over a million new Android devices are activated every day, it would be impossible to grow exponentially forever and sales might be levelling off soon.

It remains to be seen what the purpose of this reshuffle is. It’s possible that we will see great convergence of Android and Chrome in the future. As for Andy Rubin, not much has been mentioned about his new responsibilities or even why he’s leaving Android just now. We have to suspect he will still be involved in Google’s mobile efforts to some extent.

What do you make of this? Is it a wise move by Google or a mistake to tear Andy away from his baby? And what do you make of the rumours about a merger of Android and Chrome OS? Give us your comments below.

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