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Hands-on with the Oppo Find 5

We go hands-on with the Oppo Find 5 Android smartphone.

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Hands-on with the LG Optimus G

We go hands-on with LG's new "superphone", the Optimus G

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Hands-on with the Kogan Agora Android smartphone

We've just got our hands on Kogan's latest low-cost Android smartphone, the dual-SIM Agora

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Unboxing the BlackBerry Z10

It's a new era for BlackBerry. The company has a new name, a new mobile operating system and two new smartphones. The first is the BlackBerry Z10 and we've got our hands on a review unit a little early.

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News about smartphones

Article | 20/05/2013 Mobile coverage in Sydney train tunnels 15 years in the making: Optus
Optus has revealed that the network infrastructure upgrade to bring mobile phone coverage into Sydney's train tunnels was a project that was 15 years ...
Article | 20/05/2013 Jolla announces first Sailfish-based smartphone
Finnish startup Jolla has announced its first smartphone, which shows off its Sailfish OS on a 4.5-inch screen.
Article | 18/05/2013 iPhone 6 rumour rollup for the week ending May 17
There's nothing like exclusive, high resolution, leaked photographs of arcane internal iPhone components to trigger the gaga reflex in the iOSphere. I...
Article | 17/05/2013 BlackBerry 10.1 update now available in Australia
BlackBerry has released the first major update to its BlackBerry 10 operating system for smartphones, less than two months after the company first unv...
Article | 17/05/2013 New iPhone: Sapphire crystal fingerprint scanner 'to be embedded in home button'
There have been plenty of rumours circulating that Apple is planning to incorporate fingerprint readers into the new iPhone, and now confirmation that...

Tutorials about smartphones

Article | 19/02/2013 How to jailbreak your iPhone
Jailbreaking--the process that enables you to install unauthorized-by-Apple third-party apps and additional features on your iPhone, iPod touch, and i...
Article | 15/02/2013 Bugs & Fixes: iPhone fails to pair to Bluetooth device
Last September, a new thread in Apple Support Communities briefly noted that a user was unable to get his iPhone 5 to pair with other Bluetooth device...
Article | 5/02/2013 iPhone speaker not working? How to fix glitch in iOS 6.1
The iOS 6.1 update fixes some bugs, but also introduces brand new ones, like potentially crippling your iPhone’s built-in speaker.
Article | 22/01/2013 Control your TV with your smartphone, tablet
Using your smartphone or tablet to control your Tivo box is easy and offers a lot of flexibility in recording shows and channel surfing.
Article | 18/10/2011 How to create custom notification tones in iOS 5
Apple's latest iOS 5 operating system for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices went live last week and one of its new features is custom notification t...

Features about smartphones

Article | 17/05/2013 Google woos developers as software becomes more important
Google did its best to court developers at this year's I/O conference with a much-needed integrated developer environment, API for better games and th...
Article | 17/05/2013 Google I/O no-shows: Three products curiously absent from the keynote
For all the cool things that Google introduced at this year's I/O keynote, several of the items that the tech press definitely, absolutely, positively...
Article | 10/05/2013 Nokia reboots Windows Phone push in the US but success will still be hard-won
Nokia's is rebooting its U.S. Windows Phone push with the arrival of the low-cost Lumia 521 on T-Mobile and Lumia 928 for Verizon Wireless, but increa...
Article | 10/05/2013 Hands-on with the Oppo Find 5
Oppo is best known for its high-end Blu-ray and Hi-Fi systems, but the Guangdong-based company is now attempting to make an impact in the smartphone m...
Article | 9/05/2013 The BlackBerry Q10 has a nice keyboard but falls short everywhere else
The BlackBerry Q10 is a solidly built piece of hardware that will please those who've waited for a new physical-keyboard BlackBerry, but its small scr...