Mobile phones
Apple launches smaller, cheaper iPhone | Technology
Apple has launched a cheaper version of its iPhone SE as it attempts to continue normal business despite the coronavirus pandemic. The second-generation SE resembles Apple’s previous design used for its smartphones between 2014 and 2017, complete with the traditional touch ID home button instead of face recognition. It costs from £419 in the UK …
20 learning apps for stir-crazy kids | Technology
The closure of schools across the UK has left many parents and carers in the sudden, unexpected position of being home-school teachers. Schools are providing support where they can, but there are also still plenty of smartphone and tablet apps that can be used as part of learning. It may be tricky to get some …
Mobile World Congress axed after firms quit over coronavirus fears | Technology
The world’s largest mobile phone trade fair, Mobile World Congress, has been cancelled after scores of the world’s biggest technology and telecommunications companies pulled out over fears of the spread of coronavirus. The MWC, which was due to be held in Barcelona on 24 February, was expecting more than 100,000 delegates from about 200 countries …
Get yourself cybersecure for 2020 | Technology
Technology is changing our lives for the better; yet it’s also exposing us to organised crime, online scammers and hackers – and whole industries built around monetising our personal data. But you don’t have to be resigned to cyber-victimhood. Give yourself, and your devices, a security update for 2020 and start fighting back. Random and …
Using science and technology to turn e-waste trash into treasure
Mobile phones and laptops have become indispensable. As our means of obtaining and relaying information for personal use, work and entertainment, one would be hard-pressed to imagine a world without these portable electronic devices. The confluence of global trends – rapidly advancing technology, rising adoption of information and communication technology (ICT), growing middle-class societies, and shorter …
Which reasonably priced smartphone could replace my old Nokia Lumia? | Technology
My Nokia Lumia 820 smartphone is approaching obsolescence after six years’ use. Apart from that, I used a second-hand iPhone for a week before it failed, but I have never used an Android phone. I am clearly not someone who places a premium on having the latest phone, but I would like something I can …
In a world made small by smartphones, we crave escape into otherness | Brigid Delaney | Opinion
Whether the world feels small, close and manageable, or foreign, unknowable and chaotic, says something about where you live and what sort of device you carry in your hand. For the former, the world is made small by smartphones. No matter the view outside our homes (the Alps or skyscrapers or a frozen lake), what’s …
Google Pixel 4 XL review: not quite ready for primetime | Technology
Google’s latest Pixel 4 XL smartphone is its bravest yet, throwing out the conventions of old, integrating cutting-edge technology and attempting to round it all out with a special mix of software direct from the Android-maker. By now you probably know the drill. The Pixel 4 XL is a metal and glass sandwich like practically …
Tech giants fight digital right-to-repair bills | Technology
WASHINGTON — Alex Buchon carefully inserted a slim, credit-card-sized tool into the gently warmed glue holding a broken iPad together. Patiently, he sliced through the glue to separate the screen from the rest of the device, exposing its innards. The electronics technician needed to get inside to determine whether the device needed a new battery. …
Google launches cheaper Pixel 4 to undercut Apple’s iPhone | Technology
Google has launched its latest iPhone-competitor, the Pixel 4 and 4 XL, with new radar technology, dual-camera and a lower price. Google’s consumer hardware division unveiled a series of new devices in New York, led by the Pixel 4 smartphone and including an updated Nest Mini smart speaker and Nest Wifi system, among other products. …
