It’s no secret that phones are expensive. Taking care of your device is smart. You’ll save money in the long run for repairs and preventive maintenance. You can sell or trade your device at Mobile Monster if you’re ready to upgrade. These are ways to make them last longer. 1. Update Your Device’s Software Software … Read more
I have a pine phone. To those of you who have not heard of pine phone look at pine64.com. It’s a Linux phone which can run about 20 different Linux OS’s, but it’s not sold as a complete phone, it was sold as a development phone. Until the software is perfect. I will explain why … Read more
The 50 is the first smartphone Chinese manufacturer Honor has produced since it split from its parent company Huawei. This means it has regained the opportunity to use Google’s apps, including Google Maps and Google Pay, as well as the Google Play app store, which remain unavailable to new Huawei phones due to continuing restrictions … Read more
Apple has done the whole industry a sneaky favour by bringing out the iPhone X, but we’re not fooled. Just because something else is even more expensive, that doesn’t mean the price is reasonable. [rh_get_post_thumbnails video=1 height=200 justify=1] Still, it’s not the only smartphone at this price. The P20 Pro owes something to the iPhone … Read more
Nokia 2 – Technology gets cheaper as it ages, so logically you should be able to buy what was an excellent phone five years ago for a pittance today. And you can – second hand. Tech companies won’t keep making them and flog them cheap, because they want to sell new models. So they either ignore … Read more
Now and again a mid-priced phone comes along with a specification that approaches upmarket models that cost hundreds more. Often it’s from OnePlus, the Chinese company that launched four years ago with a crowd-funded invitation system and progressed to direct online sales. The current OnePlus 5T is a great example, and now rival Huawei has … Read more
Rear-mounted fingerprint sensor is pretty quick too Sleek Build that offers a premium feel Quality at a Budget The price and the brand might be synonymous to entry level smartphones, but the Xiaomi Redmi 5 feels very premium. Its build is sleek yet solid, with a matte back and a 5.7-inch 18:9. Comfortably fitting in one hand, … Read more
Huawei Honor 9 review – We liked it better when they were cheaper, but at least the Honor 9 exemplifies how you can now get the kind of features that were once exclusive to phones for half that amount. The Honor 9’s price has fluctuated, but it’s nearly a hundred quid less than the OnePlus … Read more
When BlackBerry released the DTEK50, its second Android smartphone, in August 2016, it called it “the world’s most secure Android smartphone”. What, then, does that make this, the higher-specified DTEK60, the firm’s most premium smartphone to date? Pretty darn secure, as it happens. This handset is that and a surprising amount more, and proof that … Read more
Jonathan Bray tests the latest budget phone from Motorola and compares it with the best on the market The Moto G is king of the budget smartphones. Other pretenders have tried and failed to take its crown, but few have even come close to claiming its position at the top. The question is: Could it … Read more
In the old days, computers were made up of a bunch of widgets slotted together. When a component failed or a better one came along, you could undo a screw or pop open a flap and do a quick swap. Desktop PCs are still like that, which is why they’re not extinct, despite being unattractively … Read more
Keir Thomas splashes the cash to see if screen protectors costing more than a few quid are worth it – plus, what’s the best way to keep your screen clean? Screen protectors are cheap. In fact, they’re often entirely free, given away with other products such as phone cases. For larger items like tablets and … Read more