Tag: phones
10 Warning Signs Your Phone May Be Spying On You
Over the last few years, there has been an explosion of malicious spyware and stalkerware infiltrating our phones through apps and links... Undoubtedly, it is becoming easier for hackers to access our phones as spying apps are getting sneakier and harder to detect. In 2021 The New York Times reported a 65% increase in the…
Office landlines to be extinct in 6 years, claims study
The office landline will become extinct in November 2028, predicts analysis by business communications service Ringover Group. Business landline numbers fell 370,000 in a year to 4.98 million, reveals the latest Ofcom data. As recently as 2013 there were more than eight million in the UK’s office and workplaces. Numbers are predicted to fall below…
5 million UK homes never use their landline, claims report
The landline is in terminal decline, with five million households never using theirs for phone calls, reveals research by Uswitch.com, the comparison and switching service. The number of homes with a landline has fallen by four million since the year 2000 to about 22 million connections now, down 15% from its peak of being present…
Brits sitting on £16.5 billion in UNUSED gadgets
Brits are sitting on unused gadgets worth £16.5 billion – and it could DROP in value by £3.5 billion over the next year. Researchers found the typical adult has a staggering £598 worth of superfluous gadgets - simply collecting dust and cluttering their homes. But during the past year, smart phones, computers, tablets, games consoles…
Public Service Announcement: DO NOT BUY A NEW PHONE (for a week anyway)
If you've come to TechDigest today looking for advice on buying a phone, then we have one message for you: Don't. This isn't because we're anti-progress, or think that mobile phone technology peaked with the Nokia 3310 or something like that... it is out of concern for you wasting your money. Next weekend one of…
More signs that Sony is about to dump its phone business: Goodbye Xperia?
Back in November we reported rumours that Sony was thinking of abandoning its phone business. Today more fuel has been poured on that fire. According to Reuters Sony is aiming to boost its operating profits 25-fold over the next few years, and it plans to do it by both boosting the successful Playstation and camera…
Pope calls smartphones “futile”; takes up residence in a glass house
Pope Francis has been casting the first stone, at least according to the Daily Mail. The, umm, newspaper of record quotes Frankie as saying young people "waste too many hours on futile things" and that it distracts them from "what is really important", with the Mail saying he "added that futile activities include chatting on…
Portable phone battery network launched in London
Everyone hates running out of power when they're out – and nobody really wants to carry around a bulky charger. But there might be a solution, thanks to Save Squared which launches this evening in London. The service is pretty…
Why does no one make phones with keyboards anymore?
If you want a phone with a full keyboard then you're pretty much out of luck. In the space of a couple of years, physical keyboards seem to have gone the way of the dodo. But why is this? So…
Is it hip to be square? LG bank on it with the LG Vu 3 4:3 smartphone
Square, 4:3 smartphones, rather than widescreen phones, are a bad idea right? Sure, it's a nice try by LG to try to stand out from the crowd with the 4:3 dimensions of the LG Vu 3, but when the majority…