News
Mobile phones and cancer
The latest research does seem to confirm that using mobile phones does not increase the user’s risk of brain tumours, or, indeed, any other form of cancer. The largest study, undertaken in Denmark and covering some 420,000 subjects found no link between the use of mobile phones and the later development of brain cancers, leukaemia, [...]
Mobile phones have improved communication – or have they just killed conversation?
The world is full of mobile phones (though Americans call them cells) and more and more of them are now smartphones, these are grown-up mobiles with a screen full of little coloured objects called apps. People site on the train, in buses, restaurants and at parties that are going off the boil, and whisk their [...]
Smartphones
Why should I want a smartphone? Smartphones explained …
Once there were mobile phones. You could telephone people, or send them text messages: then you could take photos… then came the “smartphones” These are multi-function mobile phone handsets with a whole new range of features. Not just a phone and camera, but also a web-browser and touchscreen display allowing a whole range of services [...]
Network Reviews
Are you receiving me and if not why not?
We’ve come a long way with our mobile phones. The days of the “phone box” seriously numbered, even school children … and babies(?) have their own handsets. The UK started using some kind of “Radiophone system” as far back as in 1958. The phone was a big black box that was kept in the boot of a car which also housed all the other electronic components. [Read More...]
Is the future Orange?
Well, I have used the Orange network for a while now and I can’t really say I’m disappointed at all. Every network has their faults, but Orange on the whole have been rather good. In my household signal on most networks is hard to go by, the worst being Vodafone, when my friend who uses Vodafone , pops round he tends to be frustrated with the lack of signal he gets. O2 is OK (when stood in certain positions). But Orange, with its addition of T-Mobile signal works a treat and it’s very rare that my signal bars are down to nil. Obviously signal isn’t the only reason that makes a network a success or a flop, without a doubt Vodafone, O2 and others are great successes but for me Orange is top of the pile for now. [Read More...]