Business Broadband – keeping your company connected

When looking to set up a contract for business level broadband service, several questions will come up that will differ significantly from when selecting broadband services for personal use.  Most notably, the type and size of your firm’s demand is much easier to determine in a business environment.  Standardised tasks require standard levels of connectivity [...]

BlackBerry Curve 8300 Overview

Keeping with BlackBerry’s Curve tradition, the 8300 aims to provide the average consumer with strong messaging capabilities and some nice multi-media features. Pros The design of the Curve 8300 is even more attractive than some earlier BlackBerry mobile phones marketed to consumers.  It’s thin enough to fit comfortably in the hand, but spacious enough to support a [...]

Sony Ericsson Vivaz – more than meets the eye!

Keeping an ever beady eye on the latest mobile phones to enter the market, Sony Ericsson has decided on an innovative way to capitalise on the rising popularity of compact, high definition camcorders. The new touch screen Vivaz is a media phone with an 8.1 megapixel camera and a very impressive [...]

Free laptops with mobile broadband

It is becoming quite common for mobile broadband providers to offer a free laptop and dongle when you commit to an 18 or 24 month mobile broadband contract, but is it really good value, or are there catches? Free laptops with mobile broadband contracts work in a similar way to free mobile phones [...]

Motorola E550 Review

The Motorola E550 has a soft touch black casing to it and it is generally considered to be very user friendly. When it was first made available by Motorola it was considered to be a mid range handset where price is concerned but it is now available on cheap mobile phone websites for a fraction [...]

Samsung Wave Overview

A quick flick through recent mobile phone reviews suggests that, of the latest mobile phones jostling for a premium place in the market, the Samsung Wave GT-S5800 has a lot to commend it. Its strikingly handsome slim-line appearance and its fabulous ‘Super AMOLED’ touch screen will leave you feeling decidedly spellbound [...]

LG GW520 – is it any good?

The LG GW520 is a new smart phone model designed around social networking, sending messages, and texting between friends.  It offers an excellent balance between raw processing capabilities, excellent data rates, and ease of use for sending messages.  This phone clearly has its niche, which it targets well. What’s most noticeable about the LG GW520 is [...]

Usage limits – why do they matter?

While comparing broadband deals and broadband providers you would probably have come across a factor called ‘usage limit’ (as well as its evil twin, ‘fair use policy’). But how does usage limits impact your broadband connection? Every activity you do on the internet involves the transfer of data, measured in megabytes (MB) or [...]

Sony Ericsson Yari – is it any good?

Gesture-controlled gaming is the hallmark of the Yari, the latest of the Sony Ericsson mobile phones. Pros Much like the Wii gaming system, the Yari features gesture-controlled gaming.  This is a unique innovation uncommon to most new mobile phones.  Some games require the user to move the entire handset, while others let users prop the phone and [...]