Why Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge is way more than a concept
from concept to mainstreamEvolution teaches us many things, one of the most important being that in order to survive, we must adapt. Unfortunately, some creatures are better adapted for survival than others. Over thousands upon thousands or millions of years, a seemingly simple organism can rise to ... -techradar
AndroidSamsung Galaxy S6 Active may bring back the microSD slot
a Samsung Galaxy S6 Active begun even before we had a full look at the Galaxy S6, and now a source is suggesting the phone will be remarkably similar to the Galaxy S6.A Reddit user claims to have spoken with a Samsung representative about the Galaxy S6 Active and ma... -techradarWindows PhoneBuying Guide: Best sat nav 2015: which GPS navigation option should you buy?
- introUPDATED: We've updated our list with the best sat navs and our new top five sat nav app. The car sat nav is an essential form of technology that we all take for granted. These days, with GPS-supporting smartphones and apps from the likes of TomTom, Garmin and the rest, you don't necessarily need a hardware sat n... -techradar
Bored by Facebook? 'On This Day' may pique your interest
s breaking out its equivalent of a "Greatest Hits" album with a new feature that recycles your old content from years gone by."On This Day," drawing only from today's date, surfaces status updates, photos, posts from friends and other things you've shared or been tagged, according to the social media com... -techradar
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s mobile ambitions have flitted from being a foreground issue to a background issue and vice versa within the company over the past decade. Windows Mobile, pre-iPhone, was class-leading and enabled a whole swathe of businesses to work on mobile, sending and receiving email in a time ... -techradarIN DEPTH: Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge vs LG G Flex 2
camera comparisonSmartphones have reached the point where designs are more iterative than innovative. While the look and feel changes only slightly on new models each year, manufacturers haven't done much to wow consumers beyond the traditional rectangular slab of glass, metal and plastic.LG attempt... -techradar7 days in smartphones: Dear Microsoft, please don't eat my Android phone
cess isn't in another smartphoneIt's Friday. You're giddy with excitement. It can only mean one thing…7 days in smartphones is back again!Forget being "social" with your so-called "friends", stay here in the dark with as we try to make you laugh. Once. It's the best we can hope ... -techradarOpinion: Phone resolution doesn't matter – here's why
assumed that the higher the resolution we pack onto our smartphone screens, the better the product, and I've been guilty of this thinking myself. But over the past couple of days I've come to the conclusion that there's something to be said about packing a lower resolution. Before you pick up... -techradarWeek in Tech: Week in Tech: Nvidia goes Titanic, Nintendo shrinks to mobile and Google hates humans
a bad week for humanity. Google reckons we're too dumb to be in charge of cars, Microsoft appears to be rewarding software pirates and Apple's still refusing to admit that the gold Apple Watch Edition is an elaborate joke. But there are plenty of reas... -techradarIs LG going to make your next Nexus smartphone?
predict the company Google will partner with to make the next Nexus has become our new favourite game. A few weeks ago it looked like Huawei was the frontrunner but new rumours are pointing towards Google's old friend LG.The fresh reports have been prompted by a visit by Google executives to LG headquarters in South Korea... -techradar
AndroidIn Depth: OnePlus Two: What we want to see
f="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/oneplus-one-1244307/review">OnePlus One came out of nowhere as the first product of a new company, but it didn't disappoint, thanks to high end specs and a surprisingly low price tag.One of the biggest complaints we could level at it was how hard it was ... -techradarAnalysis: Mario on your mobile? What you need to know about Nintendo's smartphone games
s smartphone gaming planNintendo has announced it is to put its name to mobile phone games. This is something that has been talked about for years, after people started playing more on iPhones than Nintendo 3DSs, especially in the west.But what sort of games will Nintendo make for mobile ... -techradarVersus: Windows 10 for phones vs Windows Phone 8.1: what's new?
cy, home screen and emailWindows Phone is not long for this world. But don't worry, Microsoft hasn't killed Windows Phone like it all-but killed the Nokia phone brand last year. Instead, Windows phones, tablets, laptops and desktops are all going to use the same system, Windows 10. Or to be more prec... -techradarThis smartwatch wants to replace your smartphone, tablet and laptop
is great, especially when it all works together, but sometimes it's not particularly seamless - enter the Neptune Suite.We've already covered the details of the Neptune Hub wearable, which houses all the processing power and smartphone smarts in a wrist cuff and beams it to a dumb mobile screen when y... -techradarApple courting disillusioned Android users with trade-in offer?
e iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus earning Apple a mind-blowing amount of money since their launch last year, the company is still coming up with new ways to boost sales.Its latest ploy? Courting disillusioned Android users with the allure of discounted new iPhones, according to 9to5Mac.Is the iPa... -techradarXperia Z3 and Z3 Compact owners, Lollipop is coming your way
lling out the Android Lollipop update for its flagship devices, the Xperia Z3 and Xperia Z3 Compact, from today.The upgrade is coming to the Nordics and Baltic nations today and will be carrying on its journey to further markets over the next couple of weeks.More of the Xperia Z series will be seeing t... -techradarWindows PhoneLook out, Siri - Google Now's new feature might be its best yet
settling the iOS vs Android vs Windows Phone debate would be to have Siri, Google Now and Cortana fight it out in some sort of cage match. That's unlikely to ever happen, but if it did then two of them would have reason to be concerned, as Google's contender is about to get a substantial update.Google Now's Di... -techradar
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0: the phone we all loveAfter being bought and then ransacked for its mobile phone know-how by Microsoft, Nokia as we know it is gone. But there was a shining time in the final moments of the 20th century where we saw Nokia launch a string of successful handsets that, for a while, would lead it to dominate the mobile marke... -techradar
Android may get a whole lot safer on public Wi-Fi
ity and privacy on everyone's minds these days, it should come as no surprise that Google appears to be working on a VPN service for Android.A VPN - or Virtual Private Network - can help keep you secure even when you're on public Wi-Fi, and big clues in the latest Android update suggest that Google might make it a stand... -techradarWeek in Tech: Week in Tech: Apple prices its Watch, Sony kills PlayStation Mobile, Google opens a shop
r the beginning of a new kind of computing or the beginning for the end for Apple. Yep, we're talking about the Apple Watch, which the internet says will either make Apple sales boom or send it to its doom. But that's not all, because Apple also... -techradar7 Days in Smartphones: 7 days in smartphones: How Apple murdered time
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Samsung will make more slim, metal phones to fight back against Apple
Samsung fans: Apple is now selling more handsets than the South Korean company (74.83m v 73.03m in the last quarter, Gartner says). So what is Samsung going to do about it? Focus on high-end, top-quality phones.Budget plastic phones a... -techradarAndroid phones will follow in the new MacBook's USB-C footsteps
the first major company to throw its weight behind USB Type-C with a flagship product - the new Macbook - but Google isn't far behind.The search company launched its own brand new notebook, the second-gen Chromebook Pixel, with USB Type-C this week as well.We reviewed the top ChromebooksAnd now Googl... -techradar
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time because the Apple Watch launch event is happening today. It kicks off on March 9 at 10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern, 5pm GMT and - if you're still awake - 4am on March 10 in Sydney, and we'll be updating this live blog with all the news as it breaks - so make sure you stay tuned.Hands on: Apple W... -techradar
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SmarphonesWelcome once again to TechRadar's roundup of all things phone related, your chance to listen the witterings of a selected madman, a man driven crazy by small piles of meat and peppermint tea.Too many connectionsI've just come back from the madness of Mobile World Congress 2015, having spent eight days out ... -techradarWeek in Tech: Week in Tech: MWC rocks the mobile world
e look forward to their birthdays. Others, Christmas. For us, it's MWC and GDC. The former's the most important event in the mobile tech world, and the latter is the same for game development. This year didn't disappoint: we've got some of the greatest smartphones ever made, and some gaming n... -techradarAndroid Lollipop 5.1 could land on Nexus devices as early as Friday
1 is a much-anticipated update to Android 5.0 Lollipop, and according to one source it could arrive as soon as Friday.The incremental Android update is expected to fix some of Lollipop's biggest problems, including bugs related to settings and UI, plus general performance improvements.Last year w... -techradarA Vaio smartphone might join those new laptops
more than a year since Sony sold the Vaio brand to Japanese firm JIP, and now it seems the company is working on a Vaio smartphone.There were hints about the Vaio smartphone in February, but some solid evidence appeared this week in the form of box photos (above) and certification by Japanese authorities, according to Phone Arena.The Vaio... -techradarIn Depth: Why businesses should consider the Samsung Galaxy S6
is week Samsung announced the anxiously-awaited Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge. The 5.1-inch quad HD resolution (2,560 x 1,440) phone features a 16-megapixel camera, comes in different colors, and is likely to be a hit with consumers. More adventurous (and more f... -techradarIs LG throwing a fingerprint scanner into the G4 mix?
nk the full unveiling of the Samsung Galaxy S6, the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge and the HTC One M9 at Mobile World Congress mean we're done with the spurious smartphone rumours for a while, then you can think again.The LG G4 is still in the pipeline, and the newest tidbit of gossip from behind the scene... -techradar
Samsung could be 'slaughtered' in five years according to Cyanogen CEO
Samsung is the biggest Android manufacturer in the world and even outside of Android it often seems like it only really has Apple for competition.But that could all be set to change, and in as little as five years Samsung could be "sla... -techradarVersus: HTC One M9 vs iPhone 6
9 vs iPhone 6: IntroWhile HTC's sales are dwarfed by Apple's, its flagships are met with critical acclaim and a loyal following, drawn to the brand's eye for design, then married to slick performance and genuinely useful features.The same could be said about Apple, albeit with a much larger fan bas... -techradarMWC 2015: HTC Vive Edges Samsung to win MWC Best in Show
s tricky choosing the winners at a show like MWC, as there's always a glut of immensely beautiful, powerful and innovative phones to check out.It certainly wasn't any easier this year, as improved design from Samsung, more power from HTC and a couple of new polished smartwatches from LG showed ... -techradarMWC 2015: Online benchmarks suggest a Nokia Android smartphone is on the way
Nokia can't sell us any smartphones – that was part of the agreement when Microsoft bought out most of the company last April – but the ban lifts at the end of 2016, and it seems Nokia is already testing out some Android hardware in preparation.The folks at Nokia Power User have spotted a telltale ... -techradar
