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Emoticons are far older, and indeed stranger, than most of us think. ‘Emoticons’, ‘smileys’ or even a ‘pictorial representation of facial expressions using punctuation and other symbols to depict a mood’– it doesn’t matter what you call them, these graphical tools are as universal and widely accepted as the mobile handsets and messaging clients on [...]

How do you prefer inputting information into your smartphone? Until recently, there were just two real choices, touch or type. Touch typically means a handset with a bit more screen ‘real estate’, but the potential limitation of less accurate typing. Meanwhile, the ‘QWERTY’-style mini-keyboards mean better typing but at the expense of screen space. What [...]

With the Nokia and Microsoft partnership gathering steam and delivering an ever-expanding ecosystem from handsets to apps, the Nokia Lumia 710 is a welcome newcomer to the South African market. It’s a stylish smartphone which delivers many of the capabilities of its pricier sibling in the familiar expanded candybar form factor. Top level specifications for [...]

It was my first massage. Feeling quite uncomfortable, I slipped into a bath robe and lay on the stretcher like a corpse. As instructed by the beauty therapist, I tried to relax. Five minutes into the deep tissue massage, I heard the all too familiar sound of texting. Indeed, the therapist was texting with one [...]

In addition to the stylish and slim Nokia Asha 302 touch and type feature phone, another mobile device will enable consumers to enlist as part of the QWERTY generation – the ultra-affordable Asha 201. For a device priced below R1000, the Nokia Asha 201 provides mobile phone users with a lot of feature bang for [...]