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Last night Nokia won two Products of the Year Awards at the prestigious venue Summer Place in Rosebank.
One award was for the Nokia C3 and another for the Nokia N9, as voted for by South African consumers. The Nokia C3 won under the category of best phone under R1000 and the Nokia N9 as the [...]

Nokia’s Lumia 800 smartphone is a game changing handset in many ways. Not only does it signal the introduction of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.5 mobile operating system to Nokia devices, but also introduces a number of features which are unique to the marketplace.
In honour of its impending 2012 release, we thought we’d take a look [...]

Stop spamming your contacts, WhatsApp users won’t be seeing red!
According to a message currently making the rounds on smartphone messaging application, WhatsApp, users will soon be charged for sending messages. But before you scramble to spam all your contacts and spread the word, the message has been confirmed as a hoax.
The message claims that users [...]

The concept of cloud computing is a foggy one. What does it mean and how can it benefit mobile users?
The term ‘cloud computing’ is thrown around pretty loosely these days. So much so in fact, that many people are feeling a little muddled and confused with regards to what it actually means.
In a nutshell, the [...]

Like many rising technologies, the development of mobile networks is prone to spurts of rapid growth. During the relatively short timeframe in which wireless connectivity has been able to truly influence global communication (think a decade or so), we have seen mobile standards evolve, GSM and EDGE, 3G, and then towards HSPA and HSPA+ data [...]