mobile phones

Mobile phones to upgrade your life

Digital Living We found four unhappy mobile phone owners who yearned for phones that would do more than make calls. Nuz, Chris, Sally and Nick all have different mobile needs, but they all want phones that will complement their lifestyles and look good.

28 November 2006, 16:06

How do I use my mobile phone as a modem for my laptop?

Digital Living Indeed, there are many phones that you can use as a modem, but for now we'll focus on how to set up your N73. I've got a Nokia N73 and somebody told me that I can use it as a modem for my laptop, but I'm not sure how to set this up.

28 February 2007, 14:48

How do I unlock my mobile phone?

Digital Living The main reason why mobile phone companies lock phones to their network is to try to stop you from buying a model on the the cheap then immediately switching to a rival. I want to buy a new music phone but it's a T-Mobile pay-as-you-go handset and...

31 January 2007, 10:37

Extend your mobile phone's battery life

Digital Living Almost every modern feature on a mobile phone puts a strain on the battery and while batteries are improving, they're still not good enough to support all the features available on modern mobile phones for long periods of time.

14 June 2006, 15:50

Can I put two SIM cards in one mobile phone?

Digital Living Hi Bill, This is a common problem, especially since more and more businesses are starting to issue mobile phones to their employees. However, these solutions will only work on phones that aren't locked to a network, so make sure the phone you want...

29 June 2006, 12:41

A mobile phone to take me home?

Digital Living Is there any way of turning my mobile phone into a sat-nav system, or are there any mobile phones that come with built-in GPS? With more and more people owning mobile phones and sat-navs, it was only a matter of time before the two converged.

28 April 2006, 11:49

Camera phones

Digital Living For sending pictures to friends who don't subscribe to your network, don't have mobile phones capable of accepting images, or -- the horror -- don't have a mobile phone, email is your only option. While camera phones are now pretty ubiquitous...

11 May 2005, 12:43

How to get music onto your Walkman phone

Digital Living Sony Ericsson's Walkman phones are a popular choice among music fans who want the convenience of a combined mobile phone and MP3 player. Unfortunately, it's not always easy to figure out how to get music onto the phones.

31 August 2006, 17:18

Choose the right Bluetooth headset

Digital Living In addition to connecting a mobile phone to a headset, Bluetooth is used to connect PCs to keyboards and mice, handhelds to other handhelds, and phones to computers. And just as the number of headsets has exploded, the number of Bluetooth mobile...

15 August 2006, 17:46

Which simple mobile phone?

Digital Living It's amazing how many features are crammed in to phones and yet how rarely we use most of them. Ironically, it's getting harder and harder to find phones without cameras, MP3 players and Web browsers on them, but they are out there.

20 April 2006, 12:47

The 8-step technology detox

Digital Living I review mobile phones for a living: how was I going to survive without one? Step one: "Mobile phones clutter our lives with unnecessary features. To my surprise, ditching the mobile was easier than I thought.

14 June 2007, 17:23

The Cloud, the Screen and the Hand

Digital Living Devices of the Hand have also come of age: they keep getting smaller, with better storage, nicer screens and smarter software, and people love their mobile phones. The Treo is by no means perfect: it's not the best sounding phone I've ever used, it...

Tags: jobs, care, flow, address book

20 May 2006, 8:58

BT has seen the future, and it's white

Digital Living The centrepiece of this digital fashion show was the BT Home Hub, a broadband router with integrated Wi-Fi, as well as the ability to support a whole range of integrated services, such as Web-based phone calls, video phones, home security systems...

26 June 2006, 17:33

Bringing it all back home

Digital Living If you add up things like satellite television, cable, landline telephony, mobile phones and broadband, it starts to become quite a big slice of your domestic budget. This setup means that I need to deal with a phone company, a cable company, a...

1 July 2006, 9:00

Best of the Mobile Internet

Digital Living Thanks to the latest 3G and HSDPA phones and low-cost data tariffs, it's easier than ever to search the Web, watch videos on YouTube and bid on auctions at eBay from your mobile. Here you'll find the best Internet-enabled phones, plus news of the...

Tags: phones, devices, enabled, youtube

16 November 2007, 13:33