When phones forget to be a phone

The iPhone 4 was released today, and there has been the inevitable buzz of interest and frenzied excitement from fans and eager buyers keen to get their hands on the product.

I think it should be dubbed iPhone Day.

However, you don’t need to be an Apple hater to take a step back and think: what is [...]

Phones are Smart these days

I went to Norwich yesterday, on the sort of trip that’s one point brave and two parts foolish: I had no real idea where anything was, and – since I was getting the train there – it came with a very real risk of getting lost.

But thanks to my phone, which has Google maps [...]

When BT come calling

I have not had the best of days today, and it was made worse by a phone call I’ve just had from BT. Let me just say that it really annoys me when you get called by your service provider about deals and offers. When I was at uni, it was Virgin – they called [...]