Posts Tagged ‘wap’

Weird Tech: Kirstie Allsopp in "Greggs" Twitter rage

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Lovely Kirstie Allsopp, the property expert and shoe fetishist’s favourite TV celebrity, caused a minor ripple of resentment on Twitter this week – thanks to complaining about her lunch budget. Moaning that her Channel 4 daily food expenses allowance has “gone from £15 to £10 to £6!” leaving her “Away from home, freezing & now starving”, Kirstie was quickly lambasted by her loyal fans. Loyal fans not fortunate enough to (a) be a rich telly star or (b) have a lunch allowance at all.

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In Depth: 10 mobile phones that defined the decade

Monday, December 28th, 2009

The last decade has been revolutionary for the mobile phone. Not only has ownership rocketed, the cellular phone been transformed from a gadget for simply making and taking calls or texting into an astonishingly powerful hub for multimedia entertainment, internet surfing, social networking, GPS location-finding, camera snapping – plus lots more that there’s an app for… So what were the handsets that rocked us during the last decade and defined the noughties? 1. Nokia 7110 (1999/2000) While we partied like it was 1999 and the clocks chimed in the Noughties, hip phone-slingers were slipping the spring-loaded slider and calling on the smartest handset in town – the WAP-packing Nokia 7110

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Updated: 10 best mobile phones in the world today

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Believe it or not, the Nokia 3210 is now over 10 years old. Selling over 150 million units, the 3210 was the first mobile to truly hit the big time and it was many people’s first time phone. Who doesn’t remember playing Snake and composing a personal ringtone on the 3210? Back then, phones were used for making phone calls, texting was a new phenomenon and WAP was so hi-tech it was scary

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