It is said that the issue of phones in schools has become a “scourge”. The Government are preparing plans to ban mobile phones from school classrooms, according to a new report. The Irish Mirror states that senior Government ministers are eager to combat the excessive use of phones – particularly smartphones – in Irish schools […]

2 years ago

The incredible footage was shared across social media. In a truly incredible piece of footage from Ukraine’s frontline, a soldier shows how his mobile phone stopped a bullet and seemingly saved his life. The clip, which has since gone viral and been reshared thousands of times, shows two Ukrainian soldiers dug into a trench when […]

4 years ago

The life support on BlackBerry phones is being switched off. There was a time when you couldn’t avoid the BlackBerry. From Barack Obama to Kim Kardashian, everyone seemed to have one of them in the late 2000s/early 2010s, and if you weren’t on BBM then you were a nobody. But in one of the great […]

4 years ago

Finally! We’ve got… (checks notes) … “Elevator Going Up” emoji. As we venture further and further away from regular conversation, we delve further and further into a language composed entirely of emojis. Remember when it was basically just what you could make up with the text characters themselves? Like if you had a colon and […]

6 years ago

We already thought they’d made an indestructible phone, the 3310… HMD Global, the owners of Nokia, have launched their new Nokia 800 Tough in Ireland and for the clumsy among us, it might be worth checking out. According to HMD Global, the Nokia 800 Tough (nicknamed the ‘Hercules of phones’) is built to withstand daily drops […]

6 years ago

Apple’s newest range was announced on Tuesday evening. New year, new phone. 2019… so… by our guess… the 2019th iPhone? That seems about right. Let us not beat around the bush here though, you want to know how much your new life investment is going to cost you. Well, we’ve got some good news (one […]

7 years ago