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Reviews & hands-on
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Phones 3.5 out of 5HTC First review
We’ve got smartphone fatigue. It’s always a new iPhone, new Windows Phone, new Android phone with Samsung’s latest TouchWiz UX, or a lifesaver the folks at BlackBerry are trying to cook up, dominating the news cycle on a daily basis. This is why...
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OnlineHands-on: New Facebook News Feed explored
Facebook has updated the look and feel of its News Feed feature in the hope that it will become the best personalised newspaper you would ever want. As the global roll-out begins, Pocket-lint has been given access to the new feature so we can share what...
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AppsINQ Material serves up your daily news based on Twitter and Facebook 'social DNA'
INQ is taking the fight to the likes of Flipboard and Pulse in launching a content aggregation app called Material. Looking to add differentiation, INQ is analysing your social network use to identify your interests and tailor your content accordingly...
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CarsCitroën C1 Connexion: The Facebook crowdsourced car
Citroën has launched a special edition of its C1 city car, the C1 Connexion, designed by its fans on Facebook. Back in 2012, the car manufacturer set about crowdsourcing the specifications for a special edition of the car via its Facebook page. Taking...
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OnlineFacebook Graph Search goes live, we go hands-on
Facebook Graph Search is live and rolling out to a handful of people, and when we say handful we mean it. According to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Facebook, the initial beta is available to a couple of hundred people of the 1 billion-odd users...
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OnlineFacebook in OS X Mountain Lion details, we go hands-on
Apple has confirmed to Pocket-lint that Facebook will be joining Twitter in being given system-level access to allow you to check and make status updates from anywhere at the click of a button. We've been playing with a developer preview of the new feature...
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AppsAPP OF THE DAY: Scrambls review (browser)
Today is a bit of a first on App of the Day on Pocket-lint. While the bread and butter of our 6pm slot is most often applications for mobile phones, it does include any kind of application whatsoever. So, we've had the odd web app, some computer desktop...
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AppsFacebook for Windows Phone 7 update pictures and hands-on
Windows Phone 7 users who like Facebook got a treat this week with the launch of the new and improved official application for their devices. There's a whole host of new features for the updated app, including improved panorama and profile designs, better...
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AppsAPP OF THE DAY: Facebook for iPad review (iPad)
Ever since the iPad launched, Facebook has always said that you don’t need a dedicated iPad app and that the Safari web browser is the best way to experience Facebook. On Monday all that changed. After months of waiting, we now have a dedicated Facebook...
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AppsAPP OF THE DAY: Facebook Messenger review (Android)
Facebook has found its way into almost every phone, with custom apps, a mobile site and entire operating system updates dedicated to accommodating Mark Zuckerberg’s social network. Replicating all the features that Facebook offers is accommodated well...
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Phones 3 out of 5Vodafone 555 Blue review
The Vodafone 555 Blue is the latest Facebook phone to hit the market. But when we say market, we don't just mean the markets here in the UK. Oh no, Vodafone has big plans with regards to opening up Facebook to millions of mobile users worldwide - at least...
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AppsAPP OF THE DAY: Facebook Messenger review (iOS)
Facebook has, until recently, been a place where you shout about what you are doing; whereby friends will invariably reply by shouting back:"I did this" or "I did that". However, with everyone wanting a piece of the BlackBerry BBM pie and Apple about...
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PhonesVodafone 555 Blue hands-on
The first thing to say about the Vodafone 555 Blue is that it's not blue at all, it's white. Actually the most important thing to say is that the 555 is not a handset to match the likes of the HTC ChaCha - another mobile phone built firmly with Facebook...
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TabletsFacebook iPad app hands-on
Most of those who updated their iPhone Facebook app on Sunday were blissfully unaware of the iPad secrets embedded inside. Little did they know a bit of clever tweaking could lead to the application transforming itself into a brand new Facebook app for...
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Phones 3.5 out of 5HTC ChaCha review
The second “Facebook phone” from HTC, and launched in tandem with the HTC Salsa, is the HTC ChaCha. It’s strange name for a phone that is something of a strange Android device, offering a format we haven’t seen much of from the Google OS. We can’t...