About Khellan Payne
I’m a dad, and a part-time writer of fiction and copy writing amongst other thing in the fire. I have a crackberry 9900, an iphone, and an android phone, and my default area of speciality is the blackberry stuff most of the team are as likely to spit on them as actually be seen dead using one. Hopefully I’ll have a Nexus 4 and a BB10 device in the next couple of months.
You can contact me via e-mail: [email protected], in fact on most social networks bar Facebook. Feel free to drop me a message via any way you prefer.
Google Play Games revealed ahead of Google I/O
With Google I/O just around the corner, you’d think the company would want to keep a lid on its forthcoming offerings but Android Police has to grab a copy of Google Play Services 3.1.36 which seems to be trickling out [...]
Case Mate barely there case for iPhone 5 – Review
There are some people who are able to have their phone totally unprotected and show it off in the way manufacturers intended, in all their ‘industrial design’ glory. I’m not one of those people. Having some sort of protection on [...]
Source code for the HTC One, One X and Droid DNA – CM HTC One?
Along with delivering a developer edition of the HTC One uberphone (yes, its the 64Gb version; yes, there’s only a U.S. site currently up for buying one; no, the UK HTC site hasn’t got it, and yes, the developer edition [...]
Viber beta for BlackBerry – free VoIP calling
It’s true – in this day and age, there is actually a company who keeps their word. When Viber announced free calling between its users for iOS and Android, they did say Blackberry 7 users would also receive the update [...]
Google Babel – one tool to rule them all – opinion
Anyone who’s been more than an occasional Google services user on their phone will recognise the problem. You send an email to a friend through Gmail, follow up with a google talk chat session, send a post through Google+ to [...]
Google Play gets facelift and a makeover
You may not see it on your device immediately, but you will, and it’ll thank you for it. The Google Play marketplace has gone through another iteration (one of our colleagues called it Google Play 4 due to the APK [...]
HTC profits slump even further
If you thought the One would be… One handset to turn HTC’s profits around, you’d be wrong so far. Bloomberg has recently reported that the Taiwanese companies woes still haven’t ended with a new record low of NT$85 million (£1.83 million). Just [...]
BlackBerry Q10 pricing and release date (ish)
Yes, the moment hardcore keyboard BlackBerry users have been waiting for inches ever closer. After rumours that the company had temporarily refocused on bringing BB10 to its 7 inch PlayBook, some sort of delay has seemed inevitable. Thankfully this won’t [...]
No Exynos 5 Octa-core love for UK Galaxy S4
The marvel of engineering that Samsung proclaimed as its octa-core chip will not be making it to Galaxy S4 handsets in the UK. Recombu has received a statement from Samsung reiterating…. The Samsung Galaxy S4 is equipped with a 1.9GHz [...]
Foursquare for BlackBerry 10 updated: brings feature parity
About time that Blackberry is getting some love from Foursquare – it’s been a staple of blackberry users from its announcement on the original platform, now BB10 devices are getting the same love that Foursquare has splashed on iOS owners. [...]
10 inch playbook – and 6 more devices on the way
It isn’t a leak when it’s announced by your director of product management at BlackBerry Middle East, who announced the existence and likely shipping date of the 10 inch BlackBerry PlayBook. Mike Al Mefleh made the comments during the BlackBerry [...]
The rise and fall of HTC: Android gains wiped out
It was the mobile manufacturer success story. HTC, the company which started life as an ODM supplying low-cost network branded handsets, has now lost all the revenue it gained from being an early adopter of Android. Since it brought us [...]
New firmware for Note II available on Three
Three have rolled out a firmware update for the Samsung Galaxy Note II, which is said to bring with it a number of bug fixes and enhancements. This went under the radar mostly because it brings device stability to Samsungs [...]
Thoughts – Round one of LTE auction now over
There’s still no guarantee when LTE will be available on all networks, but the UK is one step closer to getting ubiquitous “4G” data. The first round of the auction has now closed and we now know what the allocation [...]
Spotify beta client now showing at a Windows Phone 8 near you
It has been a while in coming, but Spotify have finally released a client for the updated Windows Phone 8. The functionality for an offline mode and syncing on mobile data is still in place, but it has been reported [...]
New version of Truphone App to hit BlackBerry 10 OS
Before the term ‘smartphone’ really meant anything to the mainstream other than using an S60 device and long before Skype or WhatsApp were the forces that they are today, this company Truphone was launched. The fact they’ve stayed true and [...]
Put it up: Vodafone gets signal in The Shard
It’s a common problem – you hit a certain floor and all of a sudden, you’re finding it hard to get signal on your phone. Imagine you’re in The Shard, the tallest non-natural structure in Western Europe. It’s a lovely [...]
3G spectrum refarming for LTE?
It was all so easy for the network operators this year. Everyone bar EE bids for spectrum and then they can roll out LTE. However, OFCOM has released a consultation paper that prospectively will allow the other operators to re-use [...]
My 2013 wishlist – Khellan
Continuing the theme of our wishlists for 2013 here is my list of things I’d like to see in then next few months. 1. This is easy. Its at the top of the list: battery life. I’m really tired of [...]
A week with…
I’ve always been a two handset user whenever possible for more years than I’d like to think about. It helped me balance any deficiencies in any one handset, and whilst I’ve had a preference for one type of handset over the [...]
