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Travel Technology: Back to film with the Holga 120N

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Time for something different this week in Travel Technology - we're going Lo-fi. And I mean lo-fi. Most of you know that I shoot with Canon kit and autofoucusing lenses. All things that allow for photos to be done quickly and allow you to knock out quality pictures. But sometimes, a Digital Camera is the poorest tool in the world to learn with. Why? A digital camera … [Read more...]

Back to the Future – the Nokia Bananna phone returns (8110 4G)

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Nokia (or rather HMD Global who hold the rights to use the Nokia name for phones) is back again with another retro handset for you... and this time, there's a few interesting features. Introducing the Nokia 8110 4G Nokia 8110 4G - Image, HMD Global/Nokia Those who are old enough to remember - will remember this last time around when it was introduced in 1996 (and was … [Read more...]

Nokia to update its “new” 3310… with 3G!

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Time for some none-airplane news, and focusing on the HMD Global's biggest selling handset to date - the Nokia 3310. Whilst the device has been selling well, there is a major issue with it - and that it will only work on 2G wavebands. This is a problem as countries are in the process of switching off their 2G networks to release bandwidth for 4G networks (so your wizzy … [Read more...]

400Gb in a Sandisk MicroSD card? Check…

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A lot of us have storage problems when using our digital electronics (a great example is the joke that's my hard disk... actually - let's not go there... the SSD install still haunts me). But in more portable devices (such as phones and drones) are demanding more and more storage. Sandisk however are here to the rescue... with a 400Gb MicroSD card. Sandisk 400GB MicroSD … [Read more...]

The SkyRoam Solis – Something to pack in your travel bag?

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Full Disclosure: SkyRoam kindly provided a SkyRoam Solis for review, testing and evaluation purposes - along with 15 days passes. The opinions of this article remain that of the author alone, with no influence from SkyRoam in regards to the editorial content. Like a lot of us, we are dependent on our Smartphones when we travel. But what happens when the data runs out, or … [Read more...]

If you do ONE Thing with your computer tonight…

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If you do one thing tonight with your computer, tablet or phone tonight, please check it for software updates. Why? I'm sure you've heard about the wonders of WannaCrypt/WannaCry/etc. There's technical advice from Microsoft too. Windows 7 Users Click Start, type Windows Updates. Download the updates and install them. Windows 10 Users Click Cortana/Search. Type … [Read more...]