It can infiltrate both Android and iOS devices

Customers can choose from 18GB or 45GB of data

Brits’ mobile data usage has changed over the last 12 months

We live in an age when our smartphones have become attached to our hands. It’s incredible how a tiny device can hold some of our most important data. All our friends’ phone numbers, photos that hold important memories, conversations with people, and apps that help us get through the day – they are all locked […]

Sky Mobile customers can now share spare data freely

Lyca Group has partnered with the Department of Education 

Both the new £15 and £20 options will be 5G-ready

More data for contract and PAYG customers as well as DfE partnership

Customers can earn anywhere between 2GB and 50GB

Offer available through VeryMe on MyVodafone app

Network also extends unlimited data for NHS workers until January 31, 2021

Have you accidentally formatted the hard drive and lost all your data? If you’re an unlucky user who has lost files by formatting, you must be freaked out right now. And your biggest concern at this moment must be to recover your lost data. When you format a hard drive without having a backup it […]

Members are able to gain 5G access with the ‘goodybag’

O2 insights revealed data consumption across UK cities

Scheme will now run until January 31, 2020

The plan comes with unlimited calls and texts, plus free roaming in 48 European countries

An exciting new offering has been announced as giffgaff is trialling a brand new £10 goodybag option – the ‘golden goodybag”. This new goodybag will provide unlimited texts, minutes and 9GB data – that’s 50% extra data at the same price point. While the existing £10 goodybag will remain, the £10 ‘golden goodybag’ is there […]

Virtualizing data is the process of managing it by taking the data you stored on your local devices and moving it to another online location. Doing so provides your business with numerous long-term advantages, such as minimal data replication, reduced information movements across various locations, and integration of different data forms. On the other hand, […]

With video streaming platforms such as YouTube, Netflix and more recently, Disney+, now the essentials for keeping smartphone users entertained on the go, keeping an eye on your data usage is more important than ever. Research has found that more than two thirds (68%) of the UK population use their mobile phones to watch video content, […]

In early 2018, the Facebook Cambridge Analytica data breach shocked the world. Millions of Facebook users found out that Cambridge Analytica had harvested their data without consent to use it in an upcoming election. In that same year, 6,460 U.S. military and security personnel found out that a fitness app called ‘Polar’ had such lax […]

About to upgrade to a newer model or buy a new smartphone? Make sure to delete all data from the old one before giving it away and selling it. Smartphones store a huge amount of personal data, including messages, browsing history, passwords, photos, and contacts. Doing a factory reset doesn’t always wipe away everything. For […]

Voice calling is also up 45 per cent as lockdown influences change in how consumers user their mobiles EE data has revealed that usage of apps primarily designed for communication has grown significantly during the lockdown.  The operator’s Mobile Network data report found there was a 45 per cent increase in the usage of these […]

Vodafone is today extending its free unlimited mobile data offer to NHS staff and care workers that are using its flexible Pay As You Go (PAYG) services.  [The extension follows the announcement on 6 May that these groups were eligible for 6-months free unlimited data (until 26th June), but at that time it was restricted to […]

Sky Mobile offers its customers the chance to rollover unused mobile data  Sky Mobile customers saved over £36 million worth of mobile data during the lockdown period. The unused data between March 23 and May 3 equates to over 5.4 million GB of mobile data. This data has been rolled into Sky Mobile Piggybanks for […]

Over a third of consumers would like to see unused mobile data rolled over into the following month Consumers are accumulating 165 million gigabytes of unused mobile data worth £165 million during the lockdown. Uswitch has found that the lockdown has seen users rely on WiFi connectivity rather than mobile data. According to the report, […]

Vodafone announces it will be extending its 30-day free access to unlimited mobile data offer, by proactively upgrading customers who have personal Pay Monthly contracts and are registered in its systems as working for the NHS.  These customers will receive a text informing them of this upgrade from April 6th. Vodafone has already proactively upgraded […]

Operator aims to keep UK connected during coronavirus crisis Vodafone has announced it will offer 30 days free unlimited mobile data to 500,000 Pay Monthly customers. In addition, the company also said it will be proactively upgrading its Pay Monthly customers who are flagged as vulnerable in its systems to 30 days free unlimited data. […]

One of the by-products of most computer-driven tools that businesses have in their arsenal is data. The influx of raw information often has a purpose. They are collected to inform decisions, directions, and policy changes. But because of the sheer amount of this raw information coming in, it can be difficult to sift through them […]

Experts at Mobiles.co.uk offer their tips on how to make your mobile data go even further Our monthly data allowance isn’t infinite, and with movies to stream, music to download, and social media to surf, it can be easy to burn through our allowance in no time at all. To help combat the dreaded data […]

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Adjust data reveals insights into how consumers use mobile phones to celebrate Valentine’s Day, as sessions peak on the 14th across verticals — from Food and Drink to Gaming  With Valentine’s Day coming up this week, many might be thinking a little more eagerly about how to find the perfect partner. But the holiday isn’t […]

Businesses today have enjoyed the many benefits of using a virtual data room. As the name implies, virtual data rooms otherwise VDRs are virtual rooms where data are stored. They serve as online repositories of data, unlike the typical physical data rooms. Virtual data rooms were created with effective and efficient data storage and transfer […]

With unlimited texts and calls now available on all goodybags, giffgaff SIMs allow you to connect when and where you want.  “Double Data” arrives on the £20 and £25 “Always On” goodybag bring  giffgaff, the mobile network run by you, has announced the refresh of its £6, £8, £20 and £25 ‘Always On’ goodybags, offering […]

Data loss is still a very hot topic. Especially for those who have ever experienced it. Cyber-attacks, flooding, fires, failures – there are quite a few scenarios for losing important data. Unfortunately, man is responsible for 25% of all such cases. Rule 3-2-1 Backup Preparing a handful backup strategy is a very reasonable step, but the key is […]

The surge of hacks and security breaches that has befallen some of the world’s largest corporations and even political parties has changed the way the general public feels about online privacy, yet even still most people and even businesses don’t take the proper steps to keep their communications secure. Companies conduct business via regular email […]

All four MNOs to offer iPhone 11 pre-orders from today O2 has become the final MNO to announce unlimited data plans on its phone and SIM-only contracts. The Telefónica-owned operator’s announcement comes after Three, Vodafone and EE launched unlimited data services earlier this year. Plans start from £35 per month for an 18-month SIM-only plan. […]

Whether you like it or not, data loss is an inevitable part and parcel of our life. Growing work pressure often causes us to make major mistakes which can take the shape of accidental deletion of a part of our hard drive or damage it completely in worst-case scenarios. The chances of such errors heighten […]

Services join Music, Video, Sport and Roaming plans EE has added Amazon Prime Video and Gamer’s Data Passes as swappable benefits to its Smart Plans. EE launched the Smart Plans earlier this year, by which customers can swap between different benefits depending on their needs. Amazon Prime Video is worth £5.99 and allows data-free streaming of […]

Sky Mobile today announced it will launch 5G connectivity on its network by November 2019, bringing the next-generation of mobile technology to Sky Mobile customers. Six towns and cities will be the first to benefit from the new superfast mobile speeds when 5G launches on Sky Mobile, with wider national rollout planned to reach 20 […]

New data reveals adult Brits prefer virtual games over real-life equivalents Average UK adult spends 3.5 hours per week playing video games More than 15% of gamers don’t feel fit or skilful enough to participate in real life One in ten say their child spends 11 to 15 hours a week playing virtual games New […]

UK’s first unlimited handset and SIM-Only plans over both 5G and 4G launch today New 5G ready Samsung Galaxy S10 5G and Xiaomi Mi MIX 3 5G available with unlimited data now The latest 4G handsets from big brands including Apple and Samsung also come with unlimited plans Add an Amazon Prime Video, Spotify Premium, […]

Vodafone is switching on its 5G network and bringing 5G to more places than any other network. 5G live in seven UK cities today; 27 cities in total across Europe. 5G roaming in four countries over the summer. Vodafone Business Unlimited plans offer ‘Unlimited data’ and 5G at the same price as 4G. Vodafone extends […]

Today giffgaff, the mobile network run by you, announces that its £20 goodybag will now come with double data. Making it a great reason to choose giffgaff.   From the 3rd of July, instead of getting 20GB worth of data, members and newbies to the network who purchase the £20 and £25 goodybag range will instead […]

Mobile apps do look like tiny creatures in the large pool of information that we have in our mobile phones, but they can be silent killers if not checked upon. There are many applications on our phones, which are often said to be going through our mobile data. Usually, when we install an application, we […]

WordPress was first started as a blogging platform back in 2003 and since then has evolved as one of the top content management systems in the web development industry lately. Not just for blogs, but even many of the top business corporate now use WordPress as their trustable web platform to build business websites. In […]

We are living in a world of information and technology. In this modern era, we are relying on creating and consuming data which must be available according to our needs. Data and information are available or provided through IT services combining different applications, networks, software, storage hardware and other such portable resources. The data required […]

New mobile data sharer plan provides hassle-free flexibility for SMEs Businesses can use data across multiple devices worry-free in response to changing workloads Virgin Media Business has launched a new flexible mobile data plan which allows small and medium-sized businesses to buy a company-wide data pool of up to 1,000GB per month and share it […]

All new startups and small businesses face a particular set of problems when they start. Among them, the primary challenge is the collection, organization, and maintenance of the tremendous volumes of data they collect through daily interactions with their consumers. Almost none of the startups have an accurate estimation of the amount of data they […]

Daily video and music streaming could be consuming more data than you think BBC iPlayer and Channel 5’s: My5 named worst offending video apps Use Spotify’s ‘secret’ app to minimise data usage As Brits admit to spending more than 24 hours per week online, individual data usage is expected to be at an all-time high. […]

With instant access to the internet consistently at people’s fingertips, data usage is often taken for granted. Nothing demonstrated this more clearly than the O2 mobile network outage on December 6th, which left an estimated 32 million customers suffering for almost 24 hours without access to their favourite social media sites, news pages, emails and […]

A data breach is the planned or unplanned release of confidential information to unauthorized parties. Data leak, data spill or UID (unintentional information disclosure) can also be used to refer to such situations. Data breaches come in many different ways. They may originate from pre-planned assaults by hackers or even from the careless disposal of […]

London-based insurtech Digital Risks has compiled and analysed data from TfL, Network Rail and UK Airport Lost and Found reports to reveal that: — 1,780 mobile phones were reported lost in December last year, including 941 on London buses — 106 laptops were reported lost in December last year, including 58 on the London Underground […]

Costs £119 at Amazon.co.uk We recently got sent something that you would not normally see reviewed on What Mobile as its a product you expect Interior designer to use and not really the general public. However, with more and more people getting into DIY. One question will always come up. What colour paint should I […]

Revelations about the access and use of personal including Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook data harvesting – have proved that digital conversations may not be private and that user data can be used for a variety of unexpected purposes. Not surprisingly with increased awareness, smartphone users have flocked to the likes of WhatsApp and Telegram – perceived […]

  All new and existing Pay As You Go data Big Bundle customers to benefit from increased data, minutes and texts Data rollover also available on all data Big Bundles tariffs O2 data Big Bundles start from just £10 a month for 2GB of data, 500 minutes and 5,000 texts  O2 is offering Pay As You Go, […]

Imagine if you filled your car with fuel, only used half a tank and then had to throw the rest away before being able to full up again. That would be annoying – and expensive. But that’s just what mobile networks have been doing with their data plans by not letting you roll over unused […]

Planning to sell your old phone? Wiping your smartphone data in the right way is perhaps necessarily crucial to lessen the threat of your private or business details falling into the wrong hands. Many of us are unaware of the fact that the deleted data on the phone can be quickly recovered by utilizing the […]

InMyBag, the brainchild of InsurTech Gateway at Hambro Perks, an advisory and investment boutique based in London, has officially launched the UK’s first complete gadget insurance service. Smartphone and gadget insurance is a commonly overlooked thing for most people, even though it effects most of us at some point in our lifetime. One look on the […]

Laptop computers are one of the most commonly stolen items in the world. Freedom of Information (FoI) figures released by ViaSat found that between 1 March 2013 and 28 February 2014, over 180,000 electronic devices were reported lost or stolen to UK police forces from Cornwall to Cumbria. The majority of these were laptops, smartphones […]

Di sini kami juga akan memberi sebagian kiat pas didalam menempatkan angka dalam produk agen togel on-line data hk seperti berikut: 1. Anda main dengan 2D yang total angknya 100 yaitu 00-99 2. Anda mesti kerjakan betting 75 nomor nilai di dalam 1 putaran dan mematikan 25 publikasi angka contoh umpamanya anda beli angka 00-75 […]

RootMetrics, a United States data analysis company offering crowdsourced mobile network performance information, has today released new figures showing 4G network coverage throughout 14 major UK cities. The results show that once again, EE is the clear market leader for coverage throughout UK metropolitan areas. The Network, created through a joint venture between Orange and T […]

Top security expert for Plixer has discovered that Microsoft is secretly stealing data from its Windows 10 users. Mike Patterson, founder and CEO of security analytics firm Plixer, uncovered some interesting findings regarding the Microsoft Windows 10 operating system and how it handles our data. After disabling everything he could find that was transferring data to […]

A lot of players have seen their Pokémon Go data deleted as developer Niantic launched a new update to fix the incredibly buggy iOS and Android app.  The update was released over the weekend by Niantic, with the intention to fix bugs, remove features that crashed the game, and give it a little polish. Unfortunately many […]

That’s right your Pokémon Go mobile data won’t rack up a massive bill, according to a study revealing the new AR game to be a conservative data consumer.  Pokémon Go has taken the world by storm, with millions of downloads worldwide. The UK finally saw the official release yesterday and has already racked up 10 million […]

Netflix has introduced a new tool in their mobile app to stop you exceeding your mobile data allowance. Netflix bingeing has become a major past time for most people in the 21st century. Now with mobile phones capable of amazing screen quality and fast 4G mobile data speeds, you can now carry your Netflix addiction with you on-the-go. Well Netflix has […]

A fresh security flaw has been discovered in Android devices which use a Qualcomm chipset (basically the majority), which can expose sensitive system files to potential attackers. The bug is known to affect devices running operating systems as recent as Android Lollipop and lets malicious applications access system data files. Qualcomm reportedly developed a patch for […]

Apple is developing a new tool to make it easier to transfer data from iPhones to Android.  According to The Telegraph, a “senior industry source” has said Apple has agreed to develop the tool after growing pressure from European mobile operators, who see an issue with iPhone users rarely switching over to a different device. […]

Google has rolled out Data Saver mode for Chrome, to reduce smartphone data usage. According to the US tech giant a fifth of adult smartphone users now do most of their online browsing on their mobile device. With Data Saver mode smartphone browsers can save up to 70% of their data and tolerate slower internet speeds. Data […]

After failing to acquire Nokia’s maps, Uber will be using TomTom’s mapping data from the navigation company.  Under the multi-year deal, Uber will use TomTom’s map and traffic data, and implement it into their  smartphone app. Financial details over the deal were not revealed. Uber are making an effort to improve their mapping technology to provide […]

Ensuring that you don’t exceed your data limits can be a tough business, however there are a few simple steps to help curb the needless wasting. Here at What Mobile, we’ve compiled a handy Top 8 for the best ways to save smartphone data. 1. Close Apps It probably sounds obvious but you’d be surprised […]

Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi has admitted to collecting user data following a report by a Chinese security firm accused the company of taking personal data without permission. Xiaomi apologised for the breach and said it had upgraded its operating system to ensure users knew it was collecting data from their address books. The firm said the […]

Wearable tech is the fastest expanding technology in the consumer mobile sector right now. We’ve embraced it, and so have millions of other consumers worldwide. With the launch of the Motorola Moto 360  and Apple’s iWatch  set for the end of this year, the scene can only get bigger. Fitness tracking is a big part […]

As is usually the case with military coups, terrestrial TV stations and cable operators have been blocked in Thailand and replaced by the army’s Channel 5 following yesterday’s takeover. Unsurprisingly, people in Thailand are turning to their mobiles to access the Internet for news and entertainment as a result. Today, the country’s second biggest telecommunications […]

Brace yourselves, another awful Samsung gimmick-phone could be on its way. Chinese telecommunications database Tenaa has revealed what seems to be a new edition of the Samsung Galaxy Beam on their website, so far named only the ‘Samsung  SM-G3858’. For those fortunate enough to have never had a personal encounter with the original Galaxy Beam, […]

Vodafone has launched its Red XXL 4G plan, offering customers a rather sizeable 13GB monthly data allowance. Of course the tariff doesn’t come cheap, with rates starting at £45 per month, enabling customers to stream 3,000 songs on Spotify or watch 26 full length football matches on Sky Sports Mobile TV. The cheapest tariff comes […]

Samsung has reportedly created a service called Content that will allow apps and developers to access user data from its phones. According to The Information, the service will collect what a person types, what apps they use, and what data their phone’s sensors pick up, and then allow developers to tap into that pool of […]

You’ve heard of the megabyte, you’ve dealt in the gigabyte and dreamed of the terabyte. But have you ever heard of a petabyte? It translates roughly to about one million GB. In terms of mobile phone data, that would let you stream an HD movie, oh, about 13 years or so. Who could need that […]

Using your phone in another country is a troubling concept. You may well find that you’re able to use up data while on holiday, but you may also find yourself then paying a hefty bill for it. T-Mobile is about to change all that. Sure, the company is American, but this is pretty awesome news […]

Verizon has made a bit of a slip up this week, allowing users to keep their unlimited data plans while upgrading their phones. The carrier confirmed that this was was in fact a software glitch that ran briefly on Monday before being fixed. Anyone upgrading a phone at the time would have been allowed to […]

The NSA, GCHQ and the French authorities all came under fire thanks to their controversial snooping programs, but if you think that’s where it ends then we’ve got a surprise in store for you. The UK border force has come under fire after a report from the Telegraph revealed that under anti-terrorism laws the agency […]

Some Three customers are experiencing difficulty accessing the Internet, but just how widespread the outage is remains to be seen.

Mobile insurance claims data has found the Galaxy S3 is the phone most prone to faults, with the iPhone 4 in at fourth.

Ofcom is proposing to reduce prices for high speed data links in the United Kingdom, including price controls on BT.

Apple mobile devices consume more data than their Android equivalents, according to a new report – plus, how many people intend to show embarrassing videos of their friends in the New Year?

A new study has found that UK mobile broadband customers prefer usage plans but are interested in plans which allow data for specific applications

Mobile data traffic looks set to explode in 2017, with estimates it will reach the equivalent of three trillion YouTube video clips every month by 2017

Hardcore smartphone boffins (i.e. big data users) will be happy to know that EE is boosting its top data plan to 20GB per month. Currently the largest data allowance on EE’s new 4G plans is 8GB – a level that many consumers have decried as too limiting. Given that 4G speeds are (at a minimum) […]

Mobile data analysts Arieso have found iPhone 5 users are the most “voracious” data users. The company performed the study of more than one million data users over one weekday in a tier-one 3G European network operator.     Of the 125 devices studied in the report, iPhone 5 users consumed four times as much […]

“Average cost for a laptop user will be £1,200 per day” Smartphone rental company attacks “rip off” data roaming rates. Tep Wireless, which rents smartphones and WiFi devices to travellers going oversea, has criticised O2 for ramping up its data roaming prices outside the next month to as much as £6 a megabyte in North […]

The EU has voted for new regulation on call prices and data roaming fees which will impact all UK mobile phone users. From July 2012, mobile networks will be able to charge a maximum of 0.70 Euros per Megabyte, or 56p. A ‘cut-off’ cap will also be introduced, stopping you paying more than £40 for […]

T-Mobile announced a new ‘unlimited’ smartphone tariff today, offering unlimited data, calls and texts as part of a 24 month subscription package. Importantly, there’s no ‘fair usage’ policy and the offering is open to new and existing T-Mobile customers. Called ‘The Full Monty’, the unlimited plan starts at £41 per month, rising to £61 per […]

Orange has launched a daily browsing for customers travelling within the EU. A £3 daily bundle gives 30MB of data, with customers only charged if they use any data within a 24-hour period.

Our sister magazine, Mobile News, has reported on the plans by the European Commission (EC) to take stronger action that could see a huge cut in mobile data roaming charges.

Vodafone is making it more affordable to use mobile data when roaming in Europe, or further afield, with a range of new bundles and daily allowances.

If you thought the Communicator was gone and forgotten, enter the Nokia E7… which you could win in our latest competition!

Following its approval by Apple, Onavo has been launched for iPhone. It can drastically reduce data charges – especially when roaming – by heavily compressing your data.