BT Fon’s an odd little Android app. It doesn’t really offer much more than a graphical front end for your Android phone’s Wireless & Networks management tab, but it does offer to let you auto-connect to BT’s national network of wi-fi hotspots.
There’s also a clever little option to have the app always connect to your preferred networks first, so you don’t have to worry about connecting to the wrong access point when at home.
It’s worth installing BT Fon simply to remind yourself to use its wi-fi hotspots when out and about instead of your mobile data connection. If you have a BT broadband account, wi-fi access is free through all UK hotspots. Which is very, very useful.
There’s also a charity thing on the go at the moment, where BT donates 50p to worthy causes each time it’s downloaded. So you might as well, you’ll feel marginally better about yourself.
It’s smooth to use, the 1080p display is sharp, clear and bright, the device is extremely light and thin and therefore very pocketable and portable — much more so than other 5-inch phones we’ve used. And yet… we’re a bit unimpressed by the overall package…
A relatively high-spec smartphone, with a 4.5″ display running at 480 x 854 resolution and powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, plus the Ascend G510 arrives running Android 4.1.1 — albeit potentially hindered by Huawei only sticking 512MB of RAM inside it..
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
Jack Frost
/ January 3, 2011The BTFON app causes my HTC Desire to slow right down. Scrolling is slower and seepu shows the processer going mental even on basic html pages with no scripts. It makes using the phone most annoying and I dread to think of the affect on the battery.