Wileyfox Swift and Storm review: Two cheap UK phones, one worth buying

There are two ways you can go about buying a new smartphone: Either you spread the cost over a year or two with a carrier contract, or purchase the thing outright. When you’re finally done paying it off, a subsidised handset often ends up costing more than it’s worth. However, considering the price of new iPhones, Samsung flagships and peers, that can still be preferable to emptying your bank account in one fell swoop. Thankfully, companies big and small are addressing this conundrum with phones that offer the kind of specs and user experience customers want at prices they’re happy to pay upfront. Despite an abundance of competition in contract-free handsets already, new British brand Wileyfox is one such company, and it’s hoping to make its mark in the UK with the affordable £129 Swift and higher-end £199 Storm. Slideshow-343835

[Deal] Save an extra 25% on most e-learning courses with CYBERMONDAY25

Are you trying to get that promotion you’ve been staring at for months? Or maybe you’re trying to get your foot in the door for that company you’ve always wanted to work for. Well, there are a load of different e-learning deals available on the AndroidGuys Deals page, and we’ve got a special deal for you today.

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Londoners will soon be able to share an Uber with strangers

If you’re willing to share an Uber with a stranger, travelling across London could soon be a little bit cheaper. The company is launching UberPool this Friday (December 4th) at 4pm, starting with a small patch in the centre of the city — it stretches between Highbury in the North, Wapping in the East, Brixton in the South and Shepherd’s Bush in the West. Sharing a ride will, the company claims, make your fare 25 percent cheaper than if you had travelled with UberX, the company’s next best option. You simply open the app, choose the UberPool icon and your destination; it’ll then ask how many seats you need (for now, two is the limit) and give a final fare. If you’re the driver’s second stop, Uber will tell you the name of your fellow traveller immediately, otherwise you’ll get a notification mid-journey.

Swatch’s payments watch is coming to the US

Swatch has announced that the mobile payments watch that it’s sending to China will also make its way over here. The watchmaker has teamed up with Visa in order to offer the Swatch Bellamy in the US, Brazil and Switzerland. It’s the third entry on that list that’s the most eyebrow-raising, since Swatch CEO Nick Hayek very recently criticized his home nation’s own banks for being slow to embrace new payments tech. It looks as if Visa has stepped in to make its relations in Switzerland look fusty and slow by comparison.

Source: Swatch

Gates, Zuckerberg and Bezos invest in huge clean energy fund

After announcing the Mission Innovation program to convince nations to double their clean energy investment budgets, Bill Gates has launched another massive initiative at the United Nations Climate Change conference in Paris. The Breakthrough Energy Coalition is backed by a who’s who of tech leaders, including Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma and Richard Branson. The idea is to develop new green technology that will increase the world’s energy output — especially in poor countries — without contributing to global warming. Such tech, however, poses a risk that regular investors might shy away from. “We need the basic research, but we need to pair that with people who are willing to fund high-risk, breakthrough energy companies,” said Gates.

Source: Gates Notes