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Parity Group Profit Warning: Shares Fall 25% On Revenue Miss

Parity Group Profit Warning: Shares Fall 25% On Revenue Miss

Parity Group Profit Warning: Shares in data specialist recruitment company Parity Group (LON:PTY) fell in early trade today as a trading update revealed that it would not meet previous guidance owing to staff shortages. This share price fall was a slow burner, with initial falls being modest but a further drop occuring after lunch. However with the share being very illiquid, this comes as no…

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Avon Protection Profit Warning: Share Price Falls Sharply on Supply Chain Woes

Avon Protection Profit Warning: Share Price Falls Sharply on Supply Chain Woes

Avon Protection Profit Warning: Shares in protection specialist Avon Protection (LON:AVON) fell sharply in early trade on Friday as a variety of issues led them to reduce guidance for FY21. This was the third profit warning of the same day (following Venture Life and Best of the Best). One thing that these shares have in common is that they appear to have been beneficiaries of the pandemic.…

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Venture Life Profit Warning: Shares Tumble on Reduced Sales

Venture Life Profit Warning: Shares Tumble on Reduced Sales

Venture Life Profit Warning: Shares in healthcare products specialist Venture Life (LON:VLG) tumbled on a profit warning on Friday as the company revealed a slowdown in sales would impact profits for this year. Given the already lofty valuation the shares sat on, it was perhaps a surprise that the fall was not more: As we can see from the longer-term chart, Venture Life was a massive beneficiary…

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Best of the Best Profit Warning: Share Tumbles Almost 50% on Rising Costs

Best of the Best Profit Warning: Share Tumbles Almost 50% on Rising Costs

Best of the Best Profit Warning: Shares in spot the ball specialist Best of the Best (LON:BOTB) were down almost 50% today as a very harsh profit warning gave new forecasts of profit which were 62% off a few months before. The share price had already been adversely affected earlier in the year which now seemed like a profit warning in disguise. But this latest bad news caused an even sharper fall…

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Nokia Asha 300 Review - Touch and Type Mobile Phone

Nokia Asha 300 Review – Touch and Type Mobile Phone

Nokia Asha 300 Review: Released in 2011, the Nokia Asha 300 was another phone in the ‘Touch and Type’ series of phones. By 2011 the touchscreen phone had basically taken over as the default style of phone, but old habits die hard – and particularly at the lower end of the market the touchscreen experience was unsatisfactory. Nokia by this time had their own full touchscreen handsets, both running…

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Ericsson GA628 Review - Blueprint of Future Mobile Phones

Ericsson GA628 Review – Blueprint of Future Mobile Phones

Ericsson GA628 Review: Announced in 1996 and made available to the public in 1997, the Ericsson GA628 mobile phone was the updated version of the GA 318. Although there were other models available at the time, these phones tended to appeal more to the business users, and this left the GA models to cater towards the growing leisure segment. By 1996, choice of phones had opened up a little but was…

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Motorola Moto G4 Review - Refreshed Budget Flagship Mobile Phone

Motorola Moto G4 Review – Refreshed Budget Flagship Mobile Phone

Motorola Moto G4 Review: Released in 2016, the Motorola Moto G4 was the sequel to the older Motorola Moto G3. The Moto series was by no means the most powerful phone in the Motorola stable, but it became a type of flagship for the brand. Offering a relatively high specification, the phone offered a great value proposition backed up by an already reputable name. In 2016, many of the Chinese…

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Samsung U900 Review - Powerful Thin Slide Mobile Phone

Samsung U900 Review – Powerful Thin Slide Mobile Phone

Samsung U900 Review: Released in 2008, the Samsung U900 was another mobile in the ‘U’ series of Samsung mobile phones. Here, the U stood for Ultra. Debuting with the Samsung U600, this took the Samsung slide handset (something they had already achieved mass success in) but also combined this to a very thin housing – much like the Motorola RAZR series did earlier. This allowed a much lighter…

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LG GB220 Review - Basic Level Flip Mobile Phone

LG GB220 Review – Basic Level Flip Mobile Phone

LG GB220 Review: Released in 2009, the LG GB220 was part of a new GB range of LG phones which targeted the bottom end of the market. These phones were nothing new, but sold in large numbers. And with LG quickly gaining a good reputation for solid design, this was certainly worth a go. And it was just not the flip phones that were targeted: low end candybar and slider phones also came out under…

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Sony Ericsson W850 Review - Slider Walkman Mobile Phone

Sony Ericsson W850 Review – Slider Walkman Mobile Phone

Sony Ericsson W850 Review: Released in May 2006, the Sony Ericsson W850 was another mobile phone in the Walkman series to feature the slider function. The Walkman family of phones had no real definitive phone type and the brand was used across different styles. As such the phone can be considered not only a sequel to a few phones: to the older Sony Ericsson W550 (also a slider phone) but other…

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Sony Ericsson K770 Review - Solid Mid-Range Camera Mobile

Sony Ericsson K770 Review – Solid Mid-Range Camera Mobile

Sony Ericsson K770 Review: Released in 2007, the Sony Ericsson K770 could be considered the successor to the Sony Ericsson K750 (released in 2005). The K750i was a well-received mobile, with its top-range imaging capabilities and memory card support giving it some nice advantages in the market. But over two years had passed since these releases, and by then the top-end camera phone was replaced…

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Samsung Marvel S5560 Review - Mid-Range TouchWiz Phone

Samsung Marvel S5560 Review – Mid-Range TouchWiz Phone

Samsung Marvel S5560 Review: Released in 2009, the Samsung Marvel S5560 was one of several phones pushing the new touchscreen technology down to lower price levels. Previous models such as the original Samsung Omnia (released the year before) featured a large improvement for phones at the time, with the larger screen opening up more possibilities. One of the downsides of the Windows Mobile…

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Sony Ericsson K800 Review - Upgraded Camera Mobile Phone

Sony Ericsson K800 Review – Upgraded Camera Mobile Phone

Sony Ericsson K800 Review: Released in 2006, the Sony Ericsson K800 was the successor to the popular Sony Ericsson K750. This was a remarkable phone in its own right, and one of the first to focus on the imaging aspect of mobile phones. At a then-high 2MP, the camera featured a dedicated lens cover which could activate the camera by retracting. It also came with a flash, and picture quality was…

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Motorola KRZR K1 Review - New Design Of Flip Mobile Phone

Motorola KRZR K1 Review – New Design Of Flip Mobile Phone

Motortola KRZR K1 Review: Released in 2006, the KRZR K1 continued the trend of Motorola releasing phones with unpronouneable names. Having already provided an innovative design in the flip market with the Motorola V3 (and its successor V3x), the novelty value of an extremely thin phone had disappeared, so one sensed that simply offering another phone in this vein would not be good enough. So…

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Samsung Z400 Review - Upgraded Classic Mobile Phone

Samsung Z400 Review – Upgraded Classic Mobile Phone

Samsung Z400 Review: Released in 2006, the Samsung Z400 was an upgraded version of the Samsung D600 from the year before. The D600 was pretty much a culmination of the successes of the previous Samsung slider phones before it. It would come to dominate this category niche, and the D600 was a high-end, stylish phone which now added a microSD card support to a much better, larger screen. The…

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Sony Ericsson W580 Review - Mid Range Slider Mobile Phone

Sony Ericsson W580 Review – Mid Range Slider Mobile Phone

Sony Ericsson W580 Review: Released in 2007, the Sony Ericsson W580 was an update to the 2005 Sony Ericsson W550. These were more or less in the same market segment – both mid-range mobile phones featuring a slider mechanism. However, since that phone was released, the Walkman branding had really caught on – spurred on by the success of the very popular Sony Ericsson W810i. A load of phones were…

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Samsung Galaxy Ace Review - New Mid-Range Android Phone

Samsung Galaxy Ace Review – New Mid-Range Android Phone

Samsung Galaxy Ace Review: Codenamed the S5830 and released in 2011, the Samsung Galaxy Ace brought something new to the market. The release of the previous years Samsung Galaxy S was one of the most significant for some time. It was also one of Samsung’s most successful phones, with the Android interface and high spec making this one of the first genuine contenders to the Apple iPhone. Yet one…

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