How to avoid arrest for charging your phone in public

Yesterday BBC Newsbeat published an amusingly weird story of a British man who was arrested for charging his phone using a plug socket on a train. The passenger, Robin Lee, wasn’t eventually de-arrested on the original charge of “abstracting electricity”, but he was re-arrested for “unacceptable behaviour” as he contested the original charges aggressively. There are a couple of clear lessons here…

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HTC Aero rumour round-up: what to expect from HTC’s November flagship

HTC is in trouble. The Taiwanese company’s latest flagship, the One M9, failed to really improve upon last year’s One M8, and sales have been slow as a result. Now, HTC is reportedly planning an interim flagship to keep them afloat until the next One, to be released in November. This phone is called the HTC Aero – and here’s what we know about it so far.

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