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A ROUND-UP OF THE LATEST NEWS IN THE DIGITAL WORLD

SMUGMUG CHANGES THE FLICKR RULES

IF you’ve got any precious photos in Flickr’s generous 1TB of free storage, get them out now.

New Flickr owner SmugMug has changed the rules for those in the free tier of membership.

The 1TB is to be reduced to just 1,000 images. If you’ve got more than 1,000 images, Flickr will start deleting them, starting with the oldest first, until you do.

So you have two choices – cough up for a Flickr Pro membership or download any images and videos you want to keep before the changes take effect in February.

Flickr’s Pro tier costs $5.99 (£4.59) a month, but you can get it cheaper if you agree to sign up for a whole year – that costs $50 (£38.34, or £3.20 a month). Better yet, to ease the blow, Flickr is offering 30% off at the moment, so you could go all in for just £2.24-a-month.

Is it worth it? I’d say yes – with unlimited storage, ad free browsing, great offers on discounts from Flickr’s many partners, advanced stats and an increased time limit for videos of 10 minutes.

PHONES GO BENDY

WHILE we are all holding our breath waiting for Samsung to come out with the world’s first smartphone with a foldable screen… somebody else went and did it first.

No, not Huawei, and definitely not Apple… the honour of reaching this cultural milestone goes to Royole. Never heard of them? Me neither.

But the company, based in Fremont in the Bay Area of California, has beaten all the big boys to claim the prize.

The FlexPai, is more than a phone – it’s sort of a tablet that folds in half, at which point it becomes more phone-like, although all its surfaces remain in use (the “spine” for example becomes a special area for notifications).

To be honest, it looks pretty clunky, but we’ll have to wait till it ships at the end of the year to find out if it’s any good.

You can order what Royole is calling a “developer model” at royal. com now for £1,209… but I’d wait until the reviews are in if I were you.