The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 47
Episode 47 of the Coolsmartphone Podcast is going to be a tale of two companies. Google and Nokia. Oh and possibly our usual off topic tangents. Joining me this week are Dan Carter, Mark Peters and Ravi Patel. We actually [...]
Samsung Galaxy S4 sales set to pass 10 million
The S4 seems to be selling a lot faster than the S3. Samsung Electronics co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun has told reporters that the S4 will fly past 10 million sales at the end of next week, making it the fastest selling [...]
HTC to increase production volume of the One
HTC has reportedly been struggling to make the HTC One quick enough. Mainly due to supply constraints with the camera module. In a recent report in Taiwan, Jack Tong the president of HTC North Asia said the following: “Our capacity [...]
Sony Xperia Z tablet gets a taste of AOSP
People bang on about pure Android quite a bit these days. With some people refusing to buy a device not running stock Android. Hence the “success” of the Nexus range. But what other options are there if you want a [...]
Images of the Sony Xperia UL leak out
Sony are heading along a rather dodgy path, making dozens of different handsets each year. Only Samsung can really cope with the financial implications of doing that. It’s why HTC have decoded to try and stick to one device per [...]
Get yourself some rather interesting covers
So, if you want a cover for your phone you could always have a cool, fashionable leather case or perhaps a nice pouch. Or… Or you could have one of these from Amazon. They are, it has to be said, [...]
Deal – Huawei Ascend W1 on O2
The Huawei Ascend W1 is one of those entry level Windows Phone 8 devices, you know the ones with 512MB of RAM yet they still run really well. Well O2 are having a clear out, no doubt down to the [...]
NEC Medias X: The First Smartphone With Liquid Cooling
Liquid cooling? Old news matey. Well for us PC Power Users (loving that term) who are always looking to make our PCs go faster than they’re originally make to do, at the price of heat (and the insides of your [...]
Vodafone Smart III is now available
The Vodafone Smart range are at the budget end of the Smartphone market. Not everyone wants the latest and greatest device and not everyone wants to spend a whole load of cash each month either. That’s where the Smart III [...]
Friday Deals – World of Goo is proper cheap
How about 80% off. 80% off! That’s like…err… almost free. Well, almost. “Game of the Year”, World of Goo is now just 65p. You have to drag and drop globs of goo in order to build things. Yes, this is [...]
New Xperia Z firmware rolling out
The Xperia Z is a great handset. Sure, there’s always a bit of confusion when you argue with your American friends about the name (it’s the “Xperia Zed” or “Xperia Zee” depending on where you are) but both this and [...]
Friday Deals – SwiftKey half price
Let’s save a bit of money shall we? Deals are great, so today we’re having a hunt for deals. First, if you’re finding that entering texts or writing emails is a bit fiddly on your Android phone, try SwiftKey. It’ll [...]
White Nexus 4 and Android 4.3 to be released 10th June
Time once more for White Nexus 4 News! Yes, another one has been spotted, this time at Google IO. There were no announcements made about the white Nexus 4 during Google’s keynote at IO, but one was seen on the [...]
Itsdagram is back on the Windows Phone Store
Last Sunday my world was turned upside down. There was another Instagram app for Windows Phone 8 available. Even though I could post on my Android devices I just had to have this. I duly paid for the app and [...]
You! 64GB Memory card! Cheap! Get!
Come on, if you have a look in the back of the cupboard I’m sure you’ve got a few quid kicking around. If you can get £32.16 together then you can get a whopping 64GB of storage for your phone. [...]
Google Hangouts – now featuring SMS?
The dust is settling after the rather long keynote at Google I/O yesterday and as things start to rollout we can start to examine things in a little more detail. One of the big enhancements to the Google ecosystem is [...]
Google Babel launches as the new Hangouts
Google finally took the wraps of Babel yesterday with the relaunch of Hangouts, a cross-platform unified messaging service to take on the likes of iMessage, Facebook Chat and WhatsApp. Users no longer have to contend with separate Google Talk, [...]
Sad news, 4G at 800Mhz fails to kill “Made in Chelsea”
Television, the drug of the Nation. Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation. But hey, things are still looking good for the 800MHz tests that are being performed by at800. They’ve moved onto London and have also performed tests across Brighton. Everything [...]
Google announces Galaxy S4 Nexus Edition
One of the bigger surprises announced by Google at yesterday’s I/O keynote was the release of a Nexus-like stock Galaxy S4. Gone is all the nasty TouchWiz S-rubbish, replaced by the beautiful vanilla Android experience. We’re also told we can [...]
Google complain about the Microsoft made YouTube app for Windows Phone
It isn’t often I laugh out loud at a letter. Especially when it’s two companies arguing about apps and services. Normally the letters between the two are very straight forward and not that funny, but this one is great. Let [...]
