10 reasons why I am looking forward to the Lumia 925
After being lucky enough to see and feel the Lumia 925 last week I have had a good long think about what I am looking forward to about the phone. I have now managed to string some sort of thought [...]
Are you heading to Skegness this bank holiday?
Bank holidays seem to make people gather in groups. Big groups around the country, be it country parks, beaches, the capital city or just down the pub. But where is our favourite place for the bank holiday? Well that’s quite [...]
MVNO Feature – Ovivo. Plans from £0 per month
Welcome back to our irregular look at the various MVNOs (virtual networks) here in the UK. You know what they say, you get nothing in this world for free. Well… perhaps from that nasty rash I had from that girl [...]
Flickr now offers 1 Terabyte of storage
Flickr the original photo sharing website has had a bit of an upgrade during the night, as part of Yahoo’s new direction Flickr has had a refresh and the main selling point here is a whole Terabyte of storage. That’s [...]
Tapatalk, get it free right now
If you’ve visited a forum such as ours then you’ll probably have seen the Tapatalk app pop up. It’s usually a paid-for app but, if you download it via the Amazon store right now then it’s free. The Tapatalk Forum [...]
Windows Phone, why don’t you want it?
A particularly dangerous and infrequent activity has been occuring in my brain recently…. …I’ve been thinking. Yes, both brain cells have worked overtime these last few weeks as I’ve read the scare stories surrounding Microsoft products. You’ve probably seen the [...]
Samsung Galaxy S4 Active leaked
Having a waterproof phone is increasingly becoming something that people want these days. For a few months it was just Sony with this trick up their sleeve. Samsung sell a phone for every conceivable niche of the mobile market. From [...]
Covert Low Profile flip case for Samsung Ativ S – Review
If, like me, you got yourself a bargain Samsung Ativ S Windows phone recently you’ll know what a great handset it is and, like me, you’ll be wanting a decent case to protect it with. I scoured the internet and [...]
BlackBerry Q10 – Review
I’ve had the BlackBerry Q10 for a couple of weeks now and I’ve grown to love like it quite a bit. The Q10 is the new age Bold, with premium materials, high end specs and a new ish OS. This [...]
Jolla Sailfish phone is revealed
This afternoon Jolla are meant to be announcing the first Sailfish OS device and in true new phone style the details have already appeared online. The phone intriguingly is a phone with a replaceable backplate that changes the whole theme [...]
The OS that would never die: Sailfish floats keynote on 20th
Before Nokia went all in on Windows Phone to save itself from the burning platform it found itself on, it had pinned itself on another platform that was far too many years in the making: Maemo, which turned into MeeGo [...]
One on a mountain top. Video call from Everest
A video call isn’t, despite what Apple might tell you, that special. I remember my mate showing me a 3G video call on the Three network a decade ago so being able to see the person you’re calling isn’t a [...]
Sony Xperia SP review
When I was contacted by Three about reviewing Sony Xperia SP device I was really looking forward to trying it out. The reason? Well, I already use the Sony Xperia Z as my own phone and wanted to see how [...]
Samsung Push Service gets some interesting reviews on Google Play
I usually skim over the comments / reviews but when checking apps in the Google Play. Usually they’re full of comments like “d0esn’t work”, “uninstalled as this is cr*p” or just one-word responses like “Great” or “Nice”. So it’s interesting [...]
Review – Sumo Omni
I’m sitting outside right now. I’m sitting in the sunshine on a beanbag. It’s not something I do very often but I think I’ll start to make a habit of it. There’s a back-story to this though, and sadly it [...]
How much data is enough?
4G will be available on almost all networks by the end of this year and handsets such as the iPhone and Galaxy S4 are there to provide superfast connections. The big question though is how much data is enough? EE [...]
8-inch Samsung Galaxy 3 Tablet Specs, Press Photo Leaked
SamMobile has reportedly acquired a press photo and possible specs for an upcoming 8-inch version of the Samsung Galaxy 3 tablet. It looks nearly identical to the 7.0 version that was officially announced at the end of April save for [...]
All in the numbers: 4.2.2 coming to HTC One
Yes, The One is a contender for this years best Android smartphone, and yes, its been stuck on 4.2 since it came out, but there have been rumblings on the interwebs that all that is about to change. @LlabTooFeR, who [...]
Google I/O – Google Maps updated
Out with the old and in with the new. Of course Google should shed some love on their Maps application and its a rather interesting update indeed. They claim it’s “rebuilt from the ground up” with a lot of new [...]
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 [...]
