About Leigh Geary
Editor / Founder of Coolsmartphone. I’m the one who films hands-on videos in the car. :) News, reviews, gossip – anything phone / tablet related – I love it.
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Three dish up some cheap May deals
Fancy saving some money? Who doesn’t eh? Right now Three have chopped down the cost of the Sony Xperia T, Nokia Lumia 620 and Samsung Galaxy Ace. It’s purely for this month, but you can get all three on Pay [...]
Samsung Galaxy S4 – Get £30 off
Keep this between yourselves, but we’ve got a special code if you’re thinking of getting the Samsung Galaxy S4. The S4, which we reviewed here, is now as low as £549.99 unlocked. If you’re interested, head to the links below [...]
Picture special – Huawei Ascend Mate
Woaha. Remember the Huawei Ascend Mate that we saw in Barcelona? Well, I’ve got one. It pushes the term “phablet” as close to “tablet” as you can get. The screen is a 6.1″ 1280×720 IPS unit and the handset itself [...]
HTC begin to spin out of control after several high-profile resignations
The HTC One is a fantastic handset. It’s the best handset HTC have ever made in my opinion. I’ve always had a very high opinion of the company and especially of the people that work there, but let me tell [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Lumia 920 Camera fight
Microsoft are busy on Facebook comparing low-light camera shots. Several images have been posted to show just how good the camera is on the Windows Phone-powered Nokia Lumia 920. The images certainly show the difference in quality between the iPhone, [...]
Google Search updated. Reminders, books, music and TV recommendations added
Google Search / Google Now has just received an update and, if you have Jelly Bean, you’re now going to get some additional recommendations or “Cards” from the techno-butler. So now, if you say, “Remind me to get some break [...]
Google+ gets redesign and intelligence. Hangouts to replace Google Talk
Well, Google I/O 2013 has certainly been eventful so far. Our live blog and resulting traffic knocked the site over but hey, no matter, we’ve seen tonnes of good news. Google+ is to get a stack of new features – [...]
