About Adrian Rogers
Technology Blogger & occasional musician, who works in neither industry, just to confuse!
I’m currently using an HTC 8X and 3rd gen iPad, and focus on all things Windows Phone and music making iOS apps.
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Angry Birds Original – out now and free on Windows Phone
Since the launch of Windows Phone 8, Rovio have been pretty good at releasing their avian odyssey on the platform, with Star Wars, Space and Seasons versions of the best selling game all being available. The original Angry Birds however, [...]
Samsung pays bloggers to bad mouth HTC
Samsung and HTC have been mortal enemies for a while, which is a bit David and Goliath, given the size of Samsung, but it looks like Samsung have turned the war dirty. Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission launched an investigation in [...]
Disqus app launched – Windows Phone exclusive
Lots of you are probably familiar with the Disqus comments system, which powers comments on many sites including Coolsmartphone.com Well Disqus have developed their own app in house, and it’s exclusive to Windows Phone. The app has some great [...]
Virgin Mobile introduces speed caps
Virgin Mobile have become the latest network to cap mobile data speeds, to a lowly 2mb/s. Rumours had been circulating, but Virgin admitted the 2mb/s cap last night and tried to put a positive spin on the situation, saying “to [...]
BBC iPlayer finally coming to Windows Phone
One of the most popular apps on Android and iOS has been really conspicuous in its absence so far on Windows Phone – the BBC’s iPlayer. Well we won’t have to wait much longer, as Auntie has just announced that [...]
New Nokia metal flagship with PureView 2 incoming?
Nokia’s currently flagship device, the Lumia 920 has been doing rather well, selling out initial stock and proving popular, particularly in the US. It’s a bit, well, chubby though! Nokia have been long known for some great looking flagship devices, [...]
MWC – Nokia HERE apps available for other Windows Phones now
Announced in our earlier report from the Nokia session at MWC, Nokia have rebranded their Mapping, Navigation and Transit apps under the new HERE name. Previously only available on Nokia devices (Nokia Drive+ beta briefly excepted), HERE Drive, HERE Maps [...]
Nokia to launch cheaper handsets at MWC
Nokia still derive a large part of their sales from entry level phones; primarily in emerging economies such as China and India. In recent years this market has been under renewed threat, with the Lumia range aimed at a higher [...]
Bloomberg now available to all Windows Phones
Originally launched as a Nokia exclusive, Bloomberg’s mobile app for Windows Phone 8 is now available on all handsets through the Windows Marketplace. Bloomberg is the main financial information service for many financial professionals, but the app is free to [...]
HTC One S Jellybean update out for Three customers
Hot on the heels of the One X update, Three have started rolling out the 4.1 Jellybean update for One S devices now. This brings the smoothness of Android’s Project Butter and Google Now to the One S, so [...]
Vodafone start to sell Windows Phone 8 devices
Windows Phone 8 has been mysteriously absent from Vodafone so far, but that’s set to change this Wednesday when they introduce 5 devices. From the 6th you will be able to get the Nokia 920, 820 and 620, as well [...]
3 HTC One X JellyBean update now available
Its been a while coming, but Three have just released the JellyBean update for the HTC One X. This will update your One X to Android 4.1.1 and Sense 4+, which means you’ll also be able to get the Playstation [...]
Sell a Z10 for silly money
It was a bit of a surprise when it was announced that the new Blackberry Z10 wouldn’t be available in the USA for another month, and that appears to have instantly created a bit of an “import opportunity”. I must [...]
Tablets sales increase massively for (nearly) everyone
IDC have released the figures for their Tablets sales tracker for the last 3 months of 2012, and nearly everyone is doing well. The figures show sales worldwide for all tablets, with 52,500,000 tablets sold in the last quarter of [...]
EE 4G goes live in 9 more towns
EE have rolled out their premium 4G service to 9 more towns. If you are in Amersham, Bolton, Chelmsford, Hemel Hempstead, Southend-on-Sea, Stockport, Sunderland, Sutton Coldfield or Wolverhampton, you should now be able to access to EE’s 4G network. Apparently [...]
Deal – Cheap JellyBean Tablets from Sumvision at Ebuyer
The Nexus 7 brought respect to cheap Android tablets – good spec, latest OS and very reasonable price. This has forced other manufacturers to up their game a bit – and a good thing that is. With that in mind, [...]
Surface Pro internal storage mostly used up by the OS
One of the big shocks when Surface came out, was how much room Windows RT itself took up in the device’s internal storage. Although the base model came with 32GB, half that was used up for the OS, giving only [...]
DC-HSDPA – Just how much better is it?
This year we’re seeing a huge roll-out of the fastest version of 3G yet on many networks. Started by Three, who have already rolled this new standard out to 50% of the population and will get to 80% by the [...]
New phones use lots more data, especially the iPhone 5!
Data analysis firm Arieso have been studying the data usage habits of global data connections to thousands of mobile devices, and has come up with some interesting trends on devices. Using the iPhone 3G as their baseline case and measuring [...]
Windows Phone 8 catching WP 7 already
Statistics on Windows Phone sales have always been hard to get, with Microsoft playing everything very close to their chest. Advertising platform AdDuplex have used their spread across a very large spectrum of Windows Phone devices to collect their own [...]
