About Ronnie Whelan
I work in IT and marketing, I spend my spare money on smartphones and tablets. My friends have grown weary of my fascination with mobile technology, so I write about it in the hope that someone out there is as obsessed as me… and it seems there is. Welcome to my world.
My current devices are: Oppo Find 5, Samsung Galaxy Note, Samsung Ativ S and a Huawei G300.
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OPPO Find 5 now in stock and available on next day delivery
If you’re a regular reader of Coolsmartphone you’ll have heard of the OPPO Find 5, if not then I suggest you: a) check it out and b) become a regular reader! The newly released handset is blessed with what is [...]
Huawei Ascend P6 hands on at London launch event
Beauty is worth waiting for, according to Huawei who announced their new Ascend P6 Android phone yesterday in London. I was there to represent Coolsmartphone, which meant that I got to have a play! Beauty is in the eye of [...]
Vodafone Smart III Android phone – Review
The Vodafone Smart III is a budget Android phone (real name Alcatel 975), designed to introduce the world of smartphones to those who haven’t discovered it yet. It’s fun, colourful and comes with some innovative thinking behind it. However, does [...]
Motorola X Phone specs leak – more like a meh-phone?
The Motorola X Phone seems to be a mythical beast. Ever since Google bought Motorola Mobility early last year there have been rumours of some sort of amazing Google phone being produced by Motorola. Would it be a Nexus? Will [...]
Asus Nexus K009 tablet takes a visit to FCC for approval
Asus look to be building on the success of their original Nexus tablet, if newly published FCC test results are to be trusted. They’ve been playing about with a tablet that’s referred to as the Nexus K900. Tech specs aren’t [...]
Vodafone Smart III Android phone – Initial Impressions
The Vodafone Smart III (aka Alcatel 975) is an entry level Android smartphone with an eye on those who want something a little different; something fun, functional and funky (you can have that one, Apple, if you’re after a tag-line [...]
Samsung 32GB Class 10 SDHC Pro Memory Cards £14.99 – Deal
OK, lets try again! Ebay daily deals have served up a bit of a bargain in the form of Samsung 32GB Class 10 SDHC Pro Memory Cards for only £14.99 instead of their RRP of £49.99! We’ve heard rumours that [...]
OPPO Find 5 Mini – 3.7 inch 720p coming to Europe in July?
OPPO aren’t a household name, but they’re starting a bit of a stir in the world of Android with the OPPO Find 5. Well, now it seems that there’s a little’n on the way – the Find 5 Mini. We’re still [...]
BBC Weather app comes to Android
The BBC Weather app is the latest in a growing arsenal of high quality Android tools from the Big British Castle. I’ve had many weather apps over the years. Many have been terrible and most concentrate any premium features on [...]
OPPO Find 5 initial impressions – Review
OPPO are an unkown quantity to many in the UK. It’s no surprise then that the launch of their latest flagship, the Find 5, was virtually undetected. I saw it on their web store and was so intrigued that I [...]
OPPO Find 5 unboxing video
The OPPO Find 5 is the Android phone with a 5″ full HD screen that costs only 399 Euros. It has the potential to be a giant killer, but it wasn’t available in Europe until last week, and it crept [...]
Gripmount iPhone 5 Lightning Car Charger and Mount Kit – Review
What do you do if you share a car with someone who has a different phone to you, but you both want to use a car kit when driving? Get a universal phone mount, of course, Einstein! But which one? [...]
HTC One Google Edition to retain Beats Audio and HTC camera function
The Vice President of Android Product Management at Google, Hugo Barra, has been revealing some secrets about the HTC One Google Edition (the One running stock Android rather than the HTC Sense skin). Whilst speaking with Nilay Patel from fellow [...]
Huawei introduce Ascend Y210, G510 and MediaPad 7 Lite to TalkTalk
Huawei have always done budget phones well, and as of next week Talk Talk will be boosting their choice of entry level Androids with the Ascend Y210 and Ascend G510. They’ve also bagged Huawei’s MediaPad 7 Lite budget tablet. The [...]
Huawei Ascend W2 Windows Phone 8 press image leaks
The Huawei Ascend W2 has been a long time coming, but there’s now pictorial evidence to say that it’s imminent. Serial leaker @evleaks has posted a press render of the phone, which looks rather funky. It’s got the obligatory brightly [...]
HTC M4, Butterfly and T6 roadmap leaked by business analyst
If ever there was a business in need of an analyst it’s HTC right now. It seems that the one who’s taken on the role this time has a rather big gob and has leaked their plans for the next [...]
OPPO Style up their warranty to 2 years after customer feedback
OPPO Style are the new kids on the European block, but it seems like they’re making the right impression, because only two days after they launched their European web store they’ve already doubled their warranty period to two years. In [...]
Samsung accidentally leak Galaxy S4 Mini on their own website
OK, which butterfingers in the Samsung UK web team put the S4 Mini image live on the site before the announcement? Yes, Samsung have inadvertently published a picture of a Galaxy S4 Mini on their own app store. It’s been [...]
OPPO Style announce first European web store
Do you like left-field? No, not the band, the standpoint. Well, here’s something that’s going to interest you. The OPPO Find 5, Android, 5″ Full HD smartphone is officially coming to Europe via the all new OPPO Style web store. [...]
HTC One Google Edition coming soon
Where Samsung go, HTC will follow. In a remarkable change of direction, HTC will be releasing a ‘Google Edition’ of the HTC One. This follows almost immediately after Samsung announcing the Galaxy S4 Google Edition. Based on the developer incarnation [...]
