Category: Podcast

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 78

Episode 78 of the Coolsmartphone Podcast will be spent trying to get our heads around the Motorola Lenovo deal and some other things of course. Joining me this week were Ian Furlong, Ronnie Whelan and Jon Love our special guest from Clove.co.uk. This weeks topics were quite varied ranging …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 77

Episode 77 of the Coolsmartphone Podcast is another guest week. Joining me this week were Dan, Iain and Brendan. That’s Brendan Arndt from Three. Yes that guy from the product videos. This weeks topics were Samsung Galaxy S5 and the new UI. HTC at MWC. LG and the …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 76

Episode 76 of our podcast can only mean one thing, yes it means we have a guest on this week. Joining me this was special guest Gary Weldon (@UbuntuBhoy) and our podcast regulars Dan and Ian. This weeks topics were as follows: March of the Droids 2014. The Motorola …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 75

The Coolsmartphone Podcast is back, we’ve all had our annual Christmas break and we’re here to mumble and um and er for an hour. Joining me this week was Ronnie Whelan and our topics this week were as follows. Our favourite phones, tablets and manufacturers for 2013. The …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 74

Episode 74 of our podcast marks my return to the fold, I’ve been away for a few weeks and I’ve missed out on lots. Hopefully filling me in on what’s happened over the last few weeks are Dan and Ronnie. This weeks topics are roughly as follows: The …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 73

Another precisely produced piece of pristine podcast pie this week, and it’s Ronnie, myself and Dan discussing the last few days of mobile news. This week… – Three Feel at Home Roaming, now expanded and really rather good. – Three launch 4G, but there’s a backlash. – EE …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 72

It’s Friday, and you know what happens on Friday – we publish the single greatest podcast on the internet. This week James is sunning himself on holiday, so I’m in the hot seat. Yes, me. If you’ve followed the podcast over the years you may remember the very …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 71

Episode 71 marks one of those weeks where lots of nondescript stuff happens. Great stuff really for a podcast. Joining me this week were Ravi and Simon. This weeks topics included the following The ludicrous Microsoft Scroogled merchandise thing Our slightly longer term thoughts on the Nexus 5 …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 70

Episode 70 of the Coolsmartphone Podcast is here, it’s basically week two of our Nexus 5 based discussions. Sorry about the delay, you can thank ancient wiring in my house for that. This week I was joined by Ian and Mark and this weeks topics were as follows: …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 69

It’s time for episode 69 of the Coolsmartphone Podcast. Joining me this week were Dan, Mark and Ronnie. The topics this week were as follows: The newly available Nexus 5 Ronnie buying an LG G2 The OPPO N1 The rather unique Lenovo Yoga Android tablets The Motorola modular phones Some …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 68

Episode 68 is here and what a week it’s been, what with Apple, Nokia and Microsoft all announcing or releasing new products. Joining me this week to discuss it all are Dan Carter and Ronnie Whelan. This weeks topics are as follows Nokia and the bevy of new …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 67

Episode 67 of the Coolsmartphone Podcast is here. Joining me this week was Dan Carter and we had a big old pile of topics this week including: The HTC One Max The Windows Phone GDR3 update The Nexus 5 EE and their new pricing Next week’s events Themer …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 66

Episode 66 of our little podcast is here. It’s time to stop working and listen to me rabbit on for a bit. Joining me this week was Nirave Gondhia. This weeks topics were loosely based on the following The HTC One Max leaks The Samsung Galaxy Round The …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 65

Episode 65 of our podcast is ready, it’s a bit of an LG G2 based episode this week. Joining me this week was just Mark Peters. This week’s topics were as follows. The LG G2 UK launch party in London The iPhone 5S The Nokia Lumia 1020 The …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 64

Episode 64 of the Coolsmartphone Podcast is a little delayed, we struggled with our hectic lives and dodgy Skype connections last week. Sorry about being delayed by a week. Joining me this week were Dan Carter, Ian Furlong and Ravi Patel. The main topics are as follows: The …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 63

It’s one of those weeks, you know the sort of week, the period of time after an Apple event. Yes this week we will be talking about the two new iPhones. Joining me this week were Mark Peters, Ronnie Whelan and a brief appearance from Ravi. This week’s topics …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 62

Episode 62 of our podcast is going to be like a metaphorical tin of sardines. I.E lots crammed in. We have had a hectic week, what with Microsoft and Nokia, Sony and their camera thingies and of course Samsung just to name a few things. This week I …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 61

It’s time for Episode 61 of our podcast, we had a whole load of topics this week, the new Nexus 7, the Nexus 4 price drop, the Nokia 515, the Sony Honami, Ballmer resigning, next week’s Galaxy Note event, the next odd Android gaming device the Wikipad, the Samsung …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 60

Episode 60 is here, it’s been a week which for me has seemingly been dominated by Oppo announcing something new and also teasing us with something else as well. Luckily it wasn’t all Oppo talk this week, we also covered Firefox OS, Ubuntu Edge, the Samsung Galaxy Golden, …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 59

Episode 59 of the Coolsmartphone Podcast is here already. Another of those leaky weeks this week, with topics including the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, the Samsung Watch, those two rumoured iPhones, me and the HTC One Mini, the weird square LG VU 3, wearable gadgets and some other …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 58

Episode 58 is upon us. Another hectic week of leaks, product launches, phone reviews and some other stuff. This week for our podcast I was joined by Dan Carter and Khellan Payne. The topics were HTC and their One Max, Desire 500 and Mini+ handset, LG and their …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 57

Episode 57 is here, recorded just before the Motorola Moto X announcement. So don’t go expecting loads of info about that. Joining me this week were Mark Peters and Ronnie Whelan. This week’s topics are the little we actually do know about the Moto X, Mark and his …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 56

Episode 56 is basically a new Nexus 7 based podcast, if you came here hoping not to hear about then your going to be disappointed. A few other topics were the Lumia 625, Android 4.3, Google Play Games, the Google Chromecast and Dan and his worldwide testing of …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 55

Episode 55 of the podcast is here, joining me this week were Daniel, Mark, Nirave and Ronnie. This weeks topics were Nokia and the Lumia 1020, the HTC One Mini, the new Nexus 7, the iPhone 5S, Mark buying another Pureview 808 and some other stuff. The options …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 54

Episode 54 of the Coolsmartphone marks a momentous occasion, Leigh Geary has made it onto the podcast for the third time ever. Along with Leigh this week we had Ian Furlong. This weeks topics were the upcoming Nokia Lumia 1020, our competition to win one of two Nokia …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 53

Episode 53 is here and it already feels like an anticlimax compared to last week’s huge great anniversary celebration. This week is definitely a kind of fill in week. Joining me this week were Leigh, Ravi and Ronnie. This weeks topics were the HTC One S mess, Motorola …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 52

Episode 52 means one thing and that’s competition time. 52 episodes also means that we have been doing this for about a year now and to celebrate we’ve got as many of the team involved as possible, we also have a few things to giveaway to listeners. There …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 51

It’s Episode 51 of the Coolsmartphone Podcast. Joining me this week are Dan, Nirave and Ravi. What an exciting week, all starting with the Apple WWDC conference on Monday, then Samsung announcing more stuff, the latest Nokia Lumia becoming available and our preparations for our anniversary edition of …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 50

Episode 50 of the Coolsmartphone Podcast is here. Another crazy week, far too many announcements, rumours and leaks. This weeks topics include the Galaxy S4 Active, the flood of Asus tablets, Acer and there offerings, Nokia, some more Samsung, the Three outage and the usual off topic waffle. …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 49

Episode 49 of the Coolsmartphone Podcast is here. For this weeks topics we have leaks aplenty from Huawei, HTC and Samsung, some official Samsung announcements and the “Will they? Won’t they?” Situation with the now official Google Edition of the HTC One. Plus EE and their ludicrous pricing …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 48

Episode 48 of the Coolsmartphone means we are nearly at a year’s worth of Podcasts. Joining me this week are Khellan Payne, Nirave Gondhia and Ronnie Whelan. This week we are experimenting with guests, starting with Nirave. Hopefully more to come in the future. This week we talk …

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 recorded this weeks podcast in two sections so …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 46

Episode 46 of the Coolsmartphone Podcast is upon us. What’s in store I hear you ask. Well…… Joining me this week we have Ian Furlong, Mark Peters and Ravi Patel. This weeks topics are the Samsung Galaxy S4, the HTC One, the BlackBerry Q10, the Samsung Ativ S, …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 45

Episode 45 is upon us and guess what? I’m back so you’ve got to listen to me this week. The long wait is over and the Samsung Galaxy S4 is now available and in true Coolsmartphone style no one on the Podcast has got one. This week I …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 44

Episode 44 of the Coolsmartphone Podcast was hosted for the first time by Mark Peters, our holiday cover for James. What a stirling job he did too (watch out for your job James!). Joining him this week were Dan Carter, Simon Allum and myself, Ronnie Whelan. Topics included …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 43

Episode 43 of the Coolsmartphone Podcast seemed to be about the Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 and a few other minor things. Joining me this week was Ian Furlong, Mark Peters and Ronnie Whelan. Topics included the Archos Phones, the Galaxy Mega, the Aluminium Lumia, Firefox OS Geeksphone, Facebook …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 42

This week on the podcast we do one of those two man podcasts, with just me and Mark Peters. We discuss a whole lot of stuff, the Asus FonePad coming up for pre-order, the Acer A1-810, the ZTE Geek, the Samsung Galaxy Mega phones, the Galaxy Note 8.0, …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 41

This week on the podcast we talk about the Facebook Phone, the next Nexus 7, the rumoured Nokia Catwalk, Mark and his Nokia 808, Fonblets and the new Twitter app for Android Your options to listen to the podcast your options are almost endless. Subscribe to the RSS …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 40

This week will go down in history as the Samsung Galaxy S4 pre-order week and needless to say that is one of this weeks topics. Joining me this week we had Ravi Patel as everyone else was doing Easter stuff. Topics this weeks were the Galaxy S4, the …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 39

Another week has passed and it seems as though not much has happened since last weeks special edition. This week joining are Ian Furlong and Simon Allum. This weeks topics are the HTC One, Google Reader, Google Currents, Google Keep, me and my Windows Phone experiment, the Galaxy …