Category: Site Announcements

Well that shouldn’t have happened!

Welcome back everybody. For those of you who regularly visit the site, you may have noticed we were having some “minor” technical issues over the weekend. Well I am happy to say, despite the rumors we are still here and not going anywhere and everything is back online. …

Farewell dear reader…. for now

Some of you may have noticed that I have been less active on the site lately and now it is time to fill you in on the reason. I have taken on new employment and, with the demands of the job and learning new skills, it’s been all-consuming. …

Hey you. Want to write for us?

I, along with a team of nine other crazy tech writers, put this site together on a daily basis. We love our smartphones, tablets and gadgets. Trouble is, sometimes there’s more news than time, so we’re searching for someone who can chip in and help cover the latest …

You! Win one of two Doro 820 Mini handsets!

Everyone loves a good competition, and we have a great one for our readers. We’ve teamed up with Doro, the easy to use mobile phone company, to give away a pair of Doro Liberto® 820 Mini handsets. Designed with the senior in mind, this smartphone has a simplified interface …

Gremlins! Everywhere!

You, the handsome, intelligent, Coolsmartphone reader, may have noticed some strangeness here at Coolsmartphone.com of late. It’s not the funny smell. No, it’s some rather weird bugs in the code. We spent several weeks testing our all-new look, but putting it live has caused some unexpected weirdness. We’ve …

Coolsmartphone at the Gadget Show Live Pro

I am writing this whilst travelling down to Birmingham from south of the border. Why would I willingly come south of the border? Well there is only one reason gadget fans – a show dedicated to gadgets! As you will have no doubt established, I will attending Gadget …

Merry Christmas Coolsmartphoners !

Hey you lovely lot. It’s Christmas Eve! As is usual, I wanted to borrow some airtime to wish you all a fantastic festive season and thank you for repeatedly returning to our site. The guys writing the articles, churning out the podcast, tweaking code, reviewing handsets and replying …

Just give me five minutes..

Hello. I’m going to borrow your eyes for a minute. Don’t worry, I’ll keep it brief, but today it’s Children in Need. If you’re not aware, this is the BBC’s big charity event and it supports disadvantaged children all across the UK. As an example, just up the …

Get Social with Coolsmartphone

Here at Coolsmartphone, we’re always looking for better ways to communicate with our lovely readers. As part of this, we’ve re-launched our Facebook page with a new URL and more content – look out for competitions, questions and more over the next few months. You can find us …

Coolsmartphone and Mobile Fun iPhone 5 Case Giveaway – Results

Coolsmartphone is ten years old and just as we end one celebratory giveaway, what do we do? We start another. Whilst the Lookout giveaway is going on we can now confirm the lucky winners of the iPhone 5 case competition. The winners are: Mark Green from Skidby Emma …

Mobile World Congress – Get ready, we’re going large

In just over one week the first member of the CoolSmartPhone team will be arriving in sunny Barcelona to prepare for the chaos that is Mobile World Congress.  This year will be the biggest one so far for us here for a few reasons. First of all there …

Ten years today, let’s celebrate. Win some Lookout goodies!

Today, my dear friends, is an entire decade since this little domain first went live on the internet. I was only 6 years old at the time, but luckily I managed to get someone with a credit card to buy the domain and we flicked the switch. To …

Win a copy of CRC Pro-Cycling or Volume+! [GIVEAWAY]

5th November, remember remember, gunpowder, treason and plot. To celebrate this fiery time of year, we’re giving away a copy of CRC Pro-Cycling for iOS! Alternatively, for the Android users out there, we are also giving away a copy of the great volume-modification app Volume+, thanks to Danny …

Are you a Minecraft builder?

Hi there! We’ve got a great project lined up for TheCoolGamer and we need your help. Can you build awesome things on Minecraft? If so, we need you! Fill in the form below and we’ll contact you shortly.

TheCoolGamer: v2.0

Hi all, Firstly, thanks for making our launch a huge success! We’ve had a lot of traffic since launch, although our first day was marred by issues with the CloudFlare network that took down a few hundred sites (it wasn’t just us). Secondly, as you’ve probably noticed, we’ve …

Welcome

Welcome to TheCoolGamer.com! TheCoolGamer is a new gaming news and review site that encompasses all platforms and an integrated forum that also doubles as a comment system – meaning that there will always be something to talk about. We’re still in our testing phase, so I apologise for …