I love my iPad. I use it all the time, every day, mostly on my sofa. It is quite heavy though, and slightly uncomfortable to hold for long periods of time. That’s where the O-Stand from LapDawg comes in. The O-Stand from LawDawg looks slightly like something out …
The Nokia Lumia 520 was released a couple of weeks ago, so I rushed out and bought one so that I could review it for you lovely people (how selfless, right?). I set it up, gave it a first impressions review, then turned my Nexus 4 off. How …
I love a good QWERTY phone, although it has been a few years since I actually owned one. Nokia have posted a quick teaser image showing a shift key, a Z key and some nice yellow curved corners. Lumia fans shouldn’t get too excited though, this is likely …
Waze is quite a useful app, it is a Sat-Nav, mapping and traffic app, where just by using it you are contributing to it’s accuracy. It is one of those apps that has never made it to Windows Phone, possibly due to user numbers in the past. Israeli …
Water, water, everywhere, but it’s all in my phone. AGH! You know what it’s like, the screen looks like an electronic goldfish bowl and it makes a sad swishing sound when moved around. A drop in the bath, a fall into a drink or even an unfortunate accident …
The Sumvision Cyclone Voyager tablet is back again and this time it’s an open box special at Misco. The 16GB tablet is a 1.6GHz dual-core ARM Cortex ARM CPU and there’s 1GB memory with 16GB internal storage. Yes, it’s only got an 7″ 800×480 pixel screen (everything will …
The guys from T-Mobile have a pretty decent deal on right now. It’s 5000 texts and 300 minutes per month plus another 500 minutes to T-Mobile customers every month. There’s also 750MB of data per month but, right now, they’re giving another 250MB of data per month for …
I’m a big fan of Cut The Rope, and noticed yesterday that a new version is out, called ‘Time Travel’. This edition sees the awesome Om Nom travel though time (see what they did there?) meeting ancestors and gulping down yet more candy. Perhaops they’ll be a ‘Cut The …
If you listened to our lovely podcast this week you’ll have heard us discussing the various merits of the Samsung Galaxy S4, in particular, VS other (cheaper) handsets like the Google Nexus 4. I really like my Nexus 4. I like stock Android, it’s whizzy fast and does everything …
Today EE have announced the launch of the UK’s first first next-generation 4G device, the Huawei E5776 mobile Wi-Fi hotspot. It’s a pretty regular Wi-Fi hotspot that allows up to ten wi-fi enabled devices to access the internet on the EE network. The difference, of course, is that …
Amazon’s new digital currency is now just a month away from being introduced. It’s a currency and payment method that you’ll be able to use in the Amazon Appstore and will soon become second nature for those with a Kindle Fire HD. Amazon Coins will let you buy …
Three have today launched the Motorola Defy+ on their UK network bringing the well built sturdy phone to the masses at a price of just £10 a month on contracts or £69.99 on PAYG Dust, scratch and water resistant, the Motorola Defy+ is a handy phone for those …
ZTE have recently hit two milestones and both are pretty impressive, making phones for fifteen years and also making 500 million devices. Somewhat strangely both milestones were hit at the same time. ZTE entered the handset industry in 1998 and since then ZTE has become a mobile device …
Once again another Dual SIM phone appears on the market and my imagination runs riot. The prospect of not having to carry two phones around all day gets my temperature racing. The fact it is made by Acer also means it will probably be well made, in the past I’ve had my …
It’s been mere hours since we heard that Archos had some new handsets up their sleeve. Now we’re getting information about the new handsets in question, and three of them will be heading your way soon. The 50 Platinum, the 53 Platinum and the 35 Carbon. The Archos …
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 …
Battery life. The bane of modern smartphones. We’ve discussed this on the podcast as one of the aspects begging for technology innovation, and it looks like our prayers just might be answered. A team from the United States claim to have invented a new type of battery technology, which provides TEN TIMES …
Got an iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S? Fed up of the battery going flat? Well, those “PowerJackits” are now reduced quite significantly. They were already slashed in price by 40% but now there’s another 50% off, meaning that some of the ones that were £50 are now just …
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 to reports that Samsung had paid bloggers to …
It’s fair to say that ever since I saw a carphone in a Jaguar XJ6 I’ve been obsessed with mobile telephones. Over the last few years I’ve swapped phones around regularly, usually flip flopping between Android and iOS devices. I usually end up going back to the iPhone sooner or later. …
