HTC One – Video Demo and my thoughts
Here it is then, the HTC One. This huge event at the German Gymnasium in London wasn’t just a phone launch or the confirmation that the leaked M7 was indeed the HTC One. This was showing what mobile companies must [...]
BlackBerry Z10 – Video overview
I seem to have a got a name for myself somehow. I’m known across the t’interwebs for many things (sorry, I needed the money) but you may know me as “the guy who films videos in the car”. I’ve not [...]
Huawei Ascend P1 Review
I’m going to start this review in a rather unconventional way. Bear with me. Straight away. Gotta admit it. This really isn’t bad. I mean sure, when I hold the Samsung Galaxy SII, then switch to this, there’s an ever-so-slight [...]
A week with … the Samsung Galaxy SIII
So, this week I’ve got myself a Samsung Galaxy SIII. It’s been loaned to us from UR-Mobile and we’ll be giving you a daily dose of this hot new handset. Simply check back at 9.30 AM every day for the [...]
Huawei Ascend G300 Review
You might not know it but Huawei have been around in the mobile industry for a long long time now, If you have one of those USB dongles which were all the craze a year ago there is a good [...]
Huawei Ascend Y 100 – Overview and first look
This morning a jiffy bag turned up and a small phone was inside. To a “power user” the diminutive Huawei Ascend Y 100 has a relatively small 2.8″ LCD screen and isn’t anywhere near as large as phones like the [...]
Panasonic Eluga dL1 Review
Panasonic, long missing from the smartphone arena, have finally made the decision to enter the European market. Their first foray is the Eluga dL1 and thanks to the kind people of Expansys we’ve gold hold of one to review. The [...]
HTC One V Review
The bottom of the range is never a good place to be. Not if we’re honest. If your budget will “only go” as far as the One V then you might think that you’re losing out. Sure, when it comes [...]
HTC One S Review
The HTC One S is the slimmer, ever-so-slightly-less-powerful brother of the HTC One X. It’s got a 4.3″ screen with 960×540 pixel screen. I say “slightly less powerful” but heck, a dual-core 1.5GHz CPU is still ruddy good. Powered by [...]
MWC – Motorola MOTOLUXE – Up close
This is our first bit of quality time with the Motorola MOTOLUXE. It went on sale just last week and, with all the talk of dual-core and quad-core CPU’s here in Barcelona, we weren’t really expecting a huge amount from [...]
MWC – Hands on with the Galaxy Note 10.1
The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 only got announced literally minutes ago, so we thought it best to go and get a hands-on with the device. The lovely Samsung lady gave us a great demo of the device, which has a [...]
HTC Ville leaks all over the place. Specs and pics galore
Well, with just weeks until Mobile World Congress it kinda had to happen didn’t it? Here, for all to see, are the specs and some rather nice shots of the HTC Ville – a handset that’s due to be launched [...]
Viewsonic Viewpad 10e initial impressions
Viewsonic have quite a few different tablets. They have budget tablets running Gingerbread, they have tablets running Windows 7 and Android and they have a premium 7″ Honeycomb tablet. The Viewpad 10e is one of the budget devices. You can [...]
HTC Explorer – Video overview
Right, the HTC Explorer is a smartphone aimed at the budgets and minds of people who have perhaps never considered a smartphone. Equipped with a 3 megapixel camera, 3.2″ HVGA screen, GPS, WiFi, 3.5mm audio port and 3G connectivity it [...]
T-Mobile Vivacity video overview
It’s quickly turning into another big “review day” here at Coolsmartphone. Next up is this, the T-Mobile Vivacity. We’ve actually already reviewed this a few weeks ago but I’ve got one right here and figured that you’d like a video [...]
O2 BoostBox Review & Setup
UK network O2 have a new product in testing and that is a Femtocell. If you do not know what one of these is then consider it a portable mast you plug into your home WiFi network to give you [...]
Motorola RAZR Review
Motorola have been around for a long time now making phones, everyone will remember the iconic RAZR phone which went through a few different phases including the V3i, V3xx and the Maxx which the later ones were 3G versions back [...]
HTC Sensation XL – Up close and personal
Hopefully by now you’ve read our HTC Sensation XL review. Today we got sent another one, so we figured it was time for some daring camera angles and zoom-shots :) Inside there’s that clever Beats technology that, when combined with [...]
One night, in a hotel, we decided to Rhyme
I’m in Belfast, stuck in a hotel room with only a busted TV and an air-conditioning unit for company. Luckily I’ve brought with me the all-new HTC Rhyme with it’s strong unibody design. It comes with a docking station, some [...]
