Category: Android
Some people out there couldn’t wait a few more months for the long awaited Nokia EOS and instead plumped for the Lumia 925 and it’s selection of new software and slightly improved camera. Yes you’re right that’s me I’m describing. Nokia UK have published the following two videos …
A few weeks ago Facebook opened up a new version of their Windows Phone app for beta testing and last night they have finally updated the original version to be inline with the beta version. So what’s new in this update? Well Microsoft sum it up quite well …
We have just had the press release from Three UK confining that the new Samsung Galaxy Mega is now available to buy both online and in stores. Available for £37 a month on The One Plan and £449.99 on PAYG, the Mega might be a big price but …
Possibly one of the most understated phones of our times, the Motorola RAZR i is being sold off rather cheaply recently. First on EE and now on Three. The deal is £149.99 on PAYG and as usual you’ll probably need a topup as well. Existing customers seem to …
Thanks to the kind people over at Vodafone UK, we have been given an Xperia Z Tablet to use for FOUR WEEKS to be able to give our thoughts on it in a review. However this time will be slightly different as 3 different members of the team …
During the Huawei Ascend P6 event last week Richard Yu the CEO of Huawei said that there wasn’t a reason to make a Google Edition of the P6 as Emotion UI was good enough. Well in a recent interview Kevin Ho, the president of the handset product division …
Facebook have decided they want some user feedback, which is nice of them. They obviously don’t want a repeat performance of Facebook Home with future updates of the standard Facebook app. The good thing is that if you want to install the beta version of the Facebook Android …
Good afternoon guys and girls, it’s been a week or two since our last podcast and there is a good reason for that. It’s mainly because most of us went on holiday at the same time but also because we’ve been gathering the troops in preparation for episode …
Hey you, yes you!! Do you live in Aldershot, Basildon, Basingstoke, Bracknell, Hitchin, Horsham, Leatherhead, Letchworth, Stevenage, Warrington or Weston-super-Mare? Well listen up, because you’re getting 4G right now. These additional locations mean that 85 towns and cities across the UK are now bathed in superfast mobile broadband …
What do you do if you break your phone, tablet, laptop or camera? Take it back to the shop and pretend it came like it? No you head over to the ifixit website and read a guide on how to rip your broken device apart and then after …
Any wordsearch fans out there? Well if you have an iOS device then the app for you has just been released. Word Search 10K is the largest word search ever made and is available free on the App store now. The app features one giant wordserach split into …
HTC have announced today that the HTC One, HTC’s current flagship device here in the UK, will be arriving in a new colour option. Dubbed ‘Glamour Red’ by the company, the red colour option will be available exclusively from Phones 4U from mid July. We haven’t been issued …
Yesterday night the Google editions of the HTC One and the Samsung Galaxy S4 became available on the Google Play Store. Or they did if you’re in the US anyway. These new Google editions joined the white version of the LG Nexus 4, which also isn’t available in …
Choosing a new phone is a fairly easy task these days, you pick your favourite OS, then you pick a size, then a manufacturer, then a particular model, then a colour and that’s pretty much it. But what happens if you’ve only got one manufacturer to choose from? …
Don’t you just love pre ordering stuff? With no idea of when you’ll get something or whether or not the price is going to be competitive come the day of release. Well if you do like pre ordering stuff and you like the look of the newly announced …
Big phones or small tablets, the oversized phone scene is increasingly becoming a complicated arena. With the announcement of the Sony Xperia Z Ultra yesterday it got me wondering just how big you can really go, what consumers actually want and what suppliers think we want. Deep stuff …
The LG Optimus G2 has been lurking around the internet for a month or so now with some images surfacing in May and some more turning up now. The main thing the images show is that the phone has a forward facing camera and that the volume rocker …
I imagine many of you went to bed last night thinking about the Sony Xperia Z Ultra, I know I did, mainly down to how I was going to finance it. It seems that it is going to be harder to finance than I thought it would be. …
BlackBerry now have their latest phone in the BB10 series on sale. We have just received an email from eXpansys confirming the new BlackBerry Q5 is now in stock costing £359.99 so you can get your order in right now! The Q5 is the more ‘mid range’ phone …
Well known for it’s leaks, @evleaks has just tweeted out that the new camera flagship due to be announced in New York on the 11th July will be called the Lumia 1020 which is also the first time a Nokia model has gone over three digits but will …
I know what you’re thinking. “What am I going to do with the 2 grand in my back pocket?” Well, you could get yourself one of these, a brand new HTC One plated in either Gold for £1895, Rose Gold for £1995 (don’t ask me the difference) or, …
So you’ve read my OPPO find 5 review, watched the videos and your mouse is hovering above the add to basket button, but before you check-out you may want to think about a case. The problem is that there are no third party cases and the only place …
The Huawei Ascend P6 was announced last week and with came the claim that it was the thinnest smartphone in the world, shortly after that an even thinner phone appeared, the Umeox X5 which is to be released in China and it is 5.6mm compared to 6.1mm. In …
Sony have just announced the Xperia Z Ultra which is a large phablet design with high speed internet and UK network Three have confirmed they will stock it Over on their official Blog Three have said
The whole idea of a SmartWatch seems like a great one, I have never got one myself, I feel I should do, it’s just something that just holds me back. This morning Sony have announced their third generation SmartWatch and maybe this will be the one for …
Sony today have staged events all around the world. The first device that they unveiled is the Xperia Ultra a 6.4 inch large phone tablet thing. Spec wise it is as high end as you’d expect, it will be the thinnest smartphone with a 1080p screen thanks to …
The seven inch large phone tablet thing is becoming quite popular. Not with actual consumers but with manufacturers, we now have the Asus FonePad, the Galaxy Note 8.0 and now the Huawei MediaPad 7 Vogue. The MediaPad 7 Vogue is the latest in a line of budget tablets …
Almost a year ago I posted a rather glowing Ascend P1 review. It was, and still is, a fantastic handset. Sure, it looks a bit like a the Galaxy S2 from Samsung, but now the dual-core 1.5GHz handset is down to just £169.99 SIM Free, and that includes …
Now and again I like to try something a little different. Be it food, clothes, holidays, new words or just mobile phones. This weeks review is exactly that, something different. Prestigio have been selling tablets for a while now and recently they’ve branched out into Smartphones. There range is …
The OPPO find 5 is unknown to some, a curiosity to others and an item of desire to others (James). For me it’s been all three and is now my daily driver. To be clear, this isn’t a review unit that I’ve been sent, it’s my phone bought …
After having been successful in the Windows 8 game arena Philino Technologies have released their motorbike racing game on Android and Windows stores simultaneously, with iOS to follow in the summer. The game is free on Android, cost 99p on Windows Phone although it does have a try …
I’ve been meaning to write this for a while but never got around to it. This is a problem that every Android user has encountered at one time or another. You’ve probably been sitting there at home, or you’ve left your phone on overnight and suddenly you hear …
Three UK have just uploaded a video to their YouTube channel showing off another new phone heading to their UK network and that is the Acer Liquid E2 Specs include a 4.5 inch screen, 4gb storage, 8 megapixel camera and it runs Android JellyBean The E2 looks to …
There’s a new breed of human walking this Earth. The ever connected, technology addicted ‘smart’ person. We can answer phone calls and texts with our watches and glasses while our every move is collected and analysed by fitness experts. Much like Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes F1, we can …
Since Google announced the end of Reader, their RSS service I was on the look out for a replacement to use on my Windows Phone and Windows RT devices. Being a longtime user of Nextgen Reader I was hoping they’d go with a service that is nicely multi …
I’ve been asked this a few times now and it’s something I touched on in both my Samsung Galaxy S3 review and the Samsung Galaxy S4 review. Samsung are busy increasing the amount of devices in their range but, for many, it’s still the Samsung Galaxy S4 they’re …
Install Windows Phone 8 on it of course. Before you all get cross I’m kidding here, yes I’d like a Windows Phone version of the HTC One but I doubt it would be better. Neowin have been tipped off by a source that HTC is currently working on …
Sony have recently been teasing the announcement of a new Smartwatch on their Xperia twitter account and it looks set to become official at the Mobile Asia Expo 2013 which runs from 26th to 28th of June. The tweets include a picture of the current Smartwatch (their second …
Spotify have released an update to their Android app, which brings notification area controls for the first time. If you have Jelly Bean 4.1 or above, you will now be able to control playback straight from your notifications area, instead of opening the app itself. Radio performance has …
OPPO are having a fair bit of niche success in Europe at the moment, so much so that rumours are abound of new devices. Last week we reported that there would be a Find 5 Mini. Unfortunately this turns out to be spurious, according to an “OPPO representative” …
