Category: Android
It’s always nice when a large name app developer like Skype actually update their app to have a decent tablet UI. This mornings update to Skype has added exactly that. Here are a few screenshots showing what to expect. The what’s new section of the Play Store details …
Well, they’ve only got a few days left in November, so here’s hoping it’ll roll out pretty soon. If you’re one of the lucky / unlucky ones to have Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) and you’re missing out on December anniversaries and birthdays in the “People” app, Google are …
Telmap are an Intel owned mapping company and they have a rather decent free mapping and Sat Nav app for iOS and Android. You may remember this as I went to the launch event in London and we also reviewed their app as well. Well Telmap have released …
Back in October there was news of the first Huawei Ascend Windows Phone 8 handset and now a picture has been revealed! As you can see the handset comes in blue and white and whilst the specifications are yet to be confirmed the new device is rumoured to …
We have only just seen the release of Android 4.2 and the new Nexus 4 (even if not many have actually seen one!!) but already Android 5.0 seems to have put in an appearance in benchmarks spotted on NenaMark benchmark charts. The OS, generally thought to be know as …
A few weeks ago we brought you some news that the Samsung Ativ S and the Ativ tablet were going to be delayed. The Windows Phone 8 equipped Ativ S was of interest initially to me as it is bar the camera arguably the best spec’d WP8 device …
The LG Optimus 4X is one of those underrated devices. Retailers are now in that period where LG’s newer devices are appearing and these older devices are in danger of getting overlooked. Expansys are selling them today for £284.99 here. Features you’ll love: Flagship phone from LG bursting …
Ever wondered how many people are using Ice Cream Sandwich, or Honeycomb, or Gingerbread? Well, Google (as usual, with most things) has the answer. Data from the number of Android devices accessing Google Play within a 14-day period shows that nearly 26% are using Ice Cream Sandwich and …
Seen this? It’s a £50 cashback offer on selected Samsung Galaxy Tab devices. Those “selected” devices are the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, Galaxy Note 10.1 and for some reasons there’s £30 cashback on the Galaxy Tab 7.0, but you get an 8GB microSD card. Anyways, Simon Algar popped …
Don’t tell the kids, but Google has done what the Grinch couldn’t – stolen Christmas! OK, they haven’t actually stolen it, but if you’re an Android 4.2 Jelly Bean user you better not have been born in December, because Google have dropped (another) almighty clanger by omitting the …
This is a dramatic twist. One of the biggest sore points of the Nexus 4 launch was its lack of LTE but an iFixit teardown has revealed that the Nexus 4 actually has a “Qualcomm WTR1605L Seven-Band 4G LTE chip” inside, the turquoise highlighted chip in the picture above. Quite …
A mere four months after the release of Android 4.1, we now have 4.2. It’s still called Jellybean, but despite the lack of a name change there are still some nice additions, more so than the last time we had two versions of Android with the same name …
As discussed on our latest podcast, Google Music has finally arrived here on the shores of the UK and finally for all of those who didn’t know about or care to use the workaround can get a taste of what those on the other side of the pond …
If you are a regular reader of TheCoolGamer or CoolSmartPhone, you will probably know that I’m (sort of) actually looking forward to the release of BB10, having acquired a BlackBerry Playbook through a developer scheme a few weeks back. Well, Research in Motion are at it again, this time with …
The Lenova made Smart Tab II is now available from Vodafone. Vodafone have even made a nice little video showing off the Smart Tab II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jViiAN3yA2o The 7 inch Vodafone Smart Tab II, powered by Lenovo, is the new 3G and WiFi Android tablet from Vodafone – giving …
If you’ve got one of those clever Smart TV’s then check out the new YouTube app. It includes YouTube TV. To get it working you’ll have to do some jiggery-pokery with your TV and pair it up, so it doesn’t look to be straight DLNA as far as …
A few weeks ago in amongst all of the other lawsuit waffle, I heard that Apple and Samsung were amending details of the others products to be included in their second court battle. Samsung added the iPhone 5 and Apple added the Note 10.1, Apple also wanted to …
So today is the day that those of us that were lucky enough to order a Nexus 4 will receive their shiny new bundles of shiny from the TNT delivery man. There have been sporadic reports of people getting their devices without prior notice from Google from TNT. …
The other week we posted some details of the new tablets that Gemini Devices were planning on selling at the Gadget Show Live before Christmas. Well it seems they have released some more info on the budget 7″ Android tablet. The spec is as follows: -CPU – ARM …
The rather clever Samsung Galaxy Beam that we reviewed a while back here is now even cheaper. Expansys are having one of their one day special sales. Today only the Beam will cost £249.99. When we reviewed it our main problem with it was the price. This problem …
An American dies every 19 minutes from skipping medication or taking meds incorrectly; the problem costs U.S. hospitals $100 billion every year. So that’s why the team from the MediSafe Project launched today the first-ever cloud-synced mobile app that not only reminds users when it’s time to take …
When I first heard that there was going to be another Angry Birds games I wept a little bit. I was a little bit concerned, I’ll explain why in a bit. Never before has there been such a worldwide mobile gaming phenomenon. I suppose Sonic the Hedgehog or …
He may be the top dog at Microsoft, but Steve Ballmer has never held back when asked about the competition. Today he must’ve been feeling even more relaxed, shooting bullets at both iPhone and Android. Ballmer firmly believes that Windows Phone can sit somewhere in between the “highly …
Earlier we reported that the CyanogenMod team were being held to ransom over their domain by an unscrupulous member of their team. Spurred by the news, the wider community have come to the rescue, and the situation is now under control. Cyanogen himself took to the blog in …
The Windows Phone 8 release has been a little higgledy piggledy with manufacturers, retailers, networks and blogs like us painting a confusing picture of which devices are coming out when. One device seems to have missed most peoples attention and that’s the bargain priced HTC 8S. It was …
For the uninitiated, CyanogenMod is probably the most widely used custom ROM suite in the Android community. The team work as a non-profit group of programmers that provide fully open source, freely available ROMs for dozens of devices for nothing. Nice people, doing great things for the common …
In amongst all the excitement about new Nexus devices going on sale and promptly selling out, Android 4.2 is being made available to Galaxy Nexus devices. Conspicuous by their absence however were updates for the Nexus S and the Motorola Xoom. Googles Jean-Baptiste M. Queru has now confirmed …
The seemingly expensive Samsung Galaxy Camera has recently arrived into stock across the land. It is an interesting device, I’d like to try one out just to see how it compares to my £200 compact digital camera. It certainly is feature packed though and Samsung have posted this …
Yes you read the title right, you can customise Windows Phone 8 quite a bit. This article is a quick look at a few apps I use on my nice new HTC 8X to customise the look. Starting off with a custom tile creator. Wizz Tiles Wizz Tiles …
The Nexus 4 sold out in less than 30 minutes yesterday. The 16GB version vanished in just 20 minutes, so it’s not like we can just lay our hands on one to show you guys.. is it? Made by LG we’ve managed to unbox one today, and there’s …
The Lumia 920 was meant have been an exclusive for EE yet in the past few days we have seen various retailers getting stock of the white version. Expansys are the latest to get stock and they are selling them at £554.99 and it’s available here. Previous retailers …
Maps, on iOS? Let’s not go there shall we? Now Nokia are getting in on the act, launching a location and mapping service for iOS. It’ll be called “HERE”. Yes, iOS. Android soon, and Windows Phone of course too. It’s not just maps either, there’s navigation, offline caching …
Did you, like me, sit at a computer for much of the late night and morning, refreshing the Google Play store screen, waiting and hoping to be the proud owner of a brand spanking, shiny new Nexus device? Did you, like me, end up without one because they …
America. Land of the free, home of the Verizon network and now – the Droid DNA. Made by HTC it’s available for pre-order on VerizonWireless.com and features a Super LCD 5″ screen with an amazing 1920×1080 resolution. Specs have been widely leaked, but include a 1.5Ghz quad-core Snapdragon …
You may have seen this guy recently. He’s Steven Sinofsky and showed us Microsoft Surface on stage. Today he quit Microsoft, and you’ll no doubt see headlines suggesting that the company is struggling due to the “modest sales” and his departure. Paul Thurrot has managed to grab the …
Head over to this page right now to get LG Nexus 4. It’s £239 for the 8GB version and £279 for the 16GB one. There’s a £9.99 delivery charge. The Nexus 10 is available here for the 16GB. The Nexus 4 is made by LG and has a …
For a while now there has been talk of a white version of the new LG Nexus 4 device but we have yet to see it in public. However on the day of the Nexus 4 launch here in the UK, Carphone Warehouse have something rather interesting on …
Many of us have been waiting on major leaps forward from Motorola ever since Google acquired Motorola Mobility, but thus far there’s been very little to excite. Well, that looks like it’s going to change soon with the introduction of Test Drive. According to the official Motorola blog, …
Anyone with an Android phone running latest software might want to check the Play Store app on their device. 20 minutes before we are officially on the 13th November and Google Music has now launched here in the UK The web store has also just been updated …
There’s been a bit of a discussion amongst the CoolSmartPhone writers. Some of us still think RIM has a future in the two-and-a-half horse smartphone race that the end of 2012 is seeing, so when the Waterloo company announced the official launch date of BB10 will be Jan …
