Category: Android
Back in the summer at the Samsung Unpacked press event in Berlin the Galaxy Note II and Ativ suite of Windows devices were announced in a flurry of excitement, but what they also announced on the same day was something they referred to as the ‘camera reborn’, the …
Three are now selling Sony’s new flagship Android phone – the Xperia T. Otherwise known as James Bond’s new phone, the device features a class leading 13 megapixel camera, 4.6″ HD screen, 1.5ghz dual core processor, 16gb storage and NFC. The phone is available now from Three for …
Rovio the worldwide renowned developer behind Angry Birds has just released their new game, Bad Piggies. It has just appeared in the Play Store and the link is below. Play Store Link – Bad Piggies Oh and here is a little video showing you what it’s about.
News has reached us that the new Acer Cloud Mobile will be available from 3rd October directly from Expansys. The new 4.3″ device is set to ship with Android 4.0 Ice Cream sandwich and is powered by a 1.5Ghz dual core Snapdragon processor. With 16gb internal storage and …
Not that all you Android and iPhone afficionado’s out there will notice or care, but the Blackberry Jam: America’s conference is underway, and along with the traditional sneak peeks at up-and-coming goodies, they promo’d their latest OS developments. Its been a while since we’ve had some truly simple …
Google Play, Google’s app store has hit 25 billion downloads according to the Official Android blog. As a way of celebration Google have decided to have a sale and offer various apps, books and films (as well as music if you are in the US) for only 25p …
“Because sometimes it just has to be said through music”. We suspect someone in RIM uttered those words, and to show the world that the RIM execs have a sense of humour, a music video was born and posted on youtube. One of the most amusing thing has …
Google Developers updated their binaries for the Nexus line last night with noteworthy changes mentioned by JBQ to be: “for grouper (i.e. Nexus 7), the new binaries support GPS, and include a high-precision touchscreen firmware.” What does this mean for you? If you are on anything other than …
Meeting new people is great, meeting people who share the same interests is even better. Wait, stop. This is sounding like an advert for a dating website. A few months ago a collection of bloggers and Android fans decided to organise a UK get together where you could …
When a new phone is released there is a flurry of interest in the specs – What processor? What camera? What operating system version? Then reality kicks in and everyone asks how much the damn thing’s going to be. Annoyingly that’s normally the last thing we hear. However, …
Today Huawei have announced their latest smartphone, the Ascend Y201. The new Ascend Y201 is an entry-level Android handset that will be exclusive to Tesco Mobile. Launching today, the latest offering from Huawei runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread and uses Huawei’s own easy to use interface coined HAP …
After the unexpected runaway success of the much vaunted Samsung Galaxy Note comes the Galaxy Note II. It has now been confirmed by Samsung that the new handset, a cross between a phone and a tablet, will be launched in the UK on 1st October and will be …
Today it has been discovered that some Samsung TouchWiz-running devices can be wiped with a single line of HTML code without confirmation. According to the tweet below, the Galaxy S3 has been confirmed as vulnerable to the attack, with the S2, Ace and Galaxy S Advance (my phone!) …
It’s fair to say that I’ve followed the mobile landscape for some time now. I sometimes forget that many of you may not remember a time before mobile phones existed, and some of you perhaps don’t even recall handsets without colour screens. Something struck me on a recent …
Google has updated its books app bringing a heap of improvements. According to the Google Android Blog, you will now be able to tap on a location mentioned in a book to learn more about it. An info card will appear with a Google Map and the option …
Any time now we’re all expecting Google to announce a new Nexus (or even maybe some Nexi) along with the next big version of Android: Key Lime Pie. Now while I love Android and have been seriously impressed with ICS and JB, there are still plenty of areas …
There has been much speculation about the next Nexus device. Some saying that there will be several manufacturers all making different Nexuses (Nexi?), others saying that Samsung will just revamp the current Nexus for now. These could, of course, both be true. However, GSMArena are now saying that …
For those that are old enough, you might remember your parents telling you to “Give me three rings” when you get somewhere. Now it’s turned into “Give me a text” but, if you want even more peace of mind, try “Guard My Angel”. They’ve sent us a video …
It really doesn’t seem like a day goes by when we’re not hearing about yet another lawsuit. You know how it goes by now. It’ll involve Apple and either Motorola or Samsung. The Apple Maps criticisms are just the thin end of the wedge. I won’t blame anyone, …
With over 20 million units shipped in its first 100 days on sale the Samsung Galaxy SIII can be classed as nothing less than successful. There was however one slight problem with it – the launch of Android Jellybean. Suddenly Samsung’s all singing all dancing newer than new …
Can you remember last week before all of the fuss surrounding a certain maps app, where we attended an event in London for the unveiling of the new phone from Motorola. The Motorola RAZR i is a joint venture from Intel and Motorola and features an Intel CPU. …
When CyanogenMod developer Codeworkx was quizzed as to why certain versions of the Samsung Galaxy SII were getting CyanogenMod 10 sooner than others he explained that it was down to the fact that some use Samsung’s own Exynos SoC (system on a chip) and others use Qualcom or …
Falcon for Twitter (beta) is a widget that aims to let you do all your everyday Twitter stuff directly from your homescreen, and I’m not just talking about reading and writing tweets. This clever little widget does so much more. I know this is the traditional time of …
A few days ago Motorola announced the RAZR i, not long after that we benchmarked it to see how the Medfield CPU held up against some of the big players, and earlier today we announced the pricing for UK carriers. This is what I thought after a little …
Well, that didn’t take long did it? The first day the general public are able to lay their hands on this weeks hottest tech, the Apple iPhone 5, someone performs a drop test on it! Personally, I hate these tests….still you might like to see how the iPhone …
The other day HTC held a press event with no live public feed. It meant that some of us only got to see bits and bobs from the event. Well for those that missed out HTC have published the event on their YouTube channel and here it is. …
Ealier on in the week (details here) we got to see the new UK phone from Motorola, the RAZR i. We got to see lots of information about it, the specs, some pictures and then some videos as well. On the day there wasn’t really any mention of …
We’ve spied a couple of pretty great deals if you’re up for a new Windows Phone handset. First up, down at Asda, they’ve got the Nokia Lumia 800 for just £149. I mean sure, the Windows Phone 7 OS is going to be replaced in a matter of …
The Windows Phone 8X by HTC will be available everywhere pretty soon. Available in a range of colours, it has a dual-core 1.5GHz CPU and is powered by the all-new Windows Phone 8. The guys at Expansys have now announced pricing of the SIM-free model – a cool …
Here at TheCoolGamer, we want to showcase great work. That’s why we’re introducing the Indie Showcase – a chance for indie developers to get their games featured on our site.
A few weeks ago we saw some rough specs of what looked to be the Blade III and today ZTE have gone and confirmed it. The Blade III is going to be an entry level Ice Cream Sandwich device that is only going to be sold in the …
Yesterday saw HTC announced two new Windows Phone 8 devices – the HTC 8X and 8S – almost immediately after Nokia had done exactly the same thing with the Lumia 920 and 820. Whilst Nokia seemed to get massive criticism for their phones, HTC got quite a bit …
Do you remember a few months ago Jamie had a look at the LG Optimus 4X? He loved it and recommended it to everyone wanting that Samsung Galaxy SIII level of performance but not the high price tag. Well if you can believe it the price has slipped further. Expansys …
Sure, it wasn’t quite as amazing as the Nokia event, but pretty good none the less. Yesterday afternoon HTC announced their new Windows Phone devices. We initially thought there was going to be three devices, but they brought out two. The Window Phone 8X and the 8S. They …
Today HTC announced two new smartphones, their first in the Windows Phone 8 range under the names 8X and 8S to partner their One X and One S Android brothers which were announced back at Mobile World Congress in February. And Three UK have come straight out and …
If you’re a regular CoolSmartPhone reader, you’ve probably read Jamie Ryan’s post last week about their new ad campaign that bears the tagline “It doesn’t take a genius”. The ad was designed to take momentum away from the iPhone 5 launch and divert attention to the Samsung Galaxy S3, which …
I’m not a real mobile gamer, not really a console gamer anymore but after seeing the trailers for Horn I was immediately transported back to playing the Legend of Zelda on my Nintendo Wii and was quite keen to give this game a go. However after buying Horn …
This afternoon HTC have announced the 8X and 8S and boy do they look nice. My decision over which Windows Phone 8 device to get has just got a lot harder. To possibly help you HTC have posted a video about the design behind the new phones. Here …
Ben Rudolph (the “Smoked by Windows Phone” guy) from Microsoft has posted a hands on video of the HTC 8X and 8S. We’re probably going to have to wait a while before we actually see one ourselves, so in the meantime make do with this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgJC91D9qlY
Following the Windows Phone 8X, the 8S has a slightly smaller screen and slightly reduced specs. Up front there’s a 4″ WVGA 800×480 pixel screen with Gorilla Glass and super LCD display. Powered by a 1GHz dual-core chip, it uses a microSIM and has the same Beats Audio …
