Category: Android
There have been lots of tablet bargains flying about recently. Some of you lucky people (James) have been snapping up more than one! But for some of us a tablet is a luxury. One is more than enough for the whole household. There is a slight issue with …
Over on Facebook the Sony Ericsson guys have posted a close-up of the Sony Xperia S and highlights the “illuminating transparent belt”. We saw this earlier in our in-depth look but it seems that it’s not just a funky part of the design. It’s a notification light, and …
Want a closer peek at the new Nokia Lumia 710? Check out this video, added by Nokia today, it features a geezer with greasy hair showing you around the phone. There’s 8GB of storage, 1.4GHz CPU and a 3.7″ 480×800 screen with 5 megapixel camera. If you want …
Google’s new baby, Motorola, are going through some tough times. After coming back from the dead thanks to Android they’ve posted a loss of $80 million for Q4. It seems that Motorola “shipped” 1 million tablets during the whole of 2011, with 42.4 million mobile devices sold in …
A few days back we saw a rather large list of leaked Sony (Ericsson) handsets. One was called the “Tapioca”, aka the ST21i. It’s now stated to have a single-core 800MHz CPU, 512MB RAM, 4GB ROM and runs Android 2.3.7 (Gingerbread). Other specs include a 3.2″ HVGA (320×480) …
Samsung, who have “apparently confirmed” (although I read it personally as “not denying”) the Galaxy SIII, are on a roll. Net profit at Samsung Electronics is up to 4 trillion won, which is about £2.3 billion. Althought net income for 2011 was down slightly, Samsung saw the Galaxy …
Mentioned in phone leaks already, HTC’s new version of their Sense interface, 4.0, is now doing the rounds on the internet. It would seem a version has been leaked before it has been announced or made it on to a phone. The big news (potentially) is 3rd party support for …
Yes it’s Friday. Yes we have some weird stuff for you. If you really want to try these out click the app name to get to the market. Beware some may have strange permissions. Last weeks massage app needed access to your phone book! So keep your eyes …
I have obviously been doing something right in the last few weeks as I have been given a very exciting opportunity. Thanks to Handtec I have got my hands on some of the latest Tech of the year. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7, this is a great diminutive …
The Met Office have released their weather forecast app onto the Android Market. It has been available for iOS for a while. But hey good things come to those who wait. The market description for the app expalins exactly what it can do. “Get your forecasts on the …
Nokia have published their quarter four figures for 2011 and they make for slightly depressing reading. You can find the figures here at the Nokia press site. Some of the most interesting points from this are as follows. Nokia have sold “well over 1 million lumia devices” Operating profit …
Can you remember Reckless Racing? It is a overhead view dirt road racing game. You raced against other players or against your phone. Either way it was great fun. Well Polarbit the games developer have released a trailer for Reckless Racing 2. With improved graphics and more maps. …
Can you remember a few weeks ago we attended the announcement of the upcoming LG Prada? The article is here. Well Phones 4u will be getting stock tomorrow. It is currently on pre-order and there are a selection of networks and tariffs available. It looks like you will …
The Verge have reported that people they know, know people at Samsung and those people at Samsung are delaying the release of the Samsung Galaxy S3. It was expected that Samsung would announce it at MWC in Barcelona at the end of February. But now it sounds like …
The other day we reported that John Lewis of all people had an exclusive on the white version of the Samsung Galaxy Note. Well I guess that it was for a short period of time because Clove now have them in stock. You can get one here. The …
A team of developers over at XDA Developers have recently started work on a project called Skydroid. In the past these guys worked on a Windows Phone 7 for Android project. XDA user TheRedDrake says that “we are making an entire UI based on w8 metro look which will …
Yesterday we posted an article about Nokia and how an analyst firm had decided that Nokia had sold between 800,000 and 2 million handsets globally. Well today some slightly more solid evidence has come to light and it’s via Facebook of all places. All Windows Phone handsets have a …
Samsung have continued to pump out their Galaxy SII adverts in the USA and they seem to be following a very similar vein. Earlier we saw how Samsung poked fun at Apple customers queuing and camping outside stores for the “Next big thing” and now Samsung are saying …
Another day and another set of Tweets from Editor Eldar Murtazin. Today he’s talking Windows Phone 8, aka Apollo. That bit we knew already. What he is saying is that it’ll arrive in October this year and, surprisingly it looks to be incompatible with Windows Phone 7 on …
For those of you that have a Windows Phone on the O2 network you’ll be pleased to hear that the 7.10.8107 update ( the disappearing keyboard update) is now being pushed out. Whilst this is not a major update to the OS, its a welcome one as it shows that …
Since news of the new Nokia Lumia 910 broke this morning, Eldar Murtazin had painfully drip-fed information about the Samsung Galaxy SIII, which he says is much better. As the day has progressed we’ve found out that the new Galaxy will have a HD screen and will match …
Maybe you should try this, the new Android tablet from Inspiration Works. Named the “Kurio” this is on display at the Toys and Games Fair in Hong Kong so you can probably expect it to arrive here in July. Tablets aimed at children are already out there, and …
Dixons are currently showing the 16GB HP Touchpad as in stock and selling for just …£89.97. It might be a mistake, but it does seem to let me add it to the basket and go to checkout. Will we see these quickly snapped up and then resold on …
As usual in the lead up to a major press event, there’s various leaks. This time it is the turn of HTC. Details about the HTC Primo have leaked out. It looks be aimed at the budget end of the market and will cost around ￡250. It has …
If Eldar Murtazin speaks, we usually listen. He’s just added a very interesting tit-bit to his Twitter timeline which states.. Who needs lumia 900 in june if they want to launch lumia 910 (12mpx) in may? Europe It comes just a day after Carphone Warehouse accidentally added a …
The pink Galaxy SII we spotted at Phones 4U will shortly be available from eXpansys. If you’re looking for a gadgety Valentines gift, this could be your thing – it’s arriving on February 13th. Inside it’s the usual goodness – an 8 megapixel camera, dual-core 1.2GHz CPU, Android …
Remember these adverts? They appeared a few months ago to promote the Nokia Lumia 800 and used “break flashes”. This was picked up in our earlier article and consists of advertisers showing a very brief (half a second) message between the other commercials. Ofcom found Channel Five to …
Carphone Warehouse have put the Nokia Lumia 900 on their Coming Soon section of the website with an estimated launch date of June 2012! The 900 was announced at CES in Las Vegas with AT&T exclusivity but now it seems that this hot new device will be coming …
EDF have decided that a trip in the London Eye to see the sites of London isn’t enough. They have introduced a new “interactive guide” which allows you to access information about the sites you can see from in the Pod during your rotation. The highly functional interactive …
Last week some rather interesting figures dropped into our mailbox from iSuppli. The research firm states that, by 2015, Windows Phone will overtake Apple’s iOS. With Android still marching ahead, forecasts state that Microsoft will gain 16.7% market share, with Apple coming in at 16.6%. Now, I’ll be …
Ten days ago we spotted that the Nokia Lumia 710 would be arriving on February 1st. Now Carphone Warehouse have joined the dealers offering this new Windows Phone with an expected February arrival date and a pre-order page for you to fill in should you want one. No …
Notion Ink have announced a new version of their Adam tablet. This time they will be using a Texas Instruments instead of the Tegra chip they used last time. With the original Notion Ink had a rough time actually getting the tablets to market and then they had …
If you are reading this the chances are that you are a Samsung Galaxy S owner and you are frustrated. Samsung decided that there was not enough space on the Galaxy S to fit the Ice Cream Sandwich update, which left a lot of people rather angry with …
“Wow”. That was my initial reaction upon opening the box. The whole process had been a bit dampened though. What a palaver the pre order process was. How annoying was it to have Asus announce an updated model even before this one had even reached the UK market. …
HTC have been rumoured to have mentioned a future update for the HTC Flyer to Ice Cream Sandwich to a customer complaining about how they disliked the Honeycomb update. Apparently whilst discussing how the customer could downgrade their tablet to Gingerbread the customer service-type-person mentioned that they could …
If you’ve got an iPhone you may well have used Instagram. If shares your pictures for free to Facebook, Twitter or Flickr. The Android version is coming, but there’s rumours now that the Windows Phone version could, possibly, be arriving a little earlier. Fast Company has received pretty …
Whilst not usually in our eye-line (being Blackberry and all), it is worth a fleeting mention that there are changes afoot at the Research In Motion (RIM) campus. Board Members at the smartphone manufacturer RIM have accepted the decision to displace their founding partners, and named Thorsten Heins as their …
So, you know about MegaUpload.com. It’s gone, and the people behind it were obviously quite rich before they got a knock from the Feds. Now, if we’re all brutally honest we know that MegaUpload was hosting a LOT of “iffy” files and a LOT of sites out there …
One of the phones on the leaked Sony roadmap is called the Sony ST25i “Kumquat” and we figured it would be quite small just because of the name. The lovely people at the Xperia Blog have received a leaked picture of it and it seems to maintain the …
Got your Asus Transformer Prime tablet? Me too – but apparently I’ve been one of the lucky ones with no GPS/Wi-Fi issues. Well now it’s been confirmed – sort of. Asus says users who have GPS fault will get money back, but denies an issue with Wi-Fi Asus …
