Category: Android
You’ve seen the Motorola DEFY, you’ve had the Motorola DEFY+ .. now, shrink it down and you get this, the Motorola DEFY MINI. Motorola have just announced two new phones, this being one of them. The DEFY MINI is dustproof and water-resistant just like the earlier models. We’re …
The Samsung Galaxy SII is amazing. We know that, you know that. However, when Orange (and Barclaycard) launched their “contactless payment” service the Galaxy SII wasn’t listed as a supported handset. Actually, there weren’t a great deal of phones supporting the “touch to pay” system. To do this …
Clove have reported today that the popular Samsung Galaxy Nexus which recently launched will be coming out in white from next month here in the UK (February). Priced just under £500 this gives anyone interested in the Nexus an interesting choice of colour now. Over on the Clove …
Asus UK have announced on Facebook that their original Transformer tablet will get an update to Ice Cream Sandwich at some point in the future. Don’t you just love these announcements? Hopefully the asap bit means only a few days after the Prime release. Which is meant to …
More power! Single core CPU’s? Pah, they’re yesterdays news. Digitimes reckon that HTC will be rocking up in Barcelona with many disk and quad-core CPU’s inside their spanky new phones. The HTC Edge is going to be one of them but there’s now rumours of Tegra 3 (quad …
Over at Android Developers, some interesting numbers have come to light. Do we all know what Android OS we’re running on our devices, and do we care? It would appear that more than half the worlds Android devices (54.9% to be precise) are TWO full generations of the …
Are you after a Asus Transformer Prime? Are you in the UK? It probably worth checking this thread over at xda-developers . It looks like units are starting to fly off the shelves from PC World and Currys. It seems that the larger PC World stores are the …
Well, that’s an Android then. Despite our earlier guess that Sony Ericsson had gone all Windows Phone on us it looks like this will be the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc HD, aka Nozomi. The camera / video switcher image is a bit of an Android give-away here, and …
The Android Market has hit a new milestone of achieving 400,000 active applications, reports Distimo. It is still playing catchup to the Apple App Store but it is certainly gaining pace and I imagine will continue to do so – there’s only so many apps that can be …
If you’re after your daily news fix but don’t want to leave your Windows Phone UI, this could very well be your answer. Getnews.mobi(or JM News as it’s also known) looks and feels like Windows Phone 7 and gives access to a range of news sources from around …
I got one of those super cheap HTC Flyers over christmas and it received an over the air update fairly quickly (it is the 32gb 3g model). It was reported yesterday that the 16gb WIFI model has also started to receive the update. So here is a quick …
The brand-conscious will be able to get the flashy LG Prada handset this month according to an LG press release. It states that .. The phone is now available to Korean customers and scheduled for the release in most European countries and other parts of Asia in January. …
The Nokia Ace, aka Nokia Lumia 900, has show it’s top-half over on Pocketnow. It’ll arrive on US-network AT&T later this month after an announcement at CES and it looks to be an exclusive too. At launch the Lumia 900 will run Mango but will shortly get a …
Orange have added the new Nokia Lumia 710 to their coming soon range with January looking the most hopeful for this new Windows Phone from Nokia. Orange are only showing that this will be available on PAYM (Pay Monthly) contracts there is no word on if a PAYG …
It seems that ASUS have thought again about their locked bootloader policy on the Transformer Prime and have announced the following information over at their FaceBook page which has also been picked up by XDA-Developers.. Oh, and ICS is coming on January 12th too! Good times.. ICS will …
Story so far. The bootloader on the Asus Prime is locked. This prevents developers doing a lot of fun developer things like custom ROMs. The Prime is a SIM free device too, so there’s no networks asking Asus to stop network unlocking. The guys at xda-developers have started …
Did you get yourself a cheap HTC Flyer this Christmas? If so, it’s time to check for updates as we’re hearing that the Honeycomb update has started to arrive. We’ll have a hands-on with the new Android update later on, but do let us know if it has …
With just a week to go until CES, Sony Ericsson are at least telling us that they will be launching…. ermmm…something. There’s a guessing game on Facebook at the moment as to what it’ll be. We’re thinking that another Android handset or three will be popping onto a …
Samsung have today announced an upgrade to the Ace, the Ace Plus and whilst looking nearly the same its whats inside that makes the most difference. The screen has been made larger from the original 3.5 into to 3.65 inch with a HVGA resolution making the experience much …
The Asus Transformer Prime has kinda fell out of love with the developers over on XDA-Developers. No ROMs can be flashed to this device because the bootloader is locked down with 128 bit encryption. This is the same trick that HTC did, but then they eventually did a …
Wehay! Official Ice Cream Sandwich ROMs for the Samsung Galaxy SII are arriving, and through the Samsung Kies software too….. apparently. Android 4.0.1 and Android 4.0.3 have leaked out, although it looks like there’ll be certain markets and variants getting the new OS update first. This roll-out has …
First of all it is really good. Secondly a bit of history for the Advent Vega. When PC World released the Advent Vega a lot of people were excited about it. It had hardware very similar to the Motorola Xoom and it was much cheaper. Pretty soon after …
There’s a stack of voice-control apps in the Android Market. Stick “Voice Assistant” in and you’ll see Vlingo, Speaktoit, Skyvi, Alice and a whole load more. There are, however, several apps calling themselves “Siri”. Some show themselves as “Fake Siri” but one is actually by a developer calling …
In another ‘Xmas terrific deal’ shock, Orange have reduced the price of the original Motorola Defy to just £99-99. This seems to be out of stock on-line, and therefore in store only, but definitely worth checking out if you’re after a cheap Android handset. Leigh reviewed this handset back …
HTC are now letting you unlock the bootloader of every phone they’ve launched since September 2011. There’s not a great deal to say here, but if you’ve tried it do let us know. The announcement was made on their development site where you can also find the tool …
Is it too big? The jury is probably still out on that one. You can always check out our review of the Note to find out yourself, however a lot of people must like it because Samsung has shifted a million of them already. The phone / tablet …
We’ve seen a number of deals in recent weeks on the XPERIA PLAY. Most of the stock on those sales has now gone, but if you missed it then don’t worry, here’s another great offer. A company called ChitterChatter (no, we’ve not heard of them either) is offering …
Further to our article about the Nexus S price reduction, I finally got my handset yesterday and immediately set about trying to update it to ICS. To cut a long story short, it’s not as easy as just going through the settings menu and requires a little manual tinkering, The …
Want a cheap Windows Phone, equipped with the very latest Mango (7.5) stuff, a 5 megapixel shooter, WiFi, Bluetooth and 3.8 inch WVGA screen (800 x 480). The handset is a refresh of the LG Optimus 7 and is actually known as the LG E906. If you’re after …
Got an Android handset for Christmas ? You could be one of the 3.7 million people who activated their device on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. A staggering amount considering that there’s 700,000 per day during “normal weeks”. Andy Rubin has jumped onto Twitter to announced the stats …
Over Christmas the last thing I want to do is read what is going on in the world. I like to eat, drink and buy stuff in the sales that I don’t really need (HTC Flyer). Today I’m back at work and thought I’d round up various articles from …
It’s sale time, which means I’m staying as far away as possible. However, if you want to shop online and avoid the mad crowds, we’ve already selected a few treats over the last few days. One in particular is now even better – the 16GB HTC Flyer from …
OK, imagine the scene. It’s Christmas Day and you are forced to watch some boring TV show at a relatives house. A new app from the guys at FilmOn.com is now available to let you watch a rather large selection of live TV channels. Available for iOS and …
You know how it is, you’re walking through Romania when a guy offers you an unreleased LG Fantasy. Some money changes hands, but then you find that there’s lots of developer tools installed which you just can’t get rid of. No matter, you can at least take a …
Christmas has come slightly early for Android bargain hunters. Carphoneware are currently selling Samsung’s first Nexus device sim free for £199.95. For that you’ll get a handset with a 1Ghz hummingbird processor, 4″ Super AMOLED display, 16GB of inbuilt memory and, most importantly, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. …
Today, amongst a load of other price drops, you can get a cheap HTC Flyer at Dixons. They are offering the 16GB model and the 32GB 3G model for £199 and £249 respectively. HTC have not mentioned the Flyer in the official list of devices due to get …
Come on, with only hours to go you’re no doubt looking for deals and ideas for Christmas. Orange are dishing up the Motorola Defy, complete with 3.7″ screen, FM radio and Android 2.1, for a mere ￡99.99 with a ￡10 top-up. Well… They were… It looks to have …
Grab the new Dropbox app for Android today and you’ll receive an improved gallery view, bug fixes, bulk uploads and single-tap access to all file and folder actions. You can now rename files and folders plus there’s offline access to files through the favourites function. They have also …
When we heard that Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) wasn’t coming to the Samsung Galaxy S we assumed that it was merely delayed. However, the word is that both the Galaxy S and 7″ Tab won’t get ICS due to hardware constraints. When we say “hardware constraints” we …
