Category: Android
So where do I go? I should explain… The last time I upgraded, I plumped for the HTC Desire. If I recall correctly, there wasn’t a huge amount of choice (feel free to flame me in the comments…) and it was the sister phone of the Nexus One, …
Well.. look what we have here. Thanks to somobile for the tip here, Orange now have the Sensation XE on their “Coming soon” pages. It’s a bit like the standard Sensation, except a bit faster and with better audio via the Beats technology. You may remember that we …
Three have opened up preorders for the new Nokia Lumia 800 which is the first Nokia handset to run on the Windows Phone platform and uses the latest version called Mango. Nokia and Microsoft have put a fortune into advertising for the 800 and with initial reviews giving …
After the announcement of Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update and the release of the SDK, a couple people have been hard at to work getting it ported to several devices. Thanks to @drewgaren for his hard work we are now up to Beta 10, with …
What an exciting week Windows Phone users are having. Today the Tango video calling app appeared on the Marketplace so you can make video calls (if your phone has a front facing camera anyway). The app as to be expected has a nice metro interface. Below are the …
Patents. They’re everywhere and money seems to be changing hands with alarming regularity to use intellectual property. Microsoft have been one of the big winners in the mobile patent game, taking cash for handsets using Android because of several royalty fees paid to Microsoft for patent use. Now …
Some time ago Pocketnow was given a load of code-names for future HTC handsets. They weren’t totally sure on the source so held back on publishing, but as more and more devices appeared with names of the list they’ve now published the whole lot. To be honest, the …
Windows Phone users now have the option of another subscription service in addition to Microsoft’s own Zune Pass. Having recently launched in the US, Spotify have now also released an official app for Windows Phone. As expected, it makes full use of the Metro UI and let’s …
PocketNow have an image of a device rumoured to be called the HTC Edge and it is a monster of a handset if specs are true which of course we are unable to confirm at this point in time. One feature to look out for is the Quad-Core 1.5Ghz processor …
Today Microsoft have staged an event where they unveiled the US version of the HTC Titan and the new Samsung Focus Flash and Samsung Focus S devices. They drew attention to the announcement buy building a huge Widows Phone in Herald Square in New York. It is six …
Last week the ChevronWP7 labs released the Windows Phone unlock tool. We have discussed the ChevronWP7 unlock tool a few times now as they have released various press releases leading up to the release of the tool. They are now offering to officially unlock your Windows Phone device …
This morning on Facebook HTC have announced a rather short list of devices that will receive an update in early 2012. The list is as follows: HTC Vivid, HTC Sensation, HTC Sensation XL, HTC Sensation XE, HTC Rezound, HTC EVO 3D, HTC EVO Design 4G and the Amaze …
The one thing I have been struggling with the Windows Phone platform is the Twitter side of things. I use Twitter quite a bit and moving from using Tweetdeck on Android to Windows phone was difficult. The official Twitter app is nice, but it cannot remember your place …
Recently I was on holiday visiting a good friend in Vienna, Austria and was told of a surprise on the Wednesday but was not going to be told what it was until nearer the time. Turns out Nokia Austria held an event for Nokia World but not everyone …
We recently heard about the new Xoom 2 and Xoom 2 Media Edition tablets from Motorola. Both are expected on November 28th and come with Android Honeycomb on board. The specs read as follows, although we can’t find any mention of GPS we presume it’s there.. – 5 …
Vodafone have been shifting phones between Coming Soon and On Sale a lot recently, as just as we see the Nokia 800 move to Pre-Order, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus appears on the Coming Soon page allowing anyone intersted in this device to register your details to be the …
Can you read? Yes? Well in that case this app will be right up your street. Zinio is a magazine reader. It lets you read digital versions of popular magazines. My first thought when I saw this was that it was going to be expensive. Then I saw …
Over in the USA HTC have just announced the HTC Rezound. It’s the first handset in America with the Beats Audio technology. It comes with free Beats headphones and features a 720p HD display on a 4.3″ LCD screen. Other specs include a dual-core 1.5GHz CPU, 8 megapixel …
So, Sony Ericsson sent us a load of videos about their rather strange 360 degree bike experiment. It involves six Xperia neo handsets strapped to a special mount on a bike, all recording video at the same time through fish-eye lenses. The whole thing has been pieced together …
Motorola have just announced two new tablets. The Motorola Xoom 2 and the Xoom 2 Media Edition. Below is the official press release from them. Let’s hope that the Xoom 2 does a little better than the original Xoom. The original tablet hit the streets here in the …
With the recent Mango update to Windows Phone a lot more apps have appeared and a lot more developers have started making apps as well. I have recently been finding a lot of apps that do what I have been looking for. In my move from Android I …
Earlier today we heard that Nokia Lumia 710 and 800 do not support tethering. Tethering, for those that don’t know, if the ability to share your mobile data connection as a web connection for your laptop. We couldn’t quite believe it, so we asked the PR team whether …
Carphone Warehouse on Oxford Street are hosting a launch event for the much discussed and anticipated Galaxy Note tomorrow at 12:30 according to the official Facebook channel. I’m going to pop down to my local store tomorrow and see if they have any that I can play with …
Good news if you’ve got an LG Optimus 2X. LG have come out fighting and have confirmed that Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) will indeed be arriving on the 2X. Their official Facebook page states.. LG firmly denies the rumors that claim LG will not be providing the …
Richard Sanderson has emailed in after contacting Nokia. He’s interested in the new Nokia Lumia handsets but wanted to firm up on a few details. There was already a bit of confusion when the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 handsets launched as both devices showed the USB Mass …
Available for absolutely nothing, Waze is an Android / iPhone / BlackBerry / Nokia application which works by sharing data between users. By sharing and collecting information on progress by other users it’ll help build a picture of road conditions. Their Live Map shows some of the reports …
It looks like Samsung have confirmed that they will be releasing Android 4.0 to the Galaxy Note and the S2 as well as the Galaxy Tab reports The Next Web. Good news if you were worried about getting left behind after the release of the Nexus in a …
If you’re in the market for a pretty decent 7″ tablet then the Archos Arnova 7″ G2 could be just your thing. Now reduced to just £119.99 at HMV. The specs aren’t too bad either. Powered by an ARM Cortex A8 1GHz CPU it has a 7″ capacitive …
I have a dilema at the moment where my contract has run out and I’m itching to buy a new phone. I was holding on for the iPhone 5 and was a little miffed at the 4S. For me I use my smartphone as a portable information, resource …
Do you own a phone? Do you send text messages? Do you have a tablet? And lastly the curve ball, would you like to use your tablet to send text messages? Am I getting a little vague here? The other week I posted an article about the HP TouchPad, …
Today it has been widely reported that Samsung in Quarter 3 of 2011 have “shipped” more smartphones than any other manufacturer. As usual statistics are being used to cover up what is really going on. The analysts are being quoted as saying devices “shipped”. Which means the number …
Yep, you no longer need a Nokia to get your Nokia Maps goodness. Simply browse to maps.nokia.com and it’ll locate you using the HTML5 wizardry. Other features include.. You can see where you are on the map, thanks to HTML5 support for positioning You can find addresses, businesses …
If you’re looking for a cheap Android handset it’s definitely worth checking out this Expansys page. They’ve knocked up to 80% off and every handset in the sale has now dropped to just £79.99. That includes the Liquid E, Liquid, beTouch E110 and Acer Tempo. All handsets are …
Motorola have just announced their Q3 results and their supposed iPad killing Xoom tablet accounted for a tiny slice of sales during the quarter. They shipped a total of 11.6 million mobiles devices of which the Xoom represented a mere 100,000 units. In contrast, Apple sold 11.12 million …
Nokia are giving away five Lumia handsets on their Facebook page. You just need to “Like” the page and then add your details in to be in with a chance of winning. The competition is open until November 9th. Link – Facebook
If you fancy a tablet for the kids (and by that, we of course mean an Android Tablet), then this Disgo 6000 unit might be worth a punt. It’s dropped to just £49.97 and, although it’s got a resistive screen, it’ll keep the kids happy after Angry Birds …
Browse to music.google.com on your Android phone and, for a brief period some hours ago, this appeared…. ..we’re a bit dubious about whether this is real or not (the image looks to have been tweaked) but if true it could mean that music will soon get added to …
Goodbye Swedish friends, Sony Ericsson will shortly be history. Sony have slapped a cool 1.1 billion euros on the table (£964m) for the 50% Ericsson share of Sony Ericsson. Sony will get five patents as part of the deal and plan to ditch feature-phones, solely concentrating on smartphones. …
I use Tango daily to call my wife and, even with the “upside down screen” bug on the Desire S, it’s a fantastic video-calling app. It’s now set to be the first video-calling app on Windows Phone Mango. What makes this surprising is the fact that Microsoft bought …
OK. I’m getting pretty amazed with quite how much money is being thrown at the new Nokia Lumia 800. While watching Channel 5 this evening I became increasingly annoyed by some new advert “buffers”. They pop up for a few milliseconds between each ad but all I kept …
