Category: Android
Do you remember Lego or Stickle Bricks… If so then Project Ara will be right up your street. Google are pushing ahead in leaps and bounds on getting Project Ara ready for us. Its Google’s modular smartphone with interchangeable parts which you assemble you’re self, depending on the …
Another one for Virgin Media customers this, and we know already that the Moto G is cheap, but the 16GB version hasn’t been available for less than £100 until now. If you’re a customer you can get the 16GB Moto G for £99.99 which includes a £10 TopUp. …
Microsoft held their Build 2014 event recently and the focus for mobile was on Windows Phone 8.1. The improvements it brings to the mobile platform include a new voice assistant called Cortana, background tiles and a notification centre the company calls ‘Action centre’ plus much more. The disappointing …
If you’ve got Virgin TV then, if I’m honest, you’d be daft not to look at the Virgin Media offering on the new Samsung Galaxy S5. You’ve seen the video and the pictures and now you want one, so Virgin Media are offering their Virgin Media customers a …
Whilst Sony, Samsung and HTC have been grabbing the headlines with their latest flagships, LG have been working quietly on the follow-up to their G2 phone. Now first details seem to be leaking today courtesy of a User Agent Profile on the Sprint network website. The main headline …
If, like me, you’ve got a Windows phone and have been concerned by the lack of an official McDonald’s app in the UK the wait is finally over. Just think, no longer will you have that problem of walking down the street, stomach rumbling, but without the slightest …
Facebook looks like it will be separating the messaging and instant chat part of its mobile app and making you use the messenger app. This screen has been showing for quite a while whenever you access messages via the mobile app. It prompts to install Facebook Messenger. …
Dropbox is an online cloud storage offering that allows you to sync your files to the cloud, and the app is available on computer, tablet and phone varieties. Now Dropbox have a new trick – Carousel. Carousel allows you to not only save all your pictures to …
Being an owner of the LG G Pad 8.3 I’ve been eagerly awaiting the KitKat update, especially as the companion device the LG G2 has received the KitKat update a few weeks ago. Well it seems that according to my G Pad that the update has started to …
The new Xperia Z2 will start shipping next week from Phones 4u – a full two weeks earlier than anywhere else. The store is also offering up a Sony SRS-BTX300 wireless speaker worth £119 in white and you can bag yourself over £80 worth of Sony content including …
Today we’ve had a couple of emails regarding updates appearing on some Samsung and HTC kit. The Samsung Galaxy Note 2 on Three is, according to reader Lee Burnip, receiving Android 4.3 as we speak and Tam Darcy has mailed in to tell us that his HTC One …
OrangePixel have been making some great retro 8-bit style games for a while now, they’re behind the Meganoid games, Gunslugs, Heroes of Loot and many others and now they’ve released Groundskeeper2 another retro style shoot em up. From the guys who brought you Gunslugs and Heroes of Loot …
Living in the USA? On the Verizon Network? Fancy a new Windows Phone? I know you’re probably not but if you are great news for you Windows Phone fans. Do you remember James’s post back in March about the Samsung Ativ SE (Link), well it’s being released (shipped) …
If you’re lucky enough to own a Nexus 5, Nexus 7 or an HTC One Google Play Edition then rumour has it you may be very close to getting Android 4.4.3. This is believed to be one of the last updates before google releases its Android 4.5 Lollipop …
Firefox OS, oh how I yearn to try you out on a mid range device from a Spanish company on a device that will dual boot Android. A few weeks ago we mentioned the launch of the dual booting Geeksphone Revolution. At that point you could only order …
Nokia announced the Windows Phone 8.1 equipped Lumia 630 last week and it’s possibly one of the most hotly anticipated Nokia devices at the moment. Mainly down to the new features of Windows Phone 8.1 at what should be a bargain price. You may have realised that Garry …
No sooner have the latest two HTC phones been released amongst a flood of leaks than a fresh fissure has revealed the existence of another new handset, dubbed the HTC M8 Ace. There isn’t much to go on here, apart from a photo/render that’s had the screen blurred …
A few days ago I wrote about some clones of this new Pressy device that is coming to market soon. Pressy is a button that plugs into the headphone jack of any Android device, you can assign a series of button presses to specific actions on your phone. …
To carry on with their world smartphone domination plans, Samsung have announced yet another Galaxy Ace device. The Galaxy Ace Style, is aimed at the younger audience and the phone is said to have a “a fun, unique design with an enhanced camera and advanced features for superior …
Before I begin this one needs to be firmly filed into the “rumour” section. Stick it right in there, because this is most definitely one of those rumours that you hear down the pub. A Microsoft “employee” has, according to the Times Of India, taken to Reddit to …
This time lat year HTC were under some considerable pressure after reporting the companies lowest profits to date, people were saying that the death knell was sounding for the Taiwanese company. Despite launching two flagship devices the HTC One M7 and now the M8 this hasn’t stemmed the …
Those readers out there who are into wearables have a reason to be happy this morning as Mobilefun have just a released info that they are carrying stock of the Galaxy Gear 2 Neo and Gear Fit. With the Gear 2 Neo coming in @£199.99 and the Gear …
Cast you mind back to 2013 Motorola announced the Moto X, resplendent in many different colours and accents with talk of tiny bezels and no need to have the latest and greatest spec . Fast forward eight months and us poor UK residents can finally get hold of …
I get bored really quickly when it comes to my phone. I have an LG G2 so it’s capable of keeping up with any app that I throw at it so, for now at least, my hardware desires are being met. However whenever I interact with the phone …
A little while ago I was lucky enough to get the chance to have a quick play with the Sony Tablet Z2, the Z2 and have a look at the new Smartband and here are my impressions. Z2: The phone has a nice feel to it, very similar …
The eagerly awaited Oppo Find 7 was announced a few weeks back, with talk of fancy cameras and even fancier specs. The whole world waited to see the first ever 2K device, they showed it off and then showed off a lower spec cheaper version too. The Find …
So I have had the Xperia Z2 tab for just over 24 hrs and I will thought that now might be a good time to give you some of my first impressions. Well one word really sums it up and that word is WOW. The way this tablet …
Its that time of the month again when we get to see how our good friends over at google are doing with all them different versions of Android. Since March there have been some decent percentage movements with Android and its dominance from version to version. KitKat as …
Following on from the Galaxy S4 Zoom, rumors for the next interation of the Zoom series the Galaxy S5 Zoom have been hitting the internet. We have now had a Mr Blurry Cam photo of the device, now if this is the S5 Zoom (referred to as the …
After finding out that users could accidentally disable the device by waving their arms. Google owned Nest Fire Protection has halted sales of the Nest Smoke detector. The company said the feature, Nest Wave, which allows users to wave their arms to deactivate the alarm, could be activated …
Kickstarter has always seemed to be the sort of place where venture capitalists hang out online when they’re slumming it. The idea of it is great, but what would make one want to shell out cash in the hope that a project makes it? Because of the design …
Would you like to earn credit in the Play Store? Google just made it quite easy. A few months ago Google launched an app in the US called Google Opinion Rewards. Every now and again the app notifies you of a survey you can take to earn a …
It’s here. The day I have been waiting for eagerly since the Sony press conference way back at the end of February. My very own Xperia Z2 Tablet has arrive. I can tell you one thing, it was well worth the wait. When I first picked up the …
We had the S3 Mini, the S4 Mini and now we will have the S5 Mini. As confirmed by SamMobile not long back, but now we have a few more details in the regards to specification for the phone. Many were slightly disappointed with the S4 Mini with its …
Now before you panic, Spotify hasn’t actually turned to the dark side as such.. But it has had one of it’s biggest updates for the web, iPhone and Android since it first launched all them years ago. Spotify are calling this their Best Ever looking Spotify with a …
Got yourself a Windows Phone 8 device? You’ll soon be getting 8.1 and includes a “bunch” of stuff which is, apparently, “rad”. Last year, if you had a screen big enough, Windows Phone 8 added an additional column to the main screen. This has now found its’ way …
Today at the Microsoft event in San Francisco, Stephen Elop took to the stage and has announced a brand new Lumia flagship device. It runs on the new Windows Phone 8.1 platform and is known as the Lumia 930. This is the device we hoped to see back …
Today Hugo Barra has taken to the social networks to talk about a new ‘shortcut button’ they have developed at Xiaomi. He is asking for a name for the little device, but for now we’ll refer to it as the MiKey. This little button slots into the headphone …
So just to set my stall out, pre-Lumia and “Here”, I used CoPilot. It was one of the most feature-packed and reasonably-priced navigation products for Windows Mobile at the time. So here we are on a new platform – Windows Phone. It’s the same product and of course …
Got yourself a Windows Phone? Know anyone with a Windows Phone? Yeah. There’s a problem isn’t there? See, low-cost handsets were doing well for Microsoft and Nokia. Those Lumia 520 devices were doing well for a bit, and MicroNokia has since followed up with some Android devices which …
