Category: iOS
The CEO of France Telecom (Orange/T-Mobile’s parent company) has been a little too loose talking again, and claims the iPhone 5 release date will be 15th October. That rings true with lots of other rumours calling a mid-October release date, but 15th October is a Saturday, which would …
Well according to the (acting) president of HTC America that is. On the iPhone 5 hype: “Apple is innovating. Samsung is innovating. We are innovating. Everybody is innovating. And everybody is doing different things for the end consumers. I brought my daughter back to college — she’s down …
I’ve been looking for a case for my iPad to replace the standard Apple one for best part of a year now. I wanted something that would let me carry more than just my iPad so I didn’t have to juggle phones and wallets whilst showing off my …
If you’re gay you may have used the Grindr app to quickly locate and socialize with local men. Using GPS technology it’ll map out other guys close to you, then you can share pictures and information straight away. Now the makers of that app have created Blendr, a …
Instant messaging has always been a tricky thing to perfect. The biggest problem usually getting people onto the right IM platform. Are your friends on Google Chat ? Windows Live ? ICQ ? Enter PingMe, another messaging app which offers real-time chat, group chat and geo-location. It’s easy …
It’s official, more smartphones are sold that feature phones here in Western Europe. Stats from research firm IDC shows that Samsung is ahead with 13.9 million phones sold in the second quarter of 2011 (feature phones and smartphones), with Nokia behind on 9 million followed by Apple and …
The idea behind this app, as the name suggests is to provide images of various retro films/toys/songs etc and includes a link to the relevant Wikipedia website for that particular subject. The app has the ability to set favourites and you can also share items by email, Facebook, …
It’s not often that an app causes me to record a video review, let alone two, but I’ve been using my Android phone in totally new ways recently and wanted to share the love. 🙂 I’ve tried “Touch To Talk” apps in the past and I’ve seen, many …
Just in case you weren’t aware, Android is continuing to rise in popularity. Research from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech shows the sheer seismic shift in the market share for Android. Android now has a 47.1% share of the smartphone market here in the UK, with BlackBerry some distance behind …
Agile Partners have updated their truly excellent AmpKit guitar amp simulator for iOS. For this release Agile have 4 new partners – Budda®, Rocktron®, Fargen™ and Sonic Edge – with new amps and effects from all of them, as well as some other new additions. Overall sound quality & …
I realised that I didn’t have much in the way of entertainment installed on my iPhone 4 that didn’t depend on the internet – of course I only noticed this when I didn’t have internet, when does that ever happen?! I’d long since exhausted all the Angry Birds …
There’s no doubt that the iPhone has made my life easier when it comes to travelling – from booking accommodation, to finding places to go and viewing a map of how to get there. Aiming to become the latest addition to my arsenal of travel-assisting apps is Lingvo …
OK, this one is for you busy people. The idea behind ParcelGenie is sending a gift to any recipient in your phone via the ParcelGenie app (there are other ways too, including Facebook). You don’t need to know the recipient’s postal address, just their phone number or email …
Well I’m told this is ‘#1 Ice-Smashing Game’. Apparently. All those other Ice-Smashing games are nowhere near as good as this one, the Number 1, the daddy of all Ice-Smashing Games. Righhhhhhhhht… I’ve got to tell you, I wasn’t expecting much. For every A+ big budget mobile game …
I’m imagining here that most, if not all, folks who own an iPhone 4 use it as a direct replacement for their MP3 player. Convergence is fantastic when it prevents you having to carry additional devices and the single device works as well as your previous music player. …
So you’re about to launch you next generation device set to rock the world, what do you do? That’s right – you go down a Shrimp & Tequila bar in San Francisco …. and leave the device there… deja vu ?? Details from cnet.com state.. It was taken from a Mexican …
Apple have yet again taken aim at Samsung by getting an injunction to ban the sale of Galaxy handsets. The embargo is due to kick off in a few weeks time and concerns an Apple patent for an interface to “view and navigate photographs on a touch screen …
Can’t really add much to the title! Big news as Steve Jobs IS Apple to a lot of people, he is widely credited with turning Apple into the massive company it is now. Edit: Apple shares have dropped 7% approximately an hour after this was announced. Personally I’m not …
Reuters has reported that some Apple suppliers are gearing up for the production of a reduced capacity iPhone 4 variant. Whilst there’s a definite indication that some aspects of this story are true – despite Reuters being cagey about its sources – there’s no confirmed comment on it …
So here as promised is the follow up article reviewing iOS 5 beta. In this article I will be focusing on the negative aspects of the new software. Before I get started however I do want to address some of the comments that I received from my last …
Do you work for a company? Do you work for yourself? Then the one thing you’ll be all to familiar with is the Expenses routine. Claiming for milage, train tickets, meals, etc. is all too painful an experience nowadays! Even worse when you lose one of those tatty old receipts… Well …
So I have decided as my first review as a guest reviewer for Coolsmartphone should be on iOS 5. I have been using the platform now for about a month and it is my day to day OS on my iPad 2. I would like to cover the …
LinkedIn (“Facebook for business” for the uninitiated) has always had a bit of a ‘me-too’ approach to its iPhone app. The interface of the previous incarnations of its application looked and felt like a sort of business-flavoured clone of the Facebook app, complete with a nine-icon grid for …
It’s fair to say that we’re slightly losing track of who is suing who now. Today HTC are to take action against Apple, claiming that the iPhone, iPad and iPod all infringe HTC patents. At first glance the patents seem a little generic and are used in many …
The BBC is carrying a very interesting story surrounding the continuing battle between Apple and Samsung. Apple have recently secured an injunction to stop Samsung selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android Tablet because is “slavishly” copied iPad designs. A number of images and comparison shots have been filed …
This particular iPhone accessory freaked me out quite a bit when it appeared in the b3ta.com newsletter. According to the website selling it they try and qualify the need for a childs hand to be stuck to the back of your handset.. You could hold hands with your …
Ok, the title isn’t exactly right, but there isn’t room to put the detail! According to BGR Apple have won a preliminary injunction in Germany that could effectively block the sales of the Galaxy Tab in all Euro union countries except Holland where there is a similar case ongoing. Samsung could …
Facebook have announced the imminent launch of new messenger apps for Android and iOS. The app allows you to easily chat with your friends either one to one or in groups. The apps integrate with Facebook Messages and aggregate all your messages including texts, chats and emails. This …
Google have now made their Google+ available for all the iPad and iPod Touch users who were left out when the app originally launched on iPhone last month. There aren’t any discernible differences between the new version and the previous iPhone only one so it’s unclear why the …
Now right away I can see advantages to this app. I travel frequently on business and am often looking through the Hotel’s/B&B’s brochures for local take-outs before making my mind up. In the past I’ve found that some unscrupulous take-outs remove competitors menu’s from the stands.. oh dear. …
Today, Apple let out it’s latest addition to the iOS 5 Beta’s to developers, Beta 5. Just a minute though, before jumping in and downloading this update or updating via OTA from Beta 4, let me make you all aware of something else. If you have registered your …
Zeptolab will be releasing a sequel to the much loved Cut the Rope later today. The original has been raking in the cash on iOS for many months now and also found it’s way to Android back in June. The new game is dubbed Cut the Rope: Experiments …
Love the iPhone ? Want to write about the iPad or iPod Touch ? Let us know, we’d love for you to be part of Coolsmartphone. We get daily emails from PR agencies and software houses offering review copies of their games or apps but, if truth be …
Apple destroyed those rumours and overtook Nokia and Samsung as the worlds biggest seller of smartphones. Apple shipped 20.3 million smartphones between April and June 2011 with Samsung just behind on 19.2 million and Nokia on 16.7 million smartphones. Analysts were quick to pounce on Nokia, who are …
Google Maps has just been updated and now includes public transport directions. Available for iOS, Blackberry and Anddoid it’ll even get you around the tube with Transit Navigation (Beta). Find your destination, choose “Directions” and you’re off. If you’ve tried it to get around London by bus or …
Samsung are on a roll. Their Galaxy S2 is simply stunning and we’ve been suitably impressed by the Galaxy Ace. Today Bloomberg are reporting that Samsung handset sales are growing strongly… Samsung is estimated to have sold between 18 million and 21 million smartphones globally in the April-June …
On Wednesday I took a train journey. It’s always a good place to people-watch – lots of people travel alone and tend to fiddle with their phones. Looking round I saw Android, Apple and Symbian… a HTC Hero, a HTC Desire, another HTC Desire, a iPhone, another iPhone, …
Following quickly on the heels of Beta 3, Apple have now released iOS 5 Beta 4 into the wild. For the first time, the beta takes the form of an OTA update, removing the need to faff about with iTunes. It’s not the biggest update but for some …
It’s a company that continues to grow, but perhaps it’s the brand that is becoming the strongest part of the Apple portfolio. Record profits have been announced with the third quarter net income hitting £4.6 billion, a massive 125% higher than the same period just one year ago. …
Well finally all you Apple fans can get Google+ on your devices, Apple have today approved the G+ app and it’s available for download at the App store HERE. Available for iOS 3.1 and above, requires iphone 3G, 3GS and 4, no mention of ipad or ipod. Unsurprisingly this …
