Category: Accessories
Meet Rob. He has had an idea. Headphones, or “earbuds” as he likes to call them, have a little issue – the cables that come off them. They’re usually long and get snagged somewhere on your clothing despite those clips that come with the headphones. Here the Bluetooth …
Let’s see if this can be summed up in a few short words shall we? What we have here is a Bluetooth receiver that’ll pump out an audio output to your existing stereo equipment. Yep, that seems to describe it quite nicely. It hit me this weekend. My …
This took me a good few seconds to “get” but it’s a pretty nifty idea which is cheap too. For those that have trouble viewing the screen and require reading glasses, things can become a bit of a faff when you want to use your smartphone. First you’ve …
I think I’ve had my Pebble for at least a week now and I can say I really do like it. It’s not massive on the wrist, which was my initial concern, my wife tried hers and said it was just acceptable for her to wear too. I …
Cables. Bleugh. We don’t like them. Bluetooth has stopped us needing cables in our ears when we’re making or receiving calls, and now we’re seeing more and more of these – Bluetooth speakers. This particular one is for iHome Wireless Speaker. First I’ll hit you with the details. …
After arriving in London for a 4 day break I knew I was going to be enjoying 4G speeds thanks to my existing EE account and having both a HTC One and Sony Xperia Z with me. However using internet on these drains the battery and these mobile …
Along with last week’s announcement of the Samsung Galaxy S4 came a plethora of awesome accessories to enhance the S4: the S Band Fitness Bracelets help with keeping track of exercise and work with the S Health app; the Wireless Charging Plates save the fuss of wires when …
I’ve become a bit of a over ear headphone convert recently, having used the Logic3 Ferrari Cavallino T350 headphones a few weeks ago. In the past my experience of over ear headphones had been cheap plasticy cheap headphones, that had awful sound quality as you’d expect. When I got the …
Most generic car kits just aren’t man enough for the Samsung Galaxy Note II, so Kidigi have addressed this with a nice, meaty dedicated kit. Kidigi are a specialist third party mobile technology accessories company from Hong Kong that caters for most popular handsets (they even do Blackberry …
Google and LG have been criticised a lot recently. First of all for not having millions of the Nexus 4 phones waiting for people to buy. Secondly once they sorted out the Nexus 4 stock people started to complain about the official case. The official bumper has been …
Cabling is always a bit of a nightmare. I can’t be the only one who’s got a knotted mess of cabling behind sofas, under beds and in the foot-well of my car. The microUSB charging standard should be just that – a standard. For most of the time …
Ok, it’s finally here! The last post I made about the Pebble was back in January where I roughly estimated that we’d have our Pebbles with us by the end of March, so my estimate seemed pretty realistic. Those that backed the Kickstarter project are more than familiar …
So, if you’ve not already entered our HTC One V competition you can now also enter another one over at Expansys. To enter you just need to write a review of one of their products and then you could win a Bang & Olufsen BeoSound8 and an iPhone …
Hi-Fun Bluetooth gloves… Yes, bluetooth gloves. These are brilliant. You will look like a fool using them but if that doesn’t bother you then go for it. They are cool too. The gloves are made from the same material as most gloves. Thinsulate springs to mind but these …
Cool new gadgets just keep coming and coming! GEAR4 have added to this with a new range of speakers. The one we have is the Purple Bird from Angry Birds Space. I’m not usually a fan of portable speakers, seeing the little “chav” stood on the corner with …
Anyone with a Nexus 7 here in the UK and who wants to get the desktop dock for it, well you are now in luck as Google are selling them direct from the Play Store for £24.99 plus delivery right now! Which we reviewed here. Whilst now available …
If you intend to go abroad and use data then you usually need to either remortgage your home or take out a roaming data plan. Three do unlimited data for a daily charge of £5 and other networks are starting to offer smaller allowances at a daily charge, …
So, you don’t have a reliable fixed-line internet connection and you decide instead to get yourself a 3G dongle. That’ll do you for one laptop or PC. If you want more computers connected you can perhaps use a MiFi, but for an ethernet connection you might want to …
This fell out of my local newspaper, so I thought I’d share the love. If you’d like to get anything from the Orange accessories store there’s a £5 voucher here. Just whack in “5offaccess” and you’ll see your total bill reduce by a fiver. There’s also 30& off …
Over the ear headphones have seemingly become popular again. Not a day goes past without me seeing some kid in a tracksuit and a huge pair of white headphones costing hundreds sat on top of his head. I haven’t really bought into either the over ear headphone market …
Bog off! Yeah you with the Samsung Galaxy phone, you heard me. Bog off to your local O2 store and grab yourself a couple of clip-on flip cases. Samsung do some great accessories, and one of my favourites is the flip style case that replaces the battery cover …
Remember when the Samsung Galaxy S3 went on sale and everyone who wanted to buy one also wanted the wireless charger which was shown off but delayed until September, and still yet to be seen? Well it looks like Samsung have a new Qi wireless charger heading through …
The recently launched RHA MA150 earphones recently dropped through my letterbox in an unassuming brown box made from recycled cardboard. Flimsy as anything the box did not give out a sign of quality and did not bode well for the contents. RHA’s MA150 earphones are the Glaswegian company’s latest …
I don’t know about everyone out there, but I have not found a very easy way to sync my phone’s notifications to my desktop both easily and reliably…..until now. Android Desktop Notification is super easy and reliable. It doesn’t push things immediately, but I am sure that the …
I reviewed the Movpower portable charger recently after buying the thing for our regular madness at Mobile World Congress. But wait, there’s more, hows about a iPhone 4/4S battery case? It’s down to £3.99 from £24.99. It doubles your iPhone 4 / 4S run time with a 1500mAh …
I’m quite a fan of large phones, I’ve owned both of the Galaxy Notes and before that I owned a Dell Streak. With each and every one I always found myself balancing the phone on a narrow edge or just shoving it my rucksack to carry it around. For …
Do you know that feeling when you just have to have something? Well during my time with the Nexus 7 I have experienced it three times. First of all when the damn thing came out. The thought of a Nexus branded tablet was too much for me and …
Like a few of the other writers on the team I was fortunate to get a Nexus 4 out of the second batch of shipments. Although I would love to use the phone naked I am paranoid that it may get scratched or worse. To resolve this I …
These are some pretty sweet jeans, I am not going to lie. They are not up there in techy coolness like clothing that has solar panels to charge your devices or circuitry to boost your cell phone signal, BUT, these are probably much sexier, at least the manufacturer …
Right you lucky people who are in possession of a Nexus 4, (THEY ARE CURRENTLY SHOWING AS IN STOCK ON THE PLAY STORE.) You know what it is like with the announcement of any official Nexus, there are a number of sexy accessories that are shown off at …
So on Tuesday we added a post about the Movpower 5200 Portable Charger. I decided to get one. There’s another version available but this baby has a capacity of 5200mAh. That’s quite a bit. The Samsung Galaxy Note has a 2500mAh battery, which is hefty enough, so this …
It was only yesterday the we posted details about a mobile battery pack, which quickly went out of stock and life went on as normal, well I was fishing around and I found this little bargain. Over at Amazon you can pick up one of these beauties. The …
Picture the scene, you’re on a long car journey with one or two kids they’re sitting in the back, asking “Are we there yet?” You’re not. You’re no-where near. You’ve not even got off your drive yet and they’re already bored or fighting each other. How do you …
Have a look around you next time you’re at an airport. You’re bound to see someone in a suit hunting around for a power socket. Why? Well, sadly our modern gadgets don’t quite have that one-month battery life we’d all like. Whilst prepping for our yearly trip to …
It is nearly always advised if you are a music aficionado that you should replace the earphones supplied with your mobile phone with another more sonically pleasing pair. We have reviewed many here on Coolsmartphone, from brands such as Klipsch, House of Marley and RHA. It is from …
Come close my smartphone friends. If you’re one of those handsome, sexy, fantastic people who check this wonderful website every day you may remember this review of the Crystalusion Liquid Glass Protection thing. It protects your phone and adds a resistive layer of .. err.. “magic liquid” (that’s …
Perhaps I’m getting a little old or a bit “fuddy duddy”, but this seems a bit wrong to me. Sure, my four-year-old son plays with an iPad. We restrict his time with it because, along with a Nintendo, he can quickly get addicted. However, this Fisher Price product …
I love Kickstarter, it’s a great website. Since I backed Pebble almost a year ago I have been backing other projects all over the place, I just can’t control myself. Someone in the same position as me described the Pebble as a gateway drug that fueled their addiction …
Back in the early days of the 3G dongle, I bought a USB device from the 3 store. It came with 1Gb data and a few text messages all for £49 and £15 per month. To be honest it was terrible. Connectivity was poor and it the signal …
I know what most of you guys are thinking. “Why do I need a MiFi?” or perhaps even, “What is a MiFi?” Put simply, it’s a gadget you stick your SIM card in. It’ll connect to the internet through the mobile network and then beam out a WiFi …
