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In the New Year, I decided to take a nose dive into custom ROMs for my Desire. Oh we had been getting along just great for a while, but I realised I needed more… Wanted more. It needed to be faster, and easier to use and not as …
I’ve been meaning to give Dropin a mention for a while now. It’s a great little app which provides some much needed functionality that I’ve always thought the native Dropbox app should have had from the start. Dropin automatically syncs all your photos and videos from your phone …
For this week I have been sent QFS or Quick File Share. It’s a very basic application for sharing your files on your phone with anyone. Here is the first look video, the full review will be along next week. Also I would like to mention that the …
Hello. Forgive my indulgence here but I’ve just read our local paper and I felt compelled to do something about this. Meet Cameron, he’s eight. In 2010 he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma. He had chemotherapy and radiotherapy and was a really brave …
Those gamers among you will likely already have heard about World of Goo. Over the last few years it’s built up a reputation as a cult classic among puzzle games. Originally released on PC before making its way to Wii and then the iPad, last week developer …
LiveProfile is a device-to-device messaging app for Android, iOS, and Blackberry. It works on a similar basis to Blackberry Messenger, whereby you are required to create an account and then you are assigned a PIN. Other LiveProfile users who have your PIN can become friends with you, and …
Three have now released the Apple iPhone 4 on PAYG (Pas As You Go) and will be selling both the 16GB and 32GB models online, over the phone and in their retail stores. A 16GB iPhone will cost you £499.99 where as a 32GB will cost you £599.99 …
Right, I’ve had a fair amount of stick about this. During our huge facelift earlier this year we dumped the original mobile site. A lot of you use mobile websites and wanted this functionality back. An even greater number found that our new site didn’t render properly in …
I recently decided to start a series of podcasts, discussing various areas of technology. In episode one, we focus on the rumours surrounding the iPhone 5 and iOS 5.
Earlier today we spotted a T-Mobile offer which gave you the Galaxy Tab for just £15 per month. However, over at O2 they seem to be selling it without a contract for £299. That’s cheaper than everywhere else we looked – even most eBay listings. Check our hands-on …
So I posted my immediate thoughts after having my Motorola Xoom WiFi only a short period earlier in the week. If you missed the post, you can have a read here. With so much chatter around debating the strengths and weaknesses of Android’s latest OS on the Xoom, …
Recently I was asked if I would like to take part in The Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast which is run by our friends at Tracy & Matt and their team to which of course I agreed. As a listener of the podcast for a while it was a real honour …
T-Mobile UK have just updated their Coming Soon page and have added some new phones and release dates, all running Android OS. In case you can’t see the images above here are the estimated release dates of the handsets LG Optimus Black (May) Sony Ericsson Neo (July) Samsung …
I’ve been an iOS user for nearly eight months now having bought a 4G iPod Touch to find out what Apple’s mobile OS is all about. Having used Android for the last two years and Windows Mobile for the six before that it’s fair to say that I’ve …
The Sony Ericsson Xperia arc is now showing on the O2 website. You can buy it on Pay & Go for £359.99, which seems like a pretty good deal. If you’re after a contract then you can grab it for nothing on a £27 p/m deal over 2 …
The Motorola Atrix will arrive on Orange in early May for free on £35 per month plans over 24 months. This deal includes 600 minutes, 750MB internet allowance, 50 MMS and unlimited texts. If you buy the Atrix Orange will also offer a “Work and Play” kit which …
Ah the V3, this brings back fond memories for me. Released in 2005, the V3 was the thinnest and most amazing phone I’d ever seen. It also had some (at the time) pretty outstanding features, like a VGA camera with video capture (gulp!), MP3 ringtones, and a metal …
Crane Driver – iPhone and iPod Touch “Game mission is to operate a crane and to relocate load from one place to another preserving position relative to each of its parts.” Version Reviewed: 1.1 Developer: PaBusily Co Ltd Price as of Review: £0.59 Current iTunes Rating: 4+ …
So you can all see that the ‘Android App Review Show’ is back up and running. I no longer have the stress and strain of University to distract me, and I have a degree in Multimedia Technology and Design under my belt to help me make a professional …
A few of you have asked about the Xperia PLAY on O2. The official line is that it’s still “Coming Soon” and you can register your interest on their mini-site. O2 are saying that the handset has been delayed due to testing and bugs. We’re not quite sure …
So, we’ve been sent this T-Mobile Royal Wedding spoof. It’s to celebrate the marriage of Prince William and Catherine Middleton on Friday April 29th. William is batting way above his average and most of us will no doubt be in the pub enjoying proceedings with a pint or …
The Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY is now available to buy on the T-Mobile UK website. It now sits alongside the Sony Ericsson Xperia arc which we reviewed recently and the Samsung Galaxy Ace we reviewed a week or two ago. T-Mobile also have the Motorola Atrix and LG …
Today Apple has released a minor update to the iOS platform. The update fixes minor bugs that users noticed causing FaceTime to display a blank screen or on some occasions cause the app to freeze. It also provides a fix for those 3G iPad owners that have been …
Vodafone have started selling the Xperia PLAY today too. The handset is available for free on plans costing £35 or more. It comes with 6 pre-loaded games – Crash Bandicoot, Fifa 10, Star Battalion, Tetris, Sims 3 andBruce Lee. We’ve already had a hands-on and there’s a great …
We’ve just had word that the HTC Sensation will be arriving on T-Mobile too. Yesterday we received confirmation that the device would be arriving on Orange. Three will also be carrying it after the short Vodafone exclusivity deal ends. The handset features a dual-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon CPU, 1GB …
You may know Conor by now, he’s the PR guy from Orange. We’ve emailed him to ask whether the HTC Sensation will be available on their network. Turns on it will and you’ve only got to wait until June. If you haven’t done so already, have a look …
Flip, makers of the popular Mino camcorder, is to be axed by most recent owners, Cisco. What was the cause of Flip’s demise? The integration of high-quality video capture into smartphones. Unfortunately, it looks like more companies like Flip will see their demise, as our smartphones start to …
With the HTC Sensation now official the guys at Three have stepped forward to confirm that they will be offering the dual-core 1.2GHz beast “soon”. Vodafone have got a one month exclusivity deal on the HTC Sensation, so we’re guessing it’ll arrive on Three in May sometime. The …
Android tablets are all over the place at the moment. The prices of current Android tablets are plummeting such as the Galaxy Tab and the Advent Vega. There are also lots of new tablets being announced every week such as the Asus Transformer and Acer Iconica. Due to …
Think you’re on the right contract ? Most people do, but according to research from Billmonitor three-quarters of customers are chucking £200 per year down the drain. Nearly all the networks were examined with 28,000 bills getting diagnosed as part of the study. Most were wasting money on …
Now, I may get flamed for this, but I wanted to put my thoughts down on the current state of the market where tablets are concerned. So, we started off just over a year ago with the iPad, it was ‘amazing’ and ‘magical’ and it has gone on to …
Vodafone have moved the HTC Desire S from Coming Soon to now in stock ready to order. You can pick up your own Desire S free of charge from £35 a month over 18 months or just £30 a month if you go for a 24 month plan …
Go Contacts is a replacement for your normal contacts app. If you run HTC Sense there is not much point in reading this as your “People” app does everything this does. This app is more for the people who have an Android device without a fancy skin on …
We’ve just added another server to our cluster for extra speed and reliability. You should hopefully see an improvement in page loading, especially on the main page. For the tech-heads our main server is an Intel Core i7-920 Quadcore with Hyper-threading and 12GB of DDR3 RAM. Content Delivery …
New versions of some of Google’s official Android apps have leaked online and also been made available for download. The highlight is probably a new version of the default Android Music Player which has been brought in line with it’s Honeycomb counterpart. There is a greater emphasis on …
Three have just stuck the HTC Desire S on their shelves. It’s available from £359.99 for PAYG customer and you can then add a £15 “All in One 15” top-up for 30-days of all-you-can-eat data. For contract customers you can buy the phone for £30 per month. We’ll …
Swiftkey is a great keyboard that has been available for a while now. “Swiftkey predicts your most likely next word based on what you’ve already written. It learns as you use it from your message archive to make predictions amazingly accurate over time”. They have two new free …
Remember how Huawei were planning on covering the London Underground with a mobile signal? Well, it’s not gonna happen. It turns out that Everything Everywhere, Three, O2 and Vodafone were all involved, with Huawei ready to add £50 million of equipment. It seems that an agreement couldn’t be …
Well, this isn’t strictly smartphone news, but some of them are related to phones, plus it’s Friday and we all need a chuckle. Enjoy. Please add links in the comments and I’ll add them to the feature. (If I’m feeling generous!) It started off for me when I …
The Sony Ericsson Xperia arc is now available on Three. It’ll be free on contracts over £35 a month and you can enjoy All-You-Can-Eat Data (and it really, really is because we tested it) on The One Plan for £40 a month with 2000 anytime, any network minutes …
