Category: Reviews
The price of Windows Phone devices has recently been dropping, firstly the HTC HD7, then the LG Optimus 7 and then the other week the Dell Venue Pro. I decided to get a Dell Venue Pro and here is a quick review of the device. Hardware The Dell …
HTC keep producing great devices one after the other and this is a review on not only a new device but a move in technology as this is one of only two 3D phones on the market today….. the HTC EVO 3D. This review device was sent to …
This, after you’ve parted with $55.57 (around £35.16 as I type), is the Rii MINI i6 2.4GHz Wireless Keyboard and Universal Remote Control. Confused? Well yes, the concept itself might seem a little weird. It’s a fairly simple infra red remote control one one side, suitable for “teaching” …
I should start this review by saying I’m not a big fan of Bluetooth speakers. They usually sound awful and it’s usually more practical to carry round something larger rather than sacrifice sound quality. I was pleasently surprised with this one though. The sonic performance of this green little fella is not …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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. …
I’m not a big fan of phone covers. Over the years this has resulted in most of my phones looking a little scratched and dented, but I still refuse to add a cover because I think it hides the handset a little too much. Skinflips could change my …
This is a weird one to get your head around. We’re used to seeing smartphones here. They fly across the desk and have the usual things. A touch screen, a fast processor, a slick OS, a good camera, GPS, etc. Here though, we have a few additions. A …
Paper Camera is a camera effects app that lets you take a picture and apply various effects to the picture as you take it. I know there are several apps out there that do this already. This one does it with a slightly different twist. Basically it gives …
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 …
Today we are going to look at a Honeycomb app for your tablet. Wizz Bar allows you to create a list of up to 7 shortcuts and be able to access these from within any other program via a spot on the status bar. Below is a shot …
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 …
Do you want to see your upcoming appointments on your lockscreen? Today’s app will let you do just that. It will as long as you are not using the standard HTC or Samsung lockscreens. Below are a few shots of it in action. Please note that the developer is German …
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 …
Do you like Tweetdeck? Do you like dark apps and widgets? If you just shouted yes out loud twice then todays app is for you. Tweetdark is basically a much darker version of Tweetdeck. Below are some shots of the app and the widgets. Tweetdark works exactly the …
Following on from last year’s San Francisco, Orange have finally released its long awaited follow up. The Monte Carlo continues the tradition of offering fairly solid midrange hardware at a comparatively bargain basement price. In this case the stakes have been upped with the Monte Carlo now featuring …
A few months ago we covered Dropbox as a recommended app. Since then I have frequently been running out of space and struggling with its limitations. So I started looking around some of the other online storage apps for Android. I came across Sugarsync as I started to …
Gallery Excluder is a fairly simple app that lets you remove all of those folders from your gallery app that you do not want to see. I have loads of music, icons, wallpapers, downloaded images and lots of real pictures. Sometimes a folder that contains an image will …
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. …
Leigh has posted a very good review on the LG Optimus 3D full of images and some handy video clips for you all to see. I was lucky enough to get a Optimus 3D on a short loan from Clove.co.uk to voice my own views on this new …
AGH. My eyes. What the heck is going on with my eyes? The first thing you do with this phone is turn it on and jump into the “3D Space” feature. Here you’ll get YouTube 3D for lots of featured YouTube content, the 3D Gallery, the 3D Camera …
As we all know there are many fonts in the world. Your computer contains a lot of fonts and there are many websites offering free fonts that people have created as well. Changing the fonts on your phone has always been possible, just not overly easy. Previously on …
Recently we had an email about some funky wireless Bluetooth speakers by FeONIC. They turn any resonant surface into an thunderous entertainment system. It’s a simple matter of pairing and then, provided the speakers are on and within range, they’ll output your media. We gave them a try …
A couple of weeks ago we were sent a Samsung microSD card and asked to test the claim that it was shock proof, water prooft and dust proof. This week we got sent this JCB Toughphone Tradesman – it’s touted as being “military spec” and super-strong. It’s by …
This is the 8GB microSD card from Samsung. The guys at Memory Card Zoo asked us to review one and pointed out that it was water proof, dust proof, shock proof and was even safe against magnets. So. We had a think. How could we do a “proper” …
The HTC Sensation was announced not long after Mobile World Congress and with high specs was clearly going to be their flagship phone for a while. I was invited to London for the announcement of the Sensation where I was also lucky enough to get some quick hands …
I’ve always liked internet radios. These are boxes which look and operate like normal FM or DAB radios with audio instead coming from audio streams on the web. This is the Orange Liveradio, which is available from the Orange Accessories website and on eBay. With DAB radio coverage …
A while ago Leigh got his hands on an O2 Joggler you can watch his original review here (part1) and here (part 2). Some of you may be wondering exactly what this device is. It is a 7″ capacative touch screen, mains powered family organiser. He was not …
For the last week I’ve had a chance to play with the beta of iOS 5 that Apple released to developers at WWDC. The only official way to currently get your hands on it is through a registered developer with access to the iOS SDK. For everyone else …
Last night a new game was released on the Android Market it is called Shakytower. It has been in testing for the last couple of weeks now, you may have noticed we retweeted the request for beta testers. Below is how it is described in the Android Market …
The HTC ChaCha was announced back at Mobile World Congress in February and we were there live to get hands on time with is but as always at these events, with so many people rushing to get hands on time you do not get a chance to really …
The Android Market contains hundreds of different wallpaper apps. They are all very similar inn that you are presented with four popular images or a list of categories. Once you have loaded the category you have to keep tapping next to view the next four, it soon get …
Quickpic is designed to be a replacement for the standard Android gallery. Which is good because I find the standard gallery at times a little slow, sometimes a little buggy and sometimes just unusable. Quickpic can also set wallpaper for you, which I find the standard gallery quite …
You may have seen the forum threads where lots of Android users upload screenshots of their homescreens. Quite often they will have text icons for the dock shortcuts. Below are some examples of what I am on about. These icons are all downloaded from Droid Den. These icons …
Android device manufacturers have pretty much stuck to the standard design, that is a touch screen 3.5″-5″ with a few buttons dotted around the screen. Over the years we have seen various devices with a physical keyboard such as the G1, Motorola Milestone (Droid) or the HTC Desire …
So after wanting to try out Windows Phone for a while I finally took the plunge and bought an LG Optimus 7 last week. Having had a few days to play around with the OS and its features I thought I’d note down some of my early impressions. …
