The iPhone 7 was supposed to be joined by the AirPods to push you into the wireless life. Although it looks like we might not even see them this year!

Earlier on this year, I recommended the Moto G 4th gen to someone. They were on a budget and they’d been using what I think was the original Moto G (the Moto G OG, if you will) quite happily for a very long time. Alas, no memory card …

The whole Black Friday thing has toned down a little here in the UK. Some stores that started having Black Friday sales a few years ago have now decided not to bother. Not Amazon though, they’ve gone completely the other way and have extended their sale so that …

Back in the days when I had money, we used to go abroad about this time of year. We went to America a few times (before the Trump and when the UK Pound was a helluva lot stronger than it is now) and used to get our Christmas …

If you want a phone with a nice LED screen on one side and an e-Ink low-power screen on the other, the YotaPhone 2 should be on your shopping list. It’s a phone we reviewed and it’ll let you read books for an absolute age. Anyhow, the people …

Or, without that annoying alliteration about, Samsung seems to have finished testing Android 7 – AKA Nougat – and is starting to roll out a beta testing program for those folks with a Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. It’s not important that the rollout for Samsung is something …

It’s no real surprise that when to comes to mobile devices with physical keyboards, Blackberry were the industry leaders. But despite this the company slowly declined, beginning with the company ending the use their own Operating System, and then not even producing devices, but using rebranded TCL devices (well hello, …

Surprisingly, up to now, Whatsapp Messenger – which is probably one of the biggest messaging services in the world, hasn’t supported two-factor authentication. Well, that was until now. People that are using the latest beta version of Whatsapp are starting to see the option to turn on this …

Where do you start with this? Perhaps I should warn you a bit about the content of this article. Don’t worry, there’s no rude pictures or anything like that, it’s all above board, so don’t worry if you scroll down a bit and your boss is walking past …

Good ‘ole Nuu Mobile eh? Good to see some smartphones from them isn’t it? No, we’ve not really heard of Nuu Mobile either, but they’re here and they’ve just launched three new handsets in the UK. They range from just £40 all the way up to £129.99 and they’re …

I’m here to try and save you some cash this Christmas, so instead of going to Disney and paying a fortune, why not head off to GearBest.com ? They seem to have a range of completely official merchandise for a lot, lot less than you’d normally pay. To …

Honor appear to have re-branded Armistice Day as vMall “Singles Day” today and they’re doing “Crazy Hours” where, from 8AM and on the hour after that, you can purchase 1 Honor 8, 1 Honor 7 Premium, 1 Honor 7 and 1 Honor Band Z1 for just £1. Their …

Sorry friends, I had to do this to you. Here in the UK, as the last firework went “bang” and I suddenly realised that America had voted for a bright orange person, everyone seemed to be taking solace in the Christmas TV adverts. “Oh, TV ad make it …

I was one of the Kickstarter backers for the original Pebble smartwatch back in 2012. I still actually own that too. Shortly after I purchased the Pebble Steel. However, when the colour Pebble Time watches appeared, I fell out of love with them. I thought the new colour ePaper interface was a …

Premium audio and video manufacturer, Venturer, previously brought us the successful BravoWin and EliteWin 2-in-1 affordable notebooks. These were released here in the UK earlier this year. Today they’ve announced their new models – the BravoWin S and EliteWin S. Both Mini Notebooks have a stylish new build with a …

Earlier this year the interwebs was full of rumours that Samsung was planning to ship smartphones and tablets with a bendable OLED screen. In fact in June this year Lenovo displayed a prototype of its own bendable phone. Well a recent leaked patent application from the Korean Intellectual …

21/02/2020 – The best solution to finding your local mast is now located within this recently updated article. A lot has changed over the years, and this is now the best place to go. Quite some time ago we published a story about the Ofcom Sitefinder database. It’s …

This morning OpenSignal have published a new “State of LTE” report. You can find their February one here but today the report, which focuses on the speed and availability of 4G networks around the world, gives us a number of highlights. First, the fastest 4G countries in the …

Cast your mind back dear reader, many moons ago when HTC furst released the “One” series of devices. Well just a few months after release, the company released a higher spec updated version of the same device. It well and truly upset the customers that had forked out …

Here at Coolsmartphone we are approached by device manufacturers from all over the world. I must admit that it is the unheard-of devices from the far-east that intrigue me the most, so I jumped at the chance to review the unknown brand Nomu and their S10 device. ‘Who …