HTC announce the Butterfly S

HTC have revealed The Butterfly s with a 1.9GHz Snapdragon 600 processor, UltraPixel camera sensor, at its Taiwan launch event. It’ll arrive boasting an identical-sounding 5-inch 1080p display, front-facing BoomSound stereo speakers and Sense 5. There aren’t any official images yet, these were leaked last week. The specs …

Huawei Device show off the last version of Emotion UI

Emotion UI is the skin that Huawei apply over Android. Love it or hate it Android skins are here to stay. Especially as Huawei said yesterday that there wouldn’t be a Google Edition of the P6 as Emotion UI was good enough. Huawei have posted the following video …

Watch the Huawei Ascend P6 event highlights here

As is customary these days, manufacturers film their press events and either live stream them or publish a highlight video afterwards. Yesterday after Huawei unveiled the Ascend P6. The details about the Ascend P6 are here. Our hands on article is coming soon, once Ronnie has woke up. …

Silence is golden.. sometimes

I’m out in America at the moment. I’ll admit that I’m very lucky, and have had the opportunity to visit a good many times now. I usually plan things out and ensure that my phone, which is unlocked, has a US SIM card so that I can make …

Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini – Pre-order and get a free tablet

The nice people at Phones 4u have just let us know about an offer they have on. Right now, if you pre-order the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini from them you’ll receive a free 7″ Samsung Galaxy Tab 2. The S4 Mini is available free from just £27 per …

Tapatalk for Android and iOS is now Free

Here at Coolsmartphone we love bargains and there’s nothing better than something for nothing. At the moment the fantastic forum app Tapatalk is now free. If you subscribe to a lot of Forums Tapatalk is the app for you as puts all your posts into one place with …

Rearth Ringke Fusion case for Samsung Galaxy S4 – Review

Phone cases are a part of my daily routine, wake up, pick which phone case to use, get out of bed, brush teeth, itch, you know, all the normal stuff. I find phone cases fall into three different types. Minimal – minimum protection, no shock absorption, no screen protection, …

Huawei announce the Ascend P6

This afternoon we are attending the unveiling of the Huawei Ascend P6 and they’ve gone and published the press information a little bit earlier than the event. So here it is the Huawei Ascend P6. Spec wise the P6 is pretty good. – 1.5GHz quad-core processor – 4.7-inch …

Microsoft update their burst mode camera app Blink

Blink for Windows Phone has been around for a while, it allows you to take a load of pictures at once and then pick the best one and save it for viewing at a later date. Ideal for photographing twitchy kids or sports events. Well today it’s gone …

Android App Review – Yandex Shell

Many many years ago SPB used to make apps for Windows Mobile. The had something called SPB Shell, it was basically a launcher for Windows Mobile. Me and millions of others enjoyed it. Fast forward a few years and SPB have been bought out by Russian Search Engine …

Beauty Worth Waiting For

Feathers, a Dragonfly, water droplets and  snowflakes. What could it all mean? What we do know is that this afternoon we will be at the Huawei event in London and whatever they unveil we’ll be on hand to show you. It is almost definitely going to be the …

Vodafone Smart III Android phone – Review

The Vodafone Smart III is a budget Android phone (real name Alcatel 975), designed to introduce the world of smartphones to those who haven’t discovered it yet. It’s fun, colourful and comes with some innovative thinking behind it. However, does it justify its £95 price point on pay …

Ex-HTC execs to launch a new range of smartphones

Well, as if the loss of all those big names from HTC wasn’t enough, now two of them are to launch a competing range of mobile handsets. Based on their press release (below) it looks like they’ll be branding handsets with their name which, by the way, is …

Otterbox Commuter case for the Samsung Galaxy S4 – Review

I’ve said this many times before, or something similar anyway. An expensive phone deserves a decent case So when the Samsung Galaxy S4 arrived on my desk the first thing I did was get a case for it. Over the years my go to brand has been Otterbox …

Samsung to release a faster Galaxy S4, but what will they call it?

Samsung have said that there will an updated version of the Galaxy S4 released. With a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chip and LTE Advanced, meaning not only will the phone be faster but the internet speed will be a whole lot faster too (on compatible networks). J.K. Shin from …

Windows Phone App Review – Simple Calendar

I like to be organised, sometimes a little bit too organised. I add allsorts of things to my calendar, from reminders to go home, my holidays, the weekly podcast and some other stuff. The basic Windows Phone Calendar tile doesn’t really show much info and at times it …

Popular CPU identification utility CPU-Z is now available for Android

People have been getting information about the CPU of their computers using CPU-Z for a good few years now. Now they can continue using it but on their Android devices. Android version of the popular CPU identification tool for PC/Windows., CPU-Z is a free application that reports information …

Motorola X Phone specs leak – more like a meh-phone?

The Motorola X Phone seems to be a mythical beast. Ever since Google bought Motorola Mobility early last year there have been rumours of some sort of amazing Google phone being produced by Motorola. Would it be a Nexus? Will it be the most powerful phone ever? Will …

Despicable Me for Android is now available

Despicable Me was a great film and the Minions for me made it a bit better. Most people you talk to about the film refer to them at some point and what better way to get people excited about the upcoming sequel Despicable Me 2? Release a game …

TeamViewer for Windows Phone 8 is now available

Whether you like it or not at some point in life you’ll utter the words. I wish I could just access my home computer from this cosy pub sofa Or something along those lines. There are a lot of options out there to do this. The most popular …