It’s fair to say that Samsung’s success with the Galaxy S3 has been nothing short of astonishing. The handset even gave the lauded iPhone 5 a run for it’s money in terms of pure numbers, and for good reason. Great performance, a slim plastic (sorry Samsung, polycarbonate) shell …

Last night in the UK during the The Inbetweeners Movie Nokia had a quick advert. An advert showing off a nice looking upcoming device, or a tiny part of it anyway. The below image was the focus of the advert. Nokia have also published the advert on their …

The Samsung Galaxy S4 is a big old boy, with its 5″ screen it can’t be anything other than big. So, just like the Galaxy SIII, the Galaxy S4 has a little brother on the way. It was inevitable that the SIII Mini would be succeeded by an …

We’ve had a couple of emails from Samsung Galaxy S2 owners saying that they’ve just received the Android Jelly Bean update over the air. So far it’s SIM-free handsets, with Dave telling us.. Upgrade was to 4.1.2 baseband XXMS2 and build XWLSS. Anyone else get this? Good question …

I’m reaching the end of my mobile contract with Orange. I’ve been with the company since 1995 and they’ve always treated me pretty well. However, this last year I’ve seen my contract price increase and an increased push to get me onto 4G with EE which, strange as …

Finally I can post pictures of my dinner to Instagram from my Windows Phone. Without any restrictions or limits. Today is a happy day. It did cost me £1.29 though. Itsdagram uses a loophole in the api to allow you to post to Instagram, so how long it …

If you’ve got a Windows Phone then you’ll noticed that a lot of the “big apps” are now available to download. Microsoft are going to great lengths to show that major Android or iPhone apps are available, or versions of them, on Windows Phone. But, although it shouldn’t …

With Google I/O just around the corner, you’d think the company would want to keep a lid on its forthcoming offerings but Android Police has to grab a copy of Google Play Services 3.1.36 which seems to be trickling out to devices as we speak. You’ve got to …

So the time is nearly upon us once again, Google is about to hold its annual developers conference, better known as Google I/O. This time last year at the Moscone Centre in San Francisco, Google announced not only the Nexus 7 but also Android 4.2 (jellybean) and Google …

For the last few weeks we’ve been dealt a confusing array of leaks and rumours surrounding the next Nokia Lumia device. This afternoon Nokia have published details of what they’re releasing in the US which might just give a huge insight into next weeks event. They have announced …

I think I’d like to be an analyst, they get to just make stuff up and the whole world sits up and takes notice. An analyst from KGI Securities has released some information about the supposed New Nexus 7 and it kind of fits in with what’s expected …

Every now and then we here at Coolsmartphone try to do a group feature.  Normally it is something where we can all contribute different things and that as a whole makes for something quite useful.  As has already been said, most of us use one or two eco-systems …

Three, already famed for their rather speedy and unlimited data access, are to take the Ascend P2 from Huawei. Now, if you’re a regular visitor (and we hope you are), then you’ll remember that we got a hands-on demo from a rather lovely rep at Mobile World Congress …

Three are busy releasing phones it seems as today they announce availability of the Motorola RAZR I on the network Available from just £17 a month or £249.99 on PAYG The RAZR I is great value for money considering you get an 8 megapixel camera, 4.3 inch screen …

We haven’t heard much in the way of exciting new devices from Huawei since MWC in February, so it came as a bit of a surprise when I shuffled down to the Coolsmartphone Towers front door this morning and found an invitation from Huawei on the mat. It …

If you read the newspapers or watch BBC’s Watchdog programme then you’ll soon see news of the Samsung Galaxy S4 storage “issue”. Headlines scream that the S4 comes with around half the storage you expect due to pre-installed apps. First I wanted to check this and compare it …

Episode 46 of the Coolsmartphone Podcast is upon us. What’s in store I hear you ask. Well…… Joining me this week we have Ian Furlong, Mark Peters and Ravi Patel. This weeks topics are the Samsung Galaxy S4, the HTC One, the BlackBerry Q10, the Samsung Ativ S, …

Well well well, this is a litle surprise tonight but it now looks like UK network Three are going to stock the new Huawei P2 we saw announced back at Mobile World Congress this year There was no news on this over on the coming soon section of the website …

What would you sacrifice to own an iPhone? A can of coke a day, perhaps a chocolate bar.  How about 2 cigarettes a day? Well, thanks to Carphone Warehouse you can now own a sparkly slab of iPhone deliciousness for just £17 per month (that’s less than 50p …

Nokia are due to announce their latest Lumia phone to the world next week in London where we will also be attending to bring you all the news as it happens. However, Vodafone have come out already and posted on their official blog that they will be stocking …