Want a decent smartphone for around £200? Check these out..

Got £200? Good stuff, because you can always donate to keep us on the air 🙂 If you don’t fancy dishing out money to a worthy cause you can perhaps have a look at the Acer Cloud Mobile for £199.99. It’s got rave reviews and has a gorgeous …

More Nexus 4 accessories now available from Google

Google’s flagship handset, the Nexus 4 has had some more accessories listed on the Google Play store. Anyone that has purchased the latest Nexus phone will know that the box simply contains the handset and a charger, with no earphones or fancy schmaltz. Well, now available on the …

HTC First Facebook Home Screens appear on the web

We should have the official details on this phone direct from HTC very shortly but, in the meantime, there’s more leaked photos to enjoy. This time a custom “Facebook Home” system is on show and gives us a glimpse of what to expect when the press event starts …

Sound Search for Google Play is now available

Sound Search? At first I wondered what on earth it was, upon reading the Play Store description I realised it was a music identification widget that would link to music on the Play Store. So you can be listening to music on the radio, identify the track you …

Amazing Alex is now available for Windows Phone

Amazing Alex is Rovio’s lesser known game, it’s a physics kind of thing. You place items around the room to get balls to drop into the correct location. Sound simple yet it is quite addictive. It marks another big name app becoming available on the platform. A bit …

Latest US market share figures released

The latest Operating system figures for the US have been released by Kantar. Unlike the Android figures posted earlier today there are some real surprises for the latest quarter. Operating System 3 months to Feb 12 3 months to Feb 13 Change +/-  iOS  47%  43.5%  -3.5%  Android …

My Windows Phone experiment – Part 2

A while back I set about doing something a bit rash, I decided I was going to use exclusively Windows Phone and Windows RT in my day to day life. The plan was to ditch Android for a while and really get a feel for Windows Phone and …

Dock your headphones and reduce the cabling headache with Elroy

Meet Rob. He has had an idea. Headphones, or “earbuds” as he likes to call them, have a little issue – the cables that come off them. They’re usually long and get snagged somewhere on your clothing despite those clips that come with the headphones. Here the Bluetooth …

HTC One V Competition – The winners are..

You may remember that we recently had a competition to win one of three HTC One V handsets. I have to admit, we were swamped with entries. We’ve had to delay the announcement of the winners because, as the competition hit the likes of HotUKDeals, we had a …

New Nexus 7 Coming In July ?

Thinking of getting the Google Nexus 7? Well I’ve got one and I’d say go get one, for the price the specs and performance are second to none. I say get one but I also say wait till July if rumours from Reuters are to be believed, Google’s …

Facebook Phone….. Who really wants one? – Editorial

There have been rumours of a Facebook Phone doing the rounds for a while now.   The device would be a follow up to the ill fated HTC Chacha and looks likely to once again be manufactured by HTC. The new device is alleged to be a mid range …

Viber for Windows Phone updated

Mention “VoIP” and “cheap calling” to people and Skype is usually the download of choice. You might not have heard it, but Viber is another option and is doing rather well. It’s available for pretty much any platform you care to shake a stick at and offers free …

Review – StreamPort Universal

Let’s see if this can be summed up in a few short words shall we? What we have here is a Bluetooth receiver that’ll pump out an audio output to your existing stereo equipment. Yep, that seems to describe it quite nicely. It hit me this weekend. My …

Google post their latest figures for platform versions

It is that time of the month again where Google publish some statistics about how woeful the Android upgrade process is. This month is no exception, bar for the increase in the Jelly Bean figures there isn’t much different from last month. As usual the numbers don’t quite …

Facebook Phone Revealed……..?

Well it appears that the rumours may well be true. We know that Facebook are holding a shindig on April 4th and thanks once again the the Twitter account @EVLeaks, it looks like we may know exactly what they are about to reveal. Cue the HTC First…….   A …

50 4G enabled cabs now available in the UK

If you live in London you might have seen some of the Vodafone cabs around and about with chargers built in so you can charge your phone on the go? Well now EE have jumped on the cab bandwagon and have installed 4G MiFi into 50 black cabs …

Mega or Fonblet?

Phones are getting bigger and bigger, the Note II, the LG Optimus G Pro, the Huawei Ascend Mate, the rumoured upcoming Note 3 and of course those 7-8″ tablets from Asus and Samsung that can make phone calls. The term “phone” has become a somewhat almost misused word, …

UK gets quad-core only on the S4 – Further confirmation

Just a few days ago we heard news that the Samsung Galaxy S4 won’t have the octa-core CPU here in the UK. Now there’s further confirmation via Expansys, who tell us that the S4 will have the quad-core chip instead. So what do you guys think? Will this …

SwiftKey Tilt – Save your thumbs and bust a move

At Coolsmartphone we realise that our readership are all far too intelligent to be sucked in by April fools jokes (why else would you come to a site with the word smart in the name?), so we’re going to lay this one on the line. 1st April, the …