Last week LG announced that they would be updating their Optimus L Series of budget Android smartphones, citing their worldwide popularity as the reason for the investment. I have to admit that I was surprised in December when LG announced sales of 10 million L Series handsets. After …
The lines between mobile and home computing are becoming ever more blurred. With the advent of cloud computing, BYOD and other forms of mobile technology taking your data and processing it on the move is becoming ever easier. The Acer C7 is part of this new wave towards …
Nokia have a new service called Music+ available for their Lumia range of smartphones running Windows Phone. This handy service costs just £3.99 a month and is a must for any music fan who does not want to buy every track at a time and who does not …
You would never guess that HTC are due to announce something new. They are hammering every medium they have to get their name out there and to get people talking about them, again. Well now they’ve gone and posted their third infographic of recent times on their blog. …
If you are following Nokia at the moment, one of the biggest rumors online is that the company is about to announce a tablet running the new Windows 8 operating system considering the strong partnership between Nokia and Microsoft. You might remember the Booklet 3G was a creation …
Bog off! Yeah you with the Samsung Galaxy phone, you heard me. Bog off to your local O2 store and grab yourself a couple of clip-on flip cases. Samsung do some great accessories, and one of my favourites is the flip style case that replaces the battery cover …
The Pie Launcher is probably the most used app on my phone other than Swift Key Flow. It helps me quickly navigate to the things that I access a lot. It helps me save button presses. It makes my life so much better!! There is so much that …
So, my fiance got me to go to a concert tonight (which I will not name) that I absolutely hate. Thus, I figure I’ll write about one of my favorite live wallpapers to pass the time! The Ubuntu Live Wallpaper is definitely for every Ubuntu fan and, very …
It’s 3.30 on a Friday afternoon. You’ve got £40 burning a hole in your pocket. Sure, you could go out tonight, get drunk and meet the love of your life. Or, you could stay at home, drink tea and buy yourself this GoTab Android tablet. It’s got a …
Gemini Devices have today announced two new models in their JoyTab range. The JoyTAB Duo 7 3G (Gem7032G) RRP £139.99 and the JoyTAB Duo 7 (Gem7020) RRP £79.99. Price wise the new tablets are certainly intriguing. The other thing with the JoyTab spec is that they come with …
It’s day two of our Lookout compeititon. You could win a year’s subscription to Lookout Premium and get yourself a secure, safe phone. All you have to do is answer the quesion below to be in with a chance. It’s THAT easy ! 🙂 We’ll pick out the …
The BlackBerry Z10 is the device of the moment. We have a couple flying around the offices of Coolsmartphone at the moment. Leigh posted his hands on video yesterday here and I’m going to post my initial impressions very soon. If you can’t wait to get your hands …
The HTC One has been gradually appearing over the last few weeks, only the other day we saw a leaked image showing the HTC One in silver. Or what renowned leaker @evleaks says is the HTC One. Well now a black version has appeared. Is the HTC One …
Archos are probably one of the oldest players in the tablet market. They have been making handheld media devices for many many years. I fondly remember my Archos 605 WiFi from yesteryear. In recent years they have been struggling to make an impact. They seem to have decided …
Factory images for Nexus devices are very important things, not least because they are the purest form of vanilla Android in the known universe. If you’re an end user who doesn’t want to wait for the over the air update you’ll want them, purely so that you’re the …
Another week has gone by and we are another week closer to MWC and that HTC event on the 19th. This weeks podcast participants joining me were Mark Peters, Ravi Patel and Leigh Geary. This weeks topics were as varied as usual. We touched upon MWC, HTC, Vertu, O2 …
Coolsmartphone is ten years old and just as we end one celebratory giveaway, what do we do? We start another. Whilst the Lookout giveaway is going on we can now confirm the lucky winners of the iPhone 5 case competition. The winners are: Mark Green from Skidby Emma …
The eagerly awaited Sony Xperia Z is starting to appear on pre-order with the various networks. Starting with Vodafone. You can pre order one in white here. The Xperia Z is going to be one of the first available 1080p monster phones that will dominate this year. Spec …
In just over one week the first member of the CoolSmartPhone team will be arriving in sunny Barcelona to prepare for the chaos that is Mobile World Congress. This year will be the biggest one so far for us here for a few reasons. First of all there …
I seem to have a got a name for myself somehow. I’m known across the t’interwebs for many things (sorry, I needed the money) but you may know me as “the guy who films videos in the car”. I’ve not done one for a while, so it’s time …
