Earlier we reported that the CyanogenMod team were being held to ransom over their domain by an unscrupulous member of their team. Spurred by the news, the wider community have come to the rescue, and the situation is now under control. Cyanogen himself took to the blog in …

The Windows Phone 8 release has been a little higgledy piggledy with manufacturers, retailers, networks and blogs like us painting a confusing picture of which devices are coming out when. One device seems to have missed most peoples attention and that’s the bargain priced HTC 8S. It was …

For the uninitiated, CyanogenMod is probably the most widely used custom ROM suite in the Android community. The team work as a non-profit group of programmers that provide fully open source, freely available ROMs for dozens of devices for nothing. Nice people, doing great things for the common …

In amongst all the excitement about new Nexus devices going on sale and promptly selling out,  Android 4.2 is being made available to Galaxy Nexus devices. Conspicuous by their absence however were updates for the Nexus S and the Motorola Xoom. Googles Jean-Baptiste M. Queru has now confirmed …

The seemingly expensive Samsung Galaxy Camera has recently arrived into stock across the land. It is an interesting device, I’d like to try one out just to see how it compares to my £200 compact digital camera. It certainly is feature packed though and Samsung have posted this …

Yes you read the title right, you can customise Windows Phone 8 quite a bit. This article is a quick look at a few apps I use on my nice new HTC 8X to customise the look. Starting off with a custom tile creator. Wizz Tiles Wizz Tiles …

The Nexus 4 sold out in less than 30 minutes yesterday. The 16GB version vanished in just 20 minutes, so it’s not like we can just lay our hands on one to show you guys.. is it? Made by LG we’ve managed to unbox one today, and there’s …

Well a recent survey commissioned by Storage Options seems to suggest that yes we are obsessed. The results certainly do make for some interesting reading. Such as: · 57% use mobile devices in bed and 40% use them on the toilet · 45% say they can ‘never switch off’ …

The Lumia 920 was meant have been an exclusive for EE yet in the past few days we have seen various retailers getting stock of the white version. Expansys are the latest to get stock and they are selling them at £554.99 and it’s available here. Previous retailers …

Maps, on iOS? Let’s not go there shall we? Now Nokia are getting in on the act, launching a location and mapping service for iOS. It’ll be called “HERE”. Yes, iOS. Android soon, and Windows Phone of course too. It’s not just maps either, there’s navigation, offline caching …

Did you, like me, sit at a computer for much of the late night and morning, refreshing the Google Play store screen, waiting and hoping to be the proud owner of a brand spanking, shiny new Nexus device? Did you, like me, end up without one because they …

America. Land of the free, home of the Verizon network and now – the Droid DNA. Made by HTC it’s available for pre-order on VerizonWireless.com and features a Super LCD 5″ screen with an amazing 1920×1080 resolution. Specs have been widely leaked, but include a 1.5Ghz quad-core Snapdragon …

The Chromebook is something that is garnering more and more attention. Google have now introduced two new models to the market. The latest being a slightly lower spec model from Acer. But the price has just crept beneath £200 meaning it is almost as cheap as some tablets. …

As a big promoter of data use on mobile phones, I’ve already pushed the boundaries. Over a year ago I did the AYCE Challenge on Three and used 44GB in two weeks (no really, here’s my bill). The end result? No extra charge for data use – even …

You may have seen this guy recently. He’s Steven Sinofsky and showed us Microsoft Surface on stage. Today he quit Microsoft, and you’ll no doubt see headlines suggesting that the company is struggling due to the “modest sales” and his departure. Paul Thurrot has managed to grab the …

Head over to this page right now to get LG Nexus 4. It’s £239 for the 8GB version and £279 for the 16GB one. There’s a £9.99 delivery charge. The Nexus 10 is available here for the 16GB. The Nexus 4 is made by LG and has a …

For a while now there has been talk of a white version of the new LG Nexus 4 device but we have yet to see it in public.  However on the day of the Nexus 4 launch here in the UK, Carphone Warehouse have something rather interesting on …

Many of us have been waiting on major leaps forward from Motorola ever since Google acquired Motorola Mobility, but thus far there’s been very little to excite. Well, that looks like it’s going to change soon with the introduction of Test Drive. According to the official Motorola blog, …

Anyone with an Android phone running latest software might want to check the Play Store app on their device.  20 minutes before we are officially on the 13th November and Google Music has now launched here in the UK   The web store has also just been updated …

There’s been a bit of a discussion amongst the CoolSmartPhone writers. Some of us still think RIM has a future in the two-and-a-half horse smartphone race that the end of 2012 is seeing, so when the Waterloo company announced the official launch date of BB10 will be Jan …