YouTube app for Android update – Screen sharing added

If you’ve got one of those clever Smart TV’s then check out the new YouTube app. It includes YouTube TV. To get it working you’ll have to do some jiggery-pokery with your TV and pair it up, so it doesn’t look to be straight DLNA as far as …

Huawei E303 modem going cheap at Expansys

Todays deal over at Expansys is the Huawei E303 modem costing a measly £29.99. Introducing Huawei HiLink the world’s first truly Plug ‘n’ surf data card, allowing you to access the internet in an instant! A simple plug is what it takes. No need to install Drivers or …

Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 23

This week we discuss the Nexus ordering debacle, 3 of us have Galaxy Notes now, HTC and Apple settle and much more. Oh, and the old ladies and innuendos return Your hosts are, Jamie Ryan, James Pearce, Daniel Carter and Mark Peters You can find the RSS feed …

Acer Iconia W500 tablet PC £249.99 [Bargain]

So, what do you do if you want a 10-inch tablet but don’t like Android and you quite fancy the Microsoft Surface but don’t have the funds? Well, you could do a lot worse than an Acer Iconia W500 Windows 7 tablet PC. This has become possible due …

Nexus chaos

So today is the day that those of us that were lucky enough to order a Nexus 4 will receive their shiny new bundles of shiny from the TNT delivery man. There have been sporadic reports of people getting their devices without prior notice from Google from TNT. …

Three adds 1 million customers

During the last year Three have added just over 1 million new customers to their network. They’ve announced that they’re stepping up the rollout of their new ultra-fast network 3G DC-HSDPA and next year, 4G LTE technology. By the end of 2012 the cities below will have been …

Giveaway – Cosmonaut Stylus by StudioNeat

You may well have seen the review of the Cosmonaut Stylus on the site a few weeks back and thought “Cor blimey Coolsmartphone. I’d love to get my sticky fingers on that particular piece of rubbery goodness!” Well wait no longer folks as you have that very chance …

Samsung Galaxy Beam going cheap today at Expansys

The rather clever Samsung Galaxy Beam that we reviewed a while back here is now even cheaper. Expansys are having one of their one day special sales. Today only the Beam will cost £249.99. When we reviewed it our main problem with it was the price. This problem …

The 1st Cloud synced pillbox app prevents medical emergencies

An American dies every 19 minutes from skipping medication or taking meds incorrectly; the problem costs U.S. hospitals $100 billion every year. So that’s why the team from the MediSafe Project launched today the first-ever cloud-synced mobile app that not only reminds users when it’s time to take …

Angry Birds Star Wars – Review

When I first heard that there was going to be another Angry Birds games I wept a little bit. I was a little bit concerned, I’ll explain why in a bit. Never before has there been such a worldwide mobile gaming phenomenon. I suppose Sonic the Hedgehog or …

Vodafone refresh their SIM-only plans

Data plans can be confusing. Seen those people staring blankly at catalogues in mobile shops? Yup. That’s them. Vodafone have done some research and have looked at SIM-only deals. They’ve found that people generally found that people looking for SIM-only deals do so for two reasons… a) They’re …

Ballmer calls Android “Uncontrolled” and Apple “Highly Priced”

He may be the top dog at Microsoft, but Steve Ballmer has never held back when asked about the competition. Today he must’ve been feeling even more relaxed, shooting bullets at both iPhone and Android. Ballmer firmly believes that Windows Phone can sit somewhere in between the “highly …

CyanogenMod community rises to resolve extortion demands

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 …

Where has the budget friendly HTC 8S got to?

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 …

CyanogenMod team held to ransom over their own domain name

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 …

Google confirms Nexus S and Xoom will not get Android 4.2

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 …

Introducing the Samsung Galaxy Camera – again

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 …