Applydea Maglus Stylus – Review

With the mobile world seemingly taken with Samsung’s Galaxy Note II and indeed it’s predecessor, it’s the introduction of their stylus, the S-Pen, which took and continues to take many if the headlines. A while back I covered the Zoogue Stylus in an attempt to harness some similar …

Monday’s Android event postponed due to Hurricane Sandy

  Many of us were excited to see what Google had to launch in the way of Nexus devices on Monday but sadly it seems we’ll have to wait a little while longer. Hurricane Sandy is heading towards the east coast of the US and Google has decided …

Samsung Nexus 10 photos and hardware specs leaked

The Google Nexus 10 is the most eagerly awaited tablet since… the iPad Mini. OK, this is a pretty big deal in the Android world anyway. It’s widely expected that the latest Nexus tablet will be released at the Google event on Monday 29th October in New York …

Vodafone Come out Fighting in 4G Wars

With the launch of the UK’s first 4G network only days away and after EE have come in for some major criticism over their price plans for the super-fast network, the competition have decided that they are not going to remain quiet and surrender but have come out …

Alien Hatchi released

If you’ve come here as a user of CoolSmartPhone, our sister site, you may remember my original review of Hatchi, the Tamigotchi-like virtual pet (to refresh your memory, click here). Well, today Portable Pixels, the creators of Hatchi, launched their new game Alien Hatchi on iOS. Alien Hatchi …

Cheap knock-off iPad mini coming soon

The iPad mini is here but, and this might surprise you, it’s not as cheap as you’d hope. But… …the clones are here… The GooPad mini has an 8″ 1024×768 screen, dual-core 1.4GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, 8 GB storage, a 2 megapixel rear cam, a 0.3 megapixel front …

Play Left 4 Dead 2 free this weekend

Are you a Steam user who hasn’t got Left4Dead 2? Well then, we have some good news – this weekend, you can play the apocalyptic first person shooter for free on Steam! In L4D2, you play as one of four survivors fighting off hordes of the zombie-like ‘infected’. …

Xbox Smartglass is now available on the Google Play Store

A few days ago we saw some info about the Xbox Smartglass app for Windows RT and Windows Phone. It was basically an advanced companion app for your Xbox, where you could control media playback, browse the Web and install apps and games. Microsoft mentioned that an Android …

Black Samsung Galaxy SIII now in stock

Online retailer Expansys have dropped us a line to say that they have just got the black version of the Galaxy SIII. The Galaxy SIII has probably been then most successful Android phone so far this year. Most people who get one absolutely love them. No doubt someone …

Draw Something is now available on the Windows Phone Marketplace

Can you remember back when we all used to play Draw Something? I have fond memories of a time where Android and iOS users could get along and send each other horrendous drawing instead of doing work. Shortly after the drawing explosion Omgpop got bought up by Zygna …

Pebble watch update

For those of you with an interest in the Pebble ‘e-ink’ watch crowd sourced via Kickstarter project an update was sent out this morning, although there were no shipping dates confirmed it looks like Eirc and his team have been hard at work on the product. The update …

HTC One X+ now available on O2

Fancy a HTC One X but want more memory, more speed and better battery life? Have a look at the HTC One X+. It’s just popped into the O2 store and the uprated handset also includes Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. It costs £399.99 on Pay & Go or …

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City coming to iOS and Android

On October 29th, it will be 10 years since Rockstar released Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, one of the most popular titles in the series. To mark this anniversary, Rockstar are enhancing the game for release on iOS and Android devices. Details, including a launch date, are thin on the …

Looking for iPhone 5 accessories?

Got your shiny new iPhone 5? Looking for accessories to help it along? So was I, then Mobile Fun got in touch offering their iPhone 5 Ultimate Bundle The device had only been around for about two weeks an accessories were running a little thin on the ground …

Theme Park arrives on Android!

I don’t know how you spent your childhood, but I spent a lot of mine parked in front of the family PC playing Theme Park World, developed by those geniuses at Bullfrog. I had already been drawn in with Theme Hospital (I still play it) and I couldn’t …

Jelly Bean comes to SIM-free Galaxy SIII’s

If you’ve got an S3 and it’s SIM-free, get checking Kies for your Jelly Bean update, because it’s available right now. Lee and Carl have both emailed after pumping their Samsung Galaxy S3 handsets up to Android 4.1.1 – they’re now on JRO03c.I9300XXDLJ4. Let us know whether you’ve …

Apple posts Samsung Judgement as per courts request

  Apple and Samsung have been embroiled in legal battles around the world and in the UK, Apple lost. The Judge decided that Apple should have to address this on its website and in the UK print press, showing that Samsung did not infringe on Apple’s intellectual property.  …

Meganoid 2 is now available on the Play Store

The sequel to the hugely popular 8-bit platform game Meganoid, Meganoid 2 has just been released. The sequel is more Indiana Jones than it’s predecessor but it is damn good difficult fun. I’ve reviewed this over at our sister site, thecoolgamer here, so if you want to have a …

Android Game Review – Meganoid 2

Meganoid is a hugely successful Android and iOS 8-bit platform game. The aim of the game is to make your way through the hundreds of levels avoiding death. Well Orange Pixel have come out with a sequel which on the outset seems to offer more of the same …