Acer Liquid Gallant Duo – Initial Impressions

For a while using a phone with two sim cards in has been a bit of a holy grail for me. I could use my normal sim for making calls and my Giff Gaff SIM for my data requirements. Sounds fairly straightforward but various manufacturers have tried their …

Child runs up £2000 bill on an iPad

If your child plays with your phone or tablet, keep an eye out. Little Will Smith, who’s just six years old, managed to spend an astonishing £2000 whilst using an iPad. It seems that the boy had managed to access his grandfather’s iTunes password to purchase virtual coins, …

Storage Options announce the Scroll Pocket 4

Storage Options have been making Android tablets for a few years now and they’ve mainly been targeting the 8″-10″ market. They’ve now announced the Pocket Scroll 4 which is a 4.3″ device for £49.99. Key features for the device are as follows: Android 4.0 4.3” capacitive multi-touch screen …

Sony Xperia Miro: Initial Impressions

Sony currently have quite a few devices for sale, especially at the bottom end of the pile. The Miro being one of them, it is like the Tipo’s bigger brother, costing a little more and packing a slightly better spec. My initial good and bad points are as …

If in doubt, flat out

Our top techies have been working away all weekend to add some rather crucial speed to the site. Following two days of watching Star Wars, playing online games and eating Skittles, they’ve done the near-impossible. This morning you should be seeing several lean, mean, fighting machines serving up …

How to get a Euro Internet Pass on your Three phone

A few weeks ago UK network Three introduced their new Euro Internet Pass scheme (which Dan reviewed here), where for a small charge you cab get unlimited mobile internet on your phone on a day by day basis. It all sounded like a great, albeit slightly complicated idea. …

Introducing the Samsung Galaxy Note II

The Samsung Galaxy Note has been one of those devices that caught peoples attention because of its huge great screen and a mix of great hardware and software. The Note II has started to arrive in the hands of customers today, some eager/impatient people may have driven hundreds …

UK Amazon Appstore freebie – Radiant HD

Today’s Amazon Appstore free app is Radiant HD, a modern take on the 70s classic Space Invaders. (Editor’s note: sales quadrupled with the release of the Atari 2600 in the 80s, hence the original article stating that it was an 80s classic. Don’t worry, Radiant HD describes it …

Android Game Review: Super Penguins

Published by Supersolid comes this cutesy Temple Run style time-waster. The concept and controls of the game are simple, tilt to move from side to side, tap to jump and keep running as far as you can all the while collecting fish to increase your points tally. The …

Smartphones – Will we ever get more form factors?

It might surprise you, but I’m a bit simple at heart. OK. Who’s laughing? I have a Samsung Galaxy SII and a laptop, that’s about it. Call it a netbook, call it an ultrabook, whatever, you can get affordable notebooks online pretty easily now and hook up to …

Android App – Google Field Trip

What is Google Field Trip? The short answer is, an app that tells you when you are near something interesting. The Play store description: Field Trip is your guide to the cool, hidden, and unique things in the world around you. Field Trip runs in the background on …

Galaxy Note II. Want one? Head to London tomorrow.

Sunday, as we all know, is a day of rest. It’s certainly not a day to get dragged around the shops but hey, try telling that to my wife. Pfff. If you’re in the UK and all “eager beaver” for the Samsung Galaxy Note II then get down …

Motorola RAZR i – Ready to buy October 1st

If you watched our liveblog, saw the announcement and read our first impressions of the RAZR i then you’ll probably want to know when you can buy the thing. We’ve just received word that the slim edge-to-edge Moto handset will be dropping onto Expansys this Monday, October 1st. …

Lumia 800 down, down, down in price

Good ‘ole bragbpenders has sent us a tweet after popping down to his local Phones 4u store. The Nokia Lumia 800 is now on sale for just £159.95 when you grab £10 of airtime with selected networks, and you can get it for £129 on an upgrade. Yes, …

Vodafone welcomes back Sony

It has been quite a while since Vodafone stocked any Sony (or Sony Ericsson) devices, thankfully that has all changed and the UK network has now welcomed the Xperia T and Miro into their list, and both can be picked up direct at Vodafone from today.  There is …

PC Game Review: Borderlands 2

Borderlands is back, and the hunt on Pandora is bigger and badder than ever.We left our favorite Vault Hunters disappointed after opening the Vault only to discover a giant, mutated, bird octopus hybrid thing, but things have not been peaceful on Pandora. The Hyperion company commanded by Handsome …

Bluestacks to come pre-installed on new Windows 8 AMD PCs

We all remember Bluestacks right? They have been around since late 2011 and they make a piece of software to allow normal Windows PCs to run Android apps and games. Sounds great doesn’t it? Yes it sure does, Bluestacks have massive potential to make something brilliant with their …

iOS6 Maps – Apple apologises

Much has been made of the deficiencies of Apple’s new “ground breaking” Mapping application that was introduced with iOS6, but Apple themselves have been keeping a fairly low profile. Aside from some general “it will get better”, they haven’t said much at all. Clearly ears were burning in …

HTC One X+ revealed early in O2 brochure

Recently there were rumours going around that HTC were going to give their flagship Android device, the One X, a makeover and giving it the name of One X+. Well, HTC haven’t actually officially confirmed this handset even exists, but O2 have been more than obliging by printing …