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 …

Jetpack Joyride is now available in the Google Play Store

After a brief spell in the Amazon Appstore, Jetpack Joyride is now available for free in the Google Play Store. It is quite an addictive game where you fly along collecting coins and power ups and dodging obstacles. Here is the Play Store description: Join Barry as he …

Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 16

This week we discuss Blackberry Jam, the Samsung Galaxy Camera and the fallout from the iPhone 5 and iOS 6. This week your hosts are, Jamie Ryan, Ravi Patel, Mark Peters and Khellan Payne You can find the RSS feed for the podcast here, you can subscribe in …

Blackberry L & N Series Video & Images Leak

Hot off the press and thanks to the guys over at Crackberry.com, internal marketing images and a video showing the new Blackberry handsets have been leaked. Shown is the full touchscreen L Series and the Qwerty N series, also below are some screen captures taken from the video, …

Ebay launch version 2.0 of their Android app… again

We broke the news a couple of weeks ago that the ebay app had been updated from version 1.8 to 2.0 and immediately started causing errors that stopped users doing anything useful with it at all. Later that evening it seemed to have been fixed, but ebay soon …

Samsung Galaxy Camera priced up for pre-orders

Back in the summer at the Samsung Unpacked press event in Berlin the Galaxy Note II and Ativ suite of Windows devices were announced in a flurry of excitement, but what they also announced on the same day was something they referred to as the ‘camera reborn’, the …

Sony Xperia T now available on Three

Three are now selling Sony’s new flagship Android phone – the Xperia T. Otherwise known as James Bond’s new phone, the device features a class leading 13 megapixel camera, 4.6″ HD screen, 1.5ghz dual core processor, 16gb storage and NFC. The phone is available now from Three for …

Ask us a question for our podcast – Episode 16

It’s that time of the week again and we are preparing to record our next podcast. This week has been a little bit quiet on the news front, the Apple bashing continued and the excitement about Windows Phone 8 didn’t disapate. Oh and a few of the team …

Bad Piggies now available in the Google Play Store

Rovio the worldwide renowned developer behind Angry Birds has just released their new game, Bad Piggies. It has just appeared in the Play Store and the link is below. Play Store Link – Bad Piggies Oh and here is a little video showing you what it’s about.

HTC Sensation XL prices coming down [deal]

Phones come and phones go, sometimes leaving a whole legacy behind them, sometimes just disappearing without much of a fuss. The HTC Sensation XL was never the most outstanding phone, mainly due to the fact it was a single core device in competition with its dual core companions. …

Acer Cloud Mobile Available from Wednesday 3rd October

News has reached us that the new Acer Cloud Mobile will be available from 3rd October directly from Expansys. The new 4.3″ device is set to ship with Android 4.0 Ice Cream sandwich and is powered by a 1.5Ghz dual core Snapdragon processor.  With 16gb internal storage and …