It is now time for us at Coolsmartphone to review the Google / Asus Nexus 7 tablet. Over the years we have been sent devices for review, we have blagged devices from suppliers for review and heaven forbid we have even bought devices ourselves for review. With this …
Last week all of you lucky Lumia owners got another Lumia specific app, well over the last few days Nokia have released another one. This time it is called Contacts Share and it allows you to share your contacts with another person via vcards. The app is actually …
A few days ago we bought you news that the guys over at Mobile Fun have started to stock Google Nexus 7 Cases and Covers. One of the lines that is currently available is the SD Tabletwear Stand & Type Case and we here at Coolsmartphone have managed to …
TheVerge have posted pictures of an alleged iPhone 5, courtesty of one of the suppliers, ILabFactory. The device has all the features of the leaks we’ve seen previously, the centered FaceTime camera, the smaller dock connector, and the longer screen which will hopefully take it up to at …
If you have listened to our latest podcast (if not why not?.. it’s free!) you would have heard my latest news around my upcoming holiday and what my plans will be for internet use. If you did not hear then I will give some more information right now …
Yesterday HTC gave more information as to why the Desire HD (or HTC Ace) will not be included in the HTC’s round of updates to Ice Cream Sandwich. The Desire HD was launched in October 2010, and originally had Android 2.2 Froyo, which was later upgraded to 2.3.5 …
It’s the weekend at last, and if the gorgeous weather holds, we should be getting the barbecues out and thinking of our summer holidays. When you do go abroad, there’s always that issue of travel adapters. Usually you’ve lost them, and you put them in “a safe place” …
If you own a Nexus device first of all let me congratulate you. Secondly you probably have come across the factory images. These factory images let you totally wipe your device and restore it to the day you bought it. Ideal if you flash new roms, kernels and …
The rumours show no sign of going away. Amazon, it seems, could be working on a “Kindle Flame” phone. Way back in February we spotted that Brandon Watson had left the Windows Phone team to join Amazon. More recently Windows Phone business development boss Robert Williams left and …
Amazon have chipped the price of an official SanDisk 16GB microSDHC card (class 4) to just £5.66. The price, apparently, used to be £65. To be honest there’s not a great deal more we can say. If you need more storage and have a microSD brimming over with …
The IDC figures are out. Samsung now have nearly a quarter of the market, holdiing a 24.1% market share in Q2 2012. Compare that to an 18.8% market share last year. Nokia are still in the top five mobile phone vendors but have seen their market share dip …
In our recent podcast we were discussing roaming packages and data. It’s a problem that face when they go abroad – that bill shock. A lot of changes have been made recently to ensure that prices are reduced and are more reasonable when you go on holiday. However, …
If you’re lucky enough to check-in at the Holiday Inn London Stratford City, try out their new Holiday Inn app. It’ll let you grab the latest Olympic updates, check-in, check-out, access room service, laundry services and even use the phone as a in-room phone extension. Not only that, …
Recently Samsung issued a software update for the Galaxy S3 in both the US and the UK that removed the “Universal Search” functionality on the handset. This was reported to have been in response to ongoing litigation with Apple involving this feature, despite the Galaxy S3 not being …
We’ve just had a message from “Ragu” who tells us that his Motorola Xoom has just received the Android Jelly Bean update. He’s converted his UK Xoom to a US build and the update arrived promptly this morning. The 79MB over-the-air update includes a smarter keyboard, Google Now, …
After using the HANNSpad for a few weeks now it’s time for the full review. I thought I should get this review published before my Nexus 7 arrived as that would just ruin my experience with the HANNSpad. First of all I feel I should point out this …
It’s friday and that means its time for us to share another podcast with you. This week is a veritable variety bag of topics, including the LG Optimus 4x, the Huawei Ascend P1, 4G in the UK, Android Piracy and Dan has an announcement. This week your …
The other month Nokia announced a load of new apps that they would be bringing to the Lumia range. Microsoft then dropped their upgrade bombshell. From that point on I have wanted several things for my Nokia Lumia 800. I have wanted the Camera Extras app, the Counters …
Another day, another popular app iOS app being acquired. Today it’s the turn of Boxcar, the push notification app that became popular a few years ago as a central notification app, before the days of notification centre. The service was most commonly used as a supplement to apps …
Visitors to the popular social networking site Twitter are currently being greeted with the following The Twitter status page says that engineers are working on the problem but there is no current estimated time for a fix. It is currently unknown how many users the outage is affecting. More …
