SanDisk 16GB microSD going cheap

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 …

Orange Travel Angel saves you from big bills

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, …

Control your hotel room from the Galaxy SIII

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, …

Samsung “Inadvertently” Removed Universal Search on UK S3’s

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 …

Jelly Bean arriving on the Motorola Xoom

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, …

Hannspree HANNSpad SN70T3 review

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 …

Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 7

  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 …

Boxcar acquired by Kwaga

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 …

Twitter Offline – now back online – 17:50

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 …

Sony 2011 Handsets Not Getting Jellybean

It has been confirmed that the 2011 range of Sony handsets including the Xperia Arc S will not be getting Android 4.1 otherwise known as Jellybean. In an unsurprising move after their hesitation in upgrading to Ice Cream Sandwich, it was confirmed on Facebook by the UK Product Manager …

Samsung Galaxy S Advance: Unboxing (Gallery)

So, thanks to a rather good Carphone Warehouse deal, I’ve got my mitts on the Samsung Galaxy S Advance. While I wait for the phone to charge, here are some unboxing shots… The Galaxy S Advance has a 4.0″ SuperAMOLED curved screen, with 8GB storage, a microSD card …

[GUIDE] Hacking the Nexus 7 – Rooting and Flashing Roms

ROOTING There are a lot of all in one tools around that you can use to root your device but I find it more helpful if you do it manually, this also helps you get a better understanding of what is going on in the process. Admittedly it’s …

My Vodafone app updated

Vodafone customers can now enjoy a brand new look to the account management app called My Vodafone with the update now available to download on both Android and iOS devices in the relevant app stores. The new version makes it easier to view your allowances, check your extras as well as …

[ROOT] App DataSync

For those of us lucky enough to own more than one android device, you’ll love this app What does it do? Its like TitaniumBackup where it will take a backup of not just your app/game but will also save the data of said app/game So what’s the difference …

Today Google posted another Nexus 7 video

This one again is aimed at beginners and it shows you how to arrange your apps and widgets. Yes it is basic but I feel this is a good thing for Google, it will certainly help new users. But how many off them will find the Google Nexus …

Hatchi arrives on Android

Hatchi, the Tamagotchi-style iPhone game that was released earlier this year, was launched on Android earlier today. The game, which was a bestselling app in the UK, Australia and elsewhere upon release into the iOS App Store, has a price tag of 64p and requires a device with …

Apple Fires Up The Machines

Rumours have been on going for a few weeks now about Apples next handset. The device dubbed the “iPhone 5” is possibly going to be release sometime in the next few months. Will you be buying one? Going off the rumours Apple has started the machines rolling to …