iMessage From Your Mac Desktop

Would you like to send free instant messages to friends and family around the world from your Apple computer to their Apple product including iPod and iPhone?. Well now you can thanks to a new feature appearing in 10.8 Mountain Lion. Apple are replacing the iChat application with a new …

Motorola Reveal ICS Update Schedule

If you’re an Android user, and a Motorola device owner, you might just enjoy this one! Motorola give an overview of the development cycle of such upgrades and deliver timings by region and by device on their Android Software Upgrade page. Some of the main 1GB devices they …

GSM 32GB Samsung Galaxy Cancelled?

For those awaiting the 32GB version of the latest Nexus phone, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, we’ve got some bad news. It seems, according to the online retailer Expansys, that the 32GB GSM model has been shelved. We’ve just been notified this morning that Samsung have dropped the Galaxy …

LG Prada now on T-Mobile Full Monty Plan

Can you remember the LG Prada? We went to press event and we saw a lovely new advertising campaign for it as well. Well now T-Mobile UK are offering if on contract. As to be expected with their new selection of accounts there are a few options to …

LG Optimus Net now reduced slightly on O2

O2 have just reduced the LG Optimus Net to £129.99 on pay as you go. You can also get it for free on most contracts from £10.50 a month upwards. The LG Optimus NET is the latest Android Gingerbread phone from LG. Send music, movie clips, photos & …

Google Maps for Android updated

If you’ve got an Android handset then you may have noticed a new version of Google Maps today. Inside there’s bug fixes and battery improvements. The battery performance change should be particularly noticeable if you’re a Latitude user and, if you’ve not upgraded already, you can click the …

Amazon MP3 receives tablet friendly update

In the last few days Amazon have updated their MP3 purchasing and playing app. They have actually made it Ice Cream Sandwich and tablet friendly. It is pretty nice and allows you to buy and download music using your Amazon account. It is also nice that for once …

HTC Endeavor and Ville to be known as the One X and One S?

New Barcelona-bound handsets from HTC look set to have another name change if rumours are correct. The Endeavor, which should of course be called the “Endeavour”, has already been spotted as the HTC Edge and we heard it might get called the “Supreme”. Now it looks like this …

Rewind and Remove – Camera trickery you will want

I’ll let you into a secret. In a few days Mobile World Congress will be kicking off and anyone who is anyone in the mobile industry will be there. If you’re a company in the mobile space, you have to be there pushing your stuff. We’ve had, and …

Windows Phone 7 Tango shots – The devil is in the detail

Russian website wp7forum.ru appear to have shots and information about the upcoming Windows Phone Tango release. They highlight a number of changes, including the support of additional countries, an increase on the amount of preloaded apps (from 16 to 40), SIM contact management and importing (ideal for new …

The Countdown To Mobile World Congress

Next Sunday (26th) we have the unofficial start to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona…. why unofficial? Well the real conference starts on the 27th but every year more and more manufacturers want to show off their new gadgets a day early, and this year is no different with …

Cornerstone Multitasking for Ice Cream Sandwich Tablets

I love it when developers make nice useful tablet optimised apps. Apps that actually use the space available on the tablet screen. Well I spotted something yesterday that looks to really improve how I would use my tablet. It is called Cornerstone and it uses a side panel with two …

Sky Go On Android – 22nd Feb Launch

It seems that Sky Go on Android has been given a launch date of the 22nd February…. just a few days away!.  This app has been available for iOS devices for a while now and has allowed Sky customers to be able to watch certain TV channels on …

Moto Intel Atom Android 4.0 phone rendered

This unnamed smartphone from Motorola is said to be the first using the Intel Medfield Atom platform. Running Android 4.0 it’ll be “graced” with Motoblur. We expect to see this at Mobile World Congress in just a few days time, so we’ll get more details then. Link – …

How some Android applications saved the day….

Today, I did a very stupid thing. A very stupid thing indeed. I left the house without my phone (a Samsung Galaxy S2). I contemplated going home to get it, but decided that maybe I could live one day without it. I began going over in my head, …

Samsung Galaxy Nexus available in white

The people at Unlocked Mobiles have now taken delivery of the white Galaxy Nexus and, if you’ve got £494.98, you can have free delivery. Clove also have the handset on sale or you can check our deals if you’re after a white Galaxy Nexus on contract. Specs include …

Does Apple Provide Fair Working Conditions?

If they don’t, they will soon! Yesterday Apple had a Goldman Sachs Keynote. The first thing that was brought to attention and dealt with promptly was the rumours of poor working conditions in Apple’s supply chain facilities. Tim Cook: “First thing everyone should know is that Apple takes …

Samsung Galaxy Note to come in pink soon. What is the world coming to?

Normally smartphones come in grey, black, brown, silver and more increasingly in white. White is my favourite colour for a phone and not a week goes by without me going on about another white phone. Well imagine my horror when Samsung announced that the Samsung Galaxy S2 would …

ZTE Tania now in stock at various outlets

Can you remember the other week we covered the ZTE Tania event in London? If not the details are here. Well Clove and Unlocked Mobiles now both have them in stock for £199.99 inc vat. They only have the black ones in stock at the moment which is a shame. …

LG X3 Detailed, heading to Mobile World Congress

It looks like we’ve got another LG device heading to Mobile World Congress. Hot on the heels of the LG CX2 is the LG X3 and, by the looks of the naming convention, we assume that they should either be the LG X2 and LG X3 or LG …