Popular online streaming company Netflix have launched here in the UK bringing a large range of content to your device for a small monthly charge. For £5.99 you get access to unlimited streaming and this can be used on your Mac or Windows PC, iOS device or Android …

Oh come on! After a few weeks of not being able to use my iPhone 4S at my new place of work because the building is located in a ‘dodgy’ 3G signal area and with 3G being “priority” on the 4S I’ve struggled to make and receive calls …

Just announced in Las Vegas and Three have announced they are going to range the new Sony Xperia S on their network here in the UK, The Xperia S is the first Sony branded phone to hit the UK afte Sony bought out Ericsson from their Sony Ericsson …

Nokia have just announed a new handset at CES in Las Vegas in their new Lumia range running Windows Phone. The Nokia 900 features LTE, Carl Zeiss 8 megapixel camera, front facing camera for video calls, 1830mAh battery, 1.4Ghz Processor, 4.3 inch Clear Black Display and is available …

Images of the new Sony Xperia S have leaked before launch which is due to be in the next few hours.  Again this is at CES where we saw the Arc announced last year it seems we are in for a real treat this year with a simply …

Whilst on the way home tonight an email from Three popped into my inbox with some interesting information about how their network handled the New Year celebrations all around the UK with some pretty amazing stats In 2010 on 31st December Three handled 14TB of data. In 2011 …

HTC have announced the Titan 2 over in CES running on AT&T’s LTE network.  Specs of the new HTC Titan II include a 4.7″ WVGA super LCD capacitive screen, a Qualcomm 1.5GHz Snapdragon S2 CPU, a 16 megapixel camera (yes, 16 megapixel!) with dedicated hardware button, autofocus, dual …

AT&T are having a conference right now at CES over on Las Vegas and a handset they just announced was the Sony Xperia Ion (No Ericsson here!). Specs are said to include the following: Android 2.3 Gingerbread (Upgradable to 4.0) 4.6 inch Screen 12 Megapixel Exmor R Camera …

Huawei have just announced the Ascend P1 and P1 S Android smartphones. First up, the Ascend P1 S. This is just 6.68mm thick and has a slight buldge at the bottom just like the Galaxy SII from Samsung. It’ll run the very latest Android OS – Ice Cream …

Can you remember the fuss / excitement about the OLPC project? OLPC or One Laptop Per Child are a US based non profit organisation who provide laptops for children in the developing world. They sort of triggered off the boom in netbooks.  Their initial cheap laptop made a …

Android-powered handsets sporting hardware QWERTY keyboards are a bit of underrated niche. Whilst there’s many form factors out there, just a handful of those were actually worthwhile. Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Mini Pro, although quite popular, never attracted me enough due to its tiny size. This made it look …

You know the scenario, you’re browsing through the hundreds of games on the Android Market and you come across something odd. You tap on it to read the bio. It starts to freak you out. You wonder quite why someone would make it. You then wonder if it’s …

Android wallpaper apps are a nightmare. There are loads of them. In the main they are just front ends to a website full of qvga wallpapers. Which when you use on you nice new tablet or qHD phone the picture looks horrendous. The Wallbase website has a large …

It’s quickly turning into another big “review day” here at Coolsmartphone. Next up is this, the T-Mobile Vivacity. We’ve actually already reviewed this a few weeks ago but I’ve got one right here and figured that you’d like a video overview too. The T-Mobile Vivacity is actually built …

OK, big news people. YouTube has a new video editing option called “Stabilize”. That’s it, no more one-handed wobble-cam videos… well, maybe just a few eh? Today we’ve had some more stuff to review. This is the Monaco Extreme Car adapter from the guys at WirelessGround.com. It’s normally …

App Review – Scottish Clans Launched in 2004, the Scotclans website is Scotland’s largest site for information on Scottish clans and associated families. Now the makers are aiming to extend their reach to Scots around the world with their recently launched Scottish Clans iPhone app. Find your clan …

Tizen OS is another Linux based open source mobile device operating system. Samsung are one of the partners behind this new OS and they are reported to be developing the Samsung I9500 to use the Tizen OS. SamMobile have some exclusive pictures of the OS on a device …

Rather than updating the original blog post, Microsoft have spoken to ZDNet about the recent changes in how updates are delivered. It seems that there actually aren’t any changes, and everything is business is usual. Greg Sullivan, Senior Product Manager, has told Mary-Jo Foley that.. Nothing has changed …

I’m worried, and I’ll tell you why. Back in 2002 Microsoft emailed me after reading some of the stuff I’d put on the web. The first Microsoft Smartphones were hitting the market and I’d added some critical but constructive posted about it. They respected this, and they wanted …

UK network O2 have a new product in testing and that is a Femtocell.  If you do not know what one of these is then consider it a portable mast you plug into your home WiFi network to give you fill 3G signal all around your house even …