SMS bug / attack reboots your Windows Phone, disables messaging hub!

Rumours (and video evidence) are popping up all around the internet regarding an issue in the Mango flavour of our beloved Windows Phone 7 handsets. Users could experience a denial-of-service to their text messages. The issue can be triggered by messages received from Facebook chat or Windows Live Messenger and …

Google get rid of some more dodgy apps

Google once again have had to remove some rather unpleasant apps from the Android Market. These apps seem to be pretending to be apps based around popular apps with “young people” i.e. Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, Twilight or strangely Horoscopes (do people still believe these?). The user installs …

Sony Ericsson LiveSound Headphones – Review

We’ve had a number of headphones sent our way to review recently. These are the Sony Ericsson LiveSound hi-fi headphones and they sell for around £49.99. They don’t work with all phones or MP3 players, these are designed to work with Sony Ericsson Xperia handsets like the Xperia …

Sony Ericsson Nozomi Leaks Again

GSMArena have managed to get hold of some more pictures of the yet to be announced handset codenamed ‘Nozomi’ which is expected to be launched as the Arc HD either at CES or Mobile World Congress in 2012.  We have already seen some images but never as many as have …

New LG Prada Phone

We have been invited along to London this Wednesday by the team at LG. The swanky event takes place at Claridges to launch a new Prada Phone by LG 3.0 The internet is full of rumours that this will be running Android and there’ll be some really impressive …

Nokia Lumia 710 to be released in January. Maybe.

Over the weekend UK retailer digital-phone.co.uk have put a new product page on their website. It is for the upcoming budget Nokia Windows Phone the Lumia 710, where it shows a release date of the 6th of January. Not a lot has been heard about the 710 as the …

Mobile Internet Radio, without the Mobile Data Charges

I love listening to radio on my Android phone. It’s great, and I’ve found a number of online radio stations that are either exclusive to the internet or broadcast in an area I’m not in. TuneIn Radio has been an app I’ve used for a good while now. …

O2 Extends Services To Include Leasing Model

O2 have now announced a new leasing service for it’s UK customers. This service is available from O2 retail outlets and through their customer services and offers customers the chance to lease a new smartphone for 12 months for £55 per month. The service includes: 750 Minutes of …

Will the Asus Transformer Prime UK release be delayed?

You may have all heard of the Asus Transformer Prime, it’s the upcoming Tegra 3, slightly over hyped tablet from Asus and over the weekend three things have happened regarding the Asus Transformer Prime. First of all UK retailer Clove announced the Transformer Prime for pre-order of which …

Get £50 off Sony S tablets

Did you get the PC World / Currys discount app ? Gah, be quick, because we’ve just spotted a good £50 off Sony S tablets. That’ll knock the price down to £299 (normally £349) on the 16GB version. Now, if you’ve not got the app then you could …

Apple lose court battle, is the tide about to change?

Come on, you’ve probably seen all the news about Apple and various other phone manufacturers being involved in lawsuits. Until now Apple has been fairly successful in winning every legal battle and have forced many manufacturers to change the design of their products, licence features or just remove …

Vodafone Online Webinars

Vodafone have put massive investment into a new team for their retail stores, customer services and online and these are called the ‘Tech Team’ Tech Team is there to not only help get you setup with your new device, but be a point of contact if you ever …

Review – Dragon’s Lair

Remember this?  The original, laser-disk arcade game first appeared in 1983, the same year as the first Star Wars arcade game and as Nintendo produced the 8-bit Nintendo Famicom.  It was about the same time that I fell in love with arcade games; shortly after I got a …

Panasonic Coming Back To Europe

Panasonic once made phones for Europe quite a while ago, some of you might remember the GD87 which was at the time quite an advanced phone so to speak. Well Panasonic are coming back with a bang and with Android now available for manufacturers to use gives them a chance …

OnLive gaming app now available on the Android Market.

Yes I know this was released yesterday before you say anything. OnLive appeared a few months ago and it is a service that basically allows you to play the latest pc or xbox games over the internet. All that was previously needed was one of their tiny consoles …

T-Mobile Vivacity review

The other week I bought the new T-Mobile branded Vivacity. It is a repacked ZTE Crescent and also a variant of the Orange San Francisco 2. I have been using it as my main device since then. My main problem with it is that my normal phone is …

Xbox Companion review

Installation: this is just a matter of going to the marketplace and downloading the app as normal but once installed you won’t find it listed as initially you have to access it via the Xbox Live tile, but once there you can pin it to your start screen. …

Google introduce Currents for Android and iOS

Last night Google introduced another new service that is only available to Americans. This time it is a magazine reader that has more than 150 different publishers on board. Google are certainly building up a decent range of products (for Americans) to rival Amazon and Apple. This also …