Cocktail Flow – Review

Cocktail Flow released for Android Phones and Tablets “Thanks to computer savvy alcoholics, there’s an app for that” – Big Bang Theory Cocktail Flow, the 2nd highest rated application on the Windows Phone Marketplace has been released for Android in both a phone and a tablet version. Mobile …

First BBX device rumour: Blackberry London

Back in October at the BlackBerry DevCon 2011, RIM announced the next gen platform entitled BBX. This new OS will take advantage of HTML5 and will support RIM’s Cloud Services. Now the lucky guys at The Verge have the first pictures of what might be the first BBX …

Gingerbread update for LG Optimus 3D coming next week

The Optimus 3D will be making the jump to Android 2.3 Gingerbread starting next week. The update brings not only the usual set on Gingerbread enhancements over Froyo but a number of extra improvements too, like faster data speeds and improved multimedia experience. The update will push the download speeds …

Blackberry Torch 9860 hands on and full review.

It was Friday when I received a rather large package addressed to me. Inside, the Blackberry Torch 9860. First up, I’ve got to admit that I absolutely love this handset. I have had plenty of time to have a little play and a fiddle with this device, so …

HTC Droid Incredible gets another Gingerbread update

It doesn’t seem so long ago that the HTC Droid Incredible was added to Verizon’s growing Android line up, offering some in-house competition to the original Motorola DROID. And while the original DROID closed out its successful long run at Verizon with Android 2.2 aboard, the HTC Droid Incredible was updated to Android …

HTC Zeta, spotted – Upcoming flagship, boasts quad-core processor.

Another HTC superphone has been spotted loose in the wild, but this time it’s the HTC Zeta. This is supposed to be HTC’s upcoming flagship Smartphone and boasts a 2.5GHz quad-core next-gen Snapdragon processor. It does sound too good to be true, but the leak states it will have a …

Review – Pocket Boom Portable Vibration Speaker

I love gadgets. Any kind of gadget pretty much, and I’m interested. So imagine when I saw the blurb for this little box of tricks..  “Turn anything into a speaker!” It works too.. which is pretty crazy. The quality of the sound depends what you’ve “turned into” a …

Apple loses market share in smartphone market. Sort of.

Gartner have released some figures showing worldwide smartphone sales by OS for Quarter 3 of 2011. They show that Android has gained a bigger share of the market compared to Quarter 3 2010. Once again the stato’s out there have gone mad analysing these figures. Apple’s iOS has …

Ice Cream Sandwich for the Sony Ericsson Xperia range

Well, if you bought an Xperia handset this year you should be getting Android 4.0 / Ice Cream Sandwich. A blog post has confirmed that the “entire 2011 Xperia range” will be getting the new OS, although timing wasn’t mentioned. You’ll get the update if you have an …

Coolsmartphone Recommended Windows Phone App – Photo Finish

There are thousands of photo editing apps in the world. Yes thousands! It leaves you wondering which to install. Some have way too many features and need a large user guide. Some just do not work or just make a mess of your photos. Some cost money. Some are free …

XXSIM Review

Today we’ve got one of those XXSIM roaming cards that we mentioned the other week. It’s delivered from Switzerland and carries a number from Estonia but it’ll let you receive calls for free in more than 120 countries and there’s no monthly fees. There’s simple roaming rates which …

Springpad for Android – Review

Pros This is a cross platform app – iPhone/Android and the internet Notebooks, tags, flags Can look-up items e.g. books 3 types of widget Widgets customisable Easy sync   Cons Search is US centric No editing options within a note       I’m always on the look …

YouTube App receives an update

If you updated your Android YouTube player this morning them you will have probably noticed how much more ”Google flavoured” it’s become. Our screenshots show the new Google +1 feature and we are likely to see much more of this going forwards. According to sources, you will soon …

Google release the source code for Ice Cream Sandwich

It is a busy few days for Google, in the next few days people will be able to get their hands on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, running Android 4.0. Also tomorrow Google are rumoured to be announcing Google Music to the public. Last night also they released the …

ChevronWP7 back online.

The other week we mentioned the Microsoft approved WIndows Phone unlock tool. The Chevron team have been busy unlocking hundreds of devices for people, but they bogged down with errors and people not being able to unlock their phones. They had to suspend new orders last week and …

Galaxy Nexus Available for pre-order on Three

Looking to get the hot new Galaxy Nexus on Three? You can get your name down for one right now. It’ll shortly be available from £34 a month or £40 a month on The One Plan. That’ll get you all-you-can-eat data, 2,000 anytime, any network minutes and 5,000 …

HTC Sensation XE Review

We’ve been sent a quite a few headphones over recent weeks. Some noise-cancelling ones, some fashionables ones, some really big over-ear ones. All of them try and solve a long-term problem with most smartphones, and that’s the sound quality coming out of the 3.5mm audio port. Ever since …

Where not to make a call

Remember the BBC Coverage survey? The stats were obtained after several thousand phones ran an app to check on signal strength. After all the results came in we got an interactive map to show what the coverage is like throughout the UK. But hey, wouldn’t it be good …

O2 Confirm Galaxy Nexus 17th Date

O2 have posted on their official G+ page that they WILL be stocking the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus and it will be on sale from the 17th November as we hoped. This is the first network to confirm the launch date, Three and Vodafone both have announced they …