On Friday, Acer officially announced a new tablet. It is the Iconia A200. It will be their 2nd generation tablet which will ship with Ice Cream Sandwich (if you order it next year). The spec for this tablet seems to point to one thing. That is that Acer …

So here it is, the Nokia Lumia 800 – the “first real Windows Phone” phone made by Nokia. I’ve had virtually no experience with Windows Phone 7 before and was looking very much forward to the Lumia 800. Is WP7 able to impress me as much as Nokia …

It looks like we could be one step nearer to the whole Apple vs Samsung debacle moving to a close – though not in the foreseeable future… Reuters are reporting that “Apple failed to convince a U.S. judge to block Samsung Electronics from selling Galaxy smartphones and tablets in the U.S. market, depriving …

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus has barely been out for two weeks and it already has an overclocked kernel thanks to XDA members franciscofranco and coolbho3000. What makes this even more amazing is that neither of them own a Galaxy Nexus! This is the third iteration of his kernel and it’s stable and fast, …

You’re probably all getting bombarded with deals and offers from shops and retailers at the moment. Well, the guys at Currys and PC World have promised to buy me a brand new TV* if I pimp their Christmas Deals app. It’s basically an advent calendar, and each day …

O2 have announced on their official blog that the My O2 app is now available for Android handsets here in the UK. Available for both Monthly and PAYG customers this handy free app lets you check your use so you know if you are about to go over …

It’s not often that I write a rambling post… well, OK.. perhaps quite a few of you would disagree with that. The thing is, I’ve noticed something. This weekend we were shopping at the local Tesco. It’s the usual scene, you put a few items in the trolley …

For those that remember the good old days of the Commodore 64 and Spectrum, the Codemasters classic Dizzy – Prince Of The Yolkfolk is heading to iPhone and Android this December. I personally spent countless hours attempting to get Dizzy to jump from screen to screen and land …

Microsoft are still splashing out the marketing cash on the Windows Phone handsets. This time it’s not just the Nokia Lumia, although that is featured pretty heavily in the advert below. Microsoft want new and existing Windows Phone owners to try out their new rewards programme, which you …

Android software engineer Jean-Baptiste Queru posted on twitter this evening that the factory images for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus are now available for download. What this means is that if you flash a bad ROM onto your device or there’s an issue whilst flashing you can use this …

Well finally I am back with my video reviews. YouTube have been less than helpful with my upload problems but they have been fixed! I’ll kick things off with a video review of one of my favourite apps, ‘Shush’. It’s very simple, it just lets you put your …

Yes!! The Galaxy Nexus is now available from Vodafone UK. Available online here Free from £41 a month. At that price on a 24 month plan, along with the device for free, you get 1200 minutes, Unlimited Text and 750MB of Internet (after the first 3 months of …

Carrier IQ is software that is built into devices like Android, BlackBerries, Nokias and iPhones. It seems as though the “keylogger”/”rootkit” is installed by the Network supplying the device. The version built into Android logs everything that you do on your device. Even those pictures of yourself, in …

Ok, so there’s a lot of people that can’t wait for the Galaxy Nexus bug to be fixed so here’s a guide on how to flash the update manually… You will need: – A Samsung Galaxy Nexus – An Unlocked bootloader – A Rooted device To root follow …

One of our readers has just informed us the Gingerbread update is available for the Motorola Atrix, on the Orange network. Time to manually check for updates in settings 😉   Thanks to Andrew Farquhar for the tip.

Vodafone have started to sell the Nokia Lumia 800 in Cyan. We’ve just received information from the network via email. This now means you can pick up a Lumia in both Black or Cyan depending on which you like the look of more. The Lumia 800 is free …

“Yeah, send it over, we’ll take a look”. ..that’s usually my response when we’re offered a phone to review. This time it was the guys at Lekki on the phone. They get “vintage” mobile phones and video games, get them working, in tip-top condition and then give them …

It has been mentioned over the last couple of days that Samsung will be pushing out an update over the air to fix the strange volume bug that was present at release on the Galaxy Nexus. As always with OTA updates various people say they have had it …

The upcoming and slightly over hyped Asus Transformer Prime tablet netbook hybrid thingy, has had another release date mentioned. It’s apparently the 19th of December for the US not the 9th as previously mentioned. Still nothing official for the UK though, the last I heard was from Asus …

Welcome to the party O2. You’re a tad late, but if you’ve brought some champagne we’ll let you in. Yep, a number of weeks after the other networks added it, O2 have finally plonked the new Nokia Windows Phone on their site. We’ll have a thorough review of …