After the apparent lethargy shown by Adobe to support Android 4.0 (Ice-Cream Sandwich) with Flash, it appears that their about turn will be Flash’s swan song on the Google OS. Sources over at Pocketlint have posted that Adobe has confirmed, that whilst it plans to release Flash for …
OK, ignore the pithy title a second and let’s be serious. What is next? Where do we go from here? Let’s look at the background. Apple and Google have created and sustained the smart phone market respectively, since it’s coming-of-age era around a 5 years ago. We can …
We’re in the middle of writing up our Samsung Galaxy Note review. It sells for around £549.95 unlocked and has a large (but hi-res) 5.3″ 1280×800 WXGA HD Super AMOLED screen. It also comes with a stylus, or an “S Pen” as Samsung calls it. Whilst this might …
Alongside the release of their new music store last week, Google also took the opportunity to take their Google Music service out of beta. I previously wrote a hands on about the service, which lets you upload up to 20,000 tracks to stream and download to your Android …
We spotted it as “Coming Soon” a few days back and now it’s arrived… for new customers. The Galaxy Note is a rather large and rather sexy phone which has a dual-core 1.4GHz CPU and 5.3″ screen. Orange look to be giving away some goodies as part of …
The new The Motorola Defy+ has just got tougher. Now there’s a limited edition of the Defy+ – the JCB. It’ll sell for £268.80 SIM free and is pretty much the same apart from a JCB case. They’ve also chucked a JCB app on the device too, which …
So it’s now official, Samsung have announced that there will be an update for the Galaxy S to Android 2.3.5 via Kies, so if you live in the UK you’re lucky. It’s apparently rolling out right now, so if you’ve got the original Galaxy S, give it a …
Last week the Samsung Galaxy Nexus was released. Phones 4u and various networks all made a lot of fuss about having them in stock and then when it came to it, they seemed to not have that many phones to sell. Phones 4u also increased the price of …
I’m meeting a lot of people at the moment who are planning to upgrade to the rather excellent Galaxy SII. I always agree with them because, in all honesty, it’s an absolutely fantastic device. Just to confirm that, the Galaxy SII has won another award. This time it’s …
Whilst surfing around the T-Mobile Coming Soon section we stumbled on this, the T-Mobile Vivacity. It appears to be a ZTE-built device and has a 3.5″ screen running on Android 2.3 with a 5 megapixel camera plus a further one up front for video calls. Other specs, which …
There has been quite a lot of activity from the Sony Ericsson design team this year and the latest device to be brought forth from their creative minds is the Xperia Ray. This phone is not your usual fair from SE in that it does not fall into …
The all new Android 4.0. Bells. Whistles. Face unlock, a better UI, resizable widgets and more swipe interactions. The Galaxy S2 has now been blessed with the new OS, albeit via a bit of hacking and tweaking of code. Mr Headless Dude shows the S2 in the video …
Sony Ericsson have made an app and a web service that makes displaying pictures on a big screen really easy. There are of course a few things you need to do to get it to work. First of all you need to install THIS app from the Android Marketplace. …
On a whim yesterday I ordered the Samsung Galaxy Nexus from Phones4u and it arrived first thing this morning much to my surprise! I’ve been using iPhones since the 3G came out so this is a major change for me and I have to admit I’m a little …
The Nokia N9 is a weird beast. It runs the MeeGo Harmattan OS and has been released after a so-called elopocalypse when Nokia’s new CEO Stephen Elop controversially turned towards the Windows Phone platform, ditching both homegrown smartphone platforms – Symbian and Maemo/MeeGo – into gloom. The decision …
OK, status update. The Nokia Lumia (which you may have seen advertised if you’ve been near a paper, TV, magazine or … anywhere ourside) appeared in shops on Wednesday. It’s available on the following networks here in the UK.. – Orange – Three – Vodafone The guys at …
This cradle device synchronises and charges the HTC Sensation / Sensation XE. Plonk the phone in and it’ll angle your phone at the right angle for watching videos, checking the weather or using the phone as a bedside alarm-clock. Drop the phone in while the special video button …
We took a big liking to the HTC Quattro a few days back and here, in the rendered-flesh, is the tablet itself. It’s rumoured to have a 10.1″ 1280×768 pixel screen, WiFi and for some reason a mere 2 megapixel rear camera. A further 1.3 megapixel shooter sits …
Red Bull TV is one of those apps that I am amazed does not appear on many other platforms (only WP7, iPhone and Ovi). It is a great way of watching videos from a variety of adrenalin fuelled sports. The marketplace says that it “brings a world of …
We’ve had some rather freaky bugs running around the commenting system of late. It’s meant that some of you, using certain browsers, have had problems adding your comments. First up, our apologies. Much of Coolsmartphone is controlled in-house and we can fix local stuff quickly, but there’s a …
