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 …

LG Nitro HD coming to AT&T’s new LTE network, pretty soon.

Here is the first official photo of the LG Nitro HD, although it’s not really that exciting because it is just the US version of the LG Optimus LTE with a fancy name which is heading over to AT&T sometime soon. As its name suggest, the Nitro HD …

Orange San Francisco II briefly appears on the Orange support pages.

Yesterday various sites reported that the Orange help and support site had details for an upcoming handset, Orange have since removed the page. This handset was the San Francisco II. The rush of excitement around the handset was because the original San Francisco (ZTE Blade) was one of …

Galaxy Note headed to O2

Well, although the link doesn’t work just yet, O2 has added the new Samsung Galaxy Note to their “Coming Soon” pages. We’ve already had a good hands-on with the phone and will have a video online this weekend. Link – O2 Coming Soon

TOKEN2SHELL Remote Shell for Windows Phone

I’m not a heavy shell user but I’ve just loaded up the 24 hour trial of Token2Shell on my HD7 and connected it via SSH to a mac and TELNET to my Windows 7 PC with no problems. It has some nice features such as the semi-transparent on-screen …

HTC Radar Review

With a new version of Windows Phone now available in Mango (7.5), we are starting to see a new range of devices coming onto the market with lots of new features and the HTC Radar is one of them.  We were lucky enough to be at the launch …

ZTE Racer II Arrives in Ireland

The ZTE Racer II is an entry-level smartphone following hot on the heels of the ZTE Blade and Skate. It runs Android 2.2 FroYo running on a 500MHz CPU. It has a 3.2 megapixel camera, 256MB RAM, 512ROM and 200MB of internal memory. ZTE say that despite the …

Apple Fixes Your Battery Woes

Yes folks you read it right, the update for those with battery issues has arrived. Head into the software update menu on your handset to get it now or plug your device into iTunes and update the old fashion way. Image from Mashable

NFC and Smartphones

We have been sent a video of NFC technology at work. It has been made by Gemalto who are one of the NFC / Sim card / Software / Services companies are. I guess this will be used as fancy marketing material to showcase their products. It makes …

Samsung Galaxy Note – Photo session

We’ve managed to borrow the brand-new Samsung Galaxy Note from the guys at ur-mobile.com fairly recently. Powered by a dual-core 1.4GHz CPU the Galaxy Note has a 5.3″ WXGA screen. Yes, 5.3″ … but wait, it’s not just a big screen, it’s got a 1280×800 pixel resolution.. and …