Google Books now available in the UK

Checked Android Market recently ? If you’re lucky the latest update should have arrived and books can now be purchased. Here in the UK this has taken a while to arrive, but the eBooks system is easy enough to use. Just hop in the Android Market, choose your …

Films on YouTube goes live

Want full-length movies on your Android tablet? Yeah sure, you can find various illegal ways of doing it, but if you just want to pick up your tablet or phone and start watching a film it can be a bit cumbersome. Now you can use YouTube Movies. Oh …

Everything Everywhere iPhone 4S pricing

Everything Everywhere networks Orange and T-Mobile have made the iPhone 4S available to pre-order and revealed their pricing. As you might expect, they’re very similar between the 2 companies, with the popular £36 slot giving 600 minutes, unlimited texts and 500mb internet, with a £99 up front cost. …

Nexus Prime launch moved back

For reasons that are as yet unknown, Samsung and Google have delayed the launch of their Nexus Prime. The wording of the announcement is as follows.. Samsung and Google decide to postpone the new product announcement at CTIA Fall. We agree that it is just not the right …

iPhone 4S pricing on Three revealed

  The iPhone 4S is now available to pre-order from 3 in their retail stores, and they have released their pricing for the new handset. Full details can be found on Three’s website, but the stand out deal is still the One Plan, with All-you-can-eat data, as well …

iPhone 4S Available to pre-order on Vodafone

The new iPhone 4S is now up for pre-order on Vodafone. The 16GB version is available for free on £46 per month (!) plans or you can get it on a £26 per month plan if you’re prepared to shell out £359 up-front. If you’re wanting the 64GB …

Nexus Prime gets sneaky video demo

Someone has now managed to get their hands onto a Nexus Prime. The video, from mobilissimo.ro (translated) shows the Prime running Android 4.0 – Ice Cream Sandwich. There’s screenshots from the OS too and, despite the video being removed, it’s now found a way back onto YouTube.. Link …

4G Goes live in the UK.. on trial

Just 5 months ago Cornwall was chosen as the UK’s first county to get 4G. Everything Everywhere have now flicked the switch and are delivering 4G LTE technology to 200 people on the trial. It’s the first mobile (Everything Everywhere) and fixed line (BT Wholesale) broadband network collaboration. …

Win tickets to the London International Technology Show

Not entered our Skinflips competition yet ? Come on, there’s 25% off for everyone that enters and some great prizes up for grabs. We’ve got something else to give away today – two tickets to the London International Technology Show. Everything kicks off on October 21st and HiDrive …

Apple store updating, 4S pre-orders starting

Are you planning on getting one? I’m going to be agonising over it later today – on the one hand, my wife needs a phone and she’d be happy with my iPhone4.. on the other, does buying the released-out-of-Apple’s-usual-annual-schedule 4S update mean the iPhone5 will be launched next June?? In …

HTC Beats Event Live Broadcast

Lady Gaga, Cheryl Cole, Will.i.am and more are at the Roundhouse in London as part of the Beats Audio and HTC Sensation XL Launch. Yes, we said Lady Gaga. 🙂 Join in with the LIVE broadcast below.. Link – Join in at Livebeats.co.uk

HTC Sensation XL Announced

HTC have just announced a new smartphone to the world, the HTC Sensation XL and the XL plays a REALLY big part (no pun intended) in the difference over the original HTC Sensation Consider this the twin brother of the HTC TItan which we saw only recently running …

Helicopter. Smartphone. Video camera. Want.

I have no reason to, but for some reason I suddenly want one of these. Put simply it’s a helicopter that you control .. with your phone. The Parrot AR Drone is quite expensive (£259.99) but, when combined with the iPhone or Android app you get to use …

Samsung to try and block iPhone 4S sales

The war between Samsung and Apple continues. Reuters reports that it will file patent-infringement claims to try and ban the sale of the new iPhone 4S before it even hits the shops. Samsung said preliminary injunction requests for a ban on iPhone 4S sales will be filed on …

Steve Jobs dies

We’re waking up this morning to the sad news that former Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs has died. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003 but continued to be a huge driving force in the mobile industry until very recently. His infamous “One more thing…” announcements were …

Curvy Nexus Prime teased

Following the new(ish) iPhone it’s now the turn of Samsung to launch a handset. They’ve added a sneak peek at their new Nexus Prime handset in the video below… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM9RO-GAKjE There’s very little to see so far unless you’re trigger-happy with the pause button, although it’s clear that …

No thanks, I’m sticking with my Galaxy S II

Hello. My name is Leigh. I started this whole thing back in 2002. Back then it was all about the Microsoft Smartphone but over the years there’s been a colossal change in the mobile landscape. Today Apple announced the iPhone 4S. Despite what people say, it’ll be yet …

New iPhone launch – how was it for you?

So, the wait is over and Apple have finally announced their latest object of desire. Months of increasingly fevered speculation had us gadget freaks desperate for news of the iPhone 5/4S/4G or whatever it would be called. Rumours about a new shape, aluminium body, bigger screen… all were …

Dre Dre Beats Solo HD review

So O2 are going to be stocking the Beats Solo HD headphones very soon (along with rest of their range) and, as I have been using these headphones for the past 4 months now I thought I would share some opinions of the headphones themselves. The headphones were …

iPhone 4S announced, pre-orders from 7th October

So this is probably on the underwhelming side of the rumour and speculation about the new iPhone. Here’s what it’s got: A5 processor (7x faster than iPhone 4) iOS5 (available for iPhone 4 from 12th October) Infinity Blade II (iOS exclusive, RPG with great graphics for iPhone) Better …