So, those of you who have read coolsmartphone.com for a while may remember a site called msmobiles.com. It’s been sold on now and redirects to another site. The guy behind msmobiles.com was Edward, and he’s sent us a report from the IFA Electronics Show. We weren’t going to …
Today we noticed some serious speed issues and drop-outs on the site. It is, as with a number of connectivity issues nowadays, due to a fibre-optic cable being cut. Usually fibre failures are due to thieves assuming that it’s copper cable and want it for the ever increasing …
Agile Partners have updated their truly excellent AmpKit guitar amp simulator for iOS. For this release Agile have 4 new partners – Budda®, Rocktron®, Fargen™ and Sonic Edge – with new amps and effects from all of them, as well as some other new additions. Overall sound quality & …
A couple of weeks back we had a look at some of the latest LG handsets. The first was this, the LG P990 – aka the LG Optimus 2X. It’s been known as the Optimus Speed or the Star and has a Dual-core 1GHz ARM Cortex A9 CPU. …
Apple have fired yet another shot at Samsung in their continuing patent battle. This time it’s resulted in Samsung removing their new Galaxy Tab 7.7 from the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin. The BBC states .. The two companies have been fighting legal battles in the US, …
It looks like the Xperia Ray will be heading to Orange in the not-too-distant future. The handset has just appeared on the help and support pages and, whilst this page alone isn’t concrete proof that the network is taking the phone, “Rich” has mailed in to say that …
Three have just launched their new MiFi device here in the UK with the biggest upgrade being access to the new high speed HSPA+ network which supports speeds of up to 21mb/s and gives you 40% faster speeds than the older device. It also comes with a nice …
The HTC Radar got the hands-on treatment last week when we attending the big HTC reveal. It’s a Windows Phone device with a 5 megapixel camera, 1GHz CPU and 8GB of storage built in. The full specs are here, plus HTC have now added these YouTube videos…
Last week the Coolsmartphone team was camped out in London, bring you all the latest news on the latest Windows Phone handsets from HTC. The HTC Titan got the full hands-on treatment and you can get specs here, plus we’ve now got a raft of videos direct from …
I realised that I didn’t have much in the way of entertainment installed on my iPhone 4 that didn’t depend on the internet – of course I only noticed this when I didn’t have internet, when does that ever happen?! I’d long since exhausted all the Angry Birds …
There’s no doubt that the iPhone has made my life easier when it comes to travelling – from booking accommodation, to finding places to go and viewing a map of how to get there. Aiming to become the latest addition to my arsenal of travel-assisting apps is Lingvo …
OK, this one is for you busy people. The idea behind ParcelGenie is sending a gift to any recipient in your phone via the ParcelGenie app (there are other ways too, including Facebook). You don’t need to know the recipient’s postal address, just their phone number or email …
This interesting looking device is the Sony Tablet P. You can connect to the web via WiFi or 3G and there’s two 1024×480 5.5″ Ultra-wide VGA screeens. Other specs include a microSD card slot, Bluetooth 2.1, two cameras (5 megapixel around the back with HD video recording and …
Pre-orders for the new Sony Tablet devices are underway. Coolsmartphone reader, Anthony, has just shelled out £499.99 but doesn’t have a delivery date just yet. Rumour has it that it could take a month for devices to arrive. Three devices are available – the Sony Tablet S 16GB …
You’ve waited, you’ve seen the teasers, now it’s finally here – the Andy Pad is live. Two models are now available, the 8GB Andy Pad for £129 and the 16GB Andy Pad Pro for £179. If you order now, deliveries will start on September 12th. Both devices come …
A new survey by ONS has revealed that almost half of internet users in the UK now browse on their mobiles. Amongst the 16 to 24-year-old age-group the stats were even higher, with 71% going online through their mobile. The survey showed that 45% of people used the …
Well I’m told this is ‘#1 Ice-Smashing Game’. Apparently. All those other Ice-Smashing games are nowhere near as good as this one, the Number 1, the daddy of all Ice-Smashing Games. Righhhhhhhhht… I’ve got to tell you, I wasn’t expecting much. For every A+ big budget mobile game …
Samsung have also just announced their new Galaxy Tab 7.7. It builds on the already successful Galaxy Tab range and adds the same processor as the Galaxy Note – a thoroughly rapid 1.4GHz Dual Core CPU. The screen os a Super AMOLED PLus 7.7″ unit (hence the name) …
Yesterday HTC launched the HTC Titan. It’s got a 4.7″ 480×800 pixel screen, but heck – Samsung have already gone one better with this, the Galaxy Note. Packing an amazing 5.3″ WXGA (1280×800) HD Super AMOLED screen it’s somewhere between a phone and a tablet. The specs reveal …
We’re here at the big summer HTC event in London at the moment. We’ve already had lots of hands-on time with the Titan and Radar handsets but, just to give you a feel of the event itself, here’s a collection of shots from the event itself 🙂
