Author: Leigh Geary
The Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY is now available to buy on the T-Mobile UK website. It now sits alongside the Sony Ericsson Xperia arc which we reviewed recently and the Samsung Galaxy Ace we reviewed a week or two ago. T-Mobile also have the Motorola Atrix and LG …
I can’t promise that this will be the most insightful or researched item ever, but it’s still worth a looksie. Here’s me, an avid Android user, using the all-new iPad 2 in anger for the first time.. Link – Orange Shop
We’ve managed to secure a special deal on the very latest Samsung handsets. UR Mobile are selling a wide range of Samsung handsets including the Galaxy Tab, Galaxy S, Galaxy Fit, Galaxy Ace and the all-new Galaxy SII. If you buy from the site be sure to enter …
Vodafone have started selling the Xperia PLAY today too. The handset is available for free on plans costing £35 or more. It comes with 6 pre-loaded games – Crash Bandicoot, Fifa 10, Star Battalion, Tetris, Sims 3 andBruce Lee. We’ve already had a hands-on and there’s a great …
The Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY is now available for on Three with plans over £40 per month. You pay a £49 up-front cost to get the phone but after that there’s all-you-can-eat data courtesy of The One Plan, 5000 texts, 500 Three-to-Three minutes and 2,000 other minutes. We …
We’ve just had word that the HTC Sensation will be arriving on T-Mobile too. Yesterday we received confirmation that the device would be arriving on Orange. Three will also be carrying it after the short Vodafone exclusivity deal ends. The handset features a dual-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon CPU, 1GB …
The Sony Ericsson Xperia arc has a lot going for it. A curvy yet painfully thin design, with an 8.1 megapixel camera, HDMI output, a massive 4.2″ screen and HD video recording with constant focus. It has the Sony Bravia display engine for a crystal-clear display and something …
You may know Conor by now, he’s the PR guy from Orange. We’ve emailed him to ask whether the HTC Sensation will be available on their network. Turns on it will and you’ve only got to wait until June. If you haven’t done so already, have a look …
Microsoft have just announced Mango – the next version of Windows Phone. It’ll be arriving on new and existing handsets “later this year” and developers will soon have new Windows Phone Developer Tools to play with. The new version will include access to sensors, with application multitasking for …
One for your lunch-time viewing today – Rory Cellen-Jones has just added a video on the BBC website comparing the iPad, Motorola Xoom and Blackberry PlayBook. In the video Mike Lazaridis, from RIM, shows some of the features of their new tablet and how it stacks up against …
Remember when we first saw the Motorola Xoom priced up for £449.99? Remember how it then shot up to £499 ? Well, now it’s down to £479.99 on the PCWorld website. If you’ve got stacks of cash washing around your bank account, give it some consideration. Link – …
Flip, makers of the popular Mino camcorder, is to be axed by most recent owners, Cisco. What was the cause of Flip’s demise? The integration of high-quality video capture into smartphones. Unfortunately, it looks like more companies like Flip will see their demise, as our smartphones start to …
Wanna see a little more of the HTC Sensation ? Well, grab yourself a coffee and soak up a bit of a video feast. HTC have added a number of videos showing you around the handset, plus there’s some extra ones via Mobile Bulgaria showing you around the …
Opps. Well, it looks like those earlier rumours could be coming true today. Qualcomm Germany have just posted this tweet which details the dual-core 1.2GHz chip inside the all-new HTC Sensation which is expected to be revealed today in London. We’ll have live coverage of the event as …
The long awaited Samsung Galaxy S2 has been given an official release date of the 1st of may. The successor to the multi million selling Galaxy S (Obviously!) it set to potentially raise the performance standard even higher with it’s 1.2Ghz dual core Cpu . Chances are this will be …
Think you’re on the right contract ? Most people do, but according to research from Billmonitor three-quarters of customers are chucking £200 per year down the drain. Nearly all the networks were examined with 28,000 bills getting diagnosed as part of the study. Most were wasting money on …
Now then, this was never meant to be an idea for a blog post, but an innocent question on twitter prompted an excellent response, sufficient for me to put the findings on here. Clearly this is a very scientific study carried out with painstaking effort and to the finest detail….. …
I really like Windows Phone 7’s Metro UI, which essentially puts your application shortcuts on a series of tiles on the homescreen. Android developers being, well, Android developers have created a few different launchers for Android that mimic Microsoft’s sexy Metro UI. I’ve tried a few, but Launcher …
Now, I may get flamed for this, but I wanted to put my thoughts down on the current state of the market where tablets are concerned. So, we started off just over a year ago with the iPad, it was ‘amazing’ and ‘magical’ and it has gone on to …
Battery life has always been a concern with a lot of Android phones. In extreme cases, devices like the US-only HTC Evo 4G would only manage four hours with heavy use. The Desire HD is also another device that has battery life issues; it’s clear to see that …
There are a huge amount of Twitter applications over in the Android Market, so choosing the right one can be pretty confusing. While there are some good apps, many of them are, quite frankly, pretty terrible. When I used to own an HTC Hero, I was using Twidroid, …
Cold-callers get on my pip. We’ve all had them. You sign up for something, fill in a form or add your mobile number to an email only to receive dozens of “Withheld numbers”. It’s annoying. Luckily there’s an app called Mr Number which blocks unwanted calls and texts. …
How successful is Windows Phnoe 7 ? Well, a lot has been said about app numbers and handsets sold, but until now we’ve only seen the amount of phones sold to suppliers and networks – not to actual customers on the street. This Windows Phone Developer blog post …
Google Maps has reeived another update. Version 5.0.3 introduces History for Latitude. Until now Latitude has helped you see where your friends and family are located but now you can see just how long you spend in certain areas. Other extras include the ability to add your own …
With an unofficial method of updating now on the t’interweb Microsoft have added their thoughts to the current Windows Phone 7 update progress. Microsoft’s General Manager of Customer Experience Engineering, Eric Hautala, has stated that.. We’re working hard to get this job done as quickly as possible. But …
A big HTC launch always brings rumours and many have already mentioned the Pyramid device – a handset we hoped would appear at Mobile World Congress. Here in the UK it seems that the phone will be called the “HTC Sensation”. Screenshots on XDA-developers show a 1.2 GHz …
A rather unofficial way of updating your Windows Phone 7 device has appeared online. It seems to be relatively easy to do – you just run a file called “ChevronWP7.Updater.exe” and follow the prompts. Although it may sound ideal for those owners tired of waiting for the infamous …
We’ve just added another server to our cluster for extra speed and reliability. You should hopefully see an improvement in page loading, especially on the main page. For the tech-heads our main server is an Intel Core i7-920 Quadcore with Hyper-threading and 12GB of DDR3 RAM. Content Delivery …
We’ll be up-front about this from the start. The HTC Desire S has a lot of the same characteristics and specs as the original HTC Desire. We almost felt a little let-down when it first appeared in Barcelona, especially up-against dual-core 1GHz phones. Somehow I felt insulted that …
Three have just stuck the HTC Desire S on their shelves. It’s available from £359.99 for PAYG customer and you can then add a £15 “All in One 15” top-up for 30-days of all-you-can-eat data. For contract customers you can buy the phone for £30 per month. We’ll …
The picture says it all really. The Motorola Atrix, a phone we snapped and filmed at Mobile World Congress, is now sitting proudly on the Orange shop and will be arriving in shops soon. It has a 4″ capacative touchscreen with Corning Gorilla glass and a 960×540 qHD …
eBuyer have just listed this, the Asus Transformer tablet. Available with (£429.99) or without (£379.98) a slot-in keyboard it’s a 10.1 ” WSVGA tablet with toughened glass and a 1280×800 multi-touch capacitive touch screen. Running the very latest tablet-friendly Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) it has an NVIDIA Tegra 2 …
Those lovely people at Three have stated that the updated Android 2.3 software (Gingerbread) will be available soon enough. It’s coming in for testing today and.. “End of April early May is the plan.” Other sites have gone on to state that this will cover the entire Desire …
Remember how Huawei were planning on covering the London Underground with a mobile signal? Well, it’s not gonna happen. It turns out that Everything Everywhere, Three, O2 and Vodafone were all involved, with Huawei ready to add £50 million of equipment. It seems that an agreement couldn’t be …
We loved the addition of the VGA camera at the front of the Desire S and wanted to give it a spin. We went into the dialer and tried to find the button marked “video call” but it’s just not there. It seems that the HTC Desire S …
Well, this isn’t strictly smartphone news, but some of them are related to phones, plus it’s Friday and we all need a chuckle. Enjoy. Please add links in the comments and I’ll add them to the feature. (If I’m feeling generous!) It started off for me when I …
OK, so we’ve compared the camera quality between the Sony Ericsson Xperia arc and the HTC Desire S, but what about video ? We went out with both phones and cranked up the resolution to 720p HD. The Sony Ericsson Xperia arc records MP4 videos as default and …
Another phone to become available on Three today is the Samsung Galaxy Mini. It’s powered by Android 2.2.1 and has a 3.14 capacitive screen. It also has a 3 megapixel camera, GPS, WiFi an portable WiFi hotspot capability. You can get this for £15 a month on a …
Sony Ericsson have announced that their new Xperia PLAY handset will have more than 60 games available in the first week. Need for Speed, The Sims and Assassins Creed will be available, as will Worms, Guns ‘n Glory, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell and many more. Owners will also …
The Sony Ericsson Xperia arc is now available on Three. It’ll be free on contracts over £35 a month and you can enjoy All-You-Can-Eat Data (and it really, really is because we tested it) on The One Plan for £40 a month with 2000 anytime, any network minutes …
