Author: Coolsmartphone Staff
Waze is a new take on the traditional sat nav apps we’re all familiar with. There are two major differences; one, the maps are not stored on the device (although recently visited areas are cached on the device I believe) and two, the incidents on …
RIM are offering some free apps to all Blackberry users affected by last week’s service problems. Ill timed to say the least as the iPhone 4S was due for release not long after so RIM are trying to hold on to the disgruntled by giving away some premium …
Literally in the door, on the table and under the knife … here’s an unboxing… … and after the break we take a look at this … and then a gander at Siri….
So I’ve had my wife’s iPhone 4S at my disposal this evening and found some lovely little gems 🙂 Ask Siri any of the following, and I’d love to hear your inputs too… – Tell me a joke (ask it many times – there a loads of responses) …
Ok, so the iPhone 4S has been out since Friday and much has been covered on lots of different sites about Siri, the various speed improvements etc.. However, whilst all these things are great, the thing I use most on my phone is the camera. I wanted to …
Those lovely people at box.net are giving away 50GB of cloud storage for iOS users for 50 days. More details here
Despite what I’m sure a lot of people feel is a disappointing release of the iPhone 4S, it is still proving hugely popular: Apple really do seem to be holding on to the winning formula. All US carriers have already sold out of the pre-order allocation and what …
After frankly an eternity, Facebook have finally updated their official app to have an iPad mode. The new iPad functionality includes better photos, chat functions and the ability to play Facebook games on the iPad as well. It’s available now in the App store. Link – Facebook …
Want to pre-order an iPhone 4S? Want to compare the deals? To help you, we have done a quick comparison of the 3 new devices (storage wise) and compared the popular 24 month, £35 a month price bracket, across the networks. Plan Details O2 Orange T-Mobile Three Vodafone …
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. …
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 …
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 …
So what does this little nugget of information mean do you think? Yup – that’s what we thought too! It’s an iPhone 4S people, faster, better and nearly ready to hold in our grubby little mits! But will any of us iPhone 4 users actually bother upgrading? Or are we …
Sony Ericsson CEO Bert Nordberg has come out publicly on why we haven’t yet seen a SonyEricsson Windows Phone that they had talked about, and it doesn’t look like we will see one any time soon. In a rather damning interview with the Wall Street Journal, Nordberg stated …
We’ve been speculating on the site for some time around what the next iPhone announcement would REALLY be about, will it be the mythical re-vamped 5 or a guts change on the 4 (much like the Gen3 underwent). While we’ve maintained the iPhone 5 is still a long …
Amazon have today finally unveiled their long awaited Android tablet, and newest addition to their Kindle family, the Kindle Fire. The device itself is a 7″ dual core tablet with an IPS display running Amazon’s heavily reworked version of Android 2.3. However the standout feature is the price: …
According to this BBC post, Apple have been voted the coolest Tech brand in the UK. Aston Martin were number over all, with Apple taking second place. Let’s hope Apple can continue that trend after next week’s announcements, they have a lot to deliver! Source – BBC News
Three have just announced that from 7th October, their fabulous “All-you-can-eat” data policy will be available on ALL plans! At a time when most networks are tightening up and reducing data allowances, Three’s One Plan stood out with its truly unlimited data. From 7th October Three will be …
So the folk at 9to5 Mac appear to have the full features list of the next iPhone release. (Note I said next iPhone release and not iPhone 5!) Fast A5 processor, 1GB RAM, and a unique new feature called Assistant (not backwardly compatible with iPhone 4 or 3GS)… …
Well that’s the rumour of the day anyway – this will be most likely the opportunity for Tim Cook to make his debut launching the latest Apple news since he took the reins from Steve Jobs. The iPhone 5 / 4S is sure to be announced and I’m …
Some footage has surfaced of a new Motorola tablet that looks a lot more svelte than the current 10″ Xoom tablet: We’ve obtained exclusive footage this morning of a new Motorola tablet (shown above) that looks to be a lot sleeker and thinner than the 10-inch Xoom that launched earlier this …
I should start this review by saying I’m not a big fan of Bluetooth speakers. They usually sound awful and it’s usually more practical to carry round something larger rather than sacrifice sound quality. I was pleasently surprised with this one though. The sonic performance of this green little fella is not …
The CEO of France Telecom (Orange/T-Mobile’s parent company) has been a little too loose talking again, and claims the iPhone 5 release date will be 15th October. That rings true with lots of other rumours calling a mid-October release date, but 15th October is a Saturday, which would …
Well according to the (acting) president of HTC America that is. On the iPhone 5 hype: “Apple is innovating. Samsung is innovating. We are innovating. Everybody is innovating. And everybody is doing different things for the end consumers. I brought my daughter back to college — she’s down …
I’ve been looking for a case for my iPad to replace the standard Apple one for best part of a year now. I wanted something that would let me carry more than just my iPad so I didn’t have to juggle phones and wallets whilst showing off my …
HTC phones now account for 50.9% of UK Android phones – more than double their nearest rival Samsung (on a lowly 21.6%). That’s quite staggering for a company who used to only make rebranded products for other people – indeed their first Android phone was for T-Mobile. However, …
Although Google launched a native Android app alongside Music Beta, iOS users have so far been left out in the cold. However Google have now released a new mobile web app, allowing easy access to your cloud library through a browser.
The idea behind this app, as the name suggests is to provide images of various retro films/toys/songs etc and includes a link to the relevant Wikipedia website for that particular subject. The app has the ability to set favourites and you can also share items by email, Facebook, …
There are many business card apps out there. Some are tied to larger applications, some integrate to other products, but few accurately OCR your contacts business cards. CoolSmartPhone would like to present to you ABBYY Business Card Reader (BCR) for the iPhone . BCR allows users to capture contact …
Everything Everywhere, the company formed by the “merger” of Orange and T-Mobile has a new executive Olaf Swantee, and on his second day in the job he has reduced the senior management team from 25 to 10 people. What stands out though, is that all the former T-Mobile …
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 & …
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 …
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 …
I’m imagining here that most, if not all, folks who own an iPhone 4 use it as a direct replacement for their MP3 player. Convergence is fantastic when it prevents you having to carry additional devices and the single device works as well as your previous music player. …
So you’re about to launch you next generation device set to rock the world, what do you do? That’s right – you go down a Shrimp & Tequila bar in San Francisco …. and leave the device there… deja vu ?? Details from cnet.com state.. It was taken from a Mexican …
Sony are doing their spot at IFA and have announced the Arc S as a follow up to the Arc. The updated phone will feature a 1.4ghz processor and the new enhanced software coming to 2011 Xperias, including 3D panorama mode on the 8.1mp camera. Another new addition …
Sony Ericsson have announced a suite of upgrades to the software on their 2011 Xperia phones, along with a new model to showcase the new features. The new software brings: Android 2.3.4 Google Talk with video calling (for phones with front camera) 3d sweep panorama photography mode Swipe …
The patent battle between Apple and Samsung has got ugly again, with Apple today winning a Europe wide ban on the sale of Samsung’s extremely popular SII, S and Ace handsets. This ban isn’t immediate, giving Samsung 7 weeks to get a defence together and counter, but its not good …
