Author: Coolsmartphone Staff
Earlier this week we told you about the release of the Natwest banking app for Windows Phone 8 and now their big brother RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland) have released an app too- great news! It’s a really good sign for Windows Phone owners to see big banks …
For Windows Phone 8 users the wait as finally over as Angry Birds Seasons arrives! Joining Angry Birds Space and Angry Birds Star Wars, Seasons offers more than 300 levels across a variety of special seasons including Halloween and Christmas. The style of the gameplay sticks close to …
Keyboard anoraks rejoice. SwiftKey has just been updated on the Google Play store and the big new feature is the addition of (Swypeesque) Flow gesture typing. Similar to the stock Jellybean keyboard, SwiftKey now lets you type out words simply by swiping over keys in fluid one gesture. …
This week is going to be a bit of a blinder in the world of technology. There’s a HTC event tomorrow..at which HTC have something special to announce. Sony are apparently unveiling something the following day (Playstation 4?), and Coolsmartphone are heading to Mobile World Congress. With that …
Not a day goes by without about another Apple related rumour – one of the latest being the idea of the iWatch. So we thought we’d round up all the new iPhone related rumours: Name – iPhone 5S or iPhone 6 seem to be the favourites on the rumour mill, …
The Pie Launcher is probably the most used app on my phone other than Swift Key Flow. It helps me quickly navigate to the things that I access a lot. It helps me save button presses. It makes my life so much better!! There is so much that …
So, my fiance got me to go to a concert tonight (which I will not name) that I absolutely hate. Thus, I figure I’ll write about one of my favorite live wallpapers to pass the time! The Ubuntu Live Wallpaper is definitely for every Ubuntu fan and, very …
Infinity Blade, the multi award winning iOS action RPG, is Apple’s App of the Week this week. That means you can pick it up for the grand total of zero pence. The first iOS game to use the Unreal Engine 3, Infinity Blade was widely used in Apple’s …
Google Now, the physic Android companion is getting extra functionality. That is, so long as you live in the U.S. There are movie details, including trailers, your tickets, and even when you need to leave for the cinema. There’s ‘real estate’ (property to you and me) information courtesy of Zillow where Google …
Oh Apple.. Quality control seems to be slipping at the Californian giant these days. After Vodafone warning users not to update to iOS 6.1 , we now have a potential security issue in iOS 6.1.1 Below is the video demonstrating the glitch, in Spanish, but it’s fairly easy to …
There’s a new iPhone in Brazil, but this one doesn’t use iTunes, FaceTime and have an AppStore… instead this iPhone runs Android software and we’re sure Apple aren’t too happy about it. So how did this Android iPhone come about? Well Brazilian company Gradiente Eletronica registered the name …
Hot on the heels of the One X update, Three have started rolling out the 4.1 Jellybean update for One S devices now. This brings the smoothness of Android’s Project Butter and Google Now to the One S, so if you’ve got one, go and get the …
The Vertu Ti has been revealed today and whilst the smartphone looks like the Ferrari of the mobile world, it’ll actually cost you the price of a small car to own it. To be exact, the Vertu Ti has a starting price of a whopping £6,700 and for …
Introduction OK so this device has been out for a while.. but with limited availability we’ve struggled to get hold of a review unit.. well now we have one! You all know about the ridiculously high resolution screen, but how does the rest of the device perform? What’s the overall experience like, …
It is pretty darn rare that you will see me post anything positive about the iPhone. BUT, this little bit of news is rather cool and it can help make that locked down, non-customizable, lack of features, iPhone of yours a little cooler and more functional. All you …
I don’t know about everyone out there, but I have not found a very easy way to sync my phone’s notifications to my desktop both easily and reliably…..until now. Android Desktop Notification is super easy and reliable. It doesn’t push things immediately, but I am sure that the …
Apps that make you go ‘ooh, that’s pretty’ are a rare breed on Android, but the newly released Carbon Twitter client is one of those apps. (Free here on Google Play) It has a dark theme, with bold, contrasting large fonts which are most definitely easy on the …
It hasn’t been available for long but Vine is already taking the app and Twitter worlds by storm. What is Vine you may ask? Simply put, Vine is an iOS app which allows you to record six second videos that are then uploaded to Twitter. It’s basically a cool …
It’s fair to say the Amazon have had some great success with the Kindle Fire tablets. The tablets sport some great specs (nothing ground breaking though) and a nice low price tag to match, making them great for family use and ideal for children. Today Amazon have announced …
Recently a group of Canadian devs got the inert 4G chip working on part of the 4G spectrum after using the Google Nexus 4 factory images. They were subsequently pulled from the Google Developers page, probably because of licensing concerns from the chip makers. Anyway they are now …
Windows Phone 8 has been mysteriously absent from Vodafone so far, but that’s set to change this Wednesday when they introduce 5 devices. From the 6th you will be able to get the Nokia 920, 820 and 620, as well as the HTC 8X and 8S. That’s a …
So the much hyped Carbon for Android finally makes it onto the Google Play store, if you are not familiar with it then Carbon is basically a twitter client that has a nice interface, thats it. I’m not going to go into a full fledged review of the …
Its been a while coming, but Three have just released the JellyBean update for the HTC One X. This will update your One X to Android 4.1.1 and Sense 4+, which means you’ll also be able to get the Playstation Store on your phone as well as all …
With MWC creeping closer every day, more and more leaks are appearing of gadgets that are expected to be announced at the event… the latest is the Asus Memo Pad 10. The bigger brother of the Asus Memo Pad 7, the Memo Pad 10 looks like it’ll have: …
It was a bit of a surprise when it was announced that the new Blackberry Z10 wouldn’t be available in the USA for another month, and that appears to have instantly created a bit of an “import opportunity”. I must admit when I saw Blackberry’s were going for …
IDC have released the figures for their Tablets sales tracker for the last 3 months of 2012, and nearly everyone is doing well. The figures show sales worldwide for all tablets, with 52,500,000 tablets sold in the last quarter of 2012 – a 75% increase in tablet sales …
Apple are well known for trademarking and patenting their items. They’ve already trademarked the leaf of the Apple logo and even registered a patent for the shape of the iPad, so it comes as no surprise to hear they’re adding another to the list… this time… THE SHOP! …
I’ve just got back from three sunny weeks abroad and in that time the biggest news that I seem to have missed is the BB10 launch. And I say big in the relative sense, as in nothing else really happened. From what I’ve seen online, BB10 actually looks quite …
My morning routine normally consists of switching on the personal mobile (Nexus 4), checking Facebook and Twitter. Then switch on the work phone (Nokia Lumia 800), check the work emails, and then get out of bed. This morning however was different, I was greeted by an update notification on the …
I originally posted about this app almost a few weeks ago. It amazed me then, but it did have its issues with random force closes and lack of features. Now, however, this app has really changed a lot. I encourage everyone to check it out. Basically, without re-writing …
These are some pretty sweet jeans, I am not going to lie. They are not up there in techy coolness like clothing that has solar panels to charge your devices or circuitry to boost your cell phone signal, BUT, these are probably much sexier, at least the manufacturer …
EE have rolled out their premium 4G service to 9 more towns. If you are in Amersham, Bolton, Chelmsford, Hemel Hempstead, Southend-on-Sea, Stockport, Sunderland, Sutton Coldfield or Wolverhampton, you should now be able to access to EE’s 4G network. Apparently this means 45% of the UK population now …
The Nexus 7 brought respect to cheap Android tablets – good spec, latest OS and very reasonable price. This has forced other manufacturers to up their game a bit – and a good thing that is. With that in mind, Ebuyer have Sumvision’s Cyclone range at some very …
One of the big shocks when Surface came out, was how much room Windows RT itself took up in the device’s internal storage. Although the base model came with 32GB, half that was used up for the OS, giving only 16GB usable storage. And even that decreases with …
I listen to a lot of tech based podcasts, and a participant in a recent podcast mentioned something so profoundly obvious that I hadn’t even considered it. While discussing the new wave of supersize smartphones coming along, further blurring the line between phone and tablet, he mentioned that …
Ok, I’m quite a Siri fan. Sure there are times when Google Now thrashes the pants off it, but it’s fairly capable for a lot of situations. I flip from Android to iOS quite a bit, and recently have found myself considering switching back to an Android device …
We’ll be bringing you another live episode of the Coolsmartphone podcast tonight at 7:30pm. So join Jamie Ryan, Mark Peters and James Pearce in this very post for all the discussion of this weeks news in mobile technology as well as potential innuendos, old ladies and much more. …
Regular listeners (and now viewers) of our podcast will know that I recently moved from a Galaxy Note 2 back to the iPhone 5. I won’t go into the reasons why here, as it’s worth a good article on it’s own. On the whole, I’m happy with that …
Nokia have announced their turn-by-turn navigation software, Drive+, is no longer a Lumia exclusive, and is available on all Windows 8 handsets in the US, UK, and Canada. It is specifically noted that the software is in Beta, so don’t expect perfection just yet (*cough* Apple maps *cough*). …
This is actually bigger news than you’d think. The new browser, Opera Ice, was showed to PocketLint. You see, Opera Ice has go a new Interface and a new Rendering Engine. New to Opera, anyway. It’s a WebKit browser. Opera has always been based on the Presto (or an …
