Author: James Pearce
Apple have done something different this year, they’ve bucked the trend, they’ve gone and released two new iPhones. The slightly cheaper iPhone 5C and the premium iPhone 5S. We’ve got the iPhone 5C for the next week or so and to start things off here are our initial …
Since Google decided that they were going to kill off useful services like Reader I’ve been relying upon two services, one of which is Feedly and the other is Nextgen Reader for Windows Phone. Nextgen Reader is an RSS aggregator that syncs with your Feedly account, which allows me …
Ever since I’ve had a mobile phone I’ve always wanted to play about with the file structure, even if it’s for something as menial as deleting some music from off a SD card. File manager apps are an essential part of life, if you’re on Android especially. As …
Can you bear to play Angry Birds ever again? If yes your next few days are going to be rather busy. Yesterday Rovio released the next installment in the Angry Birds saga. As per the norm with Rovio the gone all puntastic with their explanation of the game, …
Firefox Browser for Android has a tough fight on its hands. What with Google Chrome shipping on most Android devices these days. But for some people who find Chrome a bit slow or a bit bloated there are lots of alternatives, Firefox being one of them. The handy …
In the past hailing a cab was just a matter of putting your arm out, screaming “taxi”, joining a queue of people at a taxi rank or heaven forbid ringing a taxi company up. Nowadays you’re meant to use an app, like most things these days “there’s an …
The current generation of Acer devices are pretty impressive, at the top of the pile is the “S” range, which is the flagship device range. The Liquid S1 phablet is a great big thing with a 5.7″ screen and specs similar to the Galaxy Note II. I’ve had …
Samsung now and again create some impressive devices and they also create some odd marketing material. Like that tap dancing thing… Well this time it’s a short film showing how a girl saved her grandfathe business with the help of a Galaxy Note 3 and a Galaxy Gear. …
Today is the day that you can order the colourful iPhone 5C. Your choices for pre ordering are as follows Apple Direct As expected Apple are offering both models of the iPhone 5C unlocked and in a choice of colours. More information can be found here. Vodafone On …
Camera360 is becoming quite a handy app for Windows Phone 8, it has a wide range of filters built into a separate camera app, it has a photo diary and now it has a pretty cool double exposure mode. So as shown above with a little skill you …
It’s one of those weeks, you know the sort of week, the period of time after an Apple event. Yes this week we will be talking about the two new iPhones. Joining me this week were Mark Peters, Ronnie Whelan and a brief appearance from Ravi. This week’s topics …
I love it when I can set a program to download stuff without any interaction on my behalf, like my Sky+ box and series link. Now I can add my favourite podcasts to that list. Todays update adds the ability to auto download your chosen podcasts latest episode …
The Acer Liquid Z3 could be called the “Liquid E2 Duo Mini” but not every manufacturer has to follow the Samsung rules. The Acer Liquid Z3 is a budget sub £100 dual core device and I’ve got one for the next few weeks. So to start off proceedings here …
OrangePixel make some rather splendid games, mostly retro style 8bit platform games or shoot em ups. Heroes of Loot is reminiscent of Gauntlet, that amazing dungeon game from the eighties. Here is the trailer for the new game. Description A dungeon full of skulls, imps, cyclops, minotaurs, flameheads, …
Two key elements of the iPhone 5S announcement last night was the improved camera and the fingerprint scanning home button called Touch ID. Apple have posted two videos on their YouTube channel showing both off. First up the camera video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK0_OVn_uxA Next Touch ID http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJkmc8-eyvE
Last night Apple introduced two new devices, the iPhone 5S and 5C. The 5C is the one that’s grabbed my attention mainly down to the fact I could get a yellow one with a green case (strange use case I know). To help out with my lusting over …
Google Play Music is a great piece of software, allowing you to buy music as you want, pay a subscription and pay monthly, pay a subscription and listen to radio style playlists or even just upload thousands and thousands of your own music and just stream it for …
Watches are making a bit of a comeback, but in a new form, they have Bluetooth, a range off odd buttons and loads of features that you didn’t know you ever needed. I’ve never owned a SmartWatch, I’ve looked at many though and wondered what life would be …
Isn’t it great when a company follows through and actually does what they said they would? A year ago….. It was about this time last year when Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 were announced and along with them came Xbox Music, which was Microsoft’s Music streaming service, …
We’ve been hearing about the next generation of Windows Phone devices recently. Be it 1080p displays, extra rows of columns, Quad core CPUs etc. All exciting stuff, well now thanks to evleaks we have an actual image of the Lumia 1520. Which has styling sort of cross between …
Today is a day to rejoice Android users, you can now make odd sounding music using your phone or tablet. Yay. Music Maker Jam has a pretty premise: Music Maker Jam, the free new music maker app from MAGIX, makes it easy to start playing with music and mixing …
The Doro Liberto 810 is apparently “The world’s most liberating smartphone“, which is quite a bold claim from Doro. Doro AB is a Swedish public company formed in 1974. It released its pioneering ‘easy-to-use’ mobile phone in 2007. Until recently their phones were flip style feature phones and …
At launch pretty much the only device that will be compatible with the Galaxy Gear will be the Galaxy Note 3 and what better way to demo both devices than in a 18 minute video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fo5x7ZIPCM
Episode 62 of our podcast is going to be like a metaphorical tin of sardines. I.E lots crammed in. We have had a hectic week, what with Microsoft and Nokia, Sony and their camera thingies and of course Samsung just to name a few things. This week I …
Zombies seem to be the standard character in games these days. I guess developers have a choice, gems, candy, makeup or zombies. Zombie Village is a popular game from Android and now it’s made the move to Windows Phone 8 and 7. It is one of those horizontal …
The BBC iPlayer app for Android has just had an update, bringing support for downloads through the app and also Android 4.3 support. Yay my new Nexus 7 will be happy. It’s nice to see the BBC Android app get updated with some of the features available in …
Guns, cowboys, horses and Windows Phone. What more does a game need? Gameloft have just released Six Guns for Windows Phone 8 and it sure looks like a great game. Buck Crosshaw never shot a man who didn’t deserve it, but now he’s an outlaw who had to …
Yesterday evening we were introduced to the Galaxy Note 3, super high spec, full of software features and a faux leather backplate. Samsung during the night have published a promo video for the Note 3. Enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylP4DDwXZb8
Yes Samsung have branded a device that is to be released in 2013 the “2014 edition”. The Galaxy Note range has more than one model these days, the biggest being the Note 10.1 and as is the current trend to deal with badly planned naming conventions, they’ve just …
I remember my first ever watch, I was about six, it was an analog Sekonda, it couldn’t even tell me the date, but I was happy. Having important information on hand was impressive, I’ve worn a watch ever since. I guess I feel a little lost without a …
A few years ago mention the word phablet and you’d get blank looks, mention it these days and you’ll still get blank looks, but mention it to a tech type person and they’ll either smile or start going on about big pockets etc. The original Galaxy Note started …
When I first saw some odd looking clip on camera lenses for phones I thought it was an elaborate hoax by someone, yeah they sounded cool and I could no doubt think up a scenario where I could use one. Then came the leaks, we saw image after …
The Sony Xperia Z1 has been one of those devices that we’ve slowly found at every last detail, be it specs, accessories, press releases or even traditional Mr Blurrycam pictures of it. It has been a leaky few months for the Xperia Z1. Over in Berlin at IFA …
You don’t get enough Ogres in games these days, it’s always just zombies and more zombies. Ogre Jump doesn’t have any zombies at all, yay. What Ogre Jump is though, is a never ending running, jumping, swerving, coin collecting addictive game. The developers describe it as follows: Description …
The world around us is an interesting place, with many people and places existing without me ever realising. Voxle aims to end that and let you interact with things around you. The developers describe it as follows: Voxle is your new location based social network. Share your location …
The ongoing teasing of details about the upcoming Oppo N1 has got a bit more interesting today. They’ve posted this image on their Google+ page. Which means it’s going to be a big old phablet, with a high spec and “an amazing camera” we shall see soon, when …
Bandit is the codename for the rumoured huge 6″ phablet from Nokia. Evleaks has posted an image that is apparently a screenshot from the Bandit. Total information overload, we can tell that the Bandit will be on the next major update to Windows Phone 8 which is rumoured …
Acer have announced a whole load of stuff today in Berlin, the second of which is interest to us is the Iconia A3 which is a 10.1″ Android tablet, with WXGA display (1,280 x 800), Powered with a quad-core 1.2GHz cortex A7 processor and it also has a …
The Acer Liquid S1 has barely reached our shores and today Acer have announced its successor. The Liquid S2 is a 6″ monster, boasting a 13MP camera with a ring flash, an 1080p HD screen and a Quad core 2.2 GHz CPU. This new S2 will sit well …
It’s time for Episode 61 of our podcast, we had a whole load of topics this week, the new Nexus 7, the Nexus 4 price drop, the Nokia 515, the Sony Honami, Ballmer resigning, next week’s Galaxy Note event, the next odd Android gaming device the Wikipad, the Samsung …
