Author: James Pearce
We received this email yesterday and it may be of interest to you PS3 owners out there. It basically means you can use your monthly mobile bill to top-up your Sony wallet. It is no doubt part of the preparation for the arrival of the PS4. Dear Sony …
Episode 53 is here and it already feels like an anticlimax compared to last week’s huge great anniversary celebration. This week is definitely a kind of fill in week. Joining me this week were Leigh, Ravi and Ronnie. This weeks topics were the HTC One S mess, Motorola …
Actually you probably shouldn’t panic quite yet. Things are being blown out of proportion as usual. Earlier on today details of a Android security hole appeared online, you know the normal stuff. The bug could be exploited to let an attacker do what they want to a phone …
The HTC One is a cracking phone, I spent a few weeks with it recently and it really is the sort of phone that you would recommend to everyone. It’s just some people can’t afford one and some people don’t like rather large phones. What they need is …
Motorola are slowly releasing information about one of their upcoming new Android devices, the Moto X seems like it is going to be a uniquely customisable device, unlike anything we’ve seen so far. Rumours are that you’ll be able to be pick a custom colour back plate and …
M8 by Telmap is a free Sat Nav, mapping and local places app for Android. It lets you do everything that you’d expect from a mapping app but with a more point of interest orientated slant. They are having a Summer promotion for the in app purchases. SPECIAL …
Since Twitter introduced the new restrictions in the latest version of their API various new Twitter apps have been having problems. Once such app is Falcon Pro. The developer has had no end of problems with pirates, API restrictions, Play Store updates and what seems like Twitter blocking …
If you share a lot of photos to every social network thinkable then this app might be of interest to you. As long as you like applying filters and frames to your shots anyway. The Polamatic app brings back the instant nostalgia of Polaroid pictures. Capture or import …
Since Microsoft got heavily involved with Barnes and Noble and their Nook franchise the writing had been on the wall for their Android tablets. In a move that preempts the discontinuation of the Android tablets you can now get hold of the Nook HD and the Nook HD+ …
Someone at Samsung will have actually been paid to come up with that tag line for the new Ativ range. They have also come up with some stirring words about PCs. It must have been a busy day at Samsung HQ. Our lives have evolved from being stationary …
The Samsung Galaxy NX may seem like the ideal device to many people, it basically ticks every single box, apart from maybe the lightweight one, the compact one or maybe the budget one. Either way it’s an interesting device and Samsung have posted a video on their YouTube …
Microsoft had a busy day yesterday, not only did they push out an update for the Windows Phone Facebook app, they also published a completely redesigned version of OneNote and Skype for Android. Both apps continuing there distinctly Windows Phone feel. OneNote What’s new in this version: * …
Some people out there couldn’t wait a few more months for the long awaited Nokia EOS and instead plumped for the Lumia 925 and it’s selection of new software and slightly improved camera. Yes you’re right that’s me I’m describing. Nokia UK have published the following two videos …
A few weeks ago Facebook opened up a new version of their Windows Phone app for beta testing and last night they have finally updated the original version to be inline with the beta version. So what’s new in this update? Well Microsoft sum it up quite well …
4G is coming soon to Vodafone and what better way to prepare than to sign up for a contract and get a MiFi. The R212 allows you to connect up to 10 devices at once. Vodafone sum up the other features by saying. Why get this? 4G ready …
The HTC One X+ is rather special because of its huge internal memory. It has 64GB, yes 64GB and it is the deal of the week over at Expansys. They are on sale for £319.99 including VAT and delivery here. The specs are pretty good as well. – …
Possibly one of the most understated phones of our times, the Motorola RAZR i is being sold off rather cheaply recently. First on EE and now on Three. The deal is £149.99 on PAYG and as usual you’ll probably need a topup as well. Existing customers seem to …
Episode 52 means one thing and that’s competition time. 52 episodes also means that we have been doing this for about a year now and to celebrate we’ve got as many of the team involved as possible, we also have a few things to giveaway to listeners. There …
During the Huawei Ascend P6 event last week Richard Yu the CEO of Huawei said that there wasn’t a reason to make a Google Edition of the P6 as Emotion UI was good enough. Well in a recent interview Kevin Ho, the president of the handset product division …
Facebook have decided they want some user feedback, which is nice of them. They obviously don’t want a repeat performance of Facebook Home with future updates of the standard Facebook app. The good thing is that if you want to install the beta version of the Facebook Android …
Good afternoon guys and girls, it’s been a week or two since our last podcast and there is a good reason for that. It’s mainly because most of us went on holiday at the same time but also because we’ve been gathering the troops in preparation for episode …
What do you do if you break your phone, tablet, laptop or camera? Take it back to the shop and pretend it came like it? No you head over to the ifixit website and read a guide on how to rip your broken device apart and then after …
Yesterday night the Google editions of the HTC One and the Samsung Galaxy S4 became available on the Google Play Store. Or they did if you’re in the US anyway. These new Google editions joined the white version of the LG Nexus 4, which also isn’t available in …
Choosing a new phone is a fairly easy task these days, you pick your favourite OS, then you pick a size, then a manufacturer, then a particular model, then a colour and that’s pretty much it. But what happens if you’ve only got one manufacturer to choose from? …
Don’t you just love pre ordering stuff? With no idea of when you’ll get something or whether or not the price is going to be competitive come the day of release. Well if you do like pre ordering stuff and you like the look of the newly announced …
Big phones or small tablets, the oversized phone scene is increasingly becoming a complicated arena. With the announcement of the Sony Xperia Z Ultra yesterday it got me wondering just how big you can really go, what consumers actually want and what suppliers think we want. Deep stuff …
I imagine many of you went to bed last night thinking about the Sony Xperia Z Ultra, I know I did, mainly down to how I was going to finance it. It seems that it is going to be harder to finance than I thought it would be. …
The Huawei Ascend P6 was announced last week and with came the claim that it was the thinnest smartphone in the world, shortly after that an even thinner phone appeared, the Umeox X5 which is to be released in China and it is 5.6mm compared to 6.1mm. In …
The whole idea of a SmartWatch seems like a great one, I have never got one myself, I feel I should do, it’s just something that just holds me back. This morning Sony have announced their third generation SmartWatch and maybe this will be the one for …
Sony today have staged events all around the world. The first device that they unveiled is the Xperia Ultra a 6.4 inch large phone tablet thing. Spec wise it is as high end as you’d expect, it will be the thinnest smartphone with a 1080p screen thanks to …
The seven inch large phone tablet thing is becoming quite popular. Not with actual consumers but with manufacturers, we now have the Asus FonePad, the Galaxy Note 8.0 and now the Huawei MediaPad 7 Vogue. The MediaPad 7 Vogue is the latest in a line of budget tablets …
Now and again I like to try something a little different. Be it food, clothes, holidays, new words or just mobile phones. This weeks review is exactly that, something different. Prestigio have been selling tablets for a while now and recently they’ve branched out into Smartphones. There range is …
After having been successful in the Windows 8 game arena Philino Technologies have released their motorbike racing game on Android and Windows stores simultaneously, with iOS to follow in the summer. The game is free on Android, cost 99p on Windows Phone although it does have a try …
Since Google announced the end of Reader, their RSS service I was on the look out for a replacement to use on my Windows Phone and Windows RT devices. Being a longtime user of Nextgen Reader I was hoping they’d go with a service that is nicely multi …
Install Windows Phone 8 on it of course. Before you all get cross I’m kidding here, yes I’d like a Windows Phone version of the HTC One but I doubt it would be better. Neowin have been tipped off by a source that HTC is currently working on …
T-Mobile UK have had a Windows Phone app for a while now, I gave up using it a long time ago. It was too buggy and packed features. Well today might be the time to just reinstall it. As they’ve pushed out an update to fix various bugs. …
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of using the HTC One and when my time with it was up I just knew what phone I had to get next. It just had to be the Samsung Galaxy S4. I had heard a lot of fuss online about …
Emotion UI is the skin that Huawei apply over Android. Love it or hate it Android skins are here to stay. Especially as Huawei said yesterday that there wouldn’t be a Google Edition of the P6 as Emotion UI was good enough. Huawei have posted the following video …
As is customary these days, manufacturers film their press events and either live stream them or publish a highlight video afterwards. Yesterday after Huawei unveiled the Ascend P6. The details about the Ascend P6 are here. Our hands on article is coming soon, once Ronnie has woke up. …
Phone cases are a part of my daily routine, wake up, pick which phone case to use, get out of bed, brush teeth, itch, you know, all the normal stuff. I find phone cases fall into three different types. Minimal – minimum protection, no shock absorption, no screen protection, …
