Author: James Pearce
There is something appealing and somewhat geeky about a phone with two SIM cards in it. Having your work and your personal SIM cards in one phone is the main use for this sort of phone. When I tested one out a while back I used a Giff …
Can you see that man above? He’s boring his son with all of the new features on his Xperia T running Jelly Bean. As is always the way with Sony Xperia phones they are released with software from several months before and early adopters have to cope until …
Earlier on today we posted our Initial Impressions which I bought SIM free earlier in the week, I was having a look around the networks and spotted a great deal on the O2 website. O2 are offering the Nokia Lumia 620 in black for £149.99 and that includes …
Nokia seem to want to cover all sectors of the mobile market. From the lowly Asha range right through to the top end Lumia 920. The Nokia Lumia 620 sits somewhere smack in the middle. At first I thought the Lumia 620 was going to be a drastically …
This week on our Podcast we discussed a whole pile of exciting stuff. Top of the list we had BlackBerry 10 and our thoughts about it. We also had a chat about my made up conspiracy theory, the Nokia Lumia 620, the ongoing Nexus 4 debacle, the HTC …
TVCatchup has been around for a while on various other platforms. It basically allows you to watch live TV on your phone. Obviously it’s all down to the quality of your data connection as to how good it looks. It is for Windows Phone 8 users only which …
Yesterday saw one of the biggest names in the mobile industry announce some seriously impressive stuff. New devices and a new OS. BlackBerry 10 is possibly RIM’s BlackBerry’s last chance to be current, competitive and profitable. They should be allowed their five minutes to say their piece and …
New Windows Phone owners can breathe a sigh of relief. Recently Google announced as part of it’s “Winter Cleaning” process that it would be dropping support for new connections via Google Sync, which is the method that people like me who own Android and Windows Phone device use …
This afternoon we have all seen the new BlackBerry range and as expected various networks and retailers have started to come out and announce that they are going to stock the Z10. Earlier on Three announced this and now it’s the turn of Vodafone. No one has mentioned …
It was only yesterday the we posted details about a mobile battery pack, which quickly went out of stock and life went on as normal, well I was fishing around and I found this little bargain. Over at Amazon you can pick up one of these beauties. The …
PhatPad has been around for a while on Android and iOS and it let’s you use a stylus or your finger to write on your tablet screen and it will convert your scribble into real words. This will really add a useful and practical use for Windows tablets …
The phrase “cheap Android tablet” usually makes me shudder a little bit and then it makes me cross my fingers hoping I’m not forced to review one of the wretched things. Yesterday I got an interesting email, you know the sort you get from a company you once …
The HTC 8S is a great little phone, we reviewed it here and found it to be a great way to get to grips with the new Windows Phone 8 Operating System. At release it was available SIM free for about £230 and as is always the way …
I love my MiFi, it’s an old unlocked unit I got on eBay a few years ago, I dig it out for days where I need my laptop out on the road. At times though it struggles to provide 2G speeds never mind 3G or even 4G. Maybe …
Cameras are a part of our lives these days. Be it taking photos of your lunch and posting it to Instagram, taking photos of your ugly children and posting them to Facebook or even taking photos for a living. I take a lot of photos every day, normally …
I’ve been a Windows Phone user for a good few years now, It all started off with a Dell Venue Pro, then a Nokia Lumia 800, then an HTC Titan, then my current favourite the HTC 8X, then briefly an HTC 8S and then most recently a Nokia …
Polarbit are the developers behind the popular Reckless Racing series of driving games and they’re back with what looks like another cracking driving game. Here are some shots from the game. Here is the trailer for the game. This driving game certainly looks a bit more violent than …
Now and again you come across something so cool on YouTube you just have to share it. Today is one of those days. @mr_bridger from Twitter has been busy with his Nexus 7 and his car dashboard. He has basically removed the old panel, got a new one …
We all loved the original Temple Run right? Well I for one quite liked the running towards your inevitable death theme they had going on. Temple Run 2 is more of the same action and those pesky iOS users have been able to play it for a few …
Microsoft yesterday announced their new Surface with Windows 8 Pro. For some the price jump over the original and over equivalent spec’d devices is too much to handle (expect a chat about this on the podcast). The Surface with Windows 8 Pro starts at $899 for the 64GB …
The HTC M7 is one of those devices that stir up people’s imagination. By that I mean hoaxers imaginations, as usual with the build up to a new flagship device being released we get to see lots of “leaked” photos and renders of the latest and greatest. Android …
Since Sony announced their latest flagship phone the Xperia Z rumours have been floating around about a similarly named tablet. Sony Japan have now officially announced the Xperia Z tablet and to tell you the truth I am quite interested. Spec wise it is no slouch offering a …
These days official accessories always tend to crop up during the product launch or shortly after. When I say crop up I mean they appear in some promo material and then NEVER appear in the public domain. Take the fabled wireless charging pad for the Samsung Galaxy SIII …
MWC is coming and as usual in the lead up to it various devices get leaked. Yesterday we heard about the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 via Samsung fansite SamMobile and today they have information about the tough Galaxy X Cover 2. It’s the next in line for Samsung …
At some point today the two popular Disney games “Where’s My Water?” and “Where’s My Perry?” are going to be free for Windows Phone 8 users for a whole day. Update – The UK Store has recently updated the prices to free. Although it seems to be a …
The Galaxy Note and the Galaxy Note II are both great devices. High specifications and decent quality materials was the order of the day. These days the “Note” brand stands more for just a big Samsung device with an S-Pen. Like the Note 10.1 or that rumoured lower …
Gunslugs is brought to you by the team behind the popular 8 bit retro games Meganoid and Meganoid 2. So what is it all about? Well it is a run along jumping over obstacles, shooting stuff, collecting stuff, great fun kind of thing. Here is the game description …
Can you remember last year when Motorola announced three new devices for the US market. The Motorola Razr HD, the Razr Maxx HD and the Razr M. These were all pretty neat looking devices and only one of them made it over to the UK. The Razr M …
I’m one of those people who like to check data speeds most days. In doing this I’ve found where the data signal is strongest at home or at work. Speedtest.Net have had apps available for Android and iOS for a while now and overnight they’ve gone and released …
The Gamepad is a unique device, it is like nothing I have ever used before. In the past my mobile gaming had been done on a Nexus 7 or a Galaxy Note, so using real buttons was going to be something new for me. with the Gamepad I …
A film tie in game and some zombies, could this game start off any lower down the credibility ladder? Judge Dredd vs Zombies has been out a few months and I initially missed it, the only reason I installed this game is because there is a version for …
The Chrome browser for Android has been one of my favourite parts of having an Android 4.0 and above device. But it doesn’t get updated that often. To help test out new features Google have released a beta version. Which you can get at the link below. Description …
Rumours have been floating around for ages now about Samsung and flexible displays. Well today at CES they have finally gone and announced it. They have also managed to post part of the keynote onto YouTube as well. The video shows a range of really thin phones and …
Last summer we got ourselves involved in the release event for M8 in London (details here, review here). M8 is a free mapping, Sat Nav and local places app that really helps you see what is around you and lets you interact as well, through either Facebook or …
Acer have been making tablets for a few years now and their most recent announcement at CES will be their third generation 7″ tablet. With each successive generation there is a worrying trend. Lowering prices. Their previous tablet the Iconia A110 was priced to compete with the Nexus …
ZTE have today announced the launch of the strangely named T82, an Android mobile handset. It is designed to help mobile phone users make the move to their first smartphone. The phone has a custom skin called Easy UI, which was designed together with Australian carrier, Telstra. The …
ZTE have today announced the ZTE Grand S, which is a 5.0″ 1080p LTE phone at CES in Las Vegas. The ZTE Grand S will become the firms flagship handset the high-end Grand Series line of products, the ZTE Grand S is the company’s first FHD smartphone and the …
For a while Huawei have been saying they are going to release a Windows Phone 8 device and over at CES they have done just that. The Huawei Ascend W1 is an entry level device similarly spec’d to the HTC 8S. The Ascend W1 is 10.15 mm thin …
In a move that seems to be ZTE trying to find a niche, ZTE and Nuance Communications have announced a multiyear collaboration where Nuance’s voice capabilities will be integrated as part of a new range of ZTE Android devices worldwide. The result will be a diverse set of …
O2 and Vodafone have joined Three in announcing that they will be stocking the recently announced Sony Xperia Z. Neither of the networks have yet announced any prices or a date for availability. So not really much info to go on as yet. What we do really know is …
