Author: James Pearce
Kids seem to be attracted to the household tablet or smartphone. Every time I see a child clutching hold of a super expensive tablet I cringe. Some companies make super protective cases and some like Fuhu make tablets specifically for kids. They have announced the Nabi 2 tablet …
But it’s already installed on my phone, I hear you all cry. Well not if you own a Samsung device. They have their own app called S Planner which still syncs with Google Calendar, but it leaves some people a little upset and hunting for alternatives. Google have …
Two videos in one day! Boy Microsoft are spoiling us. This one shows the Surface tablet and a few of it’s features. Nothing astounding really but interesting if your like me and you’ve pre-ordered a Surface. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yswUFCD1x0A
HTC Japan have announced the HTC J Butterfly and boy is it a looker. It is a 5″ 1080p phone that looks a bit like a larger version of the One X. It is available in either White, Black or Red. Spec wise it is pretty impressive, packing …
Today we have another video featuring the now up for pre-order Microsoft Surface tablet. This video looks at the making of the device and the choice of materials. It also shows them testing the strength of the device by driving it into a hard surface. Me and a …
The Asus Padfone seemed like one of the best ideas man had ever come up with, along with sliced bread and pork scratchings. The Padfone seemed to be the answer to a lot of peoples problems. A tablet, powered by a smartphone. What became of it? Well no …
The release of Microsoft Surface with Windows RT is soon going to be upon us. The upcoming tablet from Microsoft looks amazing and has specs much the same as the other Windows RT tablets coming out around about the same time. So what differentiates it then? Well it …
If I had a pound for every battery widget or battery monitoring app on the Google Play Store I would have a couple of hundred pounds. If I had a pound for every one of those apps that actually did any good or showed you any sort of …
Acer have made a few nice looking phones recently, the other week we looked at the dual SIM equipped Liquid Gallant Duo and I was very impressed overall. So when I found out they were going to send us their flagship device the Cloud Mobile I was a little …
We all love a bargain right? I’ve been fishing around the web this morning looking for todays bargains and I’ve found quite a few that might be worth a look. The Blackberry Playbook will just not stop, it has been at a clearance for what seems like the whole …
There are a lot of weather forecasting apps around and now and again one will make me sit up and take notice. Weather Eye is one of those apps. Weather Eye is based around four different widgets, a stand alone forecast app and a forecast in the notification …
Earlier on today Samsung officially announced the upcoming Galaxy SIII Mini. What new product announcement isn’t complete without some prices and some pre-orders ? (Well, maybe a Nokia one perhaps). UK online retailer Clove has put up the Galaxy SIII Mini 8GB model in blue or white for …
The Samsung Ativ S is going to be a bit of an underdog soon. When comparing it to the brightly coloured competition many people are going to just side step the Ativ S and spend their money elsewhere. UK online retailer Clove have put the Samsung Ativ S …
Yes we have made it to eighteen episodes of our podcast and yes we would like to hear your questions. In a week where we have had US traumas with ZTE and Huawei, we’ve had news from HTC they are dropping out of the tablet market, we’ve seen …
The tablet market is a bit cut-throat. Most of the world buys an iPad without a thought of a spec comparison (yes I know it’s not that simple). Meanwhile companies such as Amazon sell hardware at cost to recoup revenue through content, and now Google and Asus are …
When the new Lumia range was announced a while back a lot was made of the colour matched accessories. The Wireless charging units came as a extra case, a pillow, a desk stand and also as part of a speaker system. They all looked and sounded like great …
Today on the UK version of the Amazon Appstore you can get the hugely popular Android replacement keyboard app Thumb Keyboard for free. Saving yourself 94p Thumb Keyboard for Android™ is a keyboard with many, advanced customization options that allows the user to adjust it to his or …
Are you thinking about getting a Samsung Galaxy Camera? Are you at a loss what to do with it? Well Samsung have made a nice little inspirational video showing you what you could do with their upcoming Galaxy Camera. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv57H0LpHUo Not that I need telling what to do …
Yesterday news surfaced that Cisco has cancelled a contract with ZTE over concerns for national security and sale embargoes with Iran. This is all off the back of a report the US Intelligence agency produced which suggested products by ZTE and Huawei should be banned. Cisco yesterday took the first …
Can you remember on Saturday we mentioned that if you had an Orange San Diego and you fancied trying to break it you could manually update it to Ice Cream Sandwich using an OEM manufacturer update file. Well things have gone a step further, after updating to the …
A few weeks ago we got hold of the Xperia Miro for review and we quickly posted up our initial impressions. The Miro is one of the entry level devices from Sony and in the same way as with the Tipo we reviewed a while back, I was …
A few weeks ago we got the dual sim Gallant Duo in for review from Acer and ever since I have been using it to try and find what’s good and what’s bad. In our initial impressions I was impressed with Acer and their handling of the dual …
What a mouthful that name is. What we actually have here is the newer version of the Asus Transleeve case. The original Transleeve was a single piece of material with an attachment to fit into the hinge mechanism on the Asus Transformer tablets. Asus have decided it would …
It has been a good few months since the Nexus 7 came out and as is always the way, the official accessories take forever to be available. Right, before I start ranting about the lack of pogo pin compatible accessories I’ll get on with the review. The travel …
Well what can I say, the X Factor at times is annoying and last week Samsung signed a product placement deal with them. Whether you like it or not Samsung devices are going to be shoved in your face on Saturday and Sunday nights. (if you watch the …
The Orange San Diego is one of those devices that had so much potential, various factors screwed up its popularity. – It was released running Gingerbread even though Ice Cream Sandwich had been out for months. – It was released with the most locked down bootloader ever seen …
On Thursday night we were invited to attend an event in London, not your usual press event though. This was a press event on the streets of London clutching a phone and using the app to explore the town. Telmap are an Intel owned company who specialise in …
Last night I made my way to St Pancras Station, London. I didn’t have much information, I didn’t know who I was meeting, I wasn’t really sure exactly where and I certainly didn’t know what we were doing. All I did know is that I had received a …
With the arrival of Windows 8 we have a huge shift in direction for the general mainstream PC buying public. Windows 8 has been designed with touchscreens in mind, yes there is a “normal” desktop mode hidden away, but for the consumer things are about to massively change. …
Nokia have done it again, they have released another Lumia specific app. This time it’s one of those fiddly to get hold of Beta apps, luckily you’ll find the links below. Nokia Xpress is a web browser that offers data compression in a similiar way to Opera Mini …
The current trend in tech advertising is for adverts to bash any competition you may have. So videos like the ones that Samsung churn out every few months and now this one from Nokia are getting a little tedious. I’m never going to buy a new device just …
LG have been threatening to release the 5″ screen equipped VU for a while now and UK based online retailer Expansys now have them in stock at a great rate of £349.99 inc Vat. A great deal if you want a phone quite a bit different to anyone …
A few weeks ago at IFA Samsung announced a few new products in amongst all of the shiny new phones were some Windows tablets, the Ativ Tab being their Windows RT offering. Windows RT is going to be the scaled down version of Windows 8 for tablets. Online …
Things are hotting up in the Windows Phone world at the moment, I’ve even recently started playing with the Motors.co.uk app whilst looking for a new car. Three manufacturers are all poised to release their new handsets. One by one they keep releasing little bits of information about …
ZTE have been announcing quite a few phones recently. They haven’t quite grasped the global launch scenario yet though as the latest press release from the shows. Recently they have released the Grand X and then a short while after that they announced an Intel version called the …
Can you remember a few weeks ago we all posted our phone histories and some of us had a rather long list of devices. Well one anonymous reader who wanted to show their stash sent this picture in. I’m amazed at how they still have most of their …
For a while using a phone with two sim cards in has been a bit of a holy grail for me. I could use my normal sim for making calls and my Giff Gaff SIM for my data requirements. Sounds fairly straightforward but various manufacturers have tried their …
Storage Options have been making Android tablets for a few years now and they’ve mainly been targeting the 8″-10″ market. They’ve now announced the Pocket Scroll 4 which is a 4.3″ device for £49.99. Key features for the device are as follows: Android 4.0 4.3” capacitive multi-touch screen …
Sony currently have quite a few devices for sale, especially at the bottom end of the pile. The Miro being one of them, it is like the Tipo’s bigger brother, costing a little more and packing a slightly better spec. My initial good and bad points are as …
Telmap the Intel owned mapping solution firm have been working on various mapping apps and today the have released their latest versions. For iPhone and Android. The M8 your local mate offers a whole host of features with their apps, such as: Full navigation in the UK – …
