Author: James Pearce
In the last few days Amazon have updated their MP3 purchasing and playing app. They have actually made it Ice Cream Sandwich and tablet friendly. It is pretty nice and allows you to buy and download music using your Amazon account. It is also nice that for once …
I love it when developers make nice useful tablet optimised apps. Apps that actually use the space available on the tablet screen. Well I spotted something yesterday that looks to really improve how I would use my tablet. It is called Cornerstone and it uses a side panel with two …
Normally smartphones come in grey, black, brown, silver and more increasingly in white. White is my favourite colour for a phone and not a week goes by without me going on about another white phone. Well imagine my horror when Samsung announced that the Samsung Galaxy S2 would …
Can you remember the other week we covered the ZTE Tania event in London? If not the details are here. Well Clove and Unlocked Mobiles now both have them in stock for £199.99 inc vat. They only have the black ones in stock at the moment which is a shame. …
Last week Earlier today we reviewed the brightly coloured and rather cool Gripsta phone holders. I briefly mentioned that we would have a competition for them. Well below are the details after some pictures to remind you of what we are giving away. To enter this competition we would …
It seems last week quite a few companies received iF awards for design. Even Acer won an award. For a product that doesn’t really exist yet. The Acer Cloudmobile won an award for “outstanding achievement in design”. So what is it you may ask, but all they really …
Yesterday Sony Ericsson announced that they had won four iF awards in the telecommunications category, these awards were for the design of the Xperia active, Xperia ray, Xperia mini pro and Mix Walkman. The Xperia active smartphone receives highest level gold award. The ceremony actually took place in Munich, …
First of all thanks to the guys from Mugen for sending us this battery to review. It came all the way from Hong Kong I was amazed. My experience of spare batteries for phones has basically been buying a replacement when the original started to misbehave. Within a few …
I have had the Asus Transformer Prime for a few weeks now. I’ve bought some accessories for it, I’ve plugged in my xbox controller to it, I’ve downloaded a load of tablet specific apps and I think now is an ideal time to review the thing. The Prime …
Last week we had the initial impressions post about the Viewpad 10e, I was quite impressed with Viewpad it surprised me with what I could do with a device that didn’t have Google apps. The Viewpad is a budget tablet at £200 and is available from places like …
One of the most eagerly anticipated apps of recent times has been Carbon for Windows Phone 7. It is a Twitter client that has been floating around for a few months now in beta form. The developers also submitted the app to the Windows Phone Marketplace a few …
Yay it’s Friday. So close to the weekend. What do we need to distract from work today? Some strange apps that’s what. Boy is today a little odd. The last one may be a tiny bit nsfw. It depends if you are surrounded by old ladies who don’t …
This is the sort of thing that Windows Phone has been lacking for a while now. Not exactly the Domino’s Pizza app, but high street brands paying developers to make an app for Windows Phone. Whoa this was meant to be about the Domino’s app. Back on track …
The Gripsta is a smartphone holder made by a company who have been making foam products for twenty years. I had a look at their website and I realised that they were VERY brightly coloured phone holders. The Gripsta team nicely sent me a box of the brightly …
GiffGaff are well known for providing sim cards with great rates and “unlimited” internet packages. The idea being you order the Sim which uses the O2 network, you top up every month and you get LOTS of minutes and text and some internet. All without having to worry …
Asus UK tweeted earlier today that they have released an over the air update for the Transformer Prime. The update is said to fix the random reboots that people have been having. I know mine has been severely hindered by this bug/feature. I haven’t applied the update yet, …
First of all we all heard that Samsung was planning a large event to happen at MWC at the end of the month. In previous years Samsung have chosen to introduce new things like the Galaxy S2 at MWC so this years “large event” seemed to be on …
There is something special about white phones, I don’t know why, they just feel special. It all started with my white HTC Hero, then my white Samsung Galaxy S2 then a brief stint with a white Samsung Nexus S, a white Acer Aspire one and a white Sony …
At CES in Las Vegas earlier this year Toshiba kept going on about the thinnest tablet EVER*. Well it has made it’s way across to the UK and Carphone Warehouse have them in stock now. They come in either 16gb or 32gb. They cost £399 and £449 They …
In the usual manner leading up to a major press event, manufacturers are always just “leaking” images out to the press to garner interest. Well this time it is LG’s turn and Pocketnow have got hold of an image of what was previously thought to be called the …
We have had a tip off that Vodafone stores are rumoured to be selling the Nokia Lumia 710 for £150 on pay as you go. The rumour has come from ukhotdeals. Below is content of the thread about this. If any of you guys could pop into Vodafone …
Phones 4U have put up a page offering pre-orders on the recently announced White Nokia Lumia 800. You can have a look at the page here. They are offering the phone on Vodafone, Orange or O2. The white Lumia doesn’t offer any new hardware differences, it’s just white. …
Clove are now taking orders for the white version of the Galaxy Nexus 16gb for £498.00. They have said that will be available on February the 13th. It’s not all white though, the bezel is black unlike the white version of the Galaxy S2 which is …
Viewsonic have quite a few different tablets. They have budget tablets running Gingerbread, they have tablets running Windows 7 and Android and they have a premium 7″ Honeycomb tablet. The Viewpad 10e is one of the budget devices. You can buy the ViewPad 10e for about £200 from …
Finally Google have decided to do something about the horrendous amount of malware in the Android Market. Phew. Google have come up with several ways in which they can scan apps once they are submitted to the market. They are also going to scan all of the existing …
Yes it’s that time again. I’ve got you some weird apps to mock. If you do install these please check the permissions. Some really odd stuff is just a front to stealing all of your info. First of all we have “Boys Vs Girls” which is an app which …
Another day, another cheap tablet. This time it is the Viewsonic Viewpad 7e for £129.98. Beware though this tablet does not have all of the fancy Google apps, so no market for you. Instead you get a Viewsonic supplied app store. If you only want this to look …
The Microsoft Office YouTube team have come up with some slightly odd videos showing how you can survive life in the office using just a Windows Phone device. They centre around Doug Thomas who talks you through various features of Windows Phone but in a contextual way. So …
GetJar is the worlds largest free app store with over 2 billion downloads to date. The company distributes more than 350,000 mobile applications for Android and 395,000 developers have registered with GetJar to distribute their apps. GetJar is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Seattle, the UK and Lithuania. …
T-Mobile have made another big advert for their services. This time it’s titled “what Britain loves”. I guess what Britain loves is unlimited Internet including tethering. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-EvvfMXEwU Via – Tracy and Matt
The other day we posted an article about Expansys reducing the price of their Motorola Milestone 2. Well they have knocked another £10 off the price. They are now selling them at £189.99. If you want specs etc click here for the previous article or the link below …
Did you get a Sony LiveView at any point in the last few years? Did you get really cross with it and put it angrily back in the cupboard full of buyers remorse? Well now might be the time to dig it out and have a read of …
Amazon have dropped the price of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus to £449.41. If you want to buy it new through a re-seller you can get it for £429.99 (a new seller with no rating). Quite why they have done this is unclear. Maybe it’s because of the rumoured …
T-Mobile UK have released an app onto the Windows Phone Marketplace for their pay monthly customers. Great idea I thought, so I installed it and it doesn’t work. So let me know if it works for you. Here are some shots from the Marketplace where it obviously works. …
A recent study by Symantec has found Trojans attached to various apps in the Android Market. The Trojans found are Android.Counterclank and Android.Tonclank, which worryingly is a bot-like threat that can receive commands to carry out certain actions, as well as steal information from the device. It sounds like the Trojan …
The mid range tablet market is sometimes a bit of a nightmare. There are too many manufacturers just making cheap tablets with poor specs and not fully thinking about the end user. Things like not having the Android Market, not being able to play the latest games, missing …
On Saturday Leigh posted a piece about the upcoming Xperia S and it’s “light belt” he also mentioned another feature that the Xperia S is going to have. that feature is the anti-stain shell. Sounds like a great idea. I remember my white HTC Hero got some red …
Expansys are doing one of their famous price drops on the Motorola Milestone 2. If you want a qwerty keyboard device and you don’t fancy the Desire Z then this would be ideal. £199.99 is a great price if you don’t mind the Motorola interface and the fact …
Yes it’s Friday. Yes we have some weird stuff for you. If you really want to try these out click the app name to get to the market. Beware some may have strange permissions. Last weeks massage app needed access to your phone book! So keep your eyes …
The Met Office have released their weather forecast app onto the Android Market. It has been available for iOS for a while. But hey good things come to those who wait. The market description for the app expalins exactly what it can do. “Get your forecasts on the …
