Author: James Pearce
Welcome to the Coolsmartphone Podcast, joining me this week were Dan and Khellan. This weeks the topics revolved around the Windows Phone 8.1 update which Dan and I both managed to install on our phones this week. We also had a chat about how Dan felt after he …
Oppo are big news at the moment their Find 7 and Find 7a are both about to be released into the world, complete with fancy cameras and even fancier camera software. To help promote the Find 7 / 7a they’ve made a video, a 4 minute 52 seconds …
Google have been slowly and surely releasing the core Android apps onto the Play Store. Like the keyboard, Calendar, Gmail, Google Search and a load of others. The latest is the camera app which has only previously seen updates during Android version updates. It’s a whole lot easier …
We all love surprises yes? How about free money? How about paid apps for free? Well yesterday Nokia published an app that if you’re compatible you’ll probably be saying “yes yes yes” to the above questions. Nokia Gift Voucher is the name of the app and what it …
Being an owner of the LG G Pad 8.3 I’ve been eagerly awaiting the KitKat update, especially as the companion device the LG G2 has received the KitKat update a few weeks ago. Well it seems that according to my G Pad that the update has started to …
OrangePixel have been making some great retro 8-bit style games for a while now, they’re behind the Meganoid games, Gunslugs, Heroes of Loot and many others and now they’ve released Groundskeeper2 another retro style shoot em up. From the guys who brought you Gunslugs and Heroes of Loot …
Firefox OS, oh how I yearn to try you out on a mid range device from a Spanish company on a device that will dual boot Android. A few weeks ago we mentioned the launch of the dual booting Geeksphone Revolution. At that point you could only order …
Nokia announced the Windows Phone 8.1 equipped Lumia 630 last week and it’s possibly one of the most hotly anticipated Nokia devices at the moment. Mainly down to the new features of Windows Phone 8.1 at what should be a bargain price. You may have realised that Garry …
Cast you mind back to 2013 Motorola announced the Moto X, resplendent in many different colours and accents with talk of tiny bezels and no need to have the latest and greatest spec . Fast forward eight months and us poor UK residents can finally get hold of …
The eagerly awaited Oppo Find 7 was announced a few weeks back, with talk of fancy cameras and even fancier specs. The whole world waited to see the first ever 2K device, they showed it off and then showed off a lower spec cheaper version too. The Find …
Some weeks the Android world takes a breather and let’s someone else step up and speak. Someone else with a selection of brightly coloured things….. Welcome to Episode 87 of our podcast. This week I was joining by Ian and Nirave and our topics this week were as follows: …
Touchscreens have become part of my life, be it in my pocket, on my wrist, my laptop, my tablet, trying to order foreign train tickets on holiday, controlling the music in my house and amazingly up until now not on my desktop PC. Well sort of anyway, as …
The Motorola Moto G could be seen as a success story of 2013 with many flocking out to buy one just to see what the fuss was about. Since the recent KitKat update though some people have been having issues with stability, USB on the go and also …
Oppo are famed for their flagship specs and wallet friendly pricing, but look back at their history there are a few budget devices in there. The most recent being the R819 which was a dual SIM MediaTek device. According to PhoneArena , Oppo have filed it with the …
In my continued hunt for the ideal tablet/laptop I’ve stumbled into the fascinating world of the flexible Lenovo Yoga 2, it’s an 11″ touchscreen bendable flexible hybrid. I mainly use Windows 8 devices like large tablets that you can run normal desktop apps on when the store stuff …
We all live a good bargain and up until the end of the month Vodafone are offering the Galaxy S3 and S4 rather cheaply on PAYG . They’re also offering the Smart Mini III. Here is what Vodafone are telling us this morning. I’ll add shop links in …
MWC was crazy this year, with dozens of new devices being announced, the rear button equipped LG G2 Mini being one of them. LG have come out and said that they’re going to release it in April. So not long to wait if your wanting a budget spec, …
Yesterday HTC started to publish apps on the Google Play Store, to speed up future updates. One of them was BlinkFeed which is the name for the new HTC app launcher with the BlinkFeed news widget built in, the one found on the newly announced HTC One M8. …
Welcome to the Coolsmartphone Podcast, joining me this week were Dan, Ian and Ronnie. No special guest this week, just a special event instead. Dan was at the HTC One event in London this afternoon and he joined us from his hotel room with his sleeping partner for the …
Last year HTC and Google released a Play Edition of the HTC One and it seems they’re going to do the same again this year and lo and behold we’re not going to see it in the UK. You’ll be able to look at details of this soon …
The Sony Xperia E1 was one of those phones that Sony announced before MWC, it’s a pretty basic model with a loud speaker on the back and a Micro SD slot, so it’s ideal for those kids who listen to music on the back of the bus. Well …
Today, let me tell you, is all about HTC. The new version of their HTC One handset will appear later this afternoon and already we’re learning about what might be included in the phone. The HTC BlinkFeed and HTC Service Pack apps have just popped up in the …
I’ve been a fan of Blugri games for a while now, they’ve published some of the nicest Windows Phone games around and they’ve gone and ported one of them to Android. They’ve also published the game on the Nokia X Store as well. Air Hockey from blugri features: …
Can you remember watching those hands on videos from MWC of the rather cool unlocking method that LG were using for the G Pro 2? Whereby you can set a pattern of taps around the screen to unlock your phone, in my opinion it seemed really quite secure …
Google have announced the whole new Android Wear thing, which pushes the whole wearables market towards one unified OS, whether or not companies like Pebble or Samsung decide to go with Android wear and not their own OS’s remains to be seen. LG however are seemingly going to …
When talking about the Google Chromecast most people say “it would be cool if the BBC iPlayer worked with it”. Well it seems to coincide with the UK release of the Chromecast that people’s prayers have been answered. This below screenshot is from within the Chromecast app. The …
Welcome to the Coolsmartphone Podcast, joining me this week were Jamie Hoyle and Lewis Knight. Lewis is our special guest this week, he’s from the increasingly popular gaming podcast Ready Player 2 and he used to be part of the Droid Arcade gaming website. This weeks podcast is …
I like change, I like being forced into doing things differently, I like hearing my brain clicking as it tries to comprehend a new way of doing stuff and I also like a bargain. The last one is probably going to be my downfall one day. I recently …
The original Pebble was one of the first SmartWatches that actually got my attention, up until then SmartWatches were just trying far too hard. With devices like the Sony Liveview being flawed by horrific software and driver issues. What Pebble were offering seemed to fit a lot of …
Do you listen to Podcasts? Do you wish you could listen to your podcasts on your TV? Do you own a Chromecast? Well today is your lucky day, last night ShiftyJelly the developers behind possibly the best Android Podcast app added Chromecast support. Which means I and many …
Samsung like to keep their fingers in as many pies as they can, they want the phones to sell at the end of the day and if that means selling a phone running Windows Phone then so be it. I and many others at Coolsmartphone owned the Ativ …
For the past few months we have all been talking about 2K screens we all assumed that the Galaxy S5, the all new HTC One and of course the Oppo Find 7 would all have 2K screens. But as two of those devices have been announced without them …
I just don’t get exclusivity deals, in my eyes it only benefits the manufacturer and the retailer, not the consumer and the Garmin VivoFit fitness band is one such tie up. With it being available exclusively at John Lewis. The NEW Garmin vívofit is the only fitness band …
Welcome to the Coolsmartphone Podcast, a few days earlier than expected. Joining me this week were Ronnie and our special guest James. Yes another James, it’s James Norton from Modaco this week. This week topics were as follows: The all new HTC One leaks aplenty. Oppo Find 7 teasers. …
The as of yet unannounced all new HTC One has been leaked a lot recently. It seems no NDA is worth the paper it’s written and that no one is trustworthy anymore. The latest leak is to do with the dual rear camera which many people have been …
You might want to check for updates to the system firmware if you answered yes. It seems that the KitKat update is rolling out now. Obviously if you’ve got a network model then they’re going to delay it a bit, but hey if like me you’ve got a …
It has been a big week if you are a fan of Nokia and a fan of leaks and rumours, so who better to have on as our special guest this week Jim O’Brien from Nokia News Ireland. Joining me and Jim this week were Ian and Ronnie …
Naming an app must be a difficult task, if I was tasked to do that I’d be there for weeks thinking and thinking what to call it. So I can entirely understand what the confusingly named Recent is all about. Picture the scene, you have taken a load …
Acer keep on releasing products, year in year out. Seemingly regardless of whether or not the product will sell, it just like clockwork, another year another tablet. The Iconia B1-720 is the latest in their budget range of 7″ Android tablets, the Iconia B range offer reasonable specs …
Do you have a BB10 device and use Microsofts SkyDrive? Well if you do things have just got a whole lot easier for you. It’s nice to see because up until now BB10 was only really supported by Dropbox or Box for Cloud storage, BlackBerry have made this …
