Author: Matteo Doni
The Honor 6X was announced and has been available in China since October 2016. Honor have ramped things up and the device will be available to pre-order in Europe and the USA as of later today. The Honor 6X is a mid-range 5.5″ device which will replace the …
In the last episode of 2016, Coolsmartphone Podcast 191, Matteo and Khellan get together to try and look back at what happened in the year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0VlMSJbjHI Much rambling and a few giggles later, we realised this episode is over an hour and a quarter long. 75 minutes. Editing …
CES. We wish we were there. Lots of announcements are being communicated to the world from Las Vegas, and ASUS just made the ASUS Chromebook Flip 2 official. The ASUS Chromebook Flip 2 (model number C302) is a follow up to the popular ASUS Chromebook Flip, as the …
Samsung didn’t get much good press in the second half of 2016, mainly related to the Note 7 issues. We’re just a few days into 2017 and the Korean smartphone giant has just officially announced the A3 (2017) and A5 (2017) for European markets. The Samsung A7 (2017) …
“Happy New Year Everyone!” That seems to be what Amazon.co.uk and Honor are saying to us today. With an Honor 8 Deal. In Blue. Whether you are still slightly tipsy from last night or under the weather of some seasonal bug, this is a deal you won’t want …
It’s the last Coolsmartphone Podcast of 2016. Join our team of writers who will discuss the happeninggs of 2016 in mobile, tech and gadgetry. It’s the Coolsmartphone Podcast 191 Live, on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0VlMSJbjHI Interact with us on Twitter by tweeting @CSP_Podcast or with the crazy people live on …
It’s Boxing Day! No one is really sure of the etymology of Boxing Day. As technology and gadgetry geeks, here at Coolsmartphone we like boxes of all shapes and sizes. Even better if said boxes contain something cool which we got a bargain on, usually ordered online from …
Merry Xmas everyone! We hope you are all enjoying today with loved ones and loved foods. We have a gift for you too: Podcast 190! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1ZaCBX3uBo This week Matteo, Garry and Greg got together to discuss Greg’s Airpods, tech summits, a Magic Honor device and more. The episode …
It’s Podcast Night! This week it falls the day after Two For Tuesday, but we’re doing things squared: Matteo will be joined by Greg, Khellan and Garry to discuss the week’s news in tech, mobile and gadgetry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1ZaCBX3uBo At 8pm UK time you can watch live on the …
The Coolsmartphone Podcast, Podcast 189, for the week of December 12th 2016 is now ready for download through your podcast client of choice. Whether you are watching the Youtube video of the live recording, or using a client to download the edited audio, we’re here to inform and …
Magic! Honor pulled quite a number in China yesterday unveiling the Honor Magic, a smartphone all curves and shiny glass. The Honor Magic has an interesting spec sheet to say the least, as it differs from most device SKUs on the current smartphone market. The screen is a …
The Honor 8 is a great phone, I use one as a main phone and am very happy with it. Vmall currently have some attractive discounts on the Honor 8: £50 off the white one and £30 off the black and blue models. What do you get for …
We carry on with the weekly cadence of the Coolsmartphone Podcast this evening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0giWbgRQ33E Episode 189 will be recorded live on YouTube at 8pm UK time. Matteo and Greg will be the opinionist duo discussing the week in tech news and gadgetry. Can’t watch live? We understand, ’tis …
Pokemon Go has just released its festive season event, and players have good reasons to be merry. The location based augmented reality game developed by Niantic delivers new Pokemon to catch and some festive decorations to boot. The new splash screen is quite festive, I can not lie. …
Another week, another Coolsmartphone Podcast. In Episode 188 Matteo is joined by Greg and Garry. Greg has more money than sense, but maybe not after having bought the new MacBook Pro. Garry declares his love for Huawei, we mourn Pebble and AMP things up a bit… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_x5F5NDPUc Matteo …
We’re now back to weekly episodes of the Coolsmartphone Podcast and we’ll be live this evening on YouTube. You can watch the Coolsmartphone Podcast 188 Live on the video embedded below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_x5F5NDPUc Join Matteo, Greg and Garry while they discuss the happenings int he world of consumer electronics, …
Today Google is rolling out Android 7.1.1 Nougat to some devices. This isn’t a big release, but adds a few features to Pixel and Nexus devices and tidies up things with bug fixes and optimisations. The list of devices getting Android 7.1.1 Nougat from Google is as follows: …
Last week Meizu announced the Pro 6 Plus and Flyme 6. Now it is the turn of the Meizu M5 Note to be officially unveiled in China. The Meizu M5 Note is a super midranger with an amazing spec sheet in value for money terms. All metal body …
We would like to thank John for his stewardship and work on the Coolsmartphone Podcast since 2015. Thanks John, the CSP Podcast would not have been as much fun and have had as great guests had you not been looking after us. We wish you all the very …
We’re doing the Coolsmartphone Podcast Live this evening on Youtube. Matteo is joined today by Greg and Majid as they make announcements, discuss announcements and happenings in the world of tech, consumer electronics and the internet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6SWKJ4ljy4 You can watch live on this embedded video or on Youtube …
Meizu today announced their new flagship and updated Android-based OS: the Meizu Pro 6 Plus and Flyme 6. Meizu, one of our favourite Chinese smartphone companies, has been incrementally improving its product line-up in terms of hardware for a few years now. Their devices have a tightly integrated …
Honor have come a long way in Europe since landing quietly almost two years ago. Under the wing of parent company Huawei, they have gone from strength to strength and now have a new affordable flagship in the Honor 8. I’ve been using the Honor 8 over the …
Today is the day when people either lose their calm, get into a fight over saving £9.99 on a TV in a store, enter a spiral of misfortune and wake up in a prison cell… or they don’t. Luckily we know the Coolsmartphone.com readers to be more clever …
Memory. We have memories of when smartphones used to be amazeballs with 256MB internal memory. Nowadays that just doesn’t do the job any more. Most people in the world use an Android smartphone at the moment, and the majority of those devices have expandable memory, thanks to MicroSD …
We’ve written about it on Coolsmartphone.com. We’ve talked about it on the Coolsmartphone Podcast. We’ve bought some, and some of us use one daily. The Amazon Fire 7″ is now £29.99 at Amazon. Running Fire OS, Amazon’s distribution of Android, with microSD expansion, and sporting a pretty sturdy …
John won’t be able to join in this week. Matteo’s back on this side of the pond. Will he be able to keep the conversation on track with Majid, Garry and Greg? OK, that was a silly question. How far off track will the opinionists of the Coolsmartphone …
We’ve written a lot about Amazon, their products and their Prime subscription service over the last few years. Now you can get Prime in the UK if you sign up as a new customer for £59 for the first year. Hurry though, the offer is only valid until …
I’ve been in the US of A for a couple of weeks now. I came over for the Big Android BBQ, where I delivered a talk and met a lot of amazing people. I then went to the San Francisco Bay Area, where I met up with Jolanda …
Amazon Echo, the digital assistant, is coming to the UK and Germany this autumn. Hurrah! What is an Amazon Echo you ask? It’s a speaker with microphone that connects to the internet, over WiFi, and has the Amazon Alexa service built in. Amazon Alexa is Amazon’s digital assistant. …
It’s been quite a week: the IFA madness had just started to blow over, then LG announced the V20 and Apple announced the new Apple Watch Series 2 and iPhone 7. Just as all that was passing, Amazon threw their own announcement into the mix, and the device …
The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are being announced later today. All the breadcrumbs at IFA pointed to it. We’re pretty much certain of it. But what do iOS users think? As good as we are here at Coolsmartphone.com we’re not mind readers yet, but thankfully we …
We know the majority of Coolsmartphone readers have excellent taste and are fashion trend setters. One of the things that guarantees you will get invited to a press conference to give a 20 minute presentation on how to take selfies is also having the best cases for your …
3.5mm headphone jacks. They’re a standard, right? Well, as we saw earlier, it definitely looks like Apple are going to be doing away with it when they announce their new revolutionary handsets next week. After this post showing a new iPhone 7 cover earlier in the week I’ve …
Here at IFA 2016 in Berlin I had a chance to spend some quality time with the newly announced smartphone from TP-Link, the Neffos X1 Max. TP-Link, the Chinese company probably best known to us as a networking equipment manufacturer, is widening its product portfolio to include smartphones. …
Today at IFA in Berlin I had a chat with Stil, makers of premium fashion cases for smartphones. There is event Stil Mockodile cases. Here at Coolsmartphone.com we look after our devices, and where possible want a premium case to remind everyone that we are masters of fashion …
ZTE. Definitely not last in the smartphone race despite that alphabetical challenge. The IFA 2016 ZTE Press Conference is happening, so let’s get down to the happenings. Adam Zeng, CEO of ZTE Mobile Devices tells us that ZTE is globally the sixth biggest shipper of smartphones, and the …
Huawei. How would we not want to wait in a queue to cover the latest announcements from Huawei? I’m at the Berlin Velodrom ready to cover the #DefyExpectations event. Reading into the imagery promoting the event, it is safe to assume the phone is made of kryptonite and …
Coolsmartphone.com, represented by the Chief Pixel Density Enthusiast, is at the Lenovo Press Conference for you. You may be gutted Matteo is not on the Podcast, but it is all to bring you the latest from Berlin. Lenovo start by speaking of hardware testing and then Moto Mods. …
Samsung. Samsung Gear: the range of wearables which enhance your digital lifestyle. An event in Berlin with an animated round watchface with the “Talk About 3” slogan under it. Whatever could they be about to announce? The glowstick pass bracelet is cool, the venue is spectacular and the …
After Acer, it’s ASUS’s turn to announce stuff (old and new) at IFA here in Berlin. The ZenWatch 3 is probably the most interesting thing so far. As reported by Android Central, the ASUS ZenWatch 3 is the new Android Wear smartwatch from ASUS. With a round screen, …
