Category: Android
Well, it’s definitely one way to show off a phone. The new G2 from LG has been sent right up to the edge of space with the aid of a weather balloon and a GPS unit. During the journey the phone captured some lovely imagery on the 13 …
A tablet that has the horsepower provided by a phone? Well we’ve seen that before, but not quite like this, and definitely not with a name like this. The “TransMaker” isn’t anything to do with that Sean Bean drama, no. This is a dumb tablet which works with …
Some photographers are gifted special people, given the most basic of equipment and they can achieve impressive results. Give one such guy a HTC One and just look at what can be done. The photographer Alexandru Ivan said the following about his work. I made these photos with …
Images of the upcoming Galaxy Note 3 display have leaked out and it looks like Samsung have gone down the same path as the Galaxy S4, ie keep the chassis the same size and trim the bezel. The Galaxy Note 3 should be unveiled at IFA in Berlin …
Have you always fancied a Nexus 4? Do you like to buy a phone just before its successor arrives on the scene? If you answered yes to either of those then today is your lucky day. Google have reduced the price of the LG Nexus 4 models to …
The new Nexus 7 is ready for you to buy, you may have heard about it, if not check out my initial impressions. You can buy either the 16GB model for £199 here or the 32GB model for £239 here. The spec of the new Nexus 7 …
LG are clearly a company on the up. Following their selection as Google’s partner for the well received Nexus 4, the company have announced and released some remarkable devices. The latest to add to the production line is the companies first foray into the tablet world, the brand …
Keeping the kids quiet with a smartphone or a tablet is becoming a growing trend. One problem with doing this however is handing over a device that can cost over £500 to a child is simply asking for trouble. Fragility of screens, dirty hands and experimentation are not …
Sony are soon to announce the often leaked Honami or Z1 or i1. In a bit of a tease Sony have posted the following video onto their YouTube channel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alVwMu5fvns From this We can gather that the next flagship will have a very familiar design and once again …
We brought you news of the HTC One X and HTC One X+ update coming to Taiwan earlier this month, and according to Twitter this update is now coming to the UK. XDA TV Producer (and HTC fan) Shen Ye posted two images on Twitter earlier this evening, …
OPPO like teasing us on bank holiday weekends. The bank holiday at the end of May was when they launched the Find 5 in Europe. This bank holiday they’re asking for suggestions as to what to call their mysterious back side navigation (you can see why!). Not only …
The original Nexus 7 was something special, up until then small 7″ tablets had either been awful or stupidly expensive. The original Nexus 7 showed us that you could have a well specified device at a reasonable cost. It quickly became the most popular Android tablet ever, I …
About a week ago I reviewed an app called ActiveNotifications, it gives you Moto X style lockscreen notifications, as long as you’ve got an AMOLED display on your devic. Overall I really liked it. Yesterday the app got an update, which not only added new premium features it …
Google Search for Android has just been updated adding a range of new Google Now cards. Google Search for Android is becoming way more than just a search tool, it’s becoming a life management system (almost). Personally I have Google Now disabled to save on battery as the …
Google is today pushing out its first post-release update for the 2013 Nexus 7. Google’s Paul Wilcox confirmed on the company’s product forums that new firmware is indeed rolling out to fix touchscreen sensitivity issues reported by some Nexus 7 owners: As a couple of you have mentioned, …
Chrome for Android has pretty much become “the” go to web browser for me, I barely ever use any other browser. Google have another version of Chrome as well, in the beta test version you can test out the latest and sometimes experimental features. The latest update has …
We’ve always got an eye out for a deal here at CoolSmartPhone, especially one of good pedigree. With this in mind a report of a Nexus 4 16gb on sale for £259.99 does raise an inquisitive eyebrow and also a couple of questions: 1) Wow what a good …
The new Nexus 7 has been an elusive beast, but if you head over to the phoenix of Woolworth’s ashes now you will be able to pick a 32GB model up for £239, or a 16GB one for £199. They’re in stock at the time of writing, but …
I’ve become a bit of a battery pack convert recently, choosing to charge up wherever I am and not worrying about where the nearest power socket is. I recently purchased one of those huge 13000 mAh battery packs which is fine when you can carry a large weighty …
I’ve always been a fan of large oversized phones and also dual SIM phones, so imagine what I was like when a large white device with dual SIM slots arrived on my desk. I opened it up and I did a double take, I was hit with a …
OPPO are making a big fuss about their new camera-centric phone, the N1. Only yesterday we reported that they had leaked a photo of a small part of the phone, along with a teasing advert showing a timeline of their previous products and a blank space where the …
Google have released an update to Keep which brings several noteworthy features to its up till now fairly bare bones functionality. Of most note (no pun intended), is the ability to add reminders to notes, which can be both time and location based. This is integrated with Google …
Flip phones. Ahh – I remember them. The Motorola MPx200 was a particular favourite and, deep down, I kinda miss the way you could slam the flap shut after a call. Samsung have today announced the Galaxy Golden, another flipper from the company. Yes, an actual physical numeric …
I do love a good phone case and now and again I’ve gone a bit mad and bought an Otterbox case or two. Normally when buying cases I just search for the lowest prices I can find and never really consider that what I’m buying could be a …
Yes, I’m busy writing another review, but I figured you’d like to see some up-close shots of the new Ascend P6 from Huawei. The specs include a 4.7″ 1280×720 display, a quad-core 1.5GHz processor, Android 4.2 and is an just 7mm thick. On the lower left of the …
SwiftKey Cloud has been in beta testing for a few weeks now and it allows you to sync your SwiftKey keyboard word predictions between devices, so when you get a new phone it doesn’t have to relearn all of your made up words. To sync with the Cloud …
There’s a fresh, clean look to the YouTube app in the newly updated version, released today. Get the latest version now and, when clicking on the top left of the video, you can pop the video out like this… It basically means that you can then search for …
“I’m a huge fan of your site”. Always a good start that. Well done PetziConnect. They launched an IndieGoGo campaign and had a goal of $30k. They’ve blown past that now and are at nearly $59k. What is it? Well, it’s a magical doo-hickey that’ll let you interact …
You know Example, but did you know that his real name is Elliot Gleave? Ooo.. bet you didn’t know that. Anyhoo, his next single is released on September 8th and it’s called “All The Wrong Places”. Y’know, the one that goes “I don’t know where we are, but …
When the Beats audio first starting appearing in HTC kit we saw, and still do, a lot of promotional material from HTC about the new sound technology. HTC at one point owned a 51% share of Beats, but that dropped down when Beats bought back 25%. A reported …
It can be a curse having such chunky fingers, but you know what they say about men with large fingers don’t you? Yep, ill-fitting gloves. Here then is Minuum keyboard. Yes, it’s a replacement for the stock Android keyboard. Yes, you’ve seen various types of keyboard already (including …
HTC One X owners have finally got something to be happy about. After many, many long tiresome months they are finally getting an update to their phones! Pigs have yet to be seen flying, but it is actually true, the One X is getting Android 4.2.2 and Sense …
We recently reported that OPPO are going to make a camera-based phone, called the N1, to compete with the likes of the Nokia Lumia 1020 and Samsung Galaxy Zoom. Today the little teasers over on the OPPO Weibo microblog have published a sneaky peak at a bit of …
HTC have a few great devices at the moment, what with the One range and the Desire range. Well know another device has leaked out online by regular leaker @evleaks on Google+ It is apparently called the HTC Zara, which I guess is the codename for it. Evleaks …
Earlier on today Oppo announced the R819 which looks to take on the Android mid range market. Oppo Style, who are the European distribution company, have the R819 up for pre order already, at a rather tempting price of €269. An interesting thing though is that even the …
The 7-8″ tablet market is a rather competitive one, with Apple and Asus at the top of the pile. The iPad Mini and the Google Nexus 7 are undoubtedly the market leaders and there are many other manufacturers trying to get in on the action, Acer, Amazon, Gemini, …
OPPO have announced the launch of the rather catchy named “R819” which I hope isn’t its final name, the R819 is apparently one of the thinnest and lightest smartphones in the world. Weighing in at just 110 grams, the R819 packs a sharp display, long-lasting battery life, and …
Three have just announced the Galaxy Note 8 tablet is available on various mobile broadband plans. The Note 8 is also 4G ready, so you can pick up 4G speeds later this year. Until then until then can still enjoy up to 42Mbps thanks to the Ultrafast Three …
Good alarms are hard to find… If it doesn’t work properly, or have the necessary functionality then no matter how pretty the app is, or whether the app conforms to the Holo style guide, its dead to me. Enter Neon Alarm. Good Points It is pretty intuitive. A …
The Huawei Ascend P6 is one of those devices that spend their lifetimes being compared to others. We have reduced the price of the Black Huawei Ascend P6 to £260.00 (+VAT) , down from £283.00 (+VAT). Please not that this price drop only applies to the black variant …
