Category: Android
Possibly one of the most understated phones of our times, the Motorola RAZR i is being sold off rather cheaply recently. First on EE and now on Three. The deal is £149.99 on PAYG and as usual you’ll probably need a topup as well. Existing customers seem to …
Thanks to the kind people over at Vodafone UK, we have been given an Xperia Z Tablet to use for FOUR WEEKS to be able to give our thoughts on it in a review. However this time will be slightly different as 3 different members of the team …
During the Huawei Ascend P6 event last week Richard Yu the CEO of Huawei said that there wasn’t a reason to make a Google Edition of the P6 as Emotion UI was good enough. Well in a recent interview Kevin Ho, the president of the handset product division …
Facebook have decided they want some user feedback, which is nice of them. They obviously don’t want a repeat performance of Facebook Home with future updates of the standard Facebook app. The good thing is that if you want to install the beta version of the Facebook Android …
Good afternoon guys and girls, it’s been a week or two since our last podcast and there is a good reason for that. It’s mainly because most of us went on holiday at the same time but also because we’ve been gathering the troops in preparation for episode …
Hey you, yes you!! Do you live in Aldershot, Basildon, Basingstoke, Bracknell, Hitchin, Horsham, Leatherhead, Letchworth, Stevenage, Warrington or Weston-super-Mare? Well listen up, because you’re getting 4G right now. These additional locations mean that 85 towns and cities across the UK are now bathed in superfast mobile broadband …
Any wordsearch fans out there? Well if you have an iOS device then the app for you has just been released. Word Search 10K is the largest word search ever made and is available free on the App store now. The app features one giant wordserach split into …
HTC have announced today that the HTC One, HTC’s current flagship device here in the UK, will be arriving in a new colour option. Dubbed ‘Glamour Red’ by the company, the red colour option will be available exclusively from Phones 4U from mid July. We haven’t been issued …
Yesterday night the Google editions of the HTC One and the Samsung Galaxy S4 became available on the Google Play Store. Or they did if you’re in the US anyway. These new Google editions joined the white version of the LG Nexus 4, which also isn’t available in …
Don’t you just love pre ordering stuff? With no idea of when you’ll get something or whether or not the price is going to be competitive come the day of release. Well if you do like pre ordering stuff and you like the look of the newly announced …
Big phones or small tablets, the oversized phone scene is increasingly becoming a complicated arena. With the announcement of the Sony Xperia Z Ultra yesterday it got me wondering just how big you can really go, what consumers actually want and what suppliers think we want. Deep stuff …
The LG Optimus G2 has been lurking around the internet for a month or so now with some images surfacing in May and some more turning up now. The main thing the images show is that the phone has a forward facing camera and that the volume rocker …
I imagine many of you went to bed last night thinking about the Sony Xperia Z Ultra, I know I did, mainly down to how I was going to finance it. It seems that it is going to be harder to finance than I thought it would be. …
I know what you’re thinking. “What am I going to do with the 2 grand in my back pocket?” Well, you could get yourself one of these, a brand new HTC One plated in either Gold for £1895, Rose Gold for £1995 (don’t ask me the difference) or, …
So you’ve read my OPPO find 5 review, watched the videos and your mouse is hovering above the add to basket button, but before you check-out you may want to think about a case. The problem is that there are no third party cases and the only place …
The Huawei Ascend P6 was announced last week and with came the claim that it was the thinnest smartphone in the world, shortly after that an even thinner phone appeared, the Umeox X5 which is to be released in China and it is 5.6mm compared to 6.1mm. In …
Sony have just announced the Xperia Z Ultra which is a large phablet design with high speed internet and UK network Three have confirmed they will stock it Over on their official Blog Three have said
The whole idea of a SmartWatch seems like a great one, I have never got one myself, I feel I should do, it’s just something that just holds me back. This morning Sony have announced their third generation SmartWatch and maybe this will be the one for …
Sony today have staged events all around the world. The first device that they unveiled is the Xperia Ultra a 6.4 inch large phone tablet thing. Spec wise it is as high end as you’d expect, it will be the thinnest smartphone with a 1080p screen thanks to …
The seven inch large phone tablet thing is becoming quite popular. Not with actual consumers but with manufacturers, we now have the Asus FonePad, the Galaxy Note 8.0 and now the Huawei MediaPad 7 Vogue. The MediaPad 7 Vogue is the latest in a line of budget tablets …
Almost a year ago I posted a rather glowing Ascend P1 review. It was, and still is, a fantastic handset. Sure, it looks a bit like a the Galaxy S2 from Samsung, but now the dual-core 1.5GHz handset is down to just £169.99 SIM Free, and that includes …
Now and again I like to try something a little different. Be it food, clothes, holidays, new words or just mobile phones. This weeks review is exactly that, something different. Prestigio have been selling tablets for a while now and recently they’ve branched out into Smartphones. There range is …
The OPPO find 5 is unknown to some, a curiosity to others and an item of desire to others (James). For me it’s been all three and is now my daily driver. To be clear, this isn’t a review unit that I’ve been sent, it’s my phone bought …
After having been successful in the Windows 8 game arena Philino Technologies have released their motorbike racing game on Android and Windows stores simultaneously, with iOS to follow in the summer. The game is free on Android, cost 99p on Windows Phone although it does have a try …
I’ve been meaning to write this for a while but never got around to it. This is a problem that every Android user has encountered at one time or another. You’ve probably been sitting there at home, or you’ve left your phone on overnight and suddenly you hear …
Three UK have just uploaded a video to their YouTube channel showing off another new phone heading to their UK network and that is the Acer Liquid E2 Specs include a 4.5 inch screen, 4gb storage, 8 megapixel camera and it runs Android JellyBean The E2 looks to …
There’s a new breed of human walking this Earth. The ever connected, technology addicted ‘smart’ person. We can answer phone calls and texts with our watches and glasses while our every move is collected and analysed by fitness experts. Much like Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes F1, we can …
I’ve been asked this a few times now and it’s something I touched on in both my Samsung Galaxy S3 review and the Samsung Galaxy S4 review. Samsung are busy increasing the amount of devices in their range but, for many, it’s still the Samsung Galaxy S4 they’re …
Sony have recently been teasing the announcement of a new Smartwatch on their Xperia twitter account and it looks set to become official at the Mobile Asia Expo 2013 which runs from 26th to 28th of June. The tweets include a picture of the current Smartwatch (their second …
Ok I’ll admit I got WAY over excited when I heard this and let my imagination get the better of me! Heads up displays, Jarvis voiceovers – maybe even a Stark industries phone – but no, sadly the truth is a little more down to earth. HTC have …
Spotify have released an update to their Android app, which brings notification area controls for the first time. If you have Jelly Bean 4.1 or above, you will now be able to control playback straight from your notifications area, instead of opening the app itself. Radio performance has …
OPPO are having a fair bit of niche success in Europe at the moment, so much so that rumours are abound of new devices. Last week we reported that there would be a Find 5 Mini. Unfortunately this turns out to be spurious, according to an “OPPO representative” …
The already strong Samsung tablet range has expanded today with the addition of the ATIV Tab 3, a Window 8, 10.1 inch device with an Intel ATOM processor and 64GB hard disk. Samsung boast that this is the world thinnest tablet at only 8.2mm. ATIV Tab 3 Product …
Samsung’s launch event is throwing up some surprises; one of which is the Galaxy NX, an Android powered smart camera with 3G, 4G LTE and wi-fi connectivity. Big deal, I hear you cry, sounds like an updated Galaxy camera, right? Oh no, this one’s gone truly pro with …
Here in London, Samsung have just shown off officially the new range of devices, some of which were announced recently but this is the first time we will be able to see them in person. This post will be updated throughout the night as the press releases and …
We are LIVE at the Samsung event here in London to bring you all the announcements as they happen. Keep checking back for instant updates once the event kicks off at 7pm UK time
If you’ve seen our hands-on article and have fallen in love with the Huawei Ascend P6 then you won’t have long to wait. It’s arriving in maybe later this month or early July and Expansys will have official SIM-free stock available for £369.99 (inc delivery). Early impressions are …
The Sony Xperia ZU or Z Ultra is Sony’s answer to the success of the Samsung Note range. It has been floating around the rumour sphere for some time but some screenshots have just leaked and the screenshots appear to confirm some of the expected specifications as well. …
How would you feel if you were classed as legally blind by the age of 17? That’s what happened to Simon Wheatcroft. He’s decided to talk to the people at Carphone Warehouse about his condition and how he's overcoming his diagnosis of Retinis Pigmentosa, a degenerative eye condition which, …
You’ve seen our hands-on pictures and videos, you’ve checked the specs and now you have “like a G6” going around your head even though it’s a P6. Either way, if you’d like a P6, Carphone Warehouse will be making them available on pre-order for just £21 per month. …
