Category: Android
Everyone seems to be offering something with their S4 pre-orders today. EE are offering an accessory pack worth £54.99. The rest of their prices are a little high but you’ll get Superfast 4G with the S4. EE have a pre-order page here.
Are you itching to get a Samsung Galaxy S4? Do you want a £100 Play Store voucher and the chance to win a Galaxy Note 10.1 and a Galaxy Camera? Well Phones 4U is going to be the place to go today. • FREE GOOGLE PLAY VOUCHER WORTH …
Three have just opened up preorders for the new Samsung Galaxy S4 on their network and is free from £35 a month with The One Plan costing just £37 a month Best of all Three will be adding LTE to their network later this year with no price …
It only seemed like a few weeks ago and we were discussing Samsung’s new S Translate app during our podcast. I was hoping it had some sort of offline mode as the Google offering didn’t. Well Google were obviously listening the other week and they’ve gone and updated …
Played the iOS version of this? Demolition Master is now available on Android. There’s 240 levels and more than 4 million other players to challenge. It’s only been available for 5 days in the Google Play store and there’s realistic explosions and the video below should show you …
I think I’ve had my Pebble for at least a week now and I can say I really do like it. It’s not massive on the wrist, which was my initial concern, my wife tried hers and said it was just acceptable for her to wear too. I …
OK, so I’m going to tell you the truth. If you’re using Android and don’t want to pay the few pennies for a new app or game then you have some other options. Firstly, you could save up the 65p you need or you could go trawling “those” …
I’m trying to work out how many of you already know about this app. Whether you use it or not, it’s certainly proved popular. It’s four years since the app arrived and there’s now more than six million people using it. Grindr has grabbed 2.5 million extra users …
You may have seen that HTC are going to go “large” with their marketing message from now on.The HTC One, which we must admit is brilliant, won’t be shown off next to the “Quietly Brilliant” tagline. Instead HTC will be turning things up to 11* and shouting about …
In a move contradictory to the whole “One” ethos HTC have some more handsets to release. Only for China mobile though so don’t get too excited. The first device is the HTC Desire P. Which seems to be a refreshed HTC One SV. It’s a medium sized device …
Motorola have had a few tough years and if they continue making devices like their current generation devices thing might just improve for them. Rumours about their next device dubbed the “Motorola X” keep surfacing and the latest info has been anonymously emailed to Phonearena. The latest rumoured …
Perhaps for the first time, Google released a new service which I didn’t immediately rush to try out. In the wake of the Reader spring clean, I now have to think about whether or not I can rely on a new Google service being around for the long …
The Samsung Galaxy S4 is yet to launch but already there are reports of a Galaxy S4 Mini. With an anticipated launch date of June or Jule 2013, the handset is expected to have a super AMOLED qHD display, a 1.6GHz Dual Core CPU and run Android 4.2.2 …
There has been an unannounced race going on. The race has been between Britain having a hot sunny day in 2013 and HTC actually making their flagship One handset available for purchase. Well it looks like the race has been won and HTC are the proud victors. Whilst the snowbound …
The HTC One X was a great phone and still is a great phone, loved by many across the land. As is always the way leading up to a new device being released the old ones get discounted. So the HTC One is out very soon and the …
If your looking for a budget Android device with a unique look then Carphone warehouse might have the phone for you. The limited edition ‘La Fleur’ and ‘Garnet Red’ editions of the Samsung Galaxy S III Mini are now available exclusively from Carphone Warehouse for just £12.50 per …
It was called Android Market at one point, then it all changed and became Google Play. Now a new version is about to hit your Android-powered phone and the boys at Droid Life have sneaked a look at the all-new version… The fourth iteration seems to be cleaner …
Gemini Devices have been plugging away for a few years now with their budget tablets. This year they are doing something slightly different. Luke Prodromou, Head of Product Marketing at Gemini Devices had the following to say. “With so many Tablets to choose from we wanted to offer …
HTC have suffered somewhat this last year. Samsung, with a massive marketing budget and good quality handsets, have bashed the company over the head. It was clear that the next HTC flagship had to be something special. Something to help bring the company back into the forefront of …
The marvel of engineering that Samsung proclaimed as its octa-core chip will not be making it to Galaxy S4 handsets in the UK. Recombu has received a statement from Samsung reiterating…. The Samsung Galaxy S4 is equipped with a 1.9GHz Quad-core AP or a 1.6GHz Octa-core AP. The …
During Mobile World Congress I spoke to Marcus Frost. He’s the Senior Marketing Director at Motorola and, although Moto weren’t launching anything new at the event, I wanted to discuss how Google were changing the company. In November 2011 Google purchased the company, mainly for the patent portfolio …
Missed it the first time? Missed it the second time and the third time? Why are you like eh? Quick, before you do anything else, get over to the Google Play store and bag your Nexus 4. The 16GB version is on the shelves at £279, which is …
Can you remember the Acer S500 Cloud Mobile? Well I can, I reviewed one last year and it was a great little phone with a great spec, a great screen, amazing sound quality, a decent camera and now it has a great price. Expansys are one of the …
I love Google Currents I don’t know why but I prefer it to Flipboard, now Google Currents got itself an interesting update today with support for editions that contain audio. It looks like you’ll now be able to play audio from within the application itself, complete with a …
A day doesn’t pass without either HTC or Samsung posting some information about their upcoming devices. Today is no different, today is the turn of HTC and they’ve posted two videos about BlinkFeed their rather controversial new home screen addition. Take a look. HTC have come up with …
The much fabled Google Keep has today finally appeared in the Google Play Store. It is a note-taking application that facilitates the quick capture of thoughts and ideas via a variety of means – voice recordings, pictures or simply text. With these features, it promises to let you …
The HTC One and the Samsung Galaxy S4. They’re both fantastic handsets, but which is faster? There’s only one way to findout! FIGHT! A comparison with the benchmarking too Geekbench. Speed and memory performance was compared and, by the looks of these results, the Samsung Galaxy S4 simply …
Following our earlier report on the HTC One delays, HTC Chief Marketing Officer Benjamin Ho has revealed a little more information to the Wall Street Journal We…are working tirelessly with all of our channel partners to ensure that we can fulfill as many orders as possible. We will …
Along with last week’s announcement of the Samsung Galaxy S4 came a plethora of awesome accessories to enhance the S4: the S Band Fitness Bracelets help with keeping track of exercise and work with the S Health app; the Wireless Charging Plates save the fuss of wires when …
Are you sitting comfortably people? I’d suggest getting yourself a cup of tea and a chair. Samsung have posted a host of videos on YouTube showing their latest software additions in the upcoming Galaxy S4 off. Starting with this intro video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBtKf3LS_JI S Translator S Translator is Samsungs …
HTC as part of their current push to market the HTC One have gone out to Times Square in New York and showed the HTC One off a little bit. Having spent about an hour with the HTC One myself having held it, I now really want one …
Sony Mobile have today announced two brand new Xperia handsets: the Xperia SP and Xperia L. Featuring the stunning designs fans have grown to know and love, these new smartphones are added to the Xperia Z to complete Sony’s Spring line-up. The Xperia SP prides itself on its stunning 4.6″ …
Google have (finally!) updated Gmail for Android to take advantage of the the notification actions that were introduced in Jellybean last summer. Users can now reply, archive or delete directly from the notification curtain if they’re running Android 4.1 or higher. It’s a really useful feature which Google …
Most generic car kits just aren’t man enough for the Samsung Galaxy Note II, so Kidigi have addressed this with a nice, meaty dedicated kit. Kidigi are a specialist third party mobile technology accessories company from Hong Kong that caters for most popular handsets (they even do Blackberry …
A new note taking service from Google called Google Keep briefly saw the light of day yesterday before being taken down again shortly after it was discovered. The discovery was originally made by the 1E100 and with several screenshots having surfaced thanks to Android Police. Google Keep allows …
Mailbox, the iPhone app designed to ease the pain of trying to clear your inbox on a daily basis, has gained a lot of attention since its launch, helped no doubt by the waiting list system the team have used to manage the rollout, allowing the app to …
There’s bound to be some fierce competition between the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4. Both handsets aim to grab that elusive smartphone crown and it’s fair to say there’s no love lost between the two companies (check out what HTC had to say about the S4!). So …
Last night in New York City something rather large happened. You may have noticed. The Galaxy S4 was announced and to mark that occasion we’re going to have a special edition of the podcast. We’ve pushed it back one day and tonight we’ll record it and get it …
Google and LG have been criticised a lot recently. First of all for not having millions of the Nexus 4 phones waiting for people to buy. Secondly once they sorted out the Nexus 4 stock people started to complain about the official case. The official bumper has been …
Before the release of the announcement of the Galaxy S4 we heard lots of rumours about ‘Eye scroll’ technology being built into the phone. We didn’t quite get the ‘Eye scroll’ rumoured but what we did see feature on the S4 is Smart Pause and Smart Scroll. Both …
