Category: Android
We’ve seen the adverts and the pictures, but somehow – up close – the iPhone 5 looks a lot different. It almost looks a little… “Samsungy”. Yup, we spotted the Galaxy SIII sitting on an iPhone 5 stand in the window of a local Vodafone store this morning. …
Today’s Amazon Appstore free app is Dummy Defense (yes, it’s an Americanism) , a game where you have to protect a mannequin from various evils including bombs and spiky things. At this point I would normally talk about my brief experiences with the nappy having played it through. …
Ok, so you have spent months looking forward to getting a new handset, weeks agonising over which OS, which handset and then even more time haggling with your network for a decent tariff. Finally your brand new device arrives and there it is looking all nice and shiny, …
Yes, it’s one of those voucher sites, yes, the “original price” is probably inflated a little but, for some of you, this could be just the thing. The SIII accessories bundle is £9.99 (although there’s some confusion on the site and it also says £9.98) and includes a …
Battery life. You can’t get through the day without someone in your office mentioning .. or cursing it. Now those clever people at Which? have tested battery life on a selection of smartphones whilst browsing. Screen brightness was set to “maximum” during all tests and they used their …
Acer have made a few nice looking phones recently, the other week we looked at the dual SIM equipped Liquid Gallant Duo and I was very impressed overall. So when I found out they were going to send us their flagship device the Cloud Mobile I was a little …
It seems quite a few of the big names in mobile phones these days are producing their own accessories, and cases. Not just as functional protective devices, but that are actually nice to look at too. Samsung are no exception, and produce cases for both the Galaxy S3 and the …
It’s not quite the next rumoured pure Google variant after the Galaxy Nexus, but the full manufacturer version currently called the LG Optimus G which you can now see on YouTube. There’s an almost marmite-level contrast of opinions on this phone from our team. Some of our team …
Google has begun rolling out an update to the Play Store. The new version (3.9.16) has some rather useful updates that many people have had on their wish list for a while. If you download lots of apps then you are aware of just how frustrating it is …
So, we asked Samsung if we could have a few minutes with the SIII Mini. Just a few precious minutes. They laughed at us. They made us cry. They pulled our hair. Meanwhile, another website called All About Samsung has got hold of it… but hey, they put …
It looks like the Gmail app is getting some useful new features in its next iteration, such as pinch to zoom (at last!), swipe to delete/archive and some various other niceties, including being able to report an email as phishing. All this comes courtesy of a leaked APK …
Earlier on today Samsung officially announced the upcoming Galaxy SIII Mini. What new product announcement isn’t complete without some prices and some pre-orders ? (Well, maybe a Nokia one perhaps). UK online retailer Clove has put up the Galaxy SIII Mini 8GB model in blue or white for …
As widely leaked, Samsung have today announced the Galaxy SIII Mini. As the name suggests, the device looks like a shrunken down Galaxy SIII and features the same nature UX of its bigger sibling. The 4.0″ Super AMOLED handset comes with a dual core 1GHz processor, Android 4.1 …
There have been rumours circulating regarding a new Nexus handset as far back as August when James reported on a possible Galaxy Nexus refresh. Well, it turns out that the i9260 is actually a new addition to the Samsung Galaxy range to be called the Galaxy Premier. According …
Hullomail, the fantastic cross-OS visual voicemail application has announced its new Group Calling proposition Hulloha! for Android. If this were an enterprise application, this would be called a conference call app, and the idea is the same. There are no hidden calling charges as the group calling number …
Yet more pictures of the alleged new Google Nexus have surfaced on a Belarusian website. There is still no sign of any new version of Android and with Jellybean 4.1.2 being pushed to Nexus 7 devices as we speak any other new release may well come as a surprise. …
It’s 4G “ready” and available in white or titanium. For £79 up-front you can grab the Samsung Galaxy Note II in all its LTE glory for 2 years, but you will be paying £41 per month. The “Full Monty” plan includes unlimited texts, internet and minutes although it’s …
The tablet market is a bit cut-throat. Most of the world buys an iPad without a thought of a spec comparison (yes I know it’s not that simple). Meanwhile companies such as Amazon sell hardware at cost to recoup revenue through content, and now Google and Asus are …
Leigh earlier wrote about the Galaxy SIII Mini that is due to be revealed tomorrow. Well, it would appear that the specs and a picture have managed to find there way onto the interwebs by a German website called Mobile Geeks. The handset is purported to have the …
We’ve heard the rumours, but now there’s more evidence showing that LG could indeed be producing the next Google Nexus-branded handset. A white and black “LG Nexus 4” is snapped on this shot, said to show the Carphone Warehouse inventory database. If true, it could help to bring …
My wife recently looked around for an upgrade. She loved the look of the SIII but said that the screen was just “a bit too big” and the iPhone 4S screen was “a bit too small” (and she didn’t want to pay the iPhone 5 asking price). Today …
Google has today started rolling out an update to Jellybean for Nexus 7 devices. A user in Australia has sent the following screenshots to EE Times. As you can see above the update enables landscape mode to the homescreen. The update isn’t a major one …
Samsung have announced a new handset today in the form of the Galaxy Music. With a 280×320 3″ LCD screen, a 3mp rear camera and 4gb of internal storage the handset is certainly budget in specification. The Galaxy music will be shipping with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. …
Are you thinking about getting a Samsung Galaxy Camera? Are you at a loss what to do with it? Well Samsung have made a nice little inspirational video showing you what you could do with their upcoming Galaxy Camera. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv57H0LpHUo Not that I need telling what to do …
A while ago we covered a deal on a Time2Touch 7″ tablet which was getting off-loaded for £79.99. Anyhow, it’s the 10.1″ version that’s on offer this time. Apparently it normally sells £299.99 but the people Discount Vouchers have it on offer for £119.99. The Time2Touch SC104B tablet …
Yesterday news surfaced that Cisco has cancelled a contract with ZTE over concerns for national security and sale embargoes with Iran. This is all off the back of a report the US Intelligence agency produced which suggested products by ZTE and Huawei should be banned. Cisco yesterday took the first …
Times are a little tough at HTC. Just a year or two ago there were HTC handsets everywhere. All shapes and sizes. Now everything seems to have spun around. Despite reducing their portfolio and concentrating heavily on the HTC One handsets there’s been a distinct deflation in the …
Can you remember on Saturday we mentioned that if you had an Orange San Diego and you fancied trying to break it you could manually update it to Ice Cream Sandwich using an OEM manufacturer update file. Well things have gone a step further, after updating to the …
Angry Birds is extending its space invasion into a galaxy far, far away with Angry Birds Star Wars. Available on November 8th, one of the most iconic mobile games will join forces with one of the most iconic movie franchises. Each bird will be themed to a different Star Wars …
Nexus 7 rumours, LG Nexus rumours, Key Lime Pie rumours… When are we going to get something tangable? Well, the waiting’s over for one lucky Japanese Nexus 7 owner. Upon booting up his shiney new Google tablet he found that it wasn’t the 16GB varient he’d ordered. Instead …
The BBC are today launching iPlayer specifically for their range of radio stations on iOS with Android to follow soon. Unfortunately there is no word yet of a version for Windows Phone or Blackberry. Update: The BBC have now confirmed that no version for either Windows Phone or Blackberry …
A few weeks ago we got hold of the Xperia Miro for review and we quickly posted up our initial impressions. The Miro is one of the entry level devices from Sony and in the same way as with the Tipo we reviewed a while back, I was …
The SIM-free Samsung Galaxy SIII is now available for just £399.99 at Expansys. Be quick though, because the deal ends today. This 16GB model was already cheap, but now it’s even cheaper. Want to see more? Check out my review. Link – Expansys
A few weeks ago we got the dual sim Gallant Duo in for review from Acer and ever since I have been using it to try and find what’s good and what’s bad. In our initial impressions I was impressed with Acer and their handling of the dual …
What a mouthful that name is. What we actually have here is the newer version of the Asus Transleeve case. The original Transleeve was a single piece of material with an attachment to fit into the hinge mechanism on the Asus Transformer tablets. Asus have decided it would …
There’s been rumblings of a new Nexus 7 showing up on the interwebs recently. Currently the only two models available are 8Gb and 16Gb models, but Droid Life managed to grab a screen shot from the Carphone Warehouse inventory system which displayed a forthcoming 32Gb option. The information …
Get checking for updates if you’re lucky enough to have a Asus Transformer Prime TF201 here in the UK, get checking for updates. We’re hearing that the new Android Jelly Bean update (4.1.1) is now rolling out. Florian has mailed us and he’s very happy with the update, …
Well what can I say, the X Factor at times is annoying and last week Samsung signed a product placement deal with them. Whether you like it or not Samsung devices are going to be shoved in your face on Saturday and Sunday nights. (if you watch the …
I have always been a fan of TomTom, ever since I used it on my T-Mobile Vario..yes, it was a few years ago. I am disappointed about the length of time it has taken for TomTom to come to Android, iOS has had it since August 2009! Given the …
The Orange San Diego is one of those devices that had so much potential, various factors screwed up its popularity. – It was released running Gingerbread even though Ice Cream Sandwich had been out for months. – It was released with the most locked down bootloader ever seen …
