Category: Android
Rovio the worldwide renowned developer behind Angry Birds has just released their new game, Bad Piggies. It has just appeared in the Play Store and the link is below. Play Store Link – Bad Piggies Oh and here is a little video showing you what it’s about.
Phones come and phones go, sometimes leaving a whole legacy behind them, sometimes just disappearing without much of a fuss. The HTC Sensation XL was never the most outstanding phone, mainly due to the fact it was a single core device in competition with its dual core companions. …
News has reached us that the new Acer Cloud Mobile will be available from 3rd October directly from Expansys. The new 4.3″ device is set to ship with Android 4.0 Ice Cream sandwich and is powered by a 1.5Ghz dual core Snapdragon processor. With 16gb internal storage and …
Google Play, Google’s app store has hit 25 billion downloads according to the Official Android blog. As a way of celebration Google have decided to have a sale and offer various apps, books and films (as well as music if you are in the US) for only 25p …
Google Developers updated their binaries for the Nexus line last night with noteworthy changes mentioned by JBQ to be: “for grouper (i.e. Nexus 7), the new binaries support GPS, and include a high-precision touchscreen firmware.” What does this mean for you? If you are on anything other than …
Meeting new people is great, meeting people who share the same interests is even better. Wait, stop. This is sounding like an advert for a dating website. A few months ago a collection of bloggers and Android fans decided to organise a UK get together where you could …
Today Huawei have announced their latest smartphone, the Ascend Y201. The new Ascend Y201 is an entry-level Android handset that will be exclusive to Tesco Mobile. Launching today, the latest offering from Huawei runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread and uses Huawei’s own easy to use interface coined HAP …
After the unexpected runaway success of the much vaunted Samsung Galaxy Note comes the Galaxy Note II. It has now been confirmed by Samsung that the new handset, a cross between a phone and a tablet, will be launched in the UK on 1st October and will be …
Today it has been discovered that some Samsung TouchWiz-running devices can be wiped with a single line of HTML code without confirmation. According to the tweet below, the Galaxy S3 has been confirmed as vulnerable to the attack, with the S2, Ace and Galaxy S Advance (my phone!) …
It’s fair to say that I’ve followed the mobile landscape for some time now. I sometimes forget that many of you may not remember a time before mobile phones existed, and some of you perhaps don’t even recall handsets without colour screens. Something struck me on a recent …
Google has updated its books app bringing a heap of improvements. According to the Google Android Blog, you will now be able to tap on a location mentioned in a book to learn more about it. An info card will appear with a Google Map and the option …
Any time now we’re all expecting Google to announce a new Nexus (or even maybe some Nexi) along with the next big version of Android: Key Lime Pie. Now while I love Android and have been seriously impressed with ICS and JB, there are still plenty of areas …
There has been much speculation about the next Nexus device. Some saying that there will be several manufacturers all making different Nexuses (Nexi?), others saying that Samsung will just revamp the current Nexus for now. These could, of course, both be true. However, GSMArena are now saying that …
For those that are old enough, you might remember your parents telling you to “Give me three rings” when you get somewhere. Now it’s turned into “Give me a text” but, if you want even more peace of mind, try “Guard My Angel”. They’ve sent us a video …
It really doesn’t seem like a day goes by when we’re not hearing about yet another lawsuit. You know how it goes by now. It’ll involve Apple and either Motorola or Samsung. The Apple Maps criticisms are just the thin end of the wedge. I won’t blame anyone, …
With over 20 million units shipped in its first 100 days on sale the Samsung Galaxy SIII can be classed as nothing less than successful. There was however one slight problem with it – the launch of Android Jellybean. Suddenly Samsung’s all singing all dancing newer than new …
Can you remember last week before all of the fuss surrounding a certain maps app, where we attended an event in London for the unveiling of the new phone from Motorola. The Motorola RAZR i is a joint venture from Intel and Motorola and features an Intel CPU. …
When CyanogenMod developer Codeworkx was quizzed as to why certain versions of the Samsung Galaxy SII were getting CyanogenMod 10 sooner than others he explained that it was down to the fact that some use Samsung’s own Exynos SoC (system on a chip) and others use Qualcom or …
Falcon for Twitter (beta) is a widget that aims to let you do all your everyday Twitter stuff directly from your homescreen, and I’m not just talking about reading and writing tweets. This clever little widget does so much more. I know this is the traditional time of …
A few days ago Motorola announced the RAZR i, not long after that we benchmarked it to see how the Medfield CPU held up against some of the big players, and earlier today we announced the pricing for UK carriers. This is what I thought after a little …
Well, that didn’t take long did it? The first day the general public are able to lay their hands on this weeks hottest tech, the Apple iPhone 5, someone performs a drop test on it! Personally, I hate these tests….still you might like to see how the iPhone …
Ealier on in the week (details here) we got to see the new UK phone from Motorola, the RAZR i. We got to see lots of information about it, the specs, some pictures and then some videos as well. On the day there wasn’t really any mention of …
A few weeks ago we saw some rough specs of what looked to be the Blade III and today ZTE have gone and confirmed it. The Blade III is going to be an entry level Ice Cream Sandwich device that is only going to be sold in the …
Do you remember a few months ago Jamie had a look at the LG Optimus 4X? He loved it and recommended it to everyone wanting that Samsung Galaxy SIII level of performance but not the high price tag. Well if you can believe it the price has slipped further. Expansys …
Sure, it wasn’t quite as amazing as the Nokia event, but pretty good none the less. Yesterday afternoon HTC announced their new Windows Phone devices. We initially thought there was going to be three devices, but they brought out two. The Window Phone 8X and the 8S. They …
If you’re a regular CoolSmartPhone reader, you’ve probably read Jamie Ryan’s post last week about their new ad campaign that bears the tagline “It doesn’t take a genius”. The ad was designed to take momentum away from the iPhone 5 launch and divert attention to the Samsung Galaxy S3, which …
I’m not a real mobile gamer, not really a console gamer anymore but after seeing the trailers for Horn I was immediately transported back to playing the Legend of Zelda on my Nintendo Wii and was quite keen to give this game a go. However after buying Horn …
The BBC, Adobe Flash and Android Jellybean have all been a bit of a hot topic recently. With Adobe removing Flash from the Google Play Store which left users wanting to install the BBC iPlayer a little lost. Rumours are that the BBC put some pressure on Adobe …
The new 007 movie will, as usual, feature some rather awkward and obvious product placements. Remember Bond jumping into that Ford Fiesta in the previous film? Yeah. That. It seems that O2 will bag the exclusive on his new phone – the Sony Xperia T. Exclusive? Well, we …
For those of you who haven’t heard of Matias Duarte, he is the genius behind the interfaces of WebOS and all Android versions since Honeycomb. If we take a moment to think back to stock Gingerbread’s design and then we quickly fast forward to now and the recent …
Chameleon Launcher overnight has turned into a general release that anyone can buy now. Previosuly it was for Kickstarter backers or pre-order people. Over the last few weeks there has been quite a few updates to the app, making it more stable and adding further widgets. It feels …
Yesterday Acer announced a new small Nexus and Kindle Fire competitor. It is called the Iconia A110 which follows on the A100 we reviewed a while back. Acer have made a nice range of tablets of the years and hopefully this one will continue the trend. The spec …
The time has come for one of the first UK unboxings of the new Xperia T. As you may or may not know I am a Sony Mobile Ambassador in my other life (when not working or writing on here). This gives me several perks, one of which …
ZTE has announced its latest handset to the world at the PT/EXPO COMM in China. The Grand Era U985 will be available in China within the next few days. The Grand Era U985 will be powered by a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor and will run Android 4.0 …
Earlier in the week the eagle eyed people over at HotUKDeals spotted the Huawei Ascend G300 for only £65 in Tesco stores when you spend over £30 on groceries. Well, the good news is that this price has fallen even more and now you can bag yourself the …
This morning we had Niky at the Motorola RAZR i event in London. We then got to see the specs and saw some pictures. Later on we got some pictures of some pretty Motorola pr types demonstrating the device. It’s been a hectic day and we are going …
Remember Ravi‘s article a few weeks back about his ideal gaming device? Well, this new KickStarter project will be right up his street. Based on the fairly popular iControlPad, the iControlPad 2 is an open-source (the first open source controller in the world, apparently) bluetooth gaming controller, keyboard and …
The newly announced Motorola RAZR i is now available for pre-order from Clove and Expansys. Update – Expansys tell us that the RAZR i will be available and ready to ship on Monday 1st October. Order the RAZR i here. The handset with a 4.3″ edge to edge Gorilla …
Many of the Coolsmartphone team have raved about the Nexus 7 since it launched in July and if you don’t have one yet, now could be the perfect time to jump in. Google’s mini tablet can currently be had from Tesco Direct for just £180. To get it …
This morning Amazon have posted updates to their Android and iOS UK apps that enables the Cloud Player functionality that the US has had for a while now. It means that any mp3 tracks you have purchased from them in the past and any future mp3 tracks you …
