Category: Android
I’m just sitting back in the office chair after visiting the Olympic Games in London. It’s a spectacular event, filled with pride and happiness. Down in the London Underground things seemed to be coping well too and it was filled with tourists visiting the various events. However, I …
For those that are constantly on the road, the Highways Agency has reached an agreement to feed up-to-date traffic information from England’s motorways and major A roads into a new hands-free app for smartphones. The app from Information Logistics Inc automatically updates travel advisories based on your location …
A post over at Sam Mobile claims to have learned of the timescales Samsung currently have in mind for updating devices such as the Galaxy S3 and S2 and also the Galaxy Note. The post gives the following timescales Galaxy S III – End Q3 begin Q4Galaxy …
I’ve seen a number of sites stating that Samsung have just “announced” the Galaxy Note 10.1. Actually, they announced the thing back in February and we’ve already had the full hands-on treatment, so we don’t really need to show you the press shots. There’s already a video demo …
The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 was originally announced back at MWC and seems to have been stuck in perpetuity ever since. Well, Samsung has now posted a video on one of their official YouTube channels which demos the features of the Note 10.1. Sadly the video is computer …
Just a few days ago I set myself a challenge. Using only a smartphone, would it be possible to run a website, updating posts, answering emails and responding to tweets? Is it then possible to go mobile, reporting on the biggest event happening right now in London? Snapping …
If you’re about to buy a big-screen TV to enjoy the Olympics on, check it this promotion from Samsung. Right now they’re giving away a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 when you buy a Series 7 and 8 LED Television or 51″ and 64″ Series 8 Plasma Television. There’s …
Exciting stuff I know. But unless you pre-ordered or backed them on Kickstarter then you won’t be able to install it quite yet. Take this to be a limited beta test via the Play Store. Chameleon Launcher is a new launcher for tablets that combines a selection of …
The Galaxy Note has been a success. When it first came out people laughed at how oversized it was, how you looked stupid holding it to you head, blah blah blah, jump forward six or seven months and it is a popular device in the modding community and …
Take the Xperia S we reviewed and splash some new colours on. Now ramp up the dual-core 1.5GHz CPU to a 1.7GHz and you get this, the Sony Xperia SL. It’s rumoured to be running Android Ice Cream Sandwich and these leaked shots, plus more at eprice.com.tw show …
As you can see from the data above, Android 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich is gaining pace in its install base according to Google’s report of how the different Android versions are divided. It is now on a total of 15.9% of devices, making it the 2nd most installed …
Usual advice here. Be quick, this is for a limited time. Right now, if you’re signed up to Quidco, you can get the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7″ 8GB for just £166.99. It works like this. The 8GB version is £199.99, but Currys have knocked it down to …
Don’t you just love the FCC? Well once again they have ruined another marketing scheme. Take Archos for instance, yesterday Archos put up a teaser image on Facebook and they tweeted: ARCHOS Gen 10 is coming… See you in 3 weeks for the launch announcement.http://fb.me/2bxg6aHWQ They posted this …
Mobilefun have published details of some official Cases for the Google Nexus 7. There are four new cases and a screen protector. Quite why these haven’t been leaked before or whether these are licensed by Asus /Google I’m not sure. Either way they all look pretty useful. So …
Some of you have probably bought a Raspberry pi. Some of you are probably wondering what one is. Well the picture shows you what it is. 🙂 The Raspberry pi is a mini motherboard that you can buy cheaply and install a variety of different Linux distributions on. …
The Ouya Android console has now received support from makers of Final Fantasy III, Square Enix. The Android powered device, which is expected to retail for around £63 ($99) has now received more than £3 million ($5 million) in funding through the Kickstarter website. Effectively the console is …
ZTE have maintained their position in the world rankings for mobile device shipments. As we all know devices shipped are drastically different to devices sold. But hey we’ll just carry on with this. The others in the top five will be Apple, Samsung, HTC and Nokia. This marks …
ZTE UK have launched a Facebook video production competition with rapper Professor Green. OK, he keeps popping up every time ZTE is mentioned recently. I guess he just really likes ZTE, or something… Well anyway ZTE are offering you the chance to win a brand new Grand X …
No, I’ve never heard of Time2Touch either, but their MC7403A tablet usually sells for £189.99 according to their website. It has a 7″ 800 x 480 pixel capacitive screen, 1.5GHz CPU, WiFi, 1.3 megapixel camera and runs Android Ice Cream Sandwich. There’s access to Google Play too. A …
Yes the well known business/rugged genre for devices. The demographic for these new tablets is obviously going to be for the business man who could just flip out at any minute (due to his highly stressful job) and smash up his office and all the computing devices around. …
Yesterday Samsung started to update some of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 models to Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich with the Wifi model (model GT-P7510) taking its turn now. As usual with Samsung you can either update using Kies or wait for your device to pick up the ota …
So over the last week Google has been adding a variety of videos to their Google Nexus YouTube channel. Today is the turn of Google Now and the cards. After watching this I was still none the wiser. I guess I should just use Google Now more. But information …
The Sony Tablet S is going to be replaced soon with what looks to be a much more powerful tablet – the SGPT1211 – but will it be able to compete with the Nexus 7 and the iPad? The Tablet S is a well designed, stylish 9″ tablet …
There’s a big sporting event going on at the minute and, as you may know already, you can watch all of the 24 Olympic channels via the BBC Olympic app. If, however, you fancy watching “Midsomer Murders”, “Come Dine with Me” or some other bilge, you should definitely …
Want a ZTE Grand X? You can bag yourself one right now thorugh those people at Phones 4u. Dan got up close and personal with the new device just days ago. It’s runs Android Ice Cream Sandwich, has a 960×540 4.3″ qHD screen, dual-core 1GHz CPU, 5 megapixel …
So, you have your shiny new Nexus 7, you’ve installed all your apps and got it running exactly as you want it. But what about those official accessories to go with it. After all those pesky iPad’s have them in their thousands! Well, according to Nordic Hardware the official …
The cute Sony Xperia tip looks set to arrive on both O2 and now Orange too. The handset sits squarely in the “Entry Level” category with a 3.1 megapixel shooter, 800MHz CPU, 3.2″ 320×480 pixel screen and 2.5GB on board storage. However, the phone does run Android Ice …
By now you will have hopefully read our selection of reviews for the Nexus 7. General consensus is that it is a great piece of kit. Jelly Bean is great. People are just going to go mad buying these. Amazon are screwed unless the next Kindle Fire is …
For this part of our Nexus 7 group review we will look at a few things you can do to make your time with your new tablet more productive. Tips from Tom Ransom So I’ve had my Nexus 7 for a week or two and as it stands …
We have written a lot about the Nexus 7 recently, we have looked at every aspect of the device and even took looked at how to hack the thing as well. But how does it compare to other devices? It has been well documented that Google are not …
Software review (by Ravi Patel) I’m here to put a slight downer on things. Don’t get me wrong, I love my Nexus 7. Pound for pound it could very well be the best gadget ever. But it isn’t perfect (what is?) and I wanted to point out some …
Come on, you wanna be holding one of them too, don’t you? 😉 Today our friends at eXpansys (who still haven’t sent our free gifts for all the clicks we’re sending them).. have the Galaxy Tab 8.9 WiFi 16GB device down to £199.99. 🙂 Be quick though, because …
We have talked quite a bit today about the Nexus 7, we have looked at every possible aspect of it & we have compared it on video to whatever other tablets we could get our hands on. One thing we haven’t looked at is some pictures of the …
Continuing the Coolsmartphone group review of the Nexus 7 tablet. Now we have Stephen and Garry covering the hardware side of things. Nexus 7 Hardware & Design (by Stephen Murray) Well, where do I begin…? Maybe the bit I found most surprising. The Nexus 7 is light, it …
It is now time for us at Coolsmartphone to review the Google / Asus Nexus 7 tablet. Over the years we have been sent devices for review, we have blagged devices from suppliers for review and heaven forbid we have even bought devices ourselves for review. With this …
A few days ago we bought you news that the guys over at Mobile Fun have started to stock Google Nexus 7 Cases and Covers. One of the lines that is currently available is the SD Tabletwear Stand & Type Case and we here at Coolsmartphone have managed to …
Yesterday HTC gave more information as to why the Desire HD (or HTC Ace) will not be included in the HTC’s round of updates to Ice Cream Sandwich. The Desire HD was launched in October 2010, and originally had Android 2.2 Froyo, which was later upgraded to 2.3.5 …
If you own a Nexus device first of all let me congratulate you. Secondly you probably have come across the factory images. These factory images let you totally wipe your device and restore it to the day you bought it. Ideal if you flash new roms, kernels and …
The rumours show no sign of going away. Amazon, it seems, could be working on a “Kindle Flame” phone. Way back in February we spotted that Brandon Watson had left the Windows Phone team to join Amazon. More recently Windows Phone business development boss Robert Williams left and …
The IDC figures are out. Samsung now have nearly a quarter of the market, holdiing a 24.1% market share in Q2 2012. Compare that to an 18.8% market share last year. Nokia are still in the top five mobile phone vendors but have seen their market share dip …
