Category: Android
The BBC have just updated their iOS iPlayer app to support streaming over 3G. An update to the Android version will soon arrive which will also add this capability, meaning that you can finally watch and listen to BBC content on the move. The BBC have been quick …
Google once again have had to remove some rather unpleasant apps from the Android Market. These apps seem to be pretending to be apps based around popular apps with “young people” i.e. Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, Twilight or strangely Horoscopes (do people still believe these?). The user installs …
We’ve had a number of headphones sent our way to review recently. These are the Sony Ericsson LiveSound hi-fi headphones and they sell for around £49.99. They don’t work with all phones or MP3 players, these are designed to work with Sony Ericsson Xperia handsets like the Xperia …
GSMArena have managed to get hold of some more pictures of the yet to be announced handset codenamed ‘Nozomi’ which is expected to be launched as the Arc HD either at CES or Mobile World Congress in 2012. We have already seen some images but never as many as have …
We have been invited along to London this Wednesday by the team at LG. The swanky event takes place at Claridges to launch a new Prada Phone by LG 3.0 The internet is full of rumours that this will be running Android and there’ll be some really impressive …
I love listening to radio on my Android phone. It’s great, and I’ve found a number of online radio stations that are either exclusive to the internet or broadcast in an area I’m not in. TuneIn Radio has been an app I’ve used for a good while now. …
You may have all heard of the Asus Transformer Prime, it’s the upcoming Tegra 3, slightly over hyped tablet from Asus and over the weekend three things have happened regarding the Asus Transformer Prime. First of all UK retailer Clove announced the Transformer Prime for pre-order of which …
Did you get the PC World / Currys discount app ? Gah, be quick, because we’ve just spotted a good £50 off Sony S tablets. That’ll knock the price down to £299 (normally £349) on the 16GB version. Now, if you’ve not got the app then you could …
Come on, you’ve probably seen all the news about Apple and various other phone manufacturers being involved in lawsuits. Until now Apple has been fairly successful in winning every legal battle and have forced many manufacturers to change the design of their products, licence features or just remove …
Remember this? The original, laser-disk arcade game first appeared in 1983, the same year as the first Star Wars arcade game and as Nintendo produced the 8-bit Nintendo Famicom. It was about the same time that I fell in love with arcade games; shortly after I got a …
Panasonic once made phones for Europe quite a while ago, some of you might remember the GD87 which was at the time quite an advanced phone so to speak. Well Panasonic are coming back with a bang and with Android now available for manufacturers to use gives them a chance …
Yes I know this was released yesterday before you say anything. OnLive appeared a few months ago and it is a service that basically allows you to play the latest pc or xbox games over the internet. All that was previously needed was one of their tiny consoles …
The other week I bought the new T-Mobile branded Vivacity. It is a repacked ZTE Crescent and also a variant of the Orange San Francisco 2. I have been using it as my main device since then. My main problem with it is that my normal phone is …
Last night Google introduced another new service that is only available to Americans. This time it is a magazine reader that has more than 150 different publishers on board. Google are certainly building up a decent range of products (for Americans) to rival Amazon and Apple. This also …
In an incredibly vague announcement on HTC UK’s Facebook page it looks like the Desire HD and the Incredible S are about to get an update. It looks like an update to Sense 3.0. As usual real life people will probably not see this update for months. The …
Twitter look to be giving their site a new look at the moment so it’s good to see that both the iPhone and Android apps have had a facelift too. The new look is clean, fresh and simplistic. Everything is now easier to use and it’s better at …
Hey football fans, come close. A few hours ago, and I mean just a few hours ago, Sky Sports added this rather nifty app. It’s the Sky Sports Live Football Score Centre app for Android and it’s really rather good. Whether you have a Sky subscription or not, …
OK, hands up if you use Noseybook? Sorry, I meant Facebook of course. Everyone uses it for keeping in touch with their friends (and by “friends” we generally mean nosing around the lives of people you bumped into and a few dozen people you bumped into over the …
Writepad is a text input method for tablets and phones. Oh great another keyboard app, Android really could do with a few more of those. This one though is different, it uses either your finger or a stylus to capture your handwriting. Yes like you could do in …
Hopefully by now you’ve read our HTC Sensation XL review. Today we got sent another one, so we figured it was time for some daring camera angles and zoom-shots 🙂 Inside there’s that clever Beats technology that, when combined with the Dr Dre Beats headphones, provides superior sound …
Have you read our Sensation XE review? We were pretty impressed. The Android handset from HTC adds Beats Audio and has a 1.5Ghz CPU. You can win in a brand new (and network free) HTC Sensation XE from those nice people at The Smartphone Centre. They’re celebrating their …
What will you be opening on Christmas morning ? If it’s another pair of socks and a random DVD then it might be worth buying yourself a gift. The HTC Flyer seems to be getting a swift kick in the price department, with some outlets (which we can’t …
Amazon’s Fire Android tablet has been a hit in the US, but we are still waiting for it to hit the UK. According to the Gadget Show website though, we might not have long to wait. A “source inside Amazon” has said the tablet will come to the UK …
Our son is three and, when he gets hold of my phone, I’d like him to be using an app that’s educational. There’s loads on the Android Market, but unfortunately I’ve not seen a great deal that are good. They all try, but here in the UK we’re …
Yesterday Charbax from Archosfans posted a video of an upcoming update for the current range of G9 tablets. This update is to Ice Cream Sandwich, the tablets currently run on Honeycomb and we reviewed the Archos 80 G9 here. Hopefully once the update is out we will look …
In Germany IPCom have sent cease and desist letters to major retailers who sell HTC 3G products. They are demanding that they are withdrawn from sale. This is after HTC recently withdrew their appeal against IPCom in a recent dispute about patents IPCom hold. IPCom are threatening to …
That’s a number isn’t it ? Go on, drink it in. 10 billion. There’s only 7 billion people on this planet for chuffs sake ! In a blog post it was also announced that 1 billion apps are being downloaded every month and there’s no sign of a …
Yes you really did read that right, apps for just 10p!. The Android Market now has some select applications (10 to be exact) which are now on sale at just 10p and there are some great ones to pick up tonight including SoundHound and SwiftKey To get hold …
This morning we have had a press release from Vodafone detailing the winners in a recent awards ceremony. They have awarded four developers of apps with a share of £200,000. Currently 3 out the 4 apps are available on the Android Market. Help Talk is not yet on …
Sony Ericsson are about to go through a massive rebrand due to Sony buying out the Ericsson part of the mobile phones business but that is not stopping them from planning ahead with yet more stunning hardware. The latest is codenamed Nozomi and will be a 2012 flagship …
I had a bit of a thought this morning. For weeks I’ve been using an app which just sits in the background and does exactly what it’s supposed to. It’s easy to work and fantastically clever. It’s called Llama and, although these screenshots won’t exactly blow you away, …
On Friday, Acer officially announced a new tablet. It is the Iconia A200. It will be their 2nd generation tablet which will ship with Ice Cream Sandwich (if you order it next year). The spec for this tablet seems to point to one thing. That is that Acer …
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus has barely been out for two weeks and it already has an overclocked kernel thanks to XDA members franciscofranco and coolbho3000. What makes this even more amazing is that neither of them own a Galaxy Nexus! This is the third iteration of his kernel and it’s stable and fast, …
You’re probably all getting bombarded with deals and offers from shops and retailers at the moment. Well, the guys at Currys and PC World have promised to buy me a brand new TV* if I pimp their Christmas Deals app. It’s basically an advent calendar, and each day …
For those that remember the good old days of the Commodore 64 and Spectrum, the Codemasters classic Dizzy – Prince Of The Yolkfolk is heading to iPhone and Android this December. I personally spent countless hours attempting to get Dizzy to jump from screen to screen and land …
Android software engineer Jean-Baptiste Queru posted on twitter this evening that the factory images for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus are now available for download. What this means is that if you flash a bad ROM onto your device or there’s an issue whilst flashing you can use this …
Well finally I am back with my video reviews. YouTube have been less than helpful with my upload problems but they have been fixed! I’ll kick things off with a video review of one of my favourite apps, ‘Shush’. It’s very simple, it just lets you put your …
Yes!! The Galaxy Nexus is now available from Vodafone UK. Available online here Free from £41 a month. At that price on a 24 month plan, along with the device for free, you get 1200 minutes, Unlimited Text and 750MB of Internet (after the first 3 months of …
Carrier IQ is software that is built into devices like Android, BlackBerries, Nokias and iPhones. It seems as though the “keylogger”/”rootkit” is installed by the Network supplying the device. The version built into Android logs everything that you do on your device. Even those pictures of yourself, in …
Ok, so there’s a lot of people that can’t wait for the Galaxy Nexus bug to be fixed so here’s a guide on how to flash the update manually… You will need: – A Samsung Galaxy Nexus – An Unlocked bootloader – A Rooted device To root follow …
