Category: Android
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 They are demanding that they are withdrawn from sale.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 …
One of our readers has just informed us the Gingerbread update is available for the Motorola Atrix, on the Orange network. Time to manually check for updates in settings 😉 Thanks to Andrew Farquhar for the tip.
It has been mentioned over the last couple of days that Samsung will be pushing out an update over the air to fix the strange volume bug that was present at release on the Galaxy Nexus. As always with OTA updates various people say they have had it …
The upcoming and slightly over hyped Asus Transformer Prime tablet netbook hybrid thingy, has had another release date mentioned. It’s apparently the 19th of December for the US not the 9th as previously mentioned. Still nothing official for the UK though, the last I heard was from Asus …
OK, this is a little big. Many moons ago we reviewed the Orange SPV M2000. We thought that was big. It’s not. Not when compared to this. The style and design is still there and it does look a lot like a larger version of the rather glorious …
Yesterday I got hold of the new T-Mobile Vivacity, which is a ZTE Crescent or Orange San Francisco in a different case. I thought I would give you a few first impressions and photos now and a slightly more in-depth review next week once I have really got …
I previously wrote about World of Goo when it was released on iOS earlier this year. It’s a fantastic puzzler in which you’re tasked with building structures out of cute little Goo balls with the goal being to help your Goos reach the exit pipe for each level. …
Google have just released Google Maps 6.0 onto the Android Marketplace and the standout new addition is the ability to view indoor maps of some malls, department stores and airports. Unfortunately the feature is currently limited to US and Japanese locations however that should hopefully change before too …
Another day, another legal battle over patents, and another one HTC has lost. HTC has withdrawn its appeal against the defeat it suffered to patent company IPCom, meaning it is now open to having to pay IPComs costs, as well as a handset ban on any that involve …
Acer have announced the Liquid Express phone. It looks a lot like previous model in the Liquid range. Two things are different though. The Liquid Express has Gingerbread and it also has … NFC. So I’m suddenly interested. Here is a bargain basement phone that appeared on both …
We have recently received an Acer Iconia A100 and boy what a great device it is. So enough of the introduction, lets get down to the nitty gritty. Hardware The Acer Iconia has a 7″ Capacative screen, Android 3.2, Tegra 2 chipset, 8GB built in memory and a …
This slender device is the HTC Ville – a name that’s just one letter away from disaster. Set for an apparent launch at Mobile World Congress, this has HTC Sense 4.0, Android 4.0, a 4.3″ qHD Super AMOLED screen and an 8 megapixel with full HD video capture. …
On a trip to Tesco Ant spotted this, the Neon Android from a company called Bluechip. There, next to the “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter”, is this bargain-bucket SIM-free phone. It’s £79.97 with a Tesco SIM card and, although the specs aren’t exactly stellar, it could be …
The poor old HTC HD2. It’s had some serious abuse from the community. Windows Mobile 6.5 powered it originally but then someone put Android Gingerbread onto it. After that there was a Windows Phone 7 ROM, followed by dual-boot special. Now, now the HD2 has received the all-new …
Who says people power does not matter!. Earlier today just before AskThree kicked off on Twitter, Three announced that due to popular demand they WILL now be selling the Sensation XE from HTC. Don’t forget to check our review of the HTC Sensation XE if you’re thinking about buying this …
Looking forward to getting a Motorola Razr? You can buy one now on O2 for nothing on certain plans (£57 per month or more) or pay £249.99 up-front and pay £16.50 per month. Powered by Android 2.3 and featuring “MotoCast” to stream your media to your PC, it’s …
Just a few weeks ago we caught sight of this WiFi hub. Available on Three you simply stick your existing USB wireless dongle in and it’ll turn magically into a WiFi hotspot. It costs £39.99 and allows five devices to be connected with Three speeds of up to …
T-Mobile UK have just launched a great value Android phone on their network called the Vivacity. With a 3.5 inch screen, 5 megapixel camera, support for 32GB memory cards and running Gingerbread the Vivacity should be a great upgrade to the older ‘Pulse’ range which was on T-Mobile …
So word on the street (and when I say street, I mean the good old information super-highway) is that viruses and malware are becoming quite a big threat for Android users, but that is a story for another post. I want to have a chat about one app …
Get yourself over to Amazon at 17.30 today (GMT) and you’ll find a rather tasty deal on the ZTE Skate. We’re not sure how much they’ll be knocking off the handset just yet, but it’ll definitely be a lot less than the usual ￡200+ This is all part …
The issue of software updates has always been a topic that has raised much discussion among fanboys users and is a stick that iOS lovers have often used to beat their Android counterparts with. I personally believe that for all of Apple’s faults, one area where they’ve indisputably …
The guys from Sony Ericsson have been up to their tricks again. This time they’ve hooked up some football players to phones via some rather clever technology. Yes, it does sound a bit crazy but the end result is pretty cool 🙂 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkuWPH9HLJ8
HTC cut their revenue forecasts by nearly 23% today as their huge growth finally came to an end. Strong competition is now hampering the company. They also blame… (The) global macroeconomic downturn and market competition, the assumptions of 2011 Q4 financial forecast provided earlier are no longer applicable. …
