Category: Android

Motorola start the countdown..

Just what are Motorola planning to launch next week? Whatever it is, Motorola are throwing quite a bif of weight behind it. The teaser video we showed you yesterday has now been joined by a countdown timer on the Motorola Mobility website. Let the guessing games commence. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFlZ4DWAxdA&feature=player_embedded …

Galaxy SII Wins again – Phone of the Year

Come on, we told you it was a good phone. The Galaxy SII has already swept the board at the Mobile Choice awards and it’s now won Phone Of The Year in the T3 Gadget Awards too. More than 950,000 readers voted and T3 Judges also gave their …

Photos from the HTC Beats party

Last week HTC announced the new Sensation XL. Following the launch, a string of celebrities including Lady Gaga, Will.i.am, Fedde Le Grand, Dirty South and Cheryl Cole turned up to dance the night away at The Roundhouse in Camden. The whole thing got broadcast live but, if you …

Play Android apps on your desktop PC

Want to run Android apps on your PC ? Grab Bluestacks. It’s a free app which is now available to download and seems to run the majority of Android apps we’ve thrown at it. The app runs on Windows and there’s a Pro version in the works which …

Samsung Galaxy W now available on Three

Hey, if you’re one of those lovely people who check us daily (and follow us on that Twitter mularky) you’ll already know that the Galaxy W has shown up in Three catalogues. Now we’ve had the official stuff from their PR people, so you should find it in …

The Galaxy S II cleans up in Mobile Choice Awards

Mobile Choice have dished out their Consumer Awards for 2011. The event was hosted in London with 10,000 readers voting in an online survey. The results are as follows… Tablet of the year – Apple iPad 2 Phone of the year – Samsung Galaxy S II Best camera …

Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman in stock and ready to go

OK, story so far. Sony Ericsson launched the Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman. Three then announced that they would carry it. Now, it’s ready to buy. Pick it up for £27 a month and you’ll get 2000 minutes, 5000 texts and all-you-can-eat data on the 24-month One Plan …

Samsung Galaxy WiFi arrives

Most of us are probably familiar with the Apple iPod. It was, and still is, a fantastic music player. In 2007 Apple stuck all the phone technology into it and .. boom.. out came the iPhone. Samsung have now decided to do something similar, but in reverse, by …

Samsung Galaxy Ace, available in purple from O2

Want a purple phone ? O2 have plonked the Galaxy Ace online (we reviewed it here) and you can bag it for free for a mere £10.50 per month with 50 minutes and 250 texts. You can get data connectivity for another fiver on top per month. The …

Motorola’s Next… something

Motorola have sent us this rather lovely video, with the simple text “Four Reasons To Get Excited”. It gives a launch date of October 18… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFlZ4DWAxdA Hmm.. it features bullets, razors and the number 42. The four key points are “faster, thinner, smarter and stronger”. Could this be …

Cyanogenmod 7.1 is out.

This morning the Cyanogenmod team have announced that 7.1 is now the new stable release. I know a lot of you will have been running this via the nightly route and your wondering what the fuss is about. Well this release includes official stable support for most of …

Google Books now available in the UK

Checked Android Market recently ? If you’re lucky the latest update should have arrived and books can now be purchased. Here in the UK this has taken a while to arrive, but the eBooks system is easy enough to use. Just hop in the Android Market, choose your …

Films on YouTube goes live

Want full-length movies on your Android tablet? Yeah sure, you can find various illegal ways of doing it, but if you just want to pick up your tablet or phone and start watching a film it can be a bit cumbersome. Now you can use YouTube Movies. Oh …

Nexus Prime launch moved back

For reasons that are as yet unknown, Samsung and Google have delayed the launch of their Nexus Prime. The wording of the announcement is as follows.. Samsung and Google decide to postpone the new product announcement at CTIA Fall. We agree that it is just not the right …

Nexus Prime gets sneaky video demo

Someone has now managed to get their hands onto a Nexus Prime. The video, from mobilissimo.ro (translated) shows the Prime running Android 4.0 – Ice Cream Sandwich. There’s screenshots from the OS too and, despite the video being removed, it’s now found a way back onto YouTube.. Link …

Win tickets to the London International Technology Show

Not entered our Skinflips competition yet ? Come on, there’s 25% off for everyone that enters and some great prizes up for grabs. We’ve got something else to give away today – two tickets to the London International Technology Show. Everything kicks off on October 21st and HiDrive …

HTC Beats Event Live Broadcast

Lady Gaga, Cheryl Cole, Will.i.am and more are at the Roundhouse in London as part of the Beats Audio and HTC Sensation XL Launch. Yes, we said Lady Gaga. 🙂 Join in with the LIVE broadcast below.. Link – Join in at Livebeats.co.uk

HTC Sensation XL Announced

HTC have just announced a new smartphone to the world, the HTC Sensation XL and the XL plays a REALLY big part (no pun intended) in the difference over the original HTC Sensation Consider this the twin brother of the HTC TItan which we saw only recently running …

Helicopter. Smartphone. Video camera. Want.

I have no reason to, but for some reason I suddenly want one of these. Put simply it’s a helicopter that you control .. with your phone. The Parrot AR Drone is quite expensive (£259.99) but, when combined with the iPhone or Android app you get to use …

Samsung to try and block iPhone 4S sales

The war between Samsung and Apple continues. Reuters reports that it will file patent-infringement claims to try and ban the sale of the new iPhone 4S before it even hits the shops. Samsung said preliminary injunction requests for a ban on iPhone 4S sales will be filed on …

Curvy Nexus Prime teased

Following the new(ish) iPhone it’s now the turn of Samsung to launch a handset. They’ve added a sneak peek at their new Nexus Prime handset in the video below… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM9RO-GAKjE There’s very little to see so far unless you’re trigger-happy with the pause button, although it’s clear that …

No thanks, I’m sticking with my Galaxy S II

Hello. My name is Leigh. I started this whole thing back in 2002. Back then it was all about the Microsoft Smartphone but over the years there’s been a colossal change in the mobile landscape. Today Apple announced the iPhone 4S. Despite what people say, it’ll be yet …

Dre Dre Beats Solo HD review

So O2 are going to be stocking the Beats Solo HD headphones very soon (along with rest of their range) and, as I have been using these headphones for the past 4 months now I thought I would share some opinions of the headphones themselves. The headphones were …

Clove – New Stock Arrivals

Clove have had an excellent delivery this morning containing some exciting handsets. Check out the images and links below and treat yourself to a new device. The HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio Get one here The HTC Titan Buy this one here And last but not least …

HTC Sensation XE Ready to roll

If you’ve got £479.95 burning a hole in your pocket then my personal bank account is definitely the place for it. Of course, if you’d rather get something in return, you may want to consider a brand new, unlocked HTC Sensation XE from those lovely people at The …

HTC Vulnerability – Patch on the way

HTC have already go to work on the security vulnerability that appeared over the weekend. The news has now gone mainstream with the BBC and other networks picking up on the issue. We’ve received the following statement from HTC about the matter.. HTC Public Statement HTC takes claims …

App Review – QR Pal

Last week QR Pay Ltd got in touch with me to let me know they had just released their new app ‘QR Pal’ and that it was a QR reader with a bit more functionality than the average application. Intrigued, I have spent the last week playing with …

HTC Security flaw

News has appeared on AndroidPolice that paints a rather worrying picture about HTC. HTC in an atempt to log information about users of their devices have left a rather large back door for malicious apps to get hold of your information. So far it only seems to be the …

Will it ever end?

If you’re looking for a quick answer to the above question then I would say “no”. A slightly lengthier answer would be “probably not”. So what am I on about I hear you ask? I am talking about the constant stream of new devices in different shapes, sizes, …

Xperia PLAY up for just £179.99

In these austere times it’s always worth keeping an eye on sites like hotukdeals for the latest bargains. Argos is now selling the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY for a mere £179.99. The offer popped up over the weekend and appears to have quickly sold out, so here’s hoping …

Opinion – The HTC Explorer

The HTC Explorer got officially announced last week but we had a rather sneaky few hours with it some weeks back. Although it hasn’t got the top-end specs we’re normally used to from Android smartphones, it will serve as an entry into the smartphone world for many and …

Nearer ever Nearer – iPhone 4S

We’ve been speculating on the site for some time around what the next iPhone announcement would REALLY be about, will it be the mythical re-vamped 5 or a guts change on the 4 (much like the Gen3 underwent). While we’ve maintained the iPhone 5 is still a long …

Well hello there, Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus

Samsung have just announced another device which will probably receive a lawsuit pretty soon. The Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus weighs a mere 345g and is just 9.96mm thin. It runs Android 3.2 Honeycomb and that 7″ screen has a 1024×600 pixel WSVGA resolution. Powered by a 1.2GHz Dual-core …

The Microsoft mobile success story, thanks to Android

Let’s all be honest, we’re quickly losing track of who is suing who and owns which patent. What is clear though, is just how much one company can make from the success of a competitor. According to a Goldman Sachs analysts, Microsoft will make $444 million (nearly £284 …

Xperia Arc S – Now on Vodafone

Got £31 a month ? Pop into a Vodafone store and get yourself a shiny new Xperia arc S. It’s been a month since we saw it launched and features a speedy 1.4GHz CPU, 8.1 megapixel camera with HD video recording and the Exmor R image sensor, HDMI …

Motorola DEFY – Not quite so lifeproof ?

Ahh bugger. Some pretty negative PR for Motorola today. The BBC Watchdog show has received a number of complaints from owners of the Motorola DEFY. They, like us, saw the adverts showing the handset surviving a pretty considerable drop onto a dance floor. However, in some cases the …

Three to carry the HTC Explorer

Three have announced that they will be carrying the HTC Explorer “soon”. The new handset is aimed at “the first time” smartphone user and has a 600Mhz CPU, Android 2.3 and a new version of the HTC Sense interface. A the back there’s a 3.2 megapixel camera whilst …

HTC Explorer Announced

Known previously as the Pico the HTC Explorer isn’t unfamiliar to us and we were lucky enough to get some decent hands-on time with the device last week. It’s HTC’s most affordable handset and will be available in Q4 in metallic black, active black and metallic navy. HTC …

ZTE Libra gets unboxed

We managed to get a hands-on with the ZTE Skate in February but the ZTE Libra has passed us by so far. It’s available to buy now for £159.95. Clove have added a couple of quick unboxing images and should follow-up shortly with a video too. Clove are …