Category: Android
Orange have put a new smarphone on their website, the Barcelona. The smart ones among you will have noticed the naming trend, following on from last years superb San Francisco- AKA the ZTE Blade. The Barcelona is a totally different device, having a 2.6″ touchscreen and physical qwerty keyboard. No pricing …
Just quick little post to give you something to read while having the first life saving coffee of the day, Mondays, got to love them ! Quite interesting, shame it doesn’t list more of the smaller manufacturers, there is a lot of ‘others’. The growth of Android/Google is quite …
I thought I would make a not-so-quick video showing you my current Android ‘setup’, including some of my favourite apps. As you can probably see, I primarily use my phone as a means of communication, either through SMS, good old fashioned voice calls, or online (Twitter, Google Talk, …
The Sony Ericsson X10 has been plagued with problems since its initial release. Poor stock software, no multi touch, stuck on Android 1.6 for a while or the locked down bootloader. Sony Ericsson initially said no updates to a higher version of Android would appear for the X10. …
Now, You’re probably asking yourself why the hell I’m posting an App recommendation at half past eleven on a Friday evening….. You weren’t, oh suit yourself. The reason for the late posting is because this is a sort of joint suggestion for you, one is the App and …
Well this may pass some of you by, but the Windows Mobile of old (Not Windows phone 7) more commonly known as WinMo is having it’s Marketplace and MyPhone services discontinued by Microsoft later this year. Now I know some of you may say, ” well so what?” …
The Android Market contains hundreds of different wallpaper apps. They are all very similar inn that you are presented with four popular images or a list of categories. Once you have loaded the category you have to keep tapping next to view the next four, it soon get …
There are reports of Orange and Vodafone rolling out the Android 2.3 ‘Gingerbread’ update to it’s Galaxy S owners today. We can’t confirm this officially at this moment in time, have YOU had an update? Let us know in the comments below. If true, it’s good news for …
French site GPS and Co have been reporting that the eagerly anticipated ZTE Skate will retail for around 200 Euros, so with UK tax taken into consideration it should retail here for around £200 or less. The Skate is the follow up to the hugely successful Blade, otherwise …
This won’t be as in depth As James’s excellent recommended app features, but a friend has just joined the Android owning world and asked me if there was a visual voicemail app? I thought I would quickly flag this up. I’ve been using HulloMail for about a year …
Initially the UK was to miss out on the newer redesigned Galaxy Tab 10.1, with us for some reason getting supplied with the older, fatter original design. Today Vodafone put up a coming soon page that suggests we are going to get the newer Tab after all- Hurrah! …
Well it was only a matter of time….. Following Apples Keynote speech at the WWDC2001 on Monday it was inevitable that someone important from a rival would put fingers to keyboard and have a pop at Apple. This is a result of lots of new features that Apple announced to …
Quickpic is designed to be a replacement for the standard Android gallery. Which is good because I find the standard gallery at times a little slow, sometimes a little buggy and sometimes just unusable. Quickpic can also set wallpaper for you, which I find the standard gallery quite …
Taiwan based smartphone maker HTC today announced record sales for May. A figure of $1.42 Billion ( ….thinks Dr Evil….” One Billion Dollars..”) has been announced, more than double last years May figures! Last Mays total was $656 Million. Impressive stuff from a company that only a few …
Three have just launched the HRC ChaCha on their network and have posted a blog update as well as a YouTube video which can be found below. The HTC ChaCha will cost just £20 on ‘The One Plan’ giving you more allowance than you could ever dream of …
GSMArena have posted some photos of a new Sony Ericsson device which they have heard is due to be announced this September sometime. The specs include a 3.2 inch HD screen showing 854×480 pixels which will be great for photos and videos on the device, it also has …
The HTC ChaCha has been given a quiet speed boost from 600Mhz to 800Mhz according to ITProPortal. This is a 33% speed bump on the same hardware and will help with browsing, navigating and using more applications at the same time. HTC has quietly upgraded the Chacha, …
Anyone lucky enough to have a HTC Flyer might have been informaed about a new version of the software is now available for a free OTA download. The download is said to ‘improve system performance’ so we wait and see what has been improved. Your Tablet will receive a …
Meet the Toshiba Thrive. It runs Android 3.1 (Honeycomb) and is powered by an NVIDIA Tegra 2 Dual Core CPU. It comes with a 10.1″ IPS 1280×800 720p 16:10 screen and has two cameras – a 5 megapixel rear shooter with auto-focus and a 2 megapixel front-facing webcam. …
Remember the Samsung Galaxy S II review ? We took a good look at some rather excellent Gameloft games and were mightily impressed. Now Sony Ericsson are teaming up with Gameloft to launch Rainbow Six – Shadow Vanguard exclusively on the Xperia PLAY. 20 other games have been …
The Motorola Atrix is now available on T-Mobile. The device, which had a short exclusive on Orange has been floating around the T-Mobile site for some time so if you’ve been waiting, head on over and get yourself one. The handset is free on plans costing £35.75 per …
If you’re looking for an Android device with a sliding QWERTY keyboard then your choices are somewhat limited at the moment. Most people will choose the Desire Z, but now Sony Ericsson look set to make their Xperia Pro available to buy. It’s currently up for pre-order on …
More apps have been yanked out of the Android Market after they were found to contain malicious code. Again it seems that modified versions of existing apps found their way into the Market and again these apps have sent personal data to places you wouldn’t want it going …
Pocketnow.com have stumbled across a page on the Motorola website which seems to show lots of new devices. The site, which was taken down shortly after, revealed part of a new Motorola XOOM 2 tablet and two new Android devices called the “Slimline” and “Zaha”. There’s also a …
Android device manufacturers have pretty much stuck to the standard design, that is a touch screen 3.5″-5″ with a few buttons dotted around the screen. Over the years we have seen various devices with a physical keyboard such as the G1, Motorola Milestone (Droid) or the HTC Desire …
Asus have now made the PadFone official with a product page, Press Release and several YouTube videos showing a lucky owner getting popular with the ladies. The device lets you switch from the phone to the tablet for a “seamless experience” between your activities and a single SIM …
It’s got some weird sort of glove box-style mechanism to swallow-up the phone and, around the other side, it’s a full Android tablet. The Android march continues and there’s more cross-over devices appearing month by month. This will be known as the Asus PadFone and, when you want …
So you have a smartphone. Be it Android, Apple or Windows Phone 7. Or some other platform. Now what? Smartphones are becoming more and more popular, as they become cheaper to produce and more popular, and people are following their friends and buying something similar to them. Now, …
OK, so this isn’t smartphone specific and is best viewed via a PC, but as we mostly use smartphones to use twitter I guess I can get away with featuring it here on Coolsmartphone. So, Twitsprout is a one page twitter “social media analytics and intelligence service”, or in …
This is the first time that I am going to take a look at a game. Words with Friends is also available on the iPhone though so you Apple fans might want to pay attention too. I’d also like to invite you all to download the app now and …
Looking for the Xperia PLAY ? Want it in white ? Want to use O2 ? Well, I’ve got good news for you. O2 have the handset up for free on plans over £37 per month and for £299.99 up-front on the £16.50 per month plans. If you …
HTC have officially given the green light to unlocked bootloaders following a number of campaigns and petitions around the web. The news, which was posted on the HTC Facebook page, comes from Peter Chou himself… There has been overwhelmingly customer feedback that people want access to open bootloaders …
Many of you will be aware of NHS Direct. If you need health advice, reassurance or help, they’re just a phone call away. Now there’s an Android app and it’s available before the iPhone app. It pulls together the online symptom-checkers available from the normal NHS Direct website …
Sony Ericsson have started to roll out a software update for new Xperia arc and Xperia PLAY customers. It’s starting to roll out now, so keep an eye out for an update message on your handset. The improvements include battery performance, software and WiFi stability, touch responsiveness and …
Carphone Warehouse have had the INQ Cloud Touch for a little while now but at a rather expensive price of around £250 on launch. Tonight on checking their site they have lowered the price on PAYG (which also happens to be unlocked!) to just £119.99 when topping up …
Today the BBC released their dedicate long awaited news app for Android. There are plenty of third party news apps out there linking to the BBC, but Android fans have been missing out on the official app up until now -all you iphone owners can stop sniggering at …
Quick. Get your utterly brilliant Samsung Galaxy S II and check for updates, it looks like extra battery life and camera improvements are ready to download. The update, which is available via Kies too, should give you better GPS accuracy and a performance boost too. If you’re still …
Back at Mobile World Congress we got some time with the Alcatel One Touch 990. It’s powered by a 600MHz CPU and has a 320×480 pixel screen with a 1300mAh battery, WiFi, GPS and a 5 megapixel camera. Aimed squarely at the mass market, this is coming to …
In a rather strange move,Twitter has added email notifications for @ replies. You may have noticed this by the amount of emails suddenly appearing in your inbox! This does seem strange as you surely know when someone has mentioned you by simply looking at and reading your timeline… …
If you had read my post yesterday < Here > ( of course you did! why did I even ask….) you would know that HTC have recently changed their policy on locking bootloaders for their smartphones and basically doing their best to stop the devices being played with …
