Category: Android
Remember when we first saw the Motorola Xoom priced up for £449.99? Remember how it then shot up to £499 ? Well, now it’s down to £479.99 on the PCWorld website. If you’ve got stacks of cash washing around your bank account, give it some consideration. Link – …
Whilst at the HTC event today I managed to get a quick hands on video with the Sensation and with a member of the team there talking me through some key points. One thing which the people who arrange press events must take into account when arranging them is the …
Wanna see a little more of the HTC Sensation ? Well, grab yourself a coffee and soak up a bit of a video feast. HTC have added a number of videos showing you around the handset, plus there’s some extra ones via Mobile Bulgaria showing you around the …
With the HTC Sensation now official the guys at Three have stepped forward to confirm that they will be offering the dual-core 1.2GHz beast “soon”. Vodafone have got a one month exclusivity deal on the HTC Sensation, so we’re guessing it’ll arrive on Three in May sometime. The …
HTC have just announced the Sensation handset to the world and wow what a beauty. A 4.3 inch gorilla class screen, unibody aluminium case, 8 megapixel camera will 1080p HD video recording and much more It seems Vodafone have a short exclusive on this handset and will start …
We will be covering the HTC event in London LIVE today bringing you all the news and information as it is announced. HTC Event
Vodafone have just gone and posted a link to the HTC Sensation which is due to be announced today If you want a high-performing phone that lets you take HD video and see things clearly on its 4.3″ screen, choose the HTC Sensation. Take crystal-clear HD video …
Opps. Well, it looks like those earlier rumours could be coming true today. Qualcomm Germany have just posted this tweet which details the dual-core 1.2GHz chip inside the all-new HTC Sensation which is expected to be revealed today in London. We’ll have live coverage of the event as …
Android tablets are all over the place at the moment. The prices of current Android tablets are plummeting such as the Galaxy Tab and the Advent Vega. There are also lots of new tablets being announced every week such as the Asus Transformer and Acer Iconica. Due to …
The long awaited Samsung Galaxy S2 has been given an official release date of the 1st of may. The successor to the multi million selling Galaxy S (Obviously!) it set to potentially raise the performance standard even higher with it’s 1.2Ghz dual core Cpu . Chances are this will be …
Think you’re on the right contract ? Most people do, but according to research from Billmonitor three-quarters of customers are chucking £200 per year down the drain. Nearly all the networks were examined with 28,000 bills getting diagnosed as part of the study. Most were wasting money on …
Now then, this was never meant to be an idea for a blog post, but an innocent question on twitter prompted an excellent response, sufficient for me to put the findings on here. Clearly this is a very scientific study carried out with painstaking effort and to the finest detail….. …
I really like Windows Phone 7’s Metro UI, which essentially puts your application shortcuts on a series of tiles on the homescreen. Android developers being, well, Android developers have created a few different launchers for Android that mimic Microsoft’s sexy Metro UI. I’ve tried a few, but Launcher …
Now, I may get flamed for this, but I wanted to put my thoughts down on the current state of the market where tablets are concerned. So, we started off just over a year ago with the iPad, it was ‘amazing’ and ‘magical’ and it has gone on to …
Battery life has always been a concern with a lot of Android phones. In extreme cases, devices like the US-only HTC Evo 4G would only manage four hours with heavy use. The Desire HD is also another device that has battery life issues; it’s clear to see that …
We have just had a Sony Ericsson Xperia Play turn up for review today so here is a quick video overview of the device and what you get in the box. This device was kindly loaned to us by Clove Technology One thing I did miss in the …
There are a huge amount of Twitter applications over in the Android Market, so choosing the right one can be pretty confusing. While there are some good apps, many of them are, quite frankly, pretty terrible. When I used to own an HTC Hero, I was using Twidroid, …
Cold-callers get on my pip. We’ve all had them. You sign up for something, fill in a form or add your mobile number to an email only to receive dozens of “Withheld numbers”. It’s annoying. Luckily there’s an app called Mr Number which blocks unwanted calls and texts. …
For me, tablets represent a great way to replace paper and digitize publishing. Amazon’s Kindle & Apple’s iBooks are going great guns on Ebooks, and there are now some great digital magazines on the iPad already. Android has been playing catch up, but now iGizmo – a digital …
Go Contacts is a replacement for your normal contacts app. If you run HTC Sense there is not much point in reading this as your “People” app does everything this does. This app is more for the people who have an Android device without a fancy skin on …
Well it’s been a while since the last episode hasn’t it? I was forced to take a hiatus from producing the show on account of the growing amount of projects I had to undertake for my University degree but as of today that has all finished. Hopefully after …
Samsung have now confirmed they have managed to up the CPU speed of the Galaxy S2 from 1.0 to 1.2Ghz on the Dual Core processor built inside. Samsung Estonia on Facebook have said: Super news! S II processor, the 1.2GHz Galaxy (1.0GHz instead of the previously mentioned). It …
Google Maps has reeived another update. Version 5.0.3 introduces History for Latitude. Until now Latitude has helped you see where your friends and family are located but now you can see just how long you spend in certain areas. Other extras include the ability to add your own …
A big HTC launch always brings rumours and many have already mentioned the Pyramid device – a handset we hoped would appear at Mobile World Congress. Here in the UK it seems that the phone will be called the “HTC Sensation”. Screenshots on XDA-developers show a 1.2 GHz …
New versions of some of Google’s official Android apps have leaked online and also been made available for download. The highlight is probably a new version of the default Android Music Player which has been brought in line with it’s Honeycomb counterpart. There is a greater emphasis on …
We’ll be up-front about this from the start. The HTC Desire S has a lot of the same characteristics and specs as the original HTC Desire. We almost felt a little let-down when it first appeared in Barcelona, especially up-against dual-core 1GHz phones. Somehow I felt insulted that …
Three have just stuck the HTC Desire S on their shelves. It’s available from £359.99 for PAYG customer and you can then add a £15 “All in One 15” top-up for 30-days of all-you-can-eat data. For contract customers you can buy the phone for £30 per month. We’ll …
Swiftkey is a great keyboard that has been available for a while now. “Swiftkey predicts your most likely next word based on what you’ve already written. It learns as you use it from your message archive to make predictions amazingly accurate over time”. They have two new free …
The picture says it all really. The Motorola Atrix, a phone we snapped and filmed at Mobile World Congress, is now sitting proudly on the Orange shop and will be arriving in shops soon. It has a 4″ capacative touchscreen with Corning Gorilla glass and a 960×540 qHD …
HTC have been around for ages it seems and their handsets seem to get better and better with time, especially in the Android range and the Incredible S is another device which fits into that category. This review device was sent to us by the kind people at HTC …
eBuyer have just listed this, the Asus Transformer tablet. Available with (£429.99) or without (£379.98) a slot-in keyboard it’s a 10.1 ” WSVGA tablet with toughened glass and a 1280×800 multi-touch capacitive touch screen. Running the very latest tablet-friendly Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) it has an NVIDIA Tegra 2 …
Those lovely people at Three have stated that the updated Android 2.3 software (Gingerbread) will be available soon enough. It’s coming in for testing today and.. “End of April early May is the plan.” Other sites have gone on to state that this will cover the entire Desire …
The Samsung Galaxy Tab has been around for a little while now and along with the Apple iPad started a new craze of tablet devices to keep people connected on the move. I first got hands on the Tab last October at a Three event in London and …
We loved the addition of the VGA camera at the front of the Desire S and wanted to give it a spin. We went into the dialer and tried to find the button marked “video call” but it’s just not there. It seems that the HTC Desire S …
Well, this isn’t strictly smartphone news, but some of them are related to phones, plus it’s Friday and we all need a chuckle. Enjoy. Please add links in the comments and I’ll add them to the feature. (If I’m feeling generous!) It started off for me when I …
OK, so we’ve compared the camera quality between the Sony Ericsson Xperia arc and the HTC Desire S, but what about video ? We went out with both phones and cranked up the resolution to 720p HD. The Sony Ericsson Xperia arc records MP4 videos as default and …
Another phone to become available on Three today is the Samsung Galaxy Mini. It’s powered by Android 2.2.1 and has a 3.14 capacitive screen. It also has a 3 megapixel camera, GPS, WiFi an portable WiFi hotspot capability. You can get this for £15 a month on a …
Sony Ericsson have announced that their new Xperia PLAY handset will have more than 60 games available in the first week. Need for Speed, The Sims and Assassins Creed will be available, as will Worms, Guns ‘n Glory, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell and many more. Owners will also …
The Sony Ericsson Xperia arc is now available on Three. It’ll be free on contracts over £35 a month and you can enjoy All-You-Can-Eat Data (and it really, really is because we tested it) on The One Plan for £40 a month with 2000 anytime, any network minutes …
Sony Ericsson tell us that they’ve improved camera technology. This new Xperia arc has a Sony Exmor R CMOS sensor that lets you “capture high-quality movies and stills in low light”. Well, tonight I was in the garage. The sun was setting and I was snapping pictures for …