Category: Android
A lot of you wanted to know just how fast the new Sony Ericsson Xperia arc was so today we decided to give it a spin. To get a benchmark we used Quadrant and, just for fun, put it up against a brand new HTC Desire S. Now, …
The other week we looked at fully featured clock widgets. Today we will have a look at minimal clock widgets. These are clocks that show you a bare minimum. First up is Clockr. Clockr is a beautiful text based clock widget. There are a few settings covering the …
OK, it’s time for another HTC Desire S video so I thought I’d pack in two for you today. Today we’re going through Voice Search, the HTC Weather application, calendar, YouTube and how the phone sorts applications…
The Sony Ericsson Xperia arc is a device we got a brief hands-on with at Mobile World Congress but alas it was all too brief. The handset has a large 4.2″ screen but is remarkably thin – just 8.7mm. Around back is a fantastic 8.1 megapixel camera with …
You may have noticed that Dixons have reduced the price of the Advent Vega to £199. If not they have and here is the link. I bought one recently and I thought I would share my initial thoughts about the device to try and help potential buyers make …
Vodafone look set to deliver the rather brilliant HTC Wildfire S soon enough. They’ve added the handset to their coming soon page and will also retail an exclusive grey and purple model too. The Wildfire S has a 320×480 pixel screen, 600MHz CPU, 512MB RAM, 5 megapixel camera, …
Last month we were lucky enough to get some sweaty hands-on time with the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY. Now you can too, with a hands-on event kicking off this Thursday in London. Sony Ericsson will be hosting the event at 21-31 New Oxford Street and it’s completely free, …
It’s day 2 with the HTC Desire S and today we take a look at the battery, microSD, SIM and the battery cover which doubles-up as the antenna. Also included is a demo of how you get around the lack of optical trackball and a super close-up tour …
Crumbs. What is happening over at Sony Ericsson ? Just days after announcing that the X10 would be updated to Gingerbread they’ve now announced that developers will be able to unlock the boot loader in “a secure and legal way”. This is good news. They say… “Over the …
EVO is a brand of HTC we have not seen outside of the States….. until now it seems where HTC France have confirmed that the EVO 3D will make it’s way to France (and we can assume the rest of Europe at that) A # HTC for France Evo 3D anyone? Yes we are! And it even keeps thesame name) available date unconfirmed. The …
This is quite a simple app. It lets you continuously take photos with your camera. You run this app instead of your camera app, press the shutter button and of it goes, trying to fill up your memory card as fast as it can! When you have had …
I recently bought a Zeemote. It is a bluetooth game controller that has drivers available for Android, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Symbian and Windows. Here are some pictures of the joystick. This joystick has been around for a while now, the manufacturers Zeemote originally bundled these with various Nokia …
Earlier this week Opera released a new version of Opera Mini for Android. The new version has an updated look and feel which is more polished than before. There are also new features with the browser offering support for pinch to zoom for the first time. The …
Today is our first full day with the HTC Desire S. I’ve filmed a quick overview video and comparison with the existing HTC Desire. We’re out to give it a full test today on a day out at Thomas Land, so check back during the week for more …
Available on Three a lot of people have already confused this with the Samsung Galaxy S II. Sure, it’s not as powerful as the S II and the camera isn’t as high resolution but hey, this is a good looking phone with a lot to give. OK, first …
We’ll be spending this next week in the company of the HTC Desire S. It’s the old Desire, but with a stong unibody design, more on-board memory, a camera for video calls and the very latest Android OS (2.4). It looks like the result of a night of …
In a somewhat out of the blue U turn, Sony Ericsson have announced they are now going to update the X10 to Android 2.3 Gingerbread! Only a few months ago they somewhat ludicrously announced they wouldn’t be updating the phone from 2.1 as it was ‘on a par with or …
Research in motion (Rim) have announced that their Playbook tablet is to be able to run Android apps! Quite why Rim didn’t just make an Android Tablet I have no idea… It’s not a simple as just downloading apps via the market, they will have to be downloaded …
In addition to the new version 4 of the desktop browser Mozilla have also released Firefox 4 for Android. It dishes up a better response, faster scrolling and a better overall user experience with Firefox Sync. The app closely follows the look and feel of the desktop version …
Floating Image is a replacement for your gallery app, the app also contains a live wallpaper. It shows a nice 3D floating thumbnail slideshow of your images. By default it uses your “DCIM” folder on your memory card plus a random selection of photos from Flickr’s top 500 images, …
Earlier today Amazon officially launched their Appstore for Android. The store will feature apps that have been given Amazon’s seal of approval which we hope means that it will be free of all the crapware that plagues the Android Market. Amazon will be giving away a free app …
Today at the CTIA Event Samsung announced two new tablets. First up is the 10.1″ version. Samsung have totally changed this from what was shown at earlier shows this year (CES/MWC), basically they appear to have responded to the just released ipad2,reducing the thickness of the device from …
Sweet Home! is a backup tool, tt works over wifi and creates a backup of your images. What you need for this app to work is wifi and a shared folder somewhere on your network. This folder can be on a network attached storage drive (NAS), a shared …
The people behind Xobni, the superb plug-in for Outlook, are looking for beta testers for Gmail ,iPhone and Android. For those that don’t know what Xobni is (Inbox backwards….), this is a free plug-in for your Outlook email on the PC and Blackberry. It is basically a powerful search …
Quick System Info is a great app, it’s main purpose is to give you detailed information on your SD card storage, A2SD storage, Internal storage, System storage, System cache, Memory and your Processor. Once you select a piece of information you get a breakdown of capacity, used and …
T-Mobile now have the Motorola Atrix as coming in June on their website as of a few minutes ago. If you saw our MWC coverage you would have seen that the Atrix plugs into a wide range of accessories including a rather handy laptop dock allowing you to use the …
It’s sometimes difficult to think that the tablet that has spawned so many imitators this year, Apple’s iPad, was only released last year. At this year’s MWC there were tablets everywhere – Samsung, Motorola, HTC and HP to name but a few are all coming out with their …
I’m one of those people who browses the web with 20-30 tabs open at any one time in my browser. I’m constantly opening up links in background tabs which look interesting and that I plan to read at some point. The problem I have is that I end …
I was listening to a podcast the other day, and they had a featured discussion on software updates, and whether or not as consumers, we should expect device manufacturers to update our devices during their lives. I think the answer to this is a resounding yes! I work …
SMS Backup & Restore lets you backup and restore your sms messages! This could be helpful for many reasons, you could be swapping phones, you could have a new phone, you could have recently reset your phone or you could have installed a custom rom to your phone. …
Well, this is fanboi news of a sort, but there does seem to be a buzz around this phone from Android fans so I felt it was worth a little news post! All round good egg and Android genius Paul O’Brien has sourced an LG Optimus 2X before it’s …
The title says it all really. With the Amazon app market coming up soon, do we really need another app market? I know that some of these markets offer an alternative market for tablets that do not have market access, such as Archos using Appslib and there are some markets which let …
Today the Carphone warehouse issued a press release celebrating it’s Millionth Android phone sold. It also gave figures of a 2000% increase in sales for year on year growth,described as ‘phenomenal’. No real surprise to anyone who watches the mobile phone world, the Android take up is showing …
Triposo Travel Guides have guides for various cities around the world. I first found out these guides in a post Andrew Fraser wrote about his trip to Italy. These travel guides all contain information and maps of the relevant cities that is stored on the device. You can …
Crimes Near Me is a great app that is informative and helpful. It allows you to see Police crime statistics for the area you are currently in. If you were thinking of moving house you could search for the postcode and see crime statistics for the area. The …
Now then, don’t dismiss this thinking it’s an app for Fitness freaks and Beefcakes! No no, this is actually a quite interesting little app that can just be used for that mundane ‘exercise’ we all do-walking. I decided to go for a walk with my wife this morning …
Speedx 3D is an incredible 3D accelerometer driven tunnel racing game. As you race through the tunnel you collect shields, use power ups, dodge spikes and pillars. Best of all if you have some 3D glasses from a children’s book you can activate 3D mode and nearly throw up …
My favourite keyboard app for Android (is it on the iphone? I’ve no idea…) has just been updated. Details at the bottom of this post. For those that don’t know, swype is a keyboard where you ‘swype’ your finger over the keyboard across the letters of the word,without …
Cordy is a fairly new game with incredible graphics. To quote the market description “Help Cordy power-up his mechanical planet! Use special powers, solve exciting puzzles and explore engaging environments. Cordy is FREE, with many thrilling updates coming soon. Download now and get ready to harness the power …
Some of you may have noticed a new magnifying glass icon appearing next to your search results over the last few days. Clicking on these icons launches a new Instant Previews feature which Google has just introduced. They provide a great way for visually searching through sites when …
