Category: Android
In a legal battle that has been going on for the last 20 years (or so it seems), Apple have been fighting with Samsung about patent infringement in pretty much any court that will listen to them. The original and biggest case is the one that has been …
Do you like watching football / rugby / handball (?!?) on a huge screen? Do you like beer? If so Matchpint may well be your app. This app helps find sports bars or pubs that are showing sports events and in affiliated establishments you can claim rewards. You …
During our time with Lenovo last week we got chance to have a look at a couple of software additions that you’ll find on their new handsets. The first is SHAREit – which is an app you can download on iPhone and Android. It’s an incredibly simple way …
Free stuff. Everyone loves free stuff, so why not give this app a try to get yourself some for merely having fun? Although it doesn’t work outside the USA just yet, the idea behind Hasoffer is simple enough. You play free games and get free stuff in return. The …
Waiting for a friend or loved one to return from holiday or a business trip, you’ll no doubt have checked the flight arrivals page on the airport website. However, with FlightRadar24 you can go one further and, with the paid-for version, you get some very clever augmented-reality functionality …
We all love a good bargain don’t we? Head to Google Play today and you’ll find a stack of reduced price offers and special deals on a range of apps. The offers are getting updated all the time, so have a look today to see what you can …
Naming an app must be a difficult task, if I was tasked to do that I’d be there for weeks thinking and thinking what to call it. So I can entirely understand what the confusingly named Recent is all about. Picture the scene, you have taken a load …
That’s the thing with Mobile World Congress. You go out there, you do about 20 miles of running about, then a few days later you sit back and find that one of your posts never made it past the “draft” stage. I blame the sheer fact that I …
Acer keep on releasing products, year in year out. Seemingly regardless of whether or not the product will sell, it just like clockwork, another year another tablet. The Iconia B1-720 is the latest in their budget range of 7″ Android tablets, the Iconia B range offer reasonable specs …
Well. this is slightly weird. Just days after paying for a rather expensive stand at Mobile World Congress, HTC decide to announce another handset affer everyone has gone home. Meet the Desire 310, which has 4.5″ FWVGA screen, a quad-core 1.3GHz CPU, BlinkFeed and the HTC video highlights …
CyanogenMod has long been the go to place for Android custom software and modification. Cyanogen (Steve Kondik) and the team recently ventured into the hardware business with the oppo N1. The handset has been well received and had opened up the Cyanogen version of Android to the masses. Now the …
We are going to be live at the big HTC announcement in London on the 25th March so be sure to check back for our live blogging updates. Not only will we be bringing you the news as it happens we will be going hands on with Any …
Amazingly I’ve still not unpacked my Mobile World Congress, but the innovations I saw on devices like the YotaPhone have stuck with me. This year my flight had relaxed the rules on electronic gadgets, and you can use them – albeit in flight mode – from gate to …
If you use your smartphone or tablet as a sat-nav system you may find that it goes flat when left overnight in your motor. The reason, if you do choose to leave your device in your car and on display (which is usually a bad idea), is that …
A few of you have been getting in touch with us after the new KitKat update appeared as an available download on your HTC One. However, it looks like the brakes have been applied to the roll-out after “difficulties” occurred.. We are aware that a limited number of …
As you may or may not know, here at Coolsmartphone we are big fans of Oppo phone’s, our writers have owned both the Find 5 and the N1, and we are all eagerly awaiting the upcoming flagship the Find 7. Following rumours that the 7 with come with …
Last week was the first time I’d seen the Lenovo Yoga Tablet. The 8″ version has been kicking around for a bit but this is the new 10″ version. To be honest I was really impressed with the design of this and how good it looks. The additional …
I’ve given the S850 a separate article as it’s totally different to the S660 and S860 we looked at earlier. In Barcelona we met up with Lenovo and, out of the three new S-range devices they’d announced, this S850 impressed me the most. It’s perhaps the most desirable …
Yes, we know, we only looked at this last week and we even had someone on the stand squashing the thing but it’s arrived here at Coolsmartphone HQ so I figured it was time for just a few more photos. Coming to EE here in the UK it …
Kazam have appeared in the last few months, offering some cheap devices with dual SIM slots and a few extra quirks. The company was formed by two ex HTC UK staff so they know a thing or two about phones. The Trooper 4.0 is their entry level model …
We were lucky enough to have a chat with the Lenovo boys in Barcelona last week, and had chance to play with all of their new devices. The S860 forms part of their “hero” range and comes with a quad-core 1.3GHz CPU and Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). However, …
I’ve fancied a change for a while now, something totally different, a change of OS, a change of apps, processes, gestures, hardware and even size. I don’t know what’s happened to me, my normal daily setup of a Nokia Lumia 1020 and a Nexus 5 just isn’t doing …
Well, this video may be a little disjointed but, being as is a unreleased phone being filmed almost a month before release, what can you expect. At least it’s in focus. As for who filmed it, we’re honestly not sure. Someone who likes to show off their quilt …
If the listing on MobileFun is to believed, you’ll be able to pick up the All New HTC One for a mere £579.99 unlocked. It’ll be available “in two months” and the specs shows that it’ll come equipped with a 2.3GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU, two …
Well, we all knew that it was bound to happen, but just days after the announcement? That’s pretty amazing. The new Nokia X has already been rooted and the Google Apps installed, this despite having a locked bootloader. THe X has been cracked by members of the XDA …
It seems that, once again, I’ve found myself a device that splits opinion. So, the Lenovo Yoga Tablet 8 is lopsided, has a built in stand and is made by a manufacturer not known for its tablets. Let’s just say that it’s got some persuading to do! Good …
Just last month we spotted that the budget-priced Z5 was available in the UK. Trouble was, it cost around £145. Now the mighty Asda are doing the dual-SIM device for just £99. Although we’d probably still go for the Moto G, it’s an OK price for a handset …
A few months ago I posted an article about the Motorola RAZR i and the possibility that it would get updated to KitKat (it’s here if you’re interested) and it received quite a bit of interest as owners of the Intel Atom equipped Razr i were hoping to …
We’ve all seen the Samsung Galaxy S5 and I’m already getting tired of websites calling it “disappointing” (even though it’s not, and will sell by the bucket-load). Oppo, however, have just released an image which basically states that their upcoming Find 7 will be better than the Galaxy …
Here in Barcelona Sony have a set of boxes with small holes in. You pop the Z2 camera onto the hole, take a picture and see how it compares with your current handset. When you focus on the shot there’s pretty much nothing to be seen, so you …
This is the Acer Liquid S2. It’s a monster of a device and I’ve carried around Barcelona for the past few days. It comes equipped with a 6″ Full HD IPS screen at 1920×1080 (368PPI) and has a rather smooth zero gap display with a curved Gorilla Glass …
In Hall 7 there’s a company called Oaxis. If you’re liked the Yotaphone we showed you, you’ll like this. It’s basically a cover for your iPhone 5/5s, Samsung Galaxy S4 or Galaxy Note II which also has an e-ink screen on it. As is usual with e-ink, it …
HTC are being a little coy about this one. We can’t turn it on and there’s not many of them on the stand, but the new Desire looks pretty swish indeed. I managed to get a hands-on with the device and, although it’s not made from cool aluminium …
Want to start selling your own smartphone? It’s not easy, and the new kid on the block is Kazam. They appeared in June last year and wasted no time in getting several handsets and ranges out onto the market. I sat down with James Atkins, the Kazam CMO. …
Was it really only Monday night that we see the Galaxy S5 for the first time? Well, in a factory somewhere in China plans are a-foot to clone it. Meet the Goophone S5, which has been listed on their website. Thankfully it’s not fully available just yet, and …
LG have really made a name for themselves in the mobile space, the Optimus G, G Pro, G2 and G Flex have really marked LG as a decent manufacturer. Well over at MWC they’ve been awarded the Most Innovative Device Manufacturer of the Year by the GSMA. It’s not …
The HTC One was and is a cracking phone, which is rumoured to get a whole lot better very soon. Over at MWC HTC have picked up an award for the HTC One, it scooped the Global Mobile Award for Best Smartphone. So well done HTC, let’s just …
Yes, we know the LG G Flex is curvy. Yes, we know it can sit in your pocket and it’s sort-of wrap around your cheek when you’re on a call. But… Can we see the LG G Flex, flex? Well, it does indeed seem that we can. Following …
I stopped by the LG stand and today to get a quick demo of the LG G2 Mini. It’s slightly smaller and more mid-range compared to the bigger brother but you still get a 4.7″ qHD screen (960×540), 8GB storage, 1GB RAM and a microSD card slot. Depending …
Yota Devices is putting the big unused area on the back of their phones to an innovative use – a second screen. Hold on, I hear you say, I can only use one at a time, what’s the point of that? You’re right, of course, but Yota Devices …
