Category: iOS
If you’re anything like me, sometimes you want somewhere to put your iPad when it doesn’t need to be in your hand. I’m always concerned if I lay it down somewhere that the back will get scratched or it’ll get knocked over. Both of those problems are solved …
In December 2011 Google released Google Currents for Android and iOS in the United States. This app let users explore online magazines and other user generated content. Since the release users have requested that the app be made available internationally and that the speed of updating increases. From …
Recently I realised I had a problem. I listen to a lot of podcasts and the built in iOS way of handling these is problematic. They are downloaded from the iTunes app and listened to in the podcast section of the Music app which is confusing from the …
The Founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has today announced his plans to buy the popular Photo taking/sharing website Instagram. The deal, which is still to be approved by the regulatory bodies, is said to be worth $1 billion, made up of cash and shares. I am new to …
Many of you may be off on the motorways this Easter, so here’s a little app that might be useful. Available for Android and iOS, MotoDeals is from the Moto services chain and offers a different deal each day. Just open the app and you will be presented …
After MWC and the release of lots of new phones, many people are talking about what their next phone will be. Myself and the rest of the team at Coolsmartphone.com are no different, and most of the debate has been around the new Sony’s and HTC’s. Personally I …
The runaway success of drawing game Draw Something was illustrated today by a Zynga statement, with claims the app has been downloaded 50 million times in 50 days – it doesn’t take a maths genius to work out that’s a million downloads a day. Impressive stats indeed. Zynga, …
Figures recently released by comScore reveal a telling story regarding market share for the major smartphone manufacturers in the United States. Perhaps the biggest suprise is the fall of Microsoft’s share of the market from 5.2% in November ’11 to only 3.9% in Februrary ’12. Microsoft can only …
I was always excited by the idea of the iPad as a gaming device; it’s that thought alone that prompted me to get the original iPad, and after seeing the delights of Apple’s App Store had to offer, I quickly upgraded to iPad 2. I did the same …
OK, story so far. The Foxconn factory, which makes a lot of tech stuff for a lot of tech companies, received a lot of bad press over long working hours, poor safety and suicides. Apple, who of course have the iPads and iPhones build at Foxconn, did their …
The BBC have filmed a miniture movie but, instead of using expensive HD broadcast cameras, they used a smartphone instead. They’ll be showing how it was done later but the results, we must admit, are rather good. Now sure, there’s going to be some slick BBC editing and …
There are reports/rumours coming out of South Korea this morning that Apple has decided the next iPhone will have a 4.6″ display and has placed orders with its manufacturing partners. LG and Samsung have made displays for iPhones in the past, and they are keeping schtum, but this does fit …
You may have heard or read about Mike Daisey visiting Foxconn in Shenzhen. The original broadcast, which we wrote about earlier, made fantastic listening. It was featured in”This American Life” and got broadcast all over America. Mike told us about the working conditions, the dangerous chemicals being used …
Adverts. Nobody really likes them, especially those foreign ones that get badly re-dubbed in English. On your mobile they can, according to a report picked up by the BBC, suck a lot more battery life too. By running constantly in the background and offering “helpful offers and reminders” …
Back in February last year Symbian had a 12.4% share of the smartphone market here in the UK. Now, according to figures by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, this has now dropped to 2.4%. The 10% drop means that Windows Phone 7 has now … just…. overtaken the Symbian OS. …
Did you see the Australian GP toys weekend? What? No, its not an Australian Doctor, we’re talking about the F1 racing, and you can watch now on the Sky Sports TV app. Link – Sky Sports TV
So the new iPad is now out in the wild and in the hands of those either quick enough to order online or stand in line for hours on end.I’ve been having a play with one since yesterday and wanted to share my initial impressions. Packaging The packaging …
T-Mobile have joined many other networks in announcing availability for the slightly different iPad 3 new iPad. It should be arriving in stores today, with T-Mobile promoting the fact that their joint Everything Everywhere network and “advanced 3.5G rollout” can offer much improved coverage and speeds. You can …
It’s officially iPad launch day today at time of writing this, and Vodafone have just emailed out details on their contracts on offer if you want to get your own brand new iPad on their network in the UK IMAGE Vodafone UK today announced it will offer the new iPad …
Following on from the story earlier about Three and their iPad pricing, Orange have just announced pricing for the latest tablet device from Apple. For a price of £25 a month over 24 months you will be able to get access to 1GB anytime internet access, plus 1GB …
Three have announced pricing today for ‘the new iPad’ from Apple which will go on sale this Friday. All plans listed below include a stonking 15GB a month allowance which blows every other network away with regards to allowance. All deals below are based on 24month contracts Paired …
OK.. I’ve got to concentrate now. Must stop laughing. Some poor soul at Tesco appears to have put the all-new iPad onto their website for just £49.99. However, there’s bad news for those who managed to add the device to their basket.. We like to offer our customers …
You want online storage, you go to Dropbox, right? Well yes, you could, but there’s other providers to choose from. HiDrive free gives new users 5GB of storage and it’s all stored in super-secure datacentres in Germany that are owned and operated by Strato – the people behind …
Love them or hate them Apple are certainly good at stirring up the entire tech world. Although this time around the world didn’t change quite as much. But what Apple did introduce will still shake things up for many many months to come. Whenever Apple are due to …
PIGS IN SPACE !!! Oh come on, that’s a classic, and you can shortly get the modern classic too – Angry Birds Space is coming. Available for Android and iOS on March 22nd there’s a nice preview video below showing the gameplay. It’s a bit epic and the …
Today Apple announced (along with “The New iPad” and new Apple TV) that iOS 5.1 would be available for existing iOS devices. Well the time has come, you can grab out now and the changes are thus, • Japanese language support for Siri (availability may be limited during …
So the details have been revealed and all the rumours, speculation and leaks can end, at least for a few months. Apple have announced the iPad 3 at their special event this evening and to all intents and purposes it looks like a solid update. The headlines …
Four things you need to know right now – 1.) Apple TV 3 – now supports 1080p playback 2.) iOS 5.1 available today 3.) iTunes now syncs Movies to iCloud 4.) New iPad with Retina Display – 2048 x 1536 resolution (that’s 1 million more pixels than HD displays!) The …
Today’s the day when the wait is finally over, the speculation comes to an end, and we find out which of the rumours were accurate, which were way off the mark, and what Apple managed to slip completely under the radar. It’s the long-awaited launch of the new …
Keeping track of a project team can be a tricky business, with monitoring tasks, expenses and the like – not to mention dealing with the clients you’re delivering to. It’s hard enough doing this for one project and one client. But get involved with multiples of those (as …
While the eyes of the mobile world are trained on MWC in Barcelona, Apple have some exciting news for the iOS community with the confirmation that the iPad 3 will be revealed at an event on March 7th – yup, next Wednesday. The event will take place at …
Stop motion is cool. <End of statement>. We all appear to be transfixed whenever a stop motion production is realised, it lures us in with it’s time lapse photography and catchy background music…. why is that? Well I thought I’d investigate, and in particular look at a fairly …
The latest Gartner figures are out and, for Microsoft, they’re probably best ignored. Less than 3 million Windows Phones sold worldwide for a Q4 1.9% market share, down from last year’s Q4 of 3.4%. Windows Phone,market share is still lower than the Bada OS. Although this was to …
OK, remember how we pointed at a few websites to help you make an app for free? Here’s another one. See, I’m simple at heart. Everyone says it.. “Hey Leigh, you’re a bit simple”, they say. So here’s AppSpotr, a service that’ll launch in just a matter of …
The Guardian have posted some great statistics on the number of OS installations across the UK which shows, perhaps unsurprisingly to a lot of us, that Android is now more widespread than iOS in the UK. Android now has a 36.9% share of the smartphones in the UK …
Here’s a nice little surprise that’s been around a while …. More Online Music than you can shake a stick at too! Deezer! For those of you familiar with Google Music, Spotify, etc will probably know and love the ability to listen to anything you fancy without the need …
With last autumn’s announcement of the iPhone 4S, Apple moved away from their traditional early summer launch, which had been in place since the original iPhone was released in 2007. Since then, there has been much speculation that the iPhone 5 will be announced this summer, returning to …
With iOS 5.1 due for release on March 9th, BGR have got themselves a hands-on with the GM. Screenshots show an updated lock screen with a fixed camera button next to the unlock slider, removing the need to slide and tap. With iOS 5 already having dramatically sped …
This weeks article should have been called “Rather cool stuff I’ve found on the web + a token Windows Phone app”. This week we have a neat Lego video for you. A really cool hardware mod. A strange boy dancing around. Oh and the token Windows Phone app. …
A screen shot has appeared of what looks to be iOS 5.1. The guys at blogdoiphone say they have a pre-GM build. This could well be true, sometimes builds get released to the networks that miss developers. The image shows the lock screen with a new slide gesture …
