Category: Gadgets & Tech
You might have seen a small black box from Apple called Apple TV. This connects via HDMI to your HD TV and then streams your media purchases on a nice large screen via WiFi. Now there’s also a version available from Google…. and you guessed it, it’s called …
With Christmas just around the corner we’re getting stacks of emails about potential gifts for the season. The people at AppToyz have something a bit different. Toys that interact and convert your phone into a gaming machine. For example, with App Fishing you convert your handset into a …
This box can be a little tricky to explain, but I’ll try my best. It lets you make and receive calls through your mobile phone or phones with any standard home phone. In the most simple setup you merely need to plug your corded or cordless home phone …
In a time when tablets are becoming one of the most popular ways of connecting to the internet on the move and with Android being such an open system to use, there are different manufacturers producing them all over the world. Of course the iPad was where tablets really took …
Are you prone to losing your wallet? Do you use an fairly recent iOS device? If so, Phone Halo have a solution for you that they have dubbed “Wallet TrackR”. It consists of a super-thin Bluetooth device (reckoned to be the thinnest Bluetooth device in the world, as …
Two whole decades. 1992 eh? Heck, I wasn’t even born. OK, who’s laughing? The guys at Clove are celebrating the fact that they’ve been in operation for 20 years. You can celebrate too, because Clove are giving away loads of stuff in a daily giveaway draw. There’s 150 …
So, you’ve got a business card. Most people do. Whether it’s a cheap business card or a posh aluminium one there’s generally the same problem – you can only fit a certain amount of information on, and when your number or job title changes it means a whole …
Well a recent survey commissioned by Storage Options seems to suggest that yes we are obsessed. The results certainly do make for some interesting reading. Such as: · 57% use mobile devices in bed and 40% use them on the toilet · 45% say they can ‘never switch off’ …
I don’t like cases and covers. There, I admit it. The Crystalusion Liquid Glass Protection could be a possible solution. It’ll perhaps not protect your phone from dents or cracks and you’ll not get any extra protection if you drop the thing. However, you will get protection from …
Oh dear. Sure, there’s those of you who believe that Apple products are a little expensive, but an iPod Touch for £4444.44?? That’s going a little too far. We spotted a saving of £4315 on the iPod Nano whilst the iPod Touch and other Apple items had thousands …
Comet. Unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ll know that they’ve gone into administration. It’s now looking increasingly likely that we’ll lose that lovely big electronics shop and we’ll no longer have anywhere to measure up TV’s, fiddle with laptops or buy completely unnecessary extended warranties. But …
Yes, you read that correct…it says ‘billion’. That’s a heck of a lot of devices to be purchased; and to think we at CoolSmartPhone will only account for approximately 50% of that! Let’s get serious for a second. The figure of 1.2 billion smart devices being sold in …
Bear with me while I try and explain this one, because it’s pretty interesting. Let’s imagine for a moment that your mobile phone only works upstairs, or by the window. There’s a few ways to get around this. You could get a repeater, you could just go upstairs …
In my morning email today was this deal on an Android games console. It costs £54.99 and definitely looks the part, even if most of those buttons around the screen will probably remain largely unused. The errr… S5110 .. runs Android 4.0 and has HDMI out too, so …
Samsung, fresh from their titanic lawsuit with Apple, are pressing forward with their great work in recent years in display technology, by filing for a patent on an intriguing tri-fold flexible display, it has emerged. PatentBolt have reported that a recent Samsung IP paper outs the patent, and …
In December last year we took a look at the Ericsson A2628 from Lekki. The phone itself was 11 years old but it had a new lease of life thanks to a bright paint job. No social networks. No pictures messages. No camera. No internet. The Lekki handsets …
If you were following yesterday, you’d have seen my iPhone 5 wallet case review. I liked it, but it had a major drawback. Today, I have another case to show you, again from the lovely people at MobileFun.co.uk It’s another flip case, but this time made by Tech21, and this …
It is fair to say that here at Coolsmartphone we are a little bit excited about the new Bond Phone or as it more widely know the Xperia T. Today has seen the first Advert that has been focused on the Xperia T launch it has been made in …
Now then Bond pay attention………. Here it is then the Bond phone showing of some of it technical wizardry enough to make Q giddy with excitement. One of the great feature of the recent Xperia Line up including the newly announced Xperia T is NFC is built in …
Three have today announced their latest dongle, the Huawei E3256. This new dongle has access to the new super fast DC-HSDPA network which supports speeds of up to 42Mb/s. Three already support HSPA+ which allows up to 21Mb/s speeds and hope to have 50% of their network running on the new …
Can you remember a few weeks ago we all posted our phone histories and some of us had a rather long list of devices. Well one anonymous reader who wanted to show their stash sent this picture in. I’m amazed at how they still have most of their …
Telmap the Intel owned mapping solution firm have been working on various mapping apps and today the have released their latest versions. For iPhone and Android. The M8 your local mate offers a whole host of features with their apps, such as: Full navigation in the UK – …
It might surprise you, but I’m a bit simple at heart. OK. Who’s laughing? I have a Samsung Galaxy SII and a laptop, that’s about it. Call it a netbook, call it an ultrabook, whatever, you can get affordable notebooks online pretty easily now and hook up to …
Back in the summer at the Samsung Unpacked press event in Berlin the Galaxy Note II and Ativ suite of Windows devices were announced in a flurry of excitement, but what they also announced on the same day was something they referred to as the ‘camera reborn’, the …
It’s fair to say that I’ve followed the mobile landscape for some time now. I sometimes forget that many of you may not remember a time before mobile phones existed, and some of you perhaps don’t even recall handsets without colour screens. Something struck me on a recent …
This is a topic that is close to my heart and with the announcement of the latest round of Lumia devices having this capability it’s back in the limelight! I wanted to just share my thoughts on a technology that isn’t really very new at all. I suppose the …
Yesterday was a little bit dominated by Everything Everywhere and their 4G announcement, but there was something else interesting announced yesterday and that was the VSD220. Viewsonic announced it back at MWC earlier on in the year. It is basically a mains powered 22″ 1080p tablet with a …
We’re all about the cool and funky here at CoolSmartPhone.com. It’s true to say we love a bit of innovation and being on the leading edge of news. But we also love the art of the possible and have stumbled upon what could quite possibly be the sexiest, …
Technology is all about the next big thing, so you should be upgrading your phones and tablets every month or so, right? Well, besides the sheer impracticality, most of us don’t have the budget to do that. So, how do you stay in touch without a second mortgage? …
Perhaps he’s got a little too much time on his hands. Perhaps he’s just a really big music fan. Either way, Bruce Willis, who featured in great films like “Die Hard” and utterly terrible ones like “Armageddon”, has apparently launched a legal battle against Apple. I know ! …
Samsung’s IFA event hasn’t even started yet. Already, part of it has been spoiled. Say hello to the Galaxy Note II. We expected that it would be coming along with Jelly Bean for the S3. We didn’t know much about it until now. The Samsung Galaxy Note II …
HTC devices have always had a premium cost, the quality of the craftsmanship has always made this mandatory when buying a HTC. This may no longer be the case if those Chinese sources are to be believed. It’s being talked about that HTC are planning to lower the …
CarphoneWarehouse and Expansys are now selling the Galaxy Note 10.1 Expansys models start at £404.99 for the Wifi only version (including delivery), whilst at CarphoneWarehouse the base 16gb model is £399.99 with free delivery. Expansys also have the 3G model for £484.99 including delivery. Links – CarphoneWarehouse and …
Last week on the podcast we touched upon our old phones and how little they did. We decided to document our history of mobiles. Over the next week or so a few of the writers here will publish something similar. Starting with me. My first ever mobile I …
The Exynos 5 is the new processor from Samsung and this is one very powerful System on Chip! The new chipset features a pair of Cortex-A15 cores for a new level of mobile power. The SoC itself is built on 32nm production techniques and this particular version rocks …
A WiFi Extender? Are we really going to review it? Yes we are. Last week I received an email like many others, advertising the Huawei WS320 WLAN Repeater. At first I went to delete it, I really couldn’t be bothered to get one and spend hours banging my …
The mobile security company Lookout have launched a new guide for parents whose children use or want a smartphone. The guide entitled “Generation Smartphone: A Guide for Parents of Tweens and Teens” has been produced in conjunction with The Online Mom and outlines the important steps that parents can take to prepare their …
The other week Jamie, Ravi and I were doing Podcast Episode 5 and as usual we were all just talking away. Jamie asked me how I felt the iPhone had changed the world (or something along those lines), I vaguely answered and added at the end of my …
TheVerge have posted pictures of an alleged iPhone 5, courtesty of one of the suppliers, ILabFactory. The device has all the features of the leaks we’ve seen previously, the centered FaceTime camera, the smaller dock connector, and the longer screen which will hopefully take it up to at …
You know what they say about third time lucky. Having made and then cancelled orders with Google and Currys, I decided to try my luck with Ebuyer yesterday afternoon as they were advertising the Nexus 7 as in stock and ready for delivery today. Roughly 16 hours later …
