Category: General
With the OnePlus One smash the past details set to be revealed at 13:00 today, it seems some people have been jumping the gun a little and smashing their phone without being invited and without knowing the full details. Whilst some of the phones may have been slightly past …
Love Sonic? Interested in playing Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed but don’t want to pay? Hey, your luck is in my friend. The game is now free, and that’s across all platforms – iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and via Google Play on Android. It’s an exciting and fast …
We live in a world that is becoming increasingly mobile, wherever we go we have our mobiles and now and again you find yourself stuck. Stuck trying to get a set of files onto your phone, usually when a client or friend has some vital pictures or files …
Yesterday the Chinese startup OnePlus launched their “Flagship killer“. Today we have an announcement that the phone is available for preorder from Mobilefun in both varieties. The prices are pretty steep at the moment but I’m sure they will be straightened out prior to the actual release. Currently …
Since buying James’ Note 3 (or, if you listened to our podcast, me bullying it off him), I have wanted to look into wireless chargers mainly because it came with the Samsung wireless charging back. Now here comes my dilemma, which is of two parts.. 1. I need …
I’m not usually one to run out of power on my mobile device. At work I have access to a multitude of chargers all day. I also tend to get about 1 1/2 to 2 days out of my phone and more from my tablets. However, as the …
Some of you may know what NEST is, however there are a large amount of people reading this who will be wondering just what we are talking about. No, it’s not where birds live. Not in this instance anyway. NEST is a clever self-learning thermostat for your home that allows …
Now, if we’re honest and we don’t look properly enough, someone walking past with an iPhone 4S is pretty much the same as someone walking past with an iPhone 5S. They look the same… from a distance… ..am I selling this yet? 😉 So, if you want to …
Just recently the new version of Cut The Rope arrived on Android. Trouble is, it’d been released months before on iOS. Watching an app or game being used by your mates which you can’t download is difficult and, according to the Wall Street Journal, it’s due in part …
Easter is a time to eat lots of chocolate eggs and spend huge amounts of money in DIY stores in a vein attempt to make your home look all pretty. So, with that in mind, we’ve been doing some painting and decorating. Coolsmartphone has been online for nearly …
Mobile users in the USA are spending more and more time on their devices than ever before, with gaming and social networks as their priority according to a report by Flurry. In March of last year, research found that users spent an average of 2 hours and 38 …
Screen protection. You either love it or you hate it. Unfortunately, with the current screen technology that exists, it is a necessary evil. There’s a vast array of options out there right now that’ll protect your screen but these offerings vary vastly in quality and price. Clear-Coat is …
Do you have a young child? Does you heart jump into your mouth when those grubby little hands reach out and grab you iPad? If the answer to either question is yes then you need to keep reading. The iGuy case from Speck comes in iPad mini and …
At the end of the day your phone probably ends up on the floor by your bed. I usually turn mine off, but it’s always on charge overnight. As it’s off, I usually use a separate alarm clock to wake me from my beauty sleep, but this Retro …
Yes, that great song of our time, “Selfie”, has got us saying “Selfie” quite a bit. The camera on the front of a phone is no longer a “front facing camera”, it’s a “selfie cam”. Personally I think the lyrics are deep and meaningful, especially the following.. That …
With the Smart 4 mini now available (and our thoughts on that here), the older Smart Mini is now a tad cheaper “up the Asda”. As you can see, it’s now only £30. Of course, this isn’t exactly this highest spec phone in the world. A 3.5″ HVGA …
Android if full of malware and viruses isn’t it? Well no, not unless you believe the hype. Yes the Android operating system has its weaknesses, but as long as you’re careful and not go around side-loading apps from the less desirable sites things should be OK. This is …
Yesterday we brought you the news that Vodafone have announced the release of their own branded Smart 4 Mini Android smartphone. It’ll set you back less than a tank of petrol at £50 on pay as you go. Wow! Before you rush out to the nearest Vodafone store, …
In a tweet linking to a blog post from January, Three have today reaffirmed their commitment not to increase contract prices mid-term. This follows a recent 2.7% increase by EE, which sees customers previously paying £38 per month now getting bills of £39.01. We exclusively revealed their decision …
If you’ve got Virgin TV then, if I’m honest, you’d be daft not to look at the Virgin Media offering on the new Samsung Galaxy S5. You’ve seen the video and the pictures and now you want one, so Virgin Media are offering their Virgin Media customers a …
Voda want you to spend less money on your next smartphone and have today come out with this, the Smart 4 mini. It runs a dual-core 1.3GHz CPU and has a 4″ capacitive screen with 512MB RAM and Android 4.2.2. The price? A mere £50. It’s part of …
Have you been looking for a Screen protector for your phone/tablet? Not been able to get one that you like? Not been able to apply it correctly? If like me, the answer is yes then Clear-Coat UK are hoping to help you with that issue. This relatively small …
A £250 Bluetooth speaker? That’s going to have to be good. The makers of the Spaced360 Bluetooth Wireless Speaker say that it’s “meticulously engineered to deliver mind-blowing, spine-tingling sound” and it certainly looks the part.. To be honest I was getting a bit lost when I was reading …
Despite the odd network hiccup, MVNO giffgaff continues to draw in a dedicated customer base. They prefer to call their customers “members” though, as everyone gets chance to participate, help and grow the network by adding and earning. We recently added a detail piece covering their offer, and …
We’re often told that the first steps in dealing with a problem is to accept that you have one. I have a problem. There, it is out in the open. The problem with my problem, if you’ll excuse the repetition, is that I don’t really see it as a …
Facebook looks like it will be separating the messaging and instant chat part of its mobile app and making you use the messenger app. This screen has been showing for quite a while whenever you access messages via the mobile app. It prompts to install Facebook Messenger. …
Dropbox is an online cloud storage offering that allows you to sync your files to the cloud, and the app is available on computer, tablet and phone varieties. Now Dropbox have a new trick – Carousel. Carousel allows you to not only save all your pictures to …
Meet the SuperTooth D4. It’s a stereo Bluetooth speaker that pairs with your phone to basically pump out those tunes a lot better than your phone speaker ever could. I’ll be honest and admit that I’ve ever heard of SuperTooth, but they’ve already made the “Disco Twin” and …
Battery technology clearly hasn’t kept up with our requirements. Most smartphone owners are now used to getting only a day at best from their devices and there’s a plethora of mobile chargers and car chargers to help bridge the gaps. We want slim phones and therefore slim batteries …
So another year has gone by and the Gadget Show Live is opening its doors again for another gadget filled festival of tech. The doors will open tomorrow morning at 10AM and it will be here until the end of the week. If you are even remotely interested …
No sooner have the latest two HTC phones been released amongst a flood of leaks than a fresh fissure has revealed the existence of another new handset, dubbed the HTC M8 Ace. There isn’t much to go on here, apart from a photo/render that’s had the screen blurred …
Get yourself down to B&M Stores if you’re after this rather useful gadget. Depending on how you use it, it’ll kick out a variety of amps. If you plug just one device in then you’ll get 2 amps. Two devices will receive 1 amp each and, if you …
It’s not a Class 10, but here’s the good point – it only costs £10.50 with the delivery chucked in. For a 32GB microSD card with transfer speeds up to 24 MB/s, you can get yourself oodles of storage for really-not-that-much cash. No adapter on this one, but …
To carry on with their world smartphone domination plans, Samsung have announced yet another Galaxy Ace device. The Galaxy Ace Style, is aimed at the younger audience and the phone is said to have a “a fun, unique design with an enhanced camera and advanced features for superior …
I am writing this whilst travelling down to Birmingham from south of the border. Why would I willingly come south of the border? Well there is only one reason gadget fans – a show dedicated to gadgets! As you will have no doubt established, I will attending Gadget …
This time lat year HTC were under some considerable pressure after reporting the companies lowest profits to date, people were saying that the death knell was sounding for the Taiwanese company. Despite launching two flagship devices the HTC One M7 and now the M8 this hasn’t stemmed the …
Those readers out there who are into wearables have a reason to be happy this morning as Mobilefun have just a released info that they are carrying stock of the Galaxy Gear 2 Neo and Gear Fit. With the Gear 2 Neo coming in @£199.99 and the Gear …
We’ve had MVNO mobile networks from Asda and Tesco for quite a while, Sainsburys recently got in on the act and the latest people to do so are the Co-op. So now amongst the fruit and veg, you will be able to pick up a Co-operative mobile …
Is it just me? Every time I pick up the iPad I find that my wife has been on some estate agent website looking at house. She tells me that she doesn’t want to move, and if we’re honest here the real reason is just to have a …
We’ve just had information from a source that confirms EE are set to increase prices. Their pay monthly contracts will go up by 2.7% on 28th May 2014. This is in line with inflation and the current terms and conditions on monthly contracts. This price rise comes after …
