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We’ve been giving away HTC Mozart handsets every week now. The winners so far are as follows, and apologies for not posting about this earlier – you’ve probably seen me go a little quiet recently as I move the site to another provider. Dominic Williams from Doncaster John …
We’ve got some hands-on video footage of the Samsung Galaxy SIII for you shortly, but I found this behind-the-scenes footage posted up by Rory Cellan-Jones from the BBC. There’s a small story about this because, as the curtain lifted and hundreds of journalists moved forward to get their …
You may have noticed that our new Forum went live the other day. Well to make things easier and reduce load times etc we have added Tapatalk functionality. This makes it a lot easier to track your favourite topics and private messages. To find us simply search for …
Just over a month ago we held a competition to win one of three of these Freetalk HD camera and headsets. We had hundreds and hundreds of entries and can now announce the winners… Gary Weldon Gavin Lewandowski David Edge A big congratulations to you lot! We’ve got …
I’ll fess up. I’ve taken quite a bit of heat these last few weeks. However, after facing the possible closure of the site just a few weeks ago, I saw how quickly you guys rallied around and helped us out. Right then, more than ever, It brought into …
The work of Anonymous? No, it seems that all of the sites in the Dixons Stores Group (DSG) have been knocked sideways by a “fibre problem”. No worries though, we’re sure that the TechGuys are working on it 😉 Link – Dixons
A few days ago I wrote about Google Currents now being available internationally. Well, the good news is that Coolsmartphone.com is available to view on the excellent newsreader resplendent with all its images. So, heres how to add everyones favourite smartphone site to your list of subscribed sites …
Today we had an interesting discussion amongst the brilliant writers here at Coolsmartphone. It’s a discussion that is still going on now, and emails are flying around pretty quickly. This got me thinking. I kinda miss the forum in a way. Discussions like the one we’re having via …
OK, short version. About a week ago we found out that this very site was going to be taken off-line. It all revolved around a rather substantial excess bandwidth charge. Thankfully, you guys cam to our rescue and generously donarted your own hard-earned cash to keep the ship …
Three days ago we had a rather huge problem. Some very unexpected charges were added onto our monthly hosting costs for one of our servers. It seemed that we’d breached some “fair use” policy regarding “unlimited” bandwidth. Either way, we had until Friday to pay an unbelievable amount …
Morning all. I’ve been writing on this site for 10 years now and, I’ve got to confess, the last few hours has been amazing and shocking in equal measures. Our main problem is that our “unlimited” bandwidth didn’t turn out to be quite so “unlimited” after all. We’ll …
We have a bit of a problem. It’s an issue we get every year in February whilst covering the Mobile World Congress, but this year it’s one we can’t get around. Our coverage of the event means a massive hike in traffic. In years past we’ve seen bandwidth …
If you’re looking for a Android tablet for not-much-money then the Expansys sale is worth a look. There’s more than 50% off the S7 Slim we reviewed – now £109.99, whilst the Storage Options Scroll tablet is going for £89.99 – that has a 7″ capacitive screen. The …
Missing some Mobile World Congress information? Want to know all about the CBOSS girls but can’t find the story? Are you looking for our first unboxing of the Xperia S? Maybe the HTC One Series pictures? Don’t worry, we’ve got all our coverage right here and down the …
OK, we wouldn’t normally post anything like this but we’re here in Barcelona reporting live from Mobile World Congress. Right now the gates are locked and riot police, as they have been for a number of days now, are standing outside. Today their numbers appear to have swelled …
We arrived yesterday, and I figured that it’d be fun to show you a bit of “behind the scenes” footage from our coverage here in Barcelona. It all started with an early wake-up call on Sunday morning, then a drive up to the airport for our First Class …
So, the HTC One X is no longer on the Orange website, but it’s just a matter of hours now until HTC properly unveil some of their big 2012 handsets. We spotted their logo whilst sunning ourselves outside the Fira, so elbowed our way through the crowds to …
I know, for the tech-hungry phone lovers out there this might seem like a weird question. In just a matter of days you WILL see an explosion of Twitter hash-tags (#mwc #mobileworldcongress) and more news items per hour than at any other time of year. Put simply, Mobile …
Next Sunday (26th) we have the unofficial start to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona…. why unofficial? Well the real conference starts on the 27th but every year more and more manufacturers want to show off their new gadgets a day early, and this year is no different with …
Last year, during Mobile World Congress, we had some pretty big spikes in traffic. One rather large splurge of traffic knocked the main server clean over. So we’ve been doing some twiddling. We’ve spent the last two days adding some optimization, increasing network capacity and moving stuff around …
Here at CoolSmartPhone we try to vary the way we bring content to you, either by text, picture galleries, live blogging from events or video reviews…. well we are pleased to announce the addition of Audio content to the site via AudioBoo. Using this tool we will be …
So, you know about MegaUpload.com. It’s gone, and the people behind it were obviously quite rich before they got a knock from the Feds. Now, if we’re all brutally honest we know that MegaUpload was hosting a LOT of “iffy” files and a LOT of sites out there …
Today a lot of sites have “gone dark” to highlight the possible consequences of SOPA, aka the “Stop Online Piracy Act”. In certain cases, it could allow the US Government to take action against any site, no matter where that site is based. It is also leaves almost …
Head over to https://www.crazygames.com/game/cut-the-ropee with any HTML5 web browser and off you go. I tried it this morning using Windows 7 and the Chrome browser and it was great. Yes, I know I can just install it from the Chrome Web store, but lots of people don’t use Chrome. Lots …
Want to get all the latest news, reviews and gossip while you’re chatting to friends on Facebook? Well now you can, thanks to our spanky new Facebook page. At this point, websites will usually give something away in an thinly veiled attempt to get you to hit click …
A new year. Time for a fresh start. Now, I’ll be honest here, during Mobile World Congress (which kicks off again next month) we get a truck-load of people accessing the site. It’s insane and I love it. Mobile World Congress, for those that aren’t aware, is a …
Hello. It’s that festive time of year again. After the mince pies and Christmas puddings have been eaten we’ll be entering our tenth year online. It’s pretty hard to believe that one page has turned into this monster, and I wanted to send a big thanks out to …
Fancy winning yourself a great Christmas present ? Thanks to the team at Three we’re giving away an all-new Nokia Lumia 800. The fresh new Windows Phone has an 8 megapixel auto-focus camera with Carl Zeiss optics, a curved 3.7″ AMOLED ClearBlack screen, WiFi, Bluetooth, 3.5mm audio, 16GB …
Have you read our Sensation XE review? We were pretty impressed. The Android handset from HTC adds Beats Audio and has a 1.5Ghz CPU. You can win in a brand new (and network free) HTC Sensation XE from those nice people at The Smartphone Centre. They’re celebrating their …
It’s fair to say that there’s a bewildering array of Android phones now available. They each have their own name and can even change identity on a trip across the Atlantic. So, if you are in the business of making phones and want some inspiration, try the Android …
With it coming to the end of 2011 there is something many of us are looking forward too…. no not just Christmas, but because with any new year comes the exciting Mobile World Congress event from Barcelona. Spain. Slightly later next year, MWC starts on the 27th February until 1st …
We’ve had some rather freaky bugs running around the commenting system of late. It’s meant that some of you, using certain browsers, have had problems adding your comments. First up, our apologies. Much of Coolsmartphone is controlled in-house and we can fix local stuff quickly, but there’s a …
Want full-length movies on your Android tablet? Yeah sure, you can find various illegal ways of doing it, but if you just want to pick up your tablet or phone and start watching a film it can be a bit cumbersome. Now you can use YouTube Movies. Oh …
Not entered our Skinflips competition yet ? Come on, there’s 25% off for everyone that enters and some great prizes up for grabs. We’ve got something else to give away today – two tickets to the London International Technology Show. Everything kicks off on October 21st and HiDrive …
Want to get all the latest iPhone, Windows Phone and Android news while you’re out and about? Check out our mobile site from your phone now. We’ve just given things a facelift and you can now browse the site on more devices with proper scaled-down images, a full …
Today we noticed some serious speed issues and drop-outs on the site. It is, as with a number of connectivity issues nowadays, due to a fibre-optic cable being cut. Usually fibre failures are due to thieves assuming that it’s copper cable and want it for the ever increasing …
HTC are hosting a get together in London tomorrow evening (Thursday 1st) with press and general public coming along to see tech and talk tech with each other plus get some nice food and drink hopefully. The team are attending and we will be bringing you any news or information …
We’ve already been lucky enough to review phones that want to change people like me. Our review of the HTC ChaCha and look at the HTC Salsa revealed that these phones were more than just texting devices with a Facebook button. A social connection was deeply woven into …
I am pleased to announce the CoolSmartPhone RSS Application is now available in the Android Market as a FREE download. This can be downloaded OTA (Over The Air) by either visiting http://market.android.com and searching for ‘coolsmartphone’ to send the application over the internet, or on your handset in the Market …
Our comments system broke again this week. Humble apologies for this. As I can’t personally blame it on my sloppy coding any more I’ll simply tell you the truth, it a combination of our content delivery network (CDN) and one of our older servers being disabled. We’ve recently …
