Chromecast has now been available in the US for a number of months and has slowly seen more functionality added as time passes. This slow increase has now seen a major step change as Google today revealed that 10 new apps have been made available right now. The …
Chipmaker Qualcomm has announced its new Snapdragon 410. The new SoC chip is to be sub £200 bringing LTE technology to the budget line of handsets as well as the flagship devices. Bringing with it 64-Bit power, built on a 28nm manfacturing process, coupled with the Adreno 306 …
Twitter for iOS got an update today. Coming in at version 6 you now get added “enhancements”. The focus of this update seems to be on direct messaging. A refreshed look and feel makes it easier to access your direct messages. Not only that, direct messages can now …
Every year, in Europe, Apple run a 12 day promotion where they give away a premium app, song, TV show, film or book everyday. The promotion runs from 26th December until 6th January and this year the USA get to join in the festive fun. Each freebie is …
Google today released an update to the Google Books App. The update now brings additional functionality including giving you the ability to upload EPUB or PDF files to your library from your phone or tablet. The full changelog is as follows Books open more quickly and smoothly. Upload …
The innovative Oppo N1 has been released in Europe today via the official distributor OppoStyle. As regular readers will know, the N1 is an Android phablet with a 5.9 inch display, 1.7 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 Quad Core processor, 2GB of RAM, a touchpad on the rear of …
In a busy day for Google, they have today announced two new phones in their ‘Google Edition’ range which take the great hardware from an existing phone and add stock Android to the mix making an almost ultimate combination. The great news is you can now purchase a …
Those Google Street View cars are great. We’ve all quickly got used to the fact that we can log onto Google Maps and instantly view pretty much any road, lane or house in the country. There’s even a bike and back-pack version for covering the more remote areas, …
As the guys over at Mobicity kindly provided us with the Galaxy Gear and a device to use it with for the Galaxy Gear review and it’s Xmas, the least we can do is tell you about 2 bargains they have in stock and ready to go as …
The Samsung Galaxy Gear. Gimic or useful? Well… Thanks to the guys at Mobicity we’ve got one to have a play with along with a Note III but I’m not gonna cover that, I will say its cool though. Priced at £229.99 in a good variety of colours …
I love Aldi me. You can walk in, get some bread, milk, cheap biscuits, a lawn-mower, fishing tackle, a TV and some fence panels. Brilliant. Not only that, but four cans of lager is £2. Come on, you can’t beat that. Now, even though it was only ever …
So, you may have noticed some additional adverts popping up recently. It seems that our preferences and the ideas of advertisers are at odds currently, and they’ve perhaps taken over your browser somewhat. First up, apologies for this. I’ve had a number of emails from you guys, including …
Sitting on my backside is something I do a lot in this job. Although I am doing a great deal more writing on my phone whilst walking around, it’s still a lot of laptop-action that drives a large portion of my writing. So, I need a comfortable place …
Recently I wrote about the release of the Windows Phone version of Hill Climb Racing published by Fingersoft. The rather addictive and great fun physics based driving game has wasted many hours of people’s time and now it has been announced that with over 140 million downloads worldwide …
Android 4.4.1 ? Oh, that’s so old hat. If you’ve got a Nexus device, check for updates now because the new Android 4.4.2 update is rolling out right now. So far, all we know is that the new update includes a fix for clearing the voicemail indicator, some …
Oppo has revealed that it’s planning to release arguably the highest spec smartphone ever, the Find 7. The new flagship has been teased on the Chinese company’s official Weibo micro-blog. It hints that the replacement for the Find 5 will have a Galaxy Note challenging 5.7 inch screen …
There are leaks that look dodgy and there are leaks that can be depended on as almost certainly genuine. Serial leakster @EVLeaks has got almost everything right so this latest piece of information can almost be taken as bona fide as today the colander like twitter account published …
Welcome to the next edition of the Coolsmartphone writers’ wish list for 2014, in which we hope to entertain, spark discussion, and secretly hope that the design gurus for all major manufacturers are hanging on our every word. I have a bone to pick with James’ comment that …
Keeping your gadgets dry is a rather difficult task and it’s a task that many of you out there might never have to do. Some people work in rough or difficult environments, some people spend a lot of their working day getting soaked to the skin and some …
A few weeks ago I got a bit carried away, I accidentally bought two Nexus 5 in the crazy initial rush to buy one before the all of the stock disappeared, I didn’t need one, I didn’t really want one, I suppose I just felt obliged to buy …
