Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 – Now less than £100

Normally Tesco sell the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 (in either white, red, black or gold brown) for £119 but, when you enter the special code TDX-NHW4 it’ll bring the cost down to just £99. The 7″ WiFi tablet has a 1.2GHz dual-core CPU, 50GB of Dropbox storage, 3 …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 72

It’s Friday, and you know what happens on Friday – we publish the single greatest podcast on the internet. This week James is sunning himself on holiday, so I’m in the hot seat. Yes, me. If you’ve followed the podcast over the years you may remember the very …

TV Anywhere from Virgin, now for Android

Just recently Sky added more channels to their Sky Go service. It brought the total amount of “watch anywhere” channels to 57, but Virgin have today blown them out of the water by launching their TV Anywhere app for Android devices which gives access to 67 channels across …

Hill Climb Racing now available on Windows Phone

Hill Climb Racing, the rather popular Android game that has seen over 50 million installs from Google Play has found its way onto Windows Phone. The game which is published by Fingersoft sees you take control of Newton Bill in order to get your vehicle as far along …

Lumia 2520 announced by Nokia

The Lumia 2520, the first Windows tablet from Nokia, has today been announced. Here in the UK there’s only one place to get it, and that’s through John Lewis from December 4th. The tablet includes 4G connectivity, a full HD 1920×1080 10.1″ screen, 2.2GHz quad-core CPU, 11 hours …

Cyanogenmod Installer app removed from Play Store

Some things never go smoothly, do they? Cyanogenmod posted on their blog last night that their Installer had been voluntarily removed from the Play Store after a Google request citing the fact that as it encouraged people to void their warranties which is against the Play Store policy. …

Cuebox 3D Pool Game Review

As if playing pool in two dimensions isn’t hard enough, there is now 3D Pool. This is definitely a game that will test your mental acuity and give that redundant geometry knowledge a workout. As you can imagine from the title, the game is based around a regular …

Mindnode v3 for iOS7

If you haven’t come across it, Mindnode is a rather good Mind Mapping app for iOS (and OSX). Mindnode has just released version 3, which like lots of apps recently, is exclusive and redesigned for iOS7. The results are quite beautiful, with a new theme, redesigned document browser …

Pebble Watch now on Amazon – for a price!

The best ever Kickstarter project the Pebble Smart watch is now available on Amazon through their marketplace. Pebble is so far the only cross platform smartwatch, supporting iOS and Android already, with Windows Phone to come (and some limited Windows Phone 3rd party apps available already).  I’m one of …

Facebook beta for Windows Phone update – tiles and notifications

Facebook Beta for Windows Phone has received one of its regular updates, and this one is a bit bigger than usual. Notifications and Messages have received big updates, with improved Toast notifications as well as Toast notifications for Messages/Chat. Tiles have also been redesigned, with a variety available, including …

Three offer to unlock phones for NOTHING

Having a locked phone can be rather annoying, not only do you often have bloatware to contend with, it can also be tricky if you want to swap to a different network at the end of your contract. You’ll also have problems if you want to sell the …

Tesco Mobile offering the Moto G for £99

It’s sadly showing as unavailable when we click on the listing but, if you can find it, the Moto G is now just £99 at Tesco. If you’ve got 99 Clubcard points you can buy it that way but, for 99 quid, this is a steal. It comes …

Gionee Eliffe E7 hits China with a 16 megapixel cam

OK, you may not have heard of them, but they’re making a pretty bold claim. The Gionee Elife E7 is, according to Gionee, the best Android cameraphone on the market. Now, when I say “Android”, it’s a heavily tweaked version of Android called “Amigo 2.0″ and the Chinese …

Wallapop – Sell stuff free to your local area

At times eBay drives me round the bend. I’ll list something and, despite clearly showing UK delivery only, I’m bound to get people wanting me to post the item to Africa or to disclose the reserve price. Then they moan if you don’t send the item within 17 …

GetYounity – Access your computer files on the go

Right, so these people emailed me twice and they went to all the trouble of making a very swish video showing how their private cloud-based storage doohickey works. No, they did not offer me a job at their company for huge amounts of cash, but the product does …

Nokia Coloud Boom headphones – Review

Yellow is the new white ok, in my world it is anyway. So imagine what I thought when I saw the new Nokia Coloud range of Lumia colour matching headphones, I was excited as there are three different headphones to choose from. In the end I went for …

An affordable smartwatch – the Go Watch

Hey you. Want to buy yourself a watch? Fancy getting yourself one of those clever smartwatches? How’s £109 sound? I know! Good right? This is the Go Watch. It’s actually powered by Android 4.3 and there’s a whole developer portal where apps can be published out. The 1.54″ …