Kazam bring the Thunder (and Trooper)

Back in June we first heard about Kazam, a new company headed up by a couple of ex-HTC staffers. They’ve today announced their new handsets – the Trooper and Thunder range. Let’s dive in and see what you can expect. Trooper Range There’s a number of models, including …

ZTE seem to want a piece of the modular phone pie as well

Modular phones sound incredible, pick and choose the components that go into your device, upgrade it as you please. If a modular phone ever made into the consumer world things might be a little more interesting. Motorola have recently hinted they are interested, teaming up with the PhoneBloks …

Oppo R819 goes dark

The Oppo R819. Let’s talk about it shall we? It’s got a quad-core 1.2GHz CPU and a 4.7″ 720p HD display (1280×720) at 312 PPI. There’s 1GB of RAM and a 2000 mAh battery, plus f/2.0 aperture 8 megapixel camera, FM radio, dual-SIM support, WiFi, DLNA and Android …

Is the Nokia Lumia 929 the phone we’ve all been waiting for?

The Nokia Lumia range has always had its own idea of where it wanted to go, in as much as sizing anyway. Even though the whole world wanted bigger devices Nokia stuck with their 4.5″ flagship, be it the Lumia 920, 925 or 1020. Plus of course a …

Android 4.2.2 and Sense 5 rolling out to the HTC One SV now.

The budget baby of HTC’s One range, the One SV is receiving an over the air update to Android 4.2.2 and Sense 5 as we speak. Whilst this is still a good few iterations behind its senior counterparts, the fact that HTC are showing willing to keep supporting its …

EE switch on 300Mbps LTE-A Network

Back at a recent brief for EE the company said they will be trialling the worlds fastest LTE service offering speeds of 300Mbps using LTE-A (LTE Advanced). According to The Telegraph it looks like today is that day with the combination of the Double Speed 20Mhz at 1800 …

Alcatel One Touch Tab 7 now on Three UK

Three have announced today a new tablet made by Alcatel, it’s the One Touch Tab 7. The tablet is not 3G enabled by itself but Three have a promotion which pairs it with a MiFi unit. If you purchase one of the MiFi Starter Packs (which start from …

Oppo release the ColorOS ROM for the Find 5

With the announcement of the Oppo N1 also came the unveiling of the new Oppo ROM, called ColorOS. Which is basically a skinned version of Android 4.2. Well now all of you Oppo Find 5 owners out there can flash the Color ROM now. Earlier on Oppo tweeted …

BlackBerry abandon sell-off plan, continue to limp on

A planned sell-off to the largest Blackberry shareholder, Fairfax Financial Holdings, has today been dropped after failing to reach an agreement. The company are instead looking to raise $1 billion (some £627 million) in financing in order to continue operating. The company has a Q2 loss of almost …

Moto G – Motorola are still kicking

As we head into the festive period Motorola look to have a little surprise for us. They’re not telling us a great deal at the moment, other than the fact that we should stand by for further details on Wednesday 13th November. However, a leak has possibly already …

Otterbox Clearly Protected for the LG G2 – Review

Believe it or not there are people out there who don’t like to encase their phone in a huge great double layer case or even a tiny thin “barely there” style case. They must thrive on the potential damage that there phone may suffer during the day. For …

LG G2 – Review

Just how bad is the LG skin? Is it worse than TouchWiz? How is that button on the back? That’s what people say to me when the see I’ve got the LG G2. The LG G2 is one of the most unique devices of recent times and as …

KitKat ROMs now available for the Galaxy Nexus

Hot on the heals of the news from Google that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus will not be getting Android 4.4 KitKat, and less than 48 hours after the release of this latest version of Android on the Nexus 5, the clever bods over at XDA Developers have a …

LG G2 – Second Impressions

On Thursday pretty much everyone in Coolsmartphone Towers bought themselves a Nexus 5. Listeners of Podcast Episode 69 will already know that I didn’t, and that’s because I had bought an LG G2 that got delivered just as the Nexus 5 was launched! One of the reasons I …

Google Nexus 5 – Unboxing

The Nexus 5 must have been one of the most leaked phones of all time, thankfully the wait is over and on 31st October Google announced the Nexus 5 to the world at 6pm…… and the next day it was available in Carphone Warehouse to purchase! Not wanting …

Ascend W2 Gets colourful

Meet the Huawei Ascend W2, a new Windows Phone 8 device available in China right now in a new UMTS version. The W2 will also be available in Russia and the Netherlands this month and in “other markets” after. It’s got a 4.3″ IPS WVGA LCD screen, 7GB …

Gadgets in flight. Now they can go all the way.

Flying with a smartphone or tablet is always a confusing affair. In some parts of the world you can use gadgets during certain parts of the flight, but in others you can’t. It’s a slightly confusing mish-mash of rules, but now US aviation regulator – the FAA – …

EE iPad Air pricing announced

We’ve already seen both Three and Vodafone announce their pricing. Now it’s time for the network with all the 4G masts – EE. They’ve announced that the new iPad Air with WiFi + Cellular will be available from today and you can get it for £36 per month …

Londoners see big speed improvements thanks to 4G, but EE still leads

RootMetrics have been busy testing the performance of EE, Vodafone, O2 and Three. They’ve done 86,000 speed tests and London has shown some great speeds from EE. EE customers in the London area received speeds which were around 10MBps faster than any other operator. The average download speeds …

Vodafone announce iPad Air pricing and availability

Voda have stepped up with their pricing for the newly-announced iPad Air. Here in the UK the “iPad Air with WiFi + Cellular” will be on offer from £28 a month, with a £129 upfront cost. Although the iPad Air is available now, you’ll have to wait a …