The Coolsmartphone Gift Guide Preview – The BoostBloc

It’s a fight we have daily. Power, we just need more power. So, as a little taster for our upcoming Coolsmartphone Gift Guide, here’s the Eton BoostBloc6600. It’s basically a block that you charge up and then you carry it round. Slap a couple of cables in and …

Hands-on with the LG G Pad 8.3

Sadly it’s not in our grubby mitts just yet, but those lads at Clove have just raided their stock and filmed this new 1.7GHz quad-core and uploaded it to YouTube. The tablet comes equipped with that 8.3″ 1920×1200 pixel screen, a 5 and 1.3 megapixel camera plus 16GB …

HTC Wandering into The Amazon?

It saddens me to see HTC struggling to post a profit these days, especially when they bring to the table handsets like the HTC One. It goes to show what a mammoth marketing budget like Apple & Samsung have can do for an organisations fortunes. So, if HTC …

Tesco Hudl Review

It would seem that they are all jumping on the bandwagon.  It started with Amazon and the Kindle Fire who had the place to themselves until Tesco came along with their Hudl and it was announced yesterday that Argos are to start selling their own version of an …

They’re back with a new tablet – The LG G PAD 8.3

After a pretty big gap, LG are back once again (like the Renegade Master) with a tablet. So, either in the black or white corner (depending on your shade preference), weighing in at 338 grams we have the LG G PAD 8.3. It’s powered by a Qualcomm 1.7GHz …

Create your own QR code, and update the content on the fly

When you’re presented with a QR code there’s various ways of reading it. Lots of code readers are kicking around the various stores but Hipscan is a bit different. You don’t just read QR codes, you can create them too and, by using one central destination that you …

HTC One max – Is the camera lacking? We don’t think so

Yesterday we finally saw the official details for the HTC One max. A couple of items have already been pointed out, and the questions we’ve had so far are… – Where’s Beats Audio? Well, simply put. It ain’t there. BoomSound is, so you’re gonna get some rather potent …

Otterbox cases and the iPhone 5/5S – Review

I’ve grown fond of Otterbox over the years, having found them years ago whilst looking for a rugged case for my Dell Streak 5. Fast forward a few years and Otterbox are one of THE names for mobile phone and tablet cases, with many different designs and colours …

Argos to sell their own tablet too

This Christmas it won’t just be Tesco selling you a cheap tablet. Argos will be on the street corner too, and after a quick check of the surroundings they’ll give you a small pink tab for jusr £100. You can get your hands on the 7 incher soon …

HTC One Max is up for pre-order

Yesterday the HTC One Max was announced, it was another device that had every last feature leaked in the months leading up to yesterday. If you’re eager to buy one the Clove may be able to help as they’re taking pre-orders now. The One Max will be with …

HTC One Max to be exclusive to Vodafone on launch

The HTC One Max has been announced today, you may have noticed! In a rather interesting twist it seems that Vodafone have got an exclusive on the upcoming “large oversize phone” from HTC. Vodafone have said the following about pricing etc. The HTC One max is a Vodafone …

Windows Phone Update 3 Improvements revealed

With the Windows Phone sales share figure rising (at least, according to Kantar) and more than 175,000 apps now available, things are looking a little better for Windows Phone. Update 3, as it’s now known, has a number of improvements. Not only that, but there’s a developer preview …

Google Nexus 7 (2013 edition) – Review

What can be said about the Nexus devices that hasn’t already been said? What once stood for a developer orientated device is now a high street brand that you can pick up in your local branch of PC World. Which isn’t a bad thing, it means more people …

HTC One max – Hands on

Want to see more of the HTC One max? Of course you do. Want to see just computer generated images? No, nobody really wants that do they? Well, now that you’ve got all the details, we’ll give you a large dollop of real, hands-on photos. Want the full …

HTC One max goes official – All the details

Well, a little earlier than planned, here’s the all-new HTC One max. It matches a lot of the leaks we’ve seen but now we can go all official with the specs. Put simply, it’s a phablet with a near-6″ screen and powerful quad-core 1.7GHz CPU. There’s a fingerprint …

LG G Flex press renders appear

I’m still a little unsure about curved screen phones, it seems more of a proof of concept rather than something that is actually worthwhile. Last week we saw the Samsung Galaxy Round, it got leaked and then quickly officially announced. Well today it seems to be LG’s turn. …

Our new home

Morning all. So, after many hours of rsync’ing, MySQL exporting, DNS changes, cache cleaning, minify twiddling and config file re-writes, we’re here. It’s our new home. The home you guys helped to buy. Now, I did say that we’d announce the winners of the donation giveaway over the …

Want to see a 7 minute video of the new Nexus 5?

Thought so… http://youtu.be/2ksOJl0PDDg My first impressions are that the phone looks dreadful, the OS is laggy and the version number says KeyLimePie. Hmmm… So what exactly are we seeing here? It’s almost certainly a prototype handset that was filmed a while ago (hence KeyLimePie not KitKat). Maybe even …