Roaming rates slashed. Now just £470 per GB!

Blow up the balloons, order a cake, we’re going to have a party! Roaming rates are dropping today. New EU limits kick in to…slightly reduce your costs. Data especially is now a lot cheaper, but we’re still a long way from being able to use phones as we …

Vodafone announce the 4G ready R212 mobile Wi-Fi device

4G is coming soon to Vodafone and what better way to prepare than to sign up for a contract and get a MiFi. The R212 allows you to connect up to 10 devices at once. Vodafone sum up the other features by saying. Why get this? 4G ready …

HTC One X+ 64GB model going cheap – Deal

The HTC One X+ is rather special because of its huge internal memory. It has 64GB, yes 64GB and it is the deal of the week over at Expansys. They are on sale for £319.99 including VAT and delivery here. The specs are pretty good as well. – …

Givit Video Editor – Fast, free film creation

You, you video whore. You love to film everything on your iPhone or iPad. You’ve got hours of footage and, if you sit down and look in the mirror, you should admit to yourself that only about 20 minutes of it is any good. So step forward Givit …

Smartphones. What have we done to ourselves?

Hello Monday morning. This is a strange article for me, because it actually criticises the very thing I love and write about on a daily basis. The other day I was in Pizza Hut. Classy huh? I spotted two people come in and they sat directly in my …

Motorola RAZR i going cheap on Three – Deal

Possibly one of the most understated phones of our times, the Motorola RAZR i is being sold off rather cheaply recently. First on EE and now on Three. The deal is £149.99 on PAYG and as usual you’ll probably need a topup as well. Existing customers seem to …

Three simplify Pay As You Go

You’re going to hear the words “clear” and “transparent” quite a lot on the Press Release below because Three are introducing a new Pay As You Go offer. Basically put, it gives you a set cost for texts, data and calls – you only pay for what you …

Parrot Minikit Smart Bluetooth car kit – Review

The Parrot Minikit Smart car kit is more than just a mobile phone car dock. It’s intelligent, doing the same job as a Bluetooth enabled car. Will the £49.99 price tag save me the hassle of buying that Mercedes with the fancy stereo? Let’s hope so! Good Looks …

Xperia Z Tablet coming to Three

Whilst we have had no official press release, no information on pricing and no video from the team talking about the new Xperia Z Tablet, it has appeared over on their ‘Coming Soon’ section of the UK site thus confirming it will be coming shortly. The Xperia Z …

Sony Xperia Z Tablet in the house!

Thanks to the kind people over at Vodafone UK, we have been given an Xperia Z Tablet to use for FOUR WEEKS to be able to give our thoughts on it in a review. However this time will be slightly different as 3 different members of the team …

The Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 52

Episode 52 means one thing and that’s competition time. 52 episodes also means that we have been doing this for about a year now and to celebrate we’ve got as many of the team involved as possible, we also have a few things to giveaway to listeners. There …

Huawei might make a Google Edition Ascend P6 after all

During the Huawei Ascend P6 event last week Richard Yu the CEO of Huawei said that there wasn’t a reason to make a Google Edition of the P6 as Emotion UI was good enough. Well in a recent interview Kevin Ho, the president of the handset product division …

Do you text in sick? You’re not the only one

We’ve had an email from a company called Intercity Telecom. They’re trying to get us to mention their Orbit system, which lets you access your desk phone, mobile, instant messaging and email all in one place. A lot of companies do this, but they add a survey in …

Help beta test Facebook for Android

Facebook have decided they want some user feedback, which is nice of them. They obviously don’t want a repeat performance of Facebook Home with future updates of the standard Facebook app. The good thing is that if you want to install the beta version of the Facebook Android …

Some information about our anniversary podcast

Good afternoon guys and girls, it’s been a week or two since our last podcast and there is a good reason for that. It’s mainly because most of us went on holiday at the same time but also because we’ve been gathering the troops in preparation for episode …

EE lights up another 11 towns and cities

Hey you, yes you!! Do you live in Aldershot, Basildon, Basingstoke, Bracknell, Hitchin, Horsham, Leatherhead, Letchworth, Stevenage, Warrington or Weston-super-Mare? Well listen up, because you’re getting 4G right now. These additional locations mean that 85 towns and cities across the UK are now bathed in superfast mobile broadband …

iFixit is now available for Windows Phone

What do you do if you break your phone, tablet, laptop or camera? Take it back to the shop and pretend it came like it? No you head over to the ifixit website and read a guide on how to rip your broken device apart and then after …

Word Search 10K

Any wordsearch fans out there? Well if you have an iOS device then the app for you has just been released. Word Search 10K is the largest word search ever made and is available free on the App store now. The app features one giant wordserach split into …

HTC One arrives in red (Update)

HTC have announced today that the HTC One, HTC’s current flagship device here in the UK, will be arriving in a new colour option. Dubbed ‘Glamour Red’ by the company, the red colour option will be available exclusively from Phones 4U from mid July. We haven’t been issued …

What is it with the Google Play Store and the UK?

Yesterday night the Google editions of the HTC One and the Samsung Galaxy S4 became available on the Google Play Store. Or they did if you’re in the US anyway. These new Google editions joined the white version of the LG Nexus 4, which also isn’t available in …