Just yesterday we spotted this leaked picture of the Samsung Galaxy Ace 3. Now it’s all official, and we’ve just received the press release below to confirm. Powered by Android 4.2 (Jellybean) it has a 4″ 480×800 WVGA display, 1.2GHz dual-core CPU, 5 megapixel rear camera and a …
The BBC Weather app is the latest in a growing arsenal of high quality Android tools from the Big British Castle. I’ve had many weather apps over the years. Many have been terrible and most concentrate any premium features on the States. The BBC have kept things simple …
So you’ve taken a nice picture and want to edit it. What do you do? Well, some handsets have some on-board editing tools and you could shove a picture into Instagram but here’s something a bit more in-depth. Fotor is a complete multi-platform solution. You can get in …
Now and again something different comes along. An app or service that is unlike anything you’ve ever seen before, well this app is a bit like that. Yes we’ve seen many many Android Launchers over the years but I’ve never seen one like this. Everything.me Home basically adapts …
The Ace has for the last few years been the more affordable, lesser specced range to flagship S, although it has been further bumped down by the S3 mini and forthcoming S4 mini. However for the budget conscious shopper the Ace continues to offer a great introduction to …
It could have been a contender, had it made it in time. The notifications centre in Windows Phone 8, that is. This is normal in software development – tight shipping dates means that features have to slip from a release and may or may not make their way …
Samsung can’t keep anything secret. They really can’t, EVERY product that people are even slightly interested in gets leaked. It’s really starting to get annoying and continuing the trend the rumoured Galaxy S4 Zoom has appeared online. The specs leaked out online last week and it sounded a …
The 6″ large phone market is heating up. There are no end of devices due to be released that all have a screen size around about 6″ and HTC are rumoured to be releasing something that will probably be better than the lot of them. Unless you like …
Instance, the truly excellent Instagram app for Windows Phone is temporarily on offer in the Windows Phone Marketplace. For the time being it is available for the bargain price of 79p Formally known as “Itsdagram”, Instance allows you to: Register for an Instagram account, upload photos, see & get …
Just recently the nice people at Three told us about their new “broadband only” SIM. Like the old “SIM Zero” plan, this is ideal if you want to pop a SIM into your iPad and browse the internet when you take your device out of WiFi range. Like …
Facebook Home is Facebook’s own launcher that allows you to easily see your friends Facebook posts and updates from the homescreen. It will shortly its first major update and includes the following new features: · The ability to change who can see something you’ve shared · Sending multiple photos in …
You know what’s going to happen here don’t you? Two very expensive phones are going to get completely ruined just to show us how breakable they are. The footage below has been filmed by a mobile insurance company called Protect Your Bubble and it shows just what happens …
Do you fancy a nice new Nokia Lumia? A nice metal one with a great camera? Free wireless charging stand? Yes? Well head on over to the Three website as they’ve got the Nokia Lumia 925 up for pre-order today. The Lumia 925 is basically going to be …
The official Twitter app for Windows Phone has had an update and it has added a whole host of new features. Most notably is being able to view Vine videos within your timeline. Twitter is your global town square, a real-time connection to what’s happening in the world. …
A good friend of mine is an EE customer and lives in London. He’s been a good mate for years now so I asked about his new EE 4G contract. Being in London he gets 4G all the time but it seems that the ‘double speed’ rollout is …
Episode 50 of the Coolsmartphone Podcast is here. Another crazy week, far too many announcements, rumours and leaks. This weeks topics include the Galaxy S4 Active, the flood of Asus tablets, Acer and there offerings, Nokia, some more Samsung, the Three outage and the usual off topic waffle. …
Vodafone UK have opened up pre-orders for the latest Lumia device. The 925 and the deal below is rather good when you consider this is the 32GB model that is exclusive to Vodafone. Orders can be made now with delivery due on the 12th June, so not long until you …
We’ve already reported on the testing being undertaken by at800 here in the UK. The networks have given them a stack of cash in order to find out the answer to one key question. Will 4G signals at 800MHz ruin our enjoyment of Loose Women, Dickinson’s Real Deal …
OPPO are an unkown quantity to many in the UK. It’s no surprise then that the launch of their latest flagship, the Find 5, was virtually undetected. I saw it on their web store and was so intrigued that I spent my own hard earned 399 Euros (about …
Various retailers are selling off their stock of Windows Phone 8 devices. It’s mainly HTC and Samsung stock as Nokia sales are still strong. You fancy some Windows Phone action? Fancy it it cheap? Fancy catching a HTC in the process? You dirty monkey. Right now Expansys have …
