Android Game Review – Pudding Monsters

Cut The Rope was great, I loved slicing bits of rope to feed Om Nom. So when I heard Zeptolab were planning on making a new game I was fairly excited. The release came and as usual the game was released for iOS first and then during the …

My 2013 wishlist – James (the Windows Phone edition)

2013 is upon us and today is the day when most people get back to work and start to wonder what the year ahead is going to bring. I always have a mental wishlist in my head of stuff that I want to see happen and stuff I …

Vodafone Sure Signal network booster – Review

Do you have a bad mobile signal in the one place you want to use it most? It’s a more common problem than you may think. Whilst networks do their utmost to provide the best service they can, it’s hard for them to legislate for people with basement …

NVIDIA TegraZone now available for Windows RT

Gaming on Windows RT has huge potential over the next year or so. The NVIDIA TegraZone has previously been an Android app that allowed people who owned Tegra based devices to install Tegra specific games and get news and previews of upcoming games. Now Windows RT users with …

Touch-based Ubuntu arriving tomorrow?

Ubuntu, for those who aren’t aware, is a Linux OS based on Debian. It’s free, open source and has a desktop UI. It’s got quite a following and has breathed life into a range of netbooks and PC’s. However, with smartphones now having specs equal to advanced PC’s …

Sony Xperia Z press photo appears online

WIth CES just days away and this event being a favorite for Sony to announce their new products at, it comes as no surprise we are starting to see more and more leaked images.  This time it looks like an official press photo (although a low resolution version) has found …

Coolsmartphone 2012 Awards

It’s been another fantastic year in the smartphone world, with new devices seemingly appearing on a monthly basis. Sales wise, its been dominated by the usual suspects  (Samsung & Apple), but they’ve been far from the only show in town. After much heated debate (filling in a Google …

Apple iWatch: latest rumours suggest a wearable revolution

Apple is rumoured to be working on its own version of the iWatch. It’ll use the previous version of the iPod Nano and Intel chips to provide a new interface for the best-selling iPhone. Makers of Apple accessories have already raised more than $10m to make a watch …

Zagg Invisible Shield Screen Protector review

Phone protection…. there’s two schools of thought regarding this. Some people like to put their phone in a nice protective case, while others like to keep their phone naked. I like the middle ground. A slim bumper case and a screen protector. I know the sales man in …

OUYA Console gets unboxed

  Following an extremely successful Kickstarter project, OUYA Consoles are now shipping. They’re arriving after the developer portal went live and the OUYA dev kit is now ready for download too. For those who aren’t aware, the new OUYA console is an Android-powered device that’ll let you play …

Battery Widget Countdown – See how long your battery has left

The boys at Z3t4 Apps gave me an email over Christmas. They wanted us to point out their new Battery Widget Countdown app. As the name suggests you can drag it onto your homescreen and it’ll display a little battery along with the percentage remaining. Normal stuff, but …

EE HTC One X gets Jelly Bean

Tom Darcy has just pinged me an email after having Android Jelly Bean arrive on his HTC One X. It started arriving about a month ago elsewhere but Tom is on EE so if you got your handset through Orange or T-Mobile, look for an update right now. …

Fake EE twitter account confuses customers

The first 4G network in the UK called EE use twitter to communicate with their customers and try to help out as best as possible without having to call customer services.  Whilst results so far have been rather mixed and a lot of people (myself included) never getting …

More BlackBerry X10 photos leaked

Earlier we posted about some new BB10 photos of the Z10 which is the touch screen only BlackBerry due to be announced on the 30th January. BlackBerry are known for their awesome keyboards though and a BB10 handset is also in the making we believe to be called …

More BlackBerry Z10 images leak

Now I wont lie, I have not been much of a BlackBerry fan in the past for the main reason the OS seemed very old and outdated even with updates to 7.0 and more recently 7.1. However I have to admit BB10 has got me pretty excited helped …

6.1 inch Huawei device leaked

Until now Samsung had the market pretty much sorted when it came to large phone/small tablet size devices in both the Note 1. More recently the Note 2 arrived with a massive 5.5 inch display. If that’s not big enough for you and you want something with killer …

New BlackBerry phone pics spied in the wild

  We picked up the news on Christmas eve, but some of us weren’t able to post up in a timely fashion (I was busy doing Christmas things, my bad). However the BlackBerry has been spied and that traditional blurrycam has the pictures to prove it. As an …

Run Android apps on your PC or Mac

There are thousands of great Android apps out there to download for your smartphone or tablet, but did you ever wish you could run them on Windows or OSX? Well now you’re in luck. A free beta app called BlueStacks allows you to run the whole Android Market …

Gemini JoyTAB GEM7008 review

What can you get for £80 these days? The surprising answer is an Android Ice Cream Sandwich tablet with Play store compatibility from a British brand. Sub £100 tablets are nothing new, but on the whole they’re poorly built, slow and sold under a name nobody’s has ever …