Planning a break? Keep an eye on your phone.

I’m just sitting back in the office chair after visiting the Olympic Games in London. It’s a spectacular event, filled with pride and happiness. Down in the London Underground things seemed to be coping well too and it was filled with tourists visiting the various events. However, I …

YouTube app will not be part of iOS 6

Apple released iOS 6 beta 4 to developers this afternoon and in a move that may not be overly surprising, the YouTube app has been removed completely.  To say relations between Apple and Google have been strained recently would be an understatement. On stage at WWDC Apple announced …

New Hands Free Traffic App with Data Supplied By The Highways Agency

For those that are constantly on the road, the Highways Agency has reached an agreement to feed up-to-date traffic information from England’s motorways and major A roads into a new hands-free app for smartphones.  The app from Information Logistics Inc automatically updates travel advisories based on your location …

Galaxy S3 to get Jelly Bean in September?

    A post over at Sam Mobile claims to have learned of the timescales Samsung currently have in mind for updating devices such as the Galaxy S3 and S2 and also the Galaxy Note. The post gives the following timescales Galaxy S III – End Q3 begin Q4Galaxy …

Galaxy Note 10.1 Available this month

I’ve seen a number of sites stating that Samsung have just “announced” the Galaxy Note 10.1. Actually, they announced the thing back in February and we’ve already had the full hands-on treatment, so we don’t really need to show you the press shots. There’s already a video demo …

Samsung posts demo video of the Note 10.1

The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 was originally announced back at MWC and seems to have been stuck in perpetuity ever since. Well, Samsung has now posted a video on one of their official YouTube channels which demos the features of the Note 10.1. Sadly the video is computer …

London 2012 – Can you report using just a smartphone?

Just a few days ago I set myself a challenge. Using only a smartphone, would it be possible to run a website, updating posts, answering emails and responding to tweets? Is it then possible to go mobile, reporting on the biggest event happening right now in London? Snapping …

New Nokia Windows Phones coming in September?

Rumours are doing the rounds that Nokia may be about to launch not one but two new Windows Phone 8 devices in the month of September. The handsets are rumoured to be the Lumia 910 and 920 and will have multi core processors and high resolution screens, as …

Free Galaxy Tab with selected TVs

If you’re about to buy a big-screen TV to enjoy the Olympics on, check it this promotion from Samsung. Right now they’re giving away a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 when you buy a Series 7 and 8 LED Television or 51″ and 64″ Series 8 Plasma Television. There’s …

The Smartphone Olympics – Day 3

The third day of our Olympics coverage and I’m on a train to Manchester. This is the big test for me. A 10 minute Tube journey followed by a 2 hour train ride up to Manchester. I’m heading to Old Trafford and I’m not doing the usual “tourist …

Feature – Covering the Olympics with just a smartphone

For the next few days we’re covering the London 2012 Olympic Games from a Samsung Galaxy Note. There’ll be no laptop and no dedicated press centre, I’m doing it’ll all (including this very post) on the phone. I stepped off the train at Euston to be met by …

Chameleon Launcher is now on the Play Store

Exciting stuff I know. But unless you pre-ordered or backed them on Kickstarter then you won’t be able to install it quite yet. Take this to be a limited beta test via the Play Store. Chameleon Launcher is a new launcher for tablets that combines a selection of …

Samsung will unveil the Galaxy Note 2 on the 29th of August

The Galaxy Note has been a success. When it first came out people laughed at how oversized it was, how you looked stupid holding it to you head, blah blah blah, jump forward six or seven months and it is a popular device in the modding community and …

Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 8

Many are hailing this as our best episode yet, granted those are the 4 people that were actually on the podcast but its still a valid opinion. This week we discuss the Circus that is Apple vs Samsung, What we’d like to see in a new iPhone, more …

Coolsmartphone Feature – The Olympic Challenge

I know, by visiting Coolsmartphone you thought you’d found a refuge from all this Olympics stuff didn’t you? Well, no. Sorry. We’re going to be on it like a car bonnet. Right now I’m on a train to London to cover the games in our own unique way. …

Xperia XL to add more speed and a splash of colour

Take the Xperia S we reviewed and splash some new colours on. Now ramp up the dual-core 1.5GHz CPU to a 1.7GHz and you get this, the Sony Xperia SL. It’s rumoured to be running Android Ice Cream Sandwich and these leaked shots, plus more at eprice.com.tw show …

“No death spiral here”, says RIM CEO

During a visit to London, CEO of RIM, Thorsten Heins, was impressed to see BlackBerry handsets in use and told The Telegraph that… Surely that’s not bad for a company that one analyst recently suggested was “in a death spiral”. Mr Heins also takes a swipe at Windows …

Android 4.0 growing faster, Jelly Bean just getting started

As you can see from the data above, Android 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich is gaining pace in its install base according to Google’s report of how the different Android versions are divided. It is now on a total of 15.9% of devices, making it the 2nd most installed …

Galaxy Tab 2 7″ – Available for £166.99

Usual advice here. Be quick, this is for a limited time. Right now, if you’re signed up to Quidco, you can get the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7″ 8GB for just £166.99. It works like this. The 8GB version is £199.99, but Currys have knocked it down to …

Details of the Archos 101XS start to leak out

Don’t you just love the FCC? Well once again they have ruined another marketing scheme. Take Archos for instance, yesterday Archos put up a teaser image on Facebook and they tweeted: ARCHOS Gen 10 is coming… See you in 3 weeks for the launch announcement.http://fb.me/2bxg6aHWQ  They posted this …