Just a week ago Microsoft made their move with the new Surface tablet and the new Windows Phone 8 OS. Today it’s the turn of Google, and you can follow the events live from San Francisco below. The Google I/O’s event is the chance for developers to see …
The Google Nexus Tablet hasn’t exactly been a well-kept secret so far, and now there’s confirmation from Asus themselves. Bloomberg also quotes “two people familiar with the matter” that a 7″ sub-$200 Google-branded tablet running the new Android OS – Jelly Bean is about to launch. An Asustek …
Bought to our attention by HotUKDeals, you can now purchase a Nokia Lumia 800 for the princely sum of £200. A quick Google search reveals that the price is normally upwards of £300. The smooth one-piece body flows right around the floating 3.7″ ClearBlack AMOLED display. And the …
There have been some strange motorsport sponsorship deals over the years. Who’d have thought the clothing company Benetton would have a team, for example, and if I told you ten years ago that a soft drinks manufacturer would have a championship winning team, you’d have looked at me …
We have reported many times on the ongoing wars between Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and a plethora of other mobile companies so it comes as no surprise to be writing once again about a Samsung product that has had an injunction upheld against it following an application by Apple. …
The Nokia 808 Pureview is, it has to be said, a strange phone. Without “that camera” it’d probably be overlooked. It runs on a 1.3GHz CPU, it’s got a 360 x 640 pixel 4″ screen and has the usual WiFi, GPS, FM radio, microSD etc However, it’s got …
I’ll be honest, I’m not a big fan of iTunes. I don’t know why, functionality wise it’s actually pretty good. I moved from an iPhone 4 to the wonderful Samsung Galaxy Nexus back at launch in November 2011. Soon after, I started to miss iTunes… No longer did …
Let’s be honest. Look at your phone. Did you get a good deal? Many people choose their phone based on a monthly budget, and want the phone for nothing up-front. For many it’s typical to pay around £36 a month for two years, but you can find yourself …
Nokia have announced a load of new apps and updates for the Nokia Lumia 800 and 710. The update is available on Zune and the apps will be available on the Marketplace. As usual some markets may be delayed and some carriers may interfere, just because. But now …
Cyanogenmod has been a favourite custom ROM for many people. With the release of the source code for Ice Cream Sandwich last year many people have been getting upset about when a stable official build of Cyanogenmod 9 would be released. Yes there were many nightly versions available …
Tomorrow is the start of the big Google developers conference – Google I/O. We’ll be bringing live coverage as the event unfolds, but right now Google have just finished putting up the Jelly Bean sculpture on their lawn. Although the beans started off on the floor they’ve now …
There have been rumours for a while that Apple was going to be launching a standalone podcast app, fuelled by the removal of the podcasts section of the music app in iOS 6 betas. Well that day has now arrived and the podcasts app has hit the app …
As regulars visitors will know we here at Coolsmartphone are supporters of 4G Britain, Everything Everywhere’s campaign to increase awareness of the consumer and business benefits that faster, more reliable fourth generation mobile services will bring to the UK. A very good example of these benefits can be see …
The new Nexus 7 tablet and Jellybean are the two hot topics racing around the Android world at the moment and, ahead of its imminent launch, a leaked document about both is causing the rumour mill to rev up to the red line. According to said document the …
If you are involved in the development of apps or games then we want to hear from you. Regardless of platform, be it Android, Blackberry, iOS, Symbian or Windows Phone. We’d like you the developers to come to our forums and post details about your products. We can …
Carphone Warehouse have today announced the launch of a new app that they have called “Bill Angel”. Designed to track your call, text and data usage, the app will warn you when you reach your limits thus making it easier to stick to your tariff allowances. Currently available for …
Over the last week or so we have heard lots about Windows Phone 8 and all of its great new features. Quite a few people are upset about the fact that current devices cannot be upgraded to Windows Phone 8, as a compromise Microsoft have took one of …
So, you have a quad core beast of a handset, and it seems a shame to contain all that power to one (admittedly rather large and beautiful) mobile phone display. Step in the official Samsung HDTV adapter for the Galaxy S3.. The included video demonstrates the capabilities of the …
NFC stands for Near Field Communication you may have seen it in shops now as contactless payment basically its a set of standards for smartphones that enables the transfer of data such as text or numbers between two NFC enabled devices. NFC tags, like stickers, key fobs or …
The football may be over for England but the great British summer of sport rolls on with the Wimbledon Tennis Championships starting today and we bring you news of the official Wimbledon app!! Follow all the action LIVE during the fortnight with the official Wimbledon app. The All …
