O2 are ending support for the O2 Joggler

Do you have an O2 Joggler? Well if you do you will be interested to know that O2 are about to release a final update for it. What is an O2 Joggler I here you ask, well The O2 Joggler is a 7” Touchscreen mains powered device which …

Mobile Banking for Android – a quick guide (Updated).

Banks, we may not like them, we may not want them but unfortunately, we all need them! In this recession hit world many of us work strange hours and find that a visit to the bank during the week is certainly inconvenient if not nearly impossible . Most …

Coolsmartphone Now On Tapatalk

  You may have noticed that our new Forum went live the other day. Well to make things easier and reduce load times etc we have added Tapatalk functionality. This makes it a lot easier to track your favourite topics and private messages. To find us simply search for …

Lost your phone? Symantec find out what happens next

The people at Symantec decided to do something a bit nuts. They put 50 smartphones around major American cities and equipped them with tracking and usage software. Their “Honey Stick Project” (shouldn’t that be Honey Pot?) found some pretty interesting, if not unsurprising results. The phones, by the …

Find people who share your interests – hicup

So, this is an app that helps you find people who share common interests in your area. It’s not about smut or dating. This simply helps you find people who like the stuff you like. Want to find someone who likes sewing ? This will do that. Want …

Latest Figures Showing Sharp Rise In ICS Usage.

The latest figures released by Google on the Android Developers site have shown a sharp increase in the number of devices that have Ice Cream Sandwich using Google Play. It has been revealed that ICS (Android version 4.0.x) now accounts for 4.9% of all devices, an increase powered …

Freetalk HD Camera and Handset winners

Just over a month ago we held a competition to win one of three of these Freetalk HD camera and headsets. We had hundreds and hundreds of entries and can now announce the winners… Gary Weldon Gavin Lewandowski David Edge A big congratulations to you lot! We’ve got …

Samsung Galaxy Nexus Accessories Finally Arrive

What is it they say about absence making the heart grow fonder? Well I can’t say I’m feeling much love for Samsung’s tardiness in releasing the Galaxy Nexus range of accessories. Five months since its UK release, the official Google phone finally has some toys to go with …

Get on the Dog and Bone, Special Pet Plan Available Soon.

Go on, admit it.  You have often sat at work, gazed into space and thought “I wish my Tiddles would just ring me.”  Own up, how many times a day do you check your phone just to see if you have a missed call from Rover? Well, the …

Patent Application Hints at New Nexus?

No sooner has the rumour mill died down around the Samsung Galaxy SIII than the merry-go-round starts all over again, this time the handset in question is the next Google Nexus. In a patent application filed by one Andy Rubin, Google’s VP of Engineering, it would appear that …

New National Rail Enquiries free app

National Rail Enquiries have launched free apps for iOS and Android. The apps allow you to plan a train journey, access real time arrivals and departures, as well “tagging” a train once it has left a station to follow its progress. You can also subscribe to alerts. Both …

HTC One V Review

The bottom of the range is never a good place to be. Not if we’re honest. If your budget will “only go” as far as the One V then you might think that you’re losing out. Sure, when it comes to specs this isn’t as F1-fast as the …

Skross World Travel Adaptor with Twin USB review

I was preparing to go on holiday the other week. As always I end up with a big pile of phone chargers, camera chargers, mp3 player chargers, my wifes proprietary cables for her antiquated phone and sometimes even the charger for one of my tablets. It always soon becomes a …

Samsung double screen action!

All eyes are on Samsung at the moment. This Thursday we should finally see their “Next Galaxy” in the flesh and they’ve suddenly got a lot of the competition worried. Now there’s news that Samsung are about to make a Nintendo DS move into different designs, with this …

LG to drop Windows Phone …for now

I’ve been banging on about this for a while now. Nokia have stolen a lot of limelight on the Windows Phone stage recently and it’s no big surprise to see LG now putting the brakes on. In an interview for the Korea Herald an unnamed LG Exec stated …

Be the first person to own an Asus Transformer Pad 300

Do you want to be the first person in the UK to have the brand new Asus Transformer Pad 300 in your mits? You do? Well, luckily for you Asus are running a competition that gives you the chance to be that person. All you have to do …

Darwin awards for phones

We have all been there. Phone in your shirt pocket and you lean over to inspect something on the toilet wall. Woosh the phone falls out and clatters down the toilet. Surely it’s not just me? Anyway SquareTrade are a mobile phone insurance company and they have decided …

App Holes episode 2 and 3 are out.

Can you remember the other week?  I posted a new web video series based at a software developers workplace. It’s a comedy and I’ve been on holiday since then and missed the opportunity to remind you that episode two and three are now available to watch. It’s shaping …

HTC One X video capture… room for improvement?

So.. the HTC One X. HTC’s current flagship phone. The all singing, all dancing uber phone with an all powerful quad core beating heart. So it should thrash anything else out there, right? I’ve always been a big fan of camera functionality on phones, and whilst the stills …