During our Mobile World Congress coverage we caught our first look at the Motorola MOTOLUXE. With an 800MHz CPU it might not be the fastest puppy in the world, but the design of the thing put a pretty big smile on my face. Tesco have picked up the …

The HTC One S is the slimmer, ever-so-slightly-less-powerful brother of the HTC One X. It’s got a 4.3″ screen with 960×540 pixel screen. I say “slightly less powerful” but heck, a dual-core 1.5GHz CPU is still ruddy good. Powered by Android 4.0 with HTC Sense 4.0, it uses …

In December 2011 Google released Google Currents for Android and iOS in the United States.  This app let users explore online magazines and other user generated content. Since the release users have requested that the app be made available internationally and that the speed of updating increases. From …

Like most smartphone users I  have apps that I simply cannot do without and WiFi File Transfer certainly fits into that bracket. Put simply, WiFi file transfer allows you to upload and download files from your phone to your PC over your wireless network without the need for …

Competition in the mobile marketplace is hotting up. Already HTC have announced a drop in profits and now, in the space of one day, Nokia shares have fallen by over 16% in the last few hours. The dive comes after Nokia warned that their first quarter performance had …

We have just had some hands on time thanks to Vodafone and Huawei with the Huawei Ascend G300. We can now announce that this handset will be exclusive to Vodafone. It will launch this FRIDAY on both Pay Monthly and PAYG plans either online, over the phone or …

HTC are more than aware how quicky the mobile industry changes. In Barcelona we saw how eager Fujitsu, ZTE and Huawei were to take bigger bites of the mobile market. HTC have realised that their previous “carpet bombing” technique, introducing handsets for almost every segment and user, wasn’t …

Recently I realised I had a problem. I listen to a lot of podcasts and the built in iOS way of handling these is problematic. They are downloaded from the iTunes app and listened to in the podcast section of the Music app which is confusing from the …

One app that I have wanted for a while on Windows Phone was a way to track your data usage. As we are all aware our internet tariffs are not quite unlimited any more (unless your on one of those truly unlimited tariffs). We all have an upper limit to …

Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the trade only day of Gadget Show Live 2012 at the NEC in Birmngham. This was a great experience and I am grateful to Otone Audio who were good enough to provide my ticket for me to attend. I will hopefully …

Sopcast, the popular streaming application is now available on the Android platform. Currently in beta, the app runs on any Android device currently using version 2.2 or above. Sopcast say that as well as supporting P2P live channels it can play most types of local audio and video …

A mystery HTC device with an edge-to-edge screen has been discovered on the HTC Sense website, but sadly its not real.   Android Central have been told that it is just for showing off Sense without specific hardware…. shame as this is certainly a cool device and I’m …

Just days aftet launch and Nokia have had to apologise to new owners of the Lumia 900 for a bug which disconnects the phone from the web. A statement on the Nokia.com site reads… Soon after this flagship device began selling, we identified a software issue. In short, …

OK, short version. About a week ago we found out that this very site was going to be taken off-line. It all revolved around a rather substantial excess bandwidth charge. Thankfully, you guys cam to our rescue and generously donarted your own hard-earned cash to keep the ship …

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today announced a major initiative to combat smartphone theft in the United States. In New York City some 40% of all robberies involve smart phones or some other form of mobile device, in Washington DC smartphones were taken in 54% more robberies than …

Samsung Galaxy S2 users on Vodafone rejoice – you’ll soon be getting your hands on Android Ice Cream Sandwich. The latest version of Google’s Android platform will begin rolling out in the UK on April 12. Vodafone confirmed the news via its forum. Here is the official line: …

Android phones have grown from an interest to a bit of an obsession with me, but that’s not the only way they’ve grown recently, and I’m a little worried that all this excess is going to harm our cute green friend. I’m a proud owner of a Samsung …

Two recently released high-end smartphones from Sony and HTC, namely the Xperia S and One X are both touted as top-class camera phones. Imaging specs are pretty impressive – the Sony Xperia S sports 12-megapixel “Exmor R” sensor, while the HTC One X has 8-megapixel shooter backed by …

In the world of Windows Phone there are quite a few Twitter apps. Most of them are ill thought out, barely functional, awkward, slow, laggy and unpleasant apps. My first big challenge when I started off down the Windows Phone path was to find something that did not tick …

Battery life is always a lot shorter than you’d like it to be, so when there’s a free app which lets you charge up your phone easily, many are prepared to believe. This time the app will apparently let you charge your phone merely by shaking it. This …