Yay it’s Friday. So close to the weekend. What do we need to distract from work today? Some strange apps that’s what. Boy is today a little odd. The last one may be a tiny bit nsfw. It depends if you are surrounded by old ladies who don’t …
Sonic Notify describes itself as ‘a platform that enables media to be delivered to a smartphone or tablet based on presence’. The technology here involves broadcasting an inaudible signal over an audio source that can be picked up by a suitable app on a device. The Sonic Notify …
Phones4U have introduced a new tariff, called “Jump” which stands for ‘Just Upgrade My Phone’. The basic principle involved is the monthly payment is split into two, with your service provider (Orange, Vodafone etc) providing the minutes and texts, whereas Phones4U provide the handset. They both still run for 24 …
Back in October, the Company Speaktoit released a voice assistant for Android simply called Speaktoit Assistant. This week it has arrived on the iPhone App Store and it has some nice features. It can search the internet, Google images and Google Maps. Just tell her what you want …
This is the sort of thing that Windows Phone has been lacking for a while now. Not exactly the Domino’s Pizza app, but high street brands paying developers to make an app for Windows Phone. Whoa this was meant to be about the Domino’s app. Back on track …
Morning! So, remember the “Full Monty” story ? We added an item showing feedback from the T-Mobile Support guys which showed a cap of 1Mb/s. Shortly after we received a correction from T-Mobile to say that this wasn’t quite right, but we continued to get people telling us …
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and to celebrate, Kokakiki have released a special edition of their pig-matching game Tweens. Adding 20 new levels to the 75 that were in the original game, the Valentine’s version adds a new twist to what is already an addictive game. …
Futaba Classroom Games for Kids by INKids Have you noticed how children pick up an iPad and just use it…? Both of mine certainly did and the youngest is only four…! We have just had the chance to review Futaba Classroom Games, which is an educational package designed …
The Gripsta is a smartphone holder made by a company who have been making foam products for twenty years. I had a look at their website and I realised that they were VERY brightly coloured phone holders. The Gripsta team nicely sent me a box of the brightly …
It’s not been the best of weeks for iPhone security. First we had news that social network Path has been slurping the data from users’ address books without their permission and uploading it to their servers. Now security blog Peekay reports on an experiment in which they set out …
HTC have released an update on the progress of their ICS upgrades for various devices. The first round of updates will hit the HTC Sensation, HTC Sensation 4G and HTC Sensation XE by the end of March, with the Sensation XL following soon after. It’s also announced some other …
It’s rumour and speculation time! According to All Things D, Apple will be holding a special event in the first week of March to announce the eagerly anticipated iPad 3. They’re not quite sure when exactly it will hit stores but are guessing that it should be a …
PhatPad 1.0 for Android is the latest in a long line of Note taking & organising applications delivered to the market by PhatWare. PhatWare have previously release the PhatPad application for Windows, and iPad, and have now brought the application to the Android OS. What does it do? …
Where would we be in this world of mobile devices without stay-at-home-developers? Alexey Roslyakov, part of the NITDroid team responsible for porting Android OS to various Nokia devices, has tweeted a picture of ICS (Android 4.0) running on a Nokia N9 device. His tweet simply states states “Progress” …
GiffGaff are well known for providing sim cards with great rates and “unlimited” internet packages. The idea being you order the Sim which uses the O2 network, you top up every month and you get LOTS of minutes and text and some internet. All without having to worry …
Asus UK tweeted earlier today that they have released an over the air update for the Transformer Prime. The update is said to fix the random reboots that people have been having. I know mine has been severely hindered by this bug/feature. I haven’t applied the update yet, …
First of all we all heard that Samsung was planning a large event to happen at MWC at the end of the month. In previous years Samsung have chosen to introduce new things like the Galaxy S2 at MWC so this years “large event” seemed to be on …
I recently upgraded my phone, I went from the HTC Hero to the Motorola Atrix. Quite a step and it seems infinitely faster and hence gets a whole lot more attention from me. When I was out and about with the Hero it would struggle along with a lot …
Clove have just told us that the white version of the HTC Sensation XE will be available the week commencing 20th February. It’s priced at £408 with the VAT and you can order it here. If you’re interesting in this Beats-enabled device, it’s definitely worth reading our review. …
There is something special about white phones, I don’t know why, they just feel special. It all started with my white HTC Hero, then my white Samsung Galaxy S2 then a brief stint with a white Samsung Nexus S, a white Acer Aspire one and a white Sony …
