Strange Android stuff I’ve found this week

You know the scenario, you’re browsing through the hundreds of games on the Android Market and you come across something odd. You tap on it to read the bio. It starts to freak you out. You wonder quite why someone would make it. You then wonder if it’s …

Coolsmartphone recommended Android app – Wallbase

Android wallpaper apps are a nightmare. There are loads of them. In the main they are just front ends to a website full of qvga wallpapers. Which when you use on you nice new tablet or qHD phone the picture looks horrendous. The Wallbase website has a large …

T-Mobile Vivacity video overview

It’s quickly turning into another big “review day” here at Coolsmartphone. Next up is this, the T-Mobile Vivacity. We’ve actually already reviewed this a few weeks ago but I’ve got one right here and figured that you’d like a video overview too. The T-Mobile Vivacity is actually built …

Monaco Extreme Car Charge Review

OK, big news people. YouTube has a new video editing option called “Stabilize”. That’s it, no more one-handed wobble-cam videos… well, maybe just a few eh? Today we’ve had some more stuff to review. This is the Monaco Extreme Car adapter from the guys at WirelessGround.com. It’s normally …

App Review – Scottish Clans

App Review – Scottish Clans Launched in 2004, the Scotclans website is Scotland’s largest site for information on Scottish clans and associated families. Now the makers are aiming to extend their reach to Scots around the world with their recently launched Scottish Clans iPhone app. Find your clan …

Tizen OS. Do we need another OS?

Tizen OS is another Linux based open source mobile device operating system. Samsung are one of the partners behind this new OS and they are reported to be developing the Samsung I9500 to use the Tizen OS. SamMobile have some exclusive pictures of the OS on a device …

Editorial – Windows Phone Communication Fail

Rather than updating the original blog post, Microsoft have spoken to ZDNet about the recent changes in how updates are delivered. It seems that there actually aren’t any changes, and everything is business is usual. Greg Sullivan, Senior Product Manager, has told Mary-Jo Foley that.. Nothing has changed …

Editorial – Microsoft hands power back to the networks?

I’m worried, and I’ll tell you why. Back in 2002 Microsoft emailed me after reading some of the stuff I’d put on the web. The first Microsoft Smartphones were hitting the market and I’d added some critical but constructive posted about it. They respected this, and they wanted …

O2 BoostBox Review & Setup

UK network O2 have a new product in testing and that is a Femtocell.  If you do not know what one of these is then consider it a portable mast you plug into your home WiFi network to give you fill 3G signal all around your house even …

Sony Ericsson dangles the carrot

Lord knows what’s going on now. We thought originally that Sony Ericsson were teasing us with a possible Windows Phone, then we changed our minds and figured that it was probably the Android-powered Arc HD which would make an appearance at CES. Now, with this further image posted …

CES – LG Spectrum to be announced

Another CES leak. How hard can it be to keep a product under wraps until a big event? Anyway LG and Verizon have released some info about the successor to the LG 2X. It is a 4G LTE device but hopefully a GSM variant will come to the …

HTC profits drop by a quarter

Not brilliant news for HTC, especially just a month before Mobile World Congress… Profits have dipped by 25% in the last quarter. HTC has faced stiff competition from Samsung and Apple, with Nokia also above them in the smartphone maker leaderboard. Sales fell in December by 20.3% but …

CES – Velocity Mobile to debut two tablets

CES is due to start in the US in a few days. For some reason manufacturers are desperate to announce their products before the actual event. Velocity Mobile have announced two tablets a 7″ and a 10″ tablet that will come with Ice Cream Sandwich installed. Even though the …

Galaxy Nexus 32GB coming to Expansys soon

Storage. There’s just never enough. Cast your mind back to 2005 when the Samsung SGH-i300 came out. Powered by Windows Mobile it had a hard drive on board. Yes, you heard right… a hard drive on a phone. Now, try not to laugh here, because this seemed like …

My thoughts on Ice Cream Sandwich

I’ve been using ICS for about a week now on my Nexus S and feel I have enough experience with it to note down my impressions. This isn’t a structured review by any means, just my comments on things I like and dislike. UI/Feel I love the new …

Pre-order the Acer A200 for £299

Come on, it’s not the end of the sales yet. Look at the guys at DFS, they only have one week in the year when their sale isn’t on 🙂 Anyway, the people at Very are having a sale. They’ve reduced the price of many Acer tablets… .. …

Samsung Galaxy M Style announced

  Samsung have just announced the Galaxy M, launched in South Korea yesterday. No news of when it’ll come our way, if at all, but it looks like a nice, capable mid-range smartphone. As you can see from the photo, it’s running Gingerbread and has a decent enough spec …

Signature needed on a Word document? No problem!

Have you ever been sent a Word document that needs your Signature? There’s a couple of ways of getting around this issue. You could print the document, sign it, scan it back in, then email it back.. Or you could print it, sign it and fax it. However, …

CES – Motorola announce the MOTOLUXE

Motorola have just announced the MOTOLUXE over at CES in Las Vegas which is another android handset with a large touch screen and decent set of specifications.  Packing a 4 inch corner to corner display and an 8 megapixel camera the MOTOLUXE looks quite an appealing choice. Other …

CES – Motorola DEFY MINI Announced

You’ve seen the Motorola DEFY, you’ve had the Motorola DEFY+ .. now, shrink it down and you get this, the Motorola DEFY MINI. Motorola have just announced two new phones, this being one of them. The DEFY MINI is dustproof and water-resistant just like the earlier models. We’re …