White Galaxy SII now available on Vodafone

It’s been just days since we spotted the all-white Galaxy SII was on its way to Vodafone. Today it’s appeared on the Vodafone site and you can get the pearly white version for nothing on £36 per month plans. The white version is also available on Three on …

Toshiba AT200 – Supermodel thin

The AT200 tablet may not have a catchy name, but Toshiba have squashed this new Android tablet down to a mere 7.7mm thickness. Using Android 3.2 Honeycomb and powered by a TI OMAP 4430 1.2GHz CPU, this has a 10.1″ screen and weighs in at 558g. The new …

LG Optimus 3D to cut down on the burgers?

We liked the LG Optimus 3D but it was, how can we say this, a little on the heavy side. It looks like LG have noted this criticism and are, according to pocket-lint.com, planning on a Slim-Fast diet for the handset. LG’s Dr Hentry Noh explained that.. Everyone …

Android almost doubles UK market share according to report

Just in case you weren’t aware, Android is continuing to rise in popularity. Research from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech shows the sheer seismic shift in the market share for Android. Android now has a 47.1% share of the smartphone market here in the UK, with BlackBerry some distance behind …

Virgin Media adds more grunt to Three, Orange and T-Mobile

If you’re browsing the web on Three, T-Mobile or Orange, listen up. A new deal has been struck with VIrgin Media Business to give the networks use of their network, plus they will add 14 regional datacentres to add extra bandwidth to the three networks. The deal is …

IFA – The booth babes

So, those of you who have read coolsmartphone.com for a while may remember a site called msmobiles.com. It’s been sold on now and redirects to another site. The guy behind msmobiles.com was Edward, and he’s sent us a report from the IFA Electronics Show. We weren’t going to …

We’re a little slow today…

Today we noticed some serious speed issues and drop-outs on the site. It is, as with a number of connectivity issues nowadays, due to a fibre-optic cable being cut. Usually fibre failures are due to thieves assuming that it’s copper cable and want it for the ever increasing …

AmpKit 1.2 released

Agile Partners have updated their truly excellent AmpKit guitar amp simulator for iOS. For this release Agile have 4 new partners – Budda®, Rocktron®, Fargen™ and Sonic Edge – with new amps and effects from all of them, as well as some other new additions. Overall sound quality & …

LG Optimus 2X – Video overview

A couple of weeks back we had a look at some of the latest LG handsets. The first was this, the LG P990 – aka the LG Optimus 2X. It’s been known as the Optimus Speed or the Star and has a Dual-core 1GHz ARM Cortex A9 CPU. …

Galaxy Tab 7.7 Removed from IFA show

Apple have fired yet another shot at Samsung in their continuing patent battle. This time it’s resulted in Samsung removing their new Galaxy Tab 7.7 from the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin. The BBC states .. The two companies have been fighting legal battles in the US, …

Orange to carry the Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray

It looks like the Xperia Ray will be heading to Orange in the not-too-distant future. The handset has just appeared on the help and support pages and, whilst this page alone isn’t concrete proof that the network is taking the phone, “Rich” has mailed in to say that …

Three Launch HSPA+ MiFi

Three have just launched their new MiFi device here in the UK with the biggest upgrade being access to the new high speed HSPA+ network which supports speeds of up to 21mb/s and gives you 40% faster speeds than the older device. It also comes with a nice …

Radar Love – HTC’s new handset in video

The HTC Radar got the hands-on treatment last week when we attending the big HTC reveal. It’s a Windows Phone device with a 5 megapixel camera, 1GHz CPU and 8GB of storage built in. The full specs are here, plus HTC have now added these YouTube videos…

HTC Titan – In video

Last week the Coolsmartphone team was camped out in London, bring you all the latest news on the latest Windows Phone handsets from HTC. The HTC Titan got the full hands-on treatment and you can get specs here, plus we’ve now got a raft of videos direct from …

Review: MEGASTUNT Mayhem

I realised that I didn’t have much in the way of entertainment installed on my iPhone 4 that didn’t depend on the internet – of course I only noticed this when I didn’t have internet, when does that ever happen?! I’d long since exhausted all the Angry Birds …

App Review – Lingvo Dictionaries

There’s no doubt that the iPhone has made my life easier when it comes to travelling – from booking accommodation, to finding places to go and viewing a map of how to get there. Aiming to become the latest addition to my arsenal of travel-assisting apps is Lingvo …

App Review – ParcelGenie

OK, this one is for you busy people. The idea behind ParcelGenie is sending a gift to any recipient in your phone via the ParcelGenie app (there are other ways too, including Facebook). You don’t need to know the recipient’s postal address, just their phone number or email …

In detail – The Sony Tablet P

This interesting looking device is the Sony Tablet P. You can connect to the web via WiFi or 3G and there’s two 1024×480 5.5″ Ultra-wide VGA screeens. Other specs include a microSD card slot, Bluetooth 2.1, two cameras (5 megapixel around the back with HD video recording and …

In detail – The Sony Tablet S

Pre-orders for the new Sony Tablet devices are underway. Coolsmartphone reader, Anthony, has just shelled out £499.99 but doesn’t have a delivery date just yet. Rumour has it that it could take a month for devices to arrive. Three devices are available – the Sony Tablet S 16GB …

The Andy Pad is go!

You’ve waited, you’ve seen the teasers, now it’s finally here – the Andy Pad is live. Two models are now available, the 8GB Andy Pad for £129 and the 16GB Andy Pad Pro for £179. If you order now, deliveries will start on September 12th. Both devices come …