Recommended App – HulloMail.

This won’t be as in depth As James’s excellent recommended app features, but a friend has just joined the Android owning world and asked me if there was a visual voicemail app? I thought I would quickly flag this up. I’ve been using HulloMail for about a year …

Vodafone to offer the thinner Galaxy Tab after all.

Initially the UK was to miss out on the newer redesigned Galaxy Tab 10.1, with us for some reason getting supplied with the older, fatter original design. Today Vodafone put up a coming soon page that suggests we are going to get the newer Tab after all- Hurrah! …

Samsung looking to acquire Nokia…?

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Samsung is the latest company to be showing an interest in buying into ailing phone giant Nokia. Last week according to BGR Microsoft was reported as showing an interest in Nokia based on industry insider Eldar Murtazins tip. However, today it …

The backlash begins…..

Well it was only a matter of time….. Following Apples Keynote speech at the WWDC2001 on Monday it was inevitable that someone important from a rival would put fingers to keyboard and have a pop at Apple. This is a result of lots of new features that Apple announced to …

Coolsmartphone Recommended Android App – Quickpic

Quickpic is designed to be a replacement for the standard Android gallery. Which is good because I find the standard gallery at times a little slow, sometimes a little buggy and sometimes just unusable. Quickpic can also set wallpaper for you, which I find the standard gallery quite …

ChaCha & 9900 Sneek Peak Videos From Vodafone

Vodafone have released two new videos on their YouTube website and these are taking a quick look at the HTC ChaCha and the BlackBerry 9900 both featuring QWERTY keyboards but aimed at different customers. First of all there is the HTC ChaCha…….. The ChaCha is one of the …

HTC announce $1.42 Billion sales for May.

Taiwan based smartphone maker HTC today announced record sales for May. A figure of $1.42 Billion ( ….thinks Dr Evil….” One Billion Dollars..”) has been announced, more than double last years May figures! Last Mays total was $656 Million. Impressive stuff from a company that only a few …

HTC ChaCha Launches On ThreeUK

Three have just launched the HRC ChaCha on their network and have posted a blog update as well as a YouTube video which can be found below. The HTC ChaCha will cost just £20 on ‘The One Plan’ giving you more allowance than you could ever dream of …

iMessage Announced At WWDC

iMessage has just been announced at a very busy WWDC conference over in the States and iMessage is set to change how all iOS devices communicate including iPad and iPod Touch. Consider this BBM for your iOS device! This now means anyone you know on an iPad or an iPod …

iOS Updates Now OTA!!

Another new feature announced today is being able to update your iPhone or iPad over the air!.  This is something Android has had and a lot of people are big fans of this, well now your iOS device can do the same once you are running iOS5 The …

iOS 5 Gets New Notifications

Apple have just announced the update to their iOS software, iOS 5 and part of this comes a new way for notifications…. well we say new but it is quite android like but a great addition to Apple products

Sony Ericsson Urushi Leaked

GSMArena have posted some photos of a new Sony Ericsson device which they have heard is due to be announced this September sometime. The specs include a 3.2 inch HD screen showing 854×480 pixels which will be great for photos and videos on the device, it also has …

Coolsmartphone Recommend Android App – Simple Text

You may have seen the forum threads where lots of Android users upload screenshots of their homescreens. Quite often they will have text icons for the dock shortcuts. Below are some examples of what I am on about. These icons are all downloaded from Droid Den. These icons …

Clove Androidify Competition.

Mobile Phone retailers Clove are currently running a competition, the prize is an HTC Incredible S. All you have to do is create an Androidify Avatar and email it them. Obviously the more unique it is, the more likely that you might win. The idea is to get …

Freebie – iPad 2 from Vodafone UK

Being a Vodafone customer and a regular user of the Vodafone eForum, I found something last night on the Forum which I thought was to be untrue. iPad 2 3G 16GB available with no upfront cost to existing customers. I couldn’t believe my eyes, that’s a saving of …

HTC ChaCha Gets Speed Boost

The HTC ChaCha has been given a quiet speed boost from 600Mhz to 800Mhz according to ITProPortal.  This is a 33% speed bump on the same hardware and will help with browsing, navigating and using more applications at the same time.   HTC has quietly upgraded the Chacha, …

AT&T Wishes WP7 Sold Better

AT&T are a massive network over in America (just in case you didn’t know) and even were the launch partner for the original iPhone. In a recent interview head of AT&T spoke out about Windows Phone 7 devices and it seems from a network view he wishes it …

HTC Flyer Gets Quiet OS Upgrade

Anyone lucky enough to have a HTC Flyer might have been informaed about a new version of the software is now available for a free OTA download. The download is said to ‘improve system performance’ so we wait and see what has been improved. Your Tablet will receive a …

New T-Mobile PAYG Plans

T-Mobile UK have launched three new price plans on PAYG to suit different types of customer depending how you use your phone.  For the text mad you can get Unlimited Texts, for anyone who loves to chat you can get some free minutes and for anyone who has …

WWDC Rumours: iOS5 could feature ‘Automatic Download’

MacRumors.com recently found something rather interesting while searching for an iTunes update. Above is their screenshot of a section of the iTunes updates page, where a potential new feature of iOS5 was revealed. The final sentence suggests that devices running iOS5 will have the ability to wirelessly download …