Google Maps has reeived another update. Version 5.0.3 introduces History for Latitude. Until now Latitude has helped you see where your friends and family are located but now you can see just how long you spend in certain areas. Other extras include the ability to add your own …
With an unofficial method of updating now on the t’interweb Microsoft have added their thoughts to the current Windows Phone 7 update progress. Microsoft’s General Manager of Customer Experience Engineering, Eric Hautala, has stated that.. We’re working hard to get this job done as quickly as possible. But …
A big HTC launch always brings rumours and many have already mentioned the Pyramid device – a handset we hoped would appear at Mobile World Congress. Here in the UK it seems that the phone will be called the “HTC Sensation”. Screenshots on XDA-developers show a 1.2 GHz …
A rather unofficial way of updating your Windows Phone 7 device has appeared online. It seems to be relatively easy to do – you just run a file called “ChevronWP7.Updater.exe” and follow the prompts. Although it may sound ideal for those owners tired of waiting for the infamous …
We’ve just added another server to our cluster for extra speed and reliability. You should hopefully see an improvement in page loading, especially on the main page. For the tech-heads our main server is an Intel Core i7-920 Quadcore with Hyper-threading and 12GB of DDR3 RAM. Content Delivery …
New versions of some of Google’s official Android apps have leaked online and also been made available for download. The highlight is probably a new version of the default Android Music Player which has been brought in line with it’s Honeycomb counterpart. There is a greater emphasis on …
We’ll be up-front about this from the start. The HTC Desire S has a lot of the same characteristics and specs as the original HTC Desire. We almost felt a little let-down when it first appeared in Barcelona, especially up-against dual-core 1GHz phones. Somehow I felt insulted that …
Three have just stuck the HTC Desire S on their shelves. It’s available from £359.99 for PAYG customer and you can then add a £15 “All in One 15” top-up for 30-days of all-you-can-eat data. For contract customers you can buy the phone for £30 per month. We’ll …
Swiftkey is a great keyboard that has been available for a while now. “Swiftkey predicts your most likely next word based on what you’ve already written. It learns as you use it from your message archive to make predictions amazingly accurate over time”. They have two new free …
The picture says it all really. The Motorola Atrix, a phone we snapped and filmed at Mobile World Congress, is now sitting proudly on the Orange shop and will be arriving in shops soon. It has a 4″ capacative touchscreen with Corning Gorilla glass and a 960×540 qHD …
HTC have been around for ages it seems and their handsets seem to get better and better with time, especially in the Android range and the Incredible S is another device which fits into that category. This review device was sent to us by the kind people at HTC …
eBuyer have just listed this, the Asus Transformer tablet. Available with (£429.99) or without (£379.98) a slot-in keyboard it’s a 10.1 ” WSVGA tablet with toughened glass and a 1280×800 multi-touch capacitive touch screen. Running the very latest tablet-friendly Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) it has an NVIDIA Tegra 2 …
Those lovely people at Three have stated that the updated Android 2.3 software (Gingerbread) will be available soon enough. It’s coming in for testing today and.. “End of April early May is the plan.” Other sites have gone on to state that this will cover the entire Desire …
The Samsung Galaxy Tab has been around for a little while now and along with the Apple iPad started a new craze of tablet devices to keep people connected on the move. I first got hands on the Tab last October at a Three event in London and …
Remember how Huawei were planning on covering the London Underground with a mobile signal? Well, it’s not gonna happen. It turns out that Everything Everywhere, Three, O2 and Vodafone were all involved, with Huawei ready to add £50 million of equipment. It seems that an agreement couldn’t be …
We loved the addition of the VGA camera at the front of the Desire S and wanted to give it a spin. We went into the dialer and tried to find the button marked “video call” but it’s just not there. It seems that the HTC Desire S …
Well, this isn’t strictly smartphone news, but some of them are related to phones, plus it’s Friday and we all need a chuckle. Enjoy. Please add links in the comments and I’ll add them to the feature. (If I’m feeling generous!) It started off for me when I …
OK, so we’ve compared the camera quality between the Sony Ericsson Xperia arc and the HTC Desire S, but what about video ? We went out with both phones and cranked up the resolution to 720p HD. The Sony Ericsson Xperia arc records MP4 videos as default and …
Another phone to become available on Three today is the Samsung Galaxy Mini. It’s powered by Android 2.2.1 and has a 3.14 capacitive screen. It also has a 3 megapixel camera, GPS, WiFi an portable WiFi hotspot capability. You can get this for £15 a month on a …
Sony Ericsson have announced that their new Xperia PLAY handset will have more than 60 games available in the first week. Need for Speed, The Sims and Assassins Creed will be available, as will Worms, Guns ‘n Glory, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell and many more. Owners will also …
