iGizmo for Android Tablets

For me, tablets represent a great way to replace paper and digitize publishing. Amazon’s Kindle & Apple’s iBooks are going great guns on Ebooks, and there are now some great digital magazines on the iPad already.  Android has been playing catch up, but now iGizmo – a digital …

Coolsmartphone Recommended Android App – Go Contacts

Go Contacts is a replacement for your normal contacts app. If you run HTC Sense there is not much point in reading this as your “People” app does everything this does. This app is more for the people who have an Android device without a fancy skin on …

Apps – Microsoft swipe at the opposition

How successful is Windows Phnoe 7 ? Well, a lot has been said about app numbers and handsets sold, but until now we’ve only seen the amount of phones sold to suppliers and networks – not to actual customers on the street. This Windows Phone Developer blog post …

Android App Review Show

Well it’s been a while since the last episode hasn’t it? I was forced to take a hiatus from producing the show on account of the growing amount of projects I had to undertake for my University degree but as of today that has all finished. Hopefully after …

Galaxy S2 Upped To 1.2Ghz Dual Core!

Samsung have now confirmed they have managed to up the CPU speed of the Galaxy S2 from 1.0 to 1.2Ghz on the Dual Core processor built inside. Samsung Estonia on Facebook have said: Super news! S II processor, the 1.2GHz Galaxy (1.0GHz instead of the previously mentioned). It …

Google Maps Updated – Track your movements

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 …

“Wait for the officially delivered WP7 updates” – Microsoft

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 …

HTC Sensation to be revealed next week?

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 …

Unofficial Windows Phone 7 Updating method available

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 …

Site and server improvements

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 …

HTC Desire S Review

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 …

HTC Desire S now available on Three

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 …

Coolsmartphone Recommended Android App – Swiftkey Beta

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 …

Motorola Atrix now on Orange site

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 Incredible S Review

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 …

Asus Transformer Tablet up for pre-order

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 …

Desire range to receive Gingerbread update very soon indeed

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 …

Samsung Galaxy Tab – Too Small Or Just Right?

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 …

Tube travellers still have a gap..in coverage

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 …