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Hey, you lovely reader. Have you had a listen to our Podcast ? If not, it’s definitely worth listening too. Each week our team get together to discuss the weekly happenings. Right now we’re on episode 3 but you can get all of the podcasts here and there’s …
Here is the moment you’ve all been waiting for, Episode 2 of the Coolsmartphone podcast. On this episode we discuss Windows Phone 8, Microsoft Surface, Nexus Tablet, Jelly Bean, iOS vs Android and more Your hosts this week are Jamie Ryan, Ravi Patel and Tom Ranson. You can …
It could be said that Samsung are clearly misleading people when they claim that the new Galaxy S III is “Made for Humans”. As the pictures show, it may be designed to murder them viciously and without remorse. Pictures posted by an angry unsuspecting member of the public calling …
A little while ago we bought you news that the iOS exclusive app was coming to Android via the Samsung Galaxy SIII. Following leaks and several beta releases we bring you the news that Flipboard is now available on Google Play. The app, specially optimised for smartphones (the blurb specifically mentions …
Here at Coolsmartphone we are always on the lookout for new technologies, innovations and companies that push the boundaries. We have reported on new product launches, mobile conferences, new applications and new operating systems. It is for that reason we are extremely pleased to announce …
We’ve been giving away HTC Mozart handsets every week now. The winners so far are as follows, and apologies for not posting about this earlier – you’ve probably seen me go a little quiet recently as I move the site to another provider. Dominic Williams from Doncaster John …
I’ll fess up. I’ve taken quite a bit of heat these last few weeks. However, after facing the possible closure of the site just a few weeks ago, I saw how quickly you guys rallied around and helped us out. Right then, more than ever, It brought into …
A few days ago I wrote about Google Currents now being available internationally. Well, the good news is that Coolsmartphone.com is available to view on the excellent newsreader resplendent with all its images. So, heres how to add everyones favourite smartphone site to your list of subscribed sites …
Today we had an interesting discussion amongst the brilliant writers here at Coolsmartphone. It’s a discussion that is still going on now, and emails are flying around pretty quickly. This got me thinking. I kinda miss the forum in a way. Discussions like the one we’re having via …
OK, short version. About a week ago we found out that this very site was going to be taken off-line. It all revolved around a rather substantial excess bandwidth charge. Thankfully, you guys cam to our rescue and generously donarted your own hard-earned cash to keep the ship …
Three days ago we had a rather huge problem. Some very unexpected charges were added onto our monthly hosting costs for one of our servers. It seemed that we’d breached some “fair use” policy regarding “unlimited” bandwidth. Either way, we had until Friday to pay an unbelievable amount …
We have a bit of a problem. It’s an issue we get every year in February whilst covering the Mobile World Congress, but this year it’s one we can’t get around. Our coverage of the event means a massive hike in traffic. In years past we’ve seen bandwidth …
Last year, during Mobile World Congress, we had some pretty big spikes in traffic. One rather large splurge of traffic knocked the main server clean over. So we’ve been doing some twiddling. We’ve spent the last two days adding some optimization, increasing network capacity and moving stuff around …
Want to get all the latest news, reviews and gossip while you’re chatting to friends on Facebook? Well now you can, thanks to our spanky new Facebook page. At this point, websites will usually give something away in an thinly veiled attempt to get you to hit click …
A new year. Time for a fresh start. Now, I’ll be honest here, during Mobile World Congress (which kicks off again next month) we get a truck-load of people accessing the site. It’s insane and I love it. Mobile World Congress, for those that aren’t aware, is a …
Hello. It’s that festive time of year again. After the mince pies and Christmas puddings have been eaten we’ll be entering our tenth year online. It’s pretty hard to believe that one page has turned into this monster, and I wanted to send a big thanks out to …
Want to get all the latest iPhone, Windows Phone and Android news while you’re out and about? Check out our mobile site from your phone now. We’ve just given things a facelift and you can now browse the site on more devices with proper scaled-down images, a full …
Our comments system broke again this week. Humble apologies for this. As I can’t personally blame it on my sloppy coding any more I’ll simply tell you the truth, it a combination of our content delivery network (CDN) and one of our older servers being disabled. We’ve recently …
Yes, the commenting system was down yesterday. Strangely this time it had nothing to do with beer but involved our content delivery system trying to take over. Everything should be fine now, but do let me know if you spot anything strange. Please feel free to add your …
Right, I’ve had a fair amount of stick about this. During our huge facelift earlier this year we dumped the original mobile site. A lot of you use mobile websites and wanted this functionality back. An even greater number found that our new site didn’t render properly in …
Over the last couple of days we’ve had a number of issues. It’s a fallout from the big design and back-end website management change we did recently. Since everything went live we’ve seen memory usage on our main server rise considerably, and no amount of caching seemed to …
As we approach the end of 2010, Mobile World Congress is just around the corner and is once again held in Barcelona, Spain between February 14th - 17th. Last year I was kindly invited along with Sony Ericsson to be their blogger and also to spend some...
During the last few years we've obviously linked to a number of sites and there's one in particular that's perhaps gained a certain reputation for a rather combative and tabloid writing style. The msmobiles.com site hadn't received an update for some ...
Phonesdirect.com has just launched with a range of SIM-free HTC kit to choose from. The website is now online and there's a new partnership with Vodafone to reduce the cost of SIM free phones. Danny Key, Business Development Manager of phonesdirect.co...
Morning all. I'd just like to keep you posted on a few things that are happening behind the scenes.It's been an incredibly busy few days. Last week we started seeing drive errors on our server, so we shipped everything to a temporary box and swapped t...
Thanks for your feedback on our commenting system yesterday. We've taken a few things on board. A few of your have suggested a site redesign, which is something we've considered too. It's on the cards and we'll be changing the way everything looks and...
I have a question for you lot. Just lately, due to hardware problems and firewall tweaks, we've been fiddling around in the datacentre and generally scratching our heads quite a bit. It's got me thinking about the way the site works and I'm feeling th...
If you're reading this then welcome to our temporary home. We've rapidly moved servers due to a rather severe drive problem on our existing server. I've got to go down to the data centre at some point and swap the drives on it but, with any luck, you …
Recently the annual What Mobile Forum Meet-Up was held in London and was the place where members of the site and fans of mobile can get together and chat tech and drink, plus get to meet a few more people like yourselves who want to check out the …
Conflipper, for those who aren't aware, has been a great source of information for HTC, Windows Mobile and Android news for quite some time. However, it looks like he's now hanging up his keyboard, with shipped-roms.com finally coming to an end too. ...
See? I told you we'd have another competition. This one is thanks to the lovely people at Mobilefun.co.uk and is for you lucky HTC Desire owners. They've sent us a genuine HTC carry pouch (normally £15.47) and this cool pouch (normally £12.47) which...
A couple of weeks ago we gave you the chance to win one of three MSDN Ultimate subscriptions. We had over a hundred entries, but the lucky winners are as follows... Ian Smith - Dave Poyser - Paul Williams We've had a good rummage around the Coolsmartp...
Today we did some tweaking to the site and pretty much pressed the "Turbo" button. The amount of extra traffic to the main page is simply shocking, so we've added some extra magic beans to get things moving at light speed. To celebrate we're giving aw...
We've experienced quite a lot of extra visitors recently, so my rather strange coding has been under some severe strain during peak times. We've previously added extra PHP script caching and this has helped a great deal, however it's still not enough ...
Shipped ROMs recently had a cease and desist letter from HTC. It looked like HTC wanted the whole site offline, but now there's a twist, with HTC telling site owners that only test and carrier files must be removed. This is because certain carrier / n...
We've recently expanded again to cover iPhone news. To make sure you're getting the news you want, we've created separate news feeds and sub-sections. The little RSS feed icon on the top-right will show all the feeds you can have, plus there's the lin...
For iPhone coverage we have a separate site - iPhoneBANG. However, with the release of the new iPhone 4 I've had quite a few people who are surprised not to see info on coolsmartphone.com. Many have asked for us to start covering the iPhone on the mai...
Our dedicated forums for lucky HTC Desire and HTC Legend owners are now online. For Windows Mobile owners we've also added HTC HD2 and HD mini forums for your handset-specific questions.
Hey you. You lovely, lovely person you. See all this news 'n stuff ? That's all because of you that is. If you've heard or seen something we've not covered, give us a nudge. We love your
Today I'm proud to announce our new mobile phone deals website. Working in partnership with The Blog House I wanted somewhere where you guys could search all those thousands of tariffs on all the networks and find the best deal. To find a plan, just ...
