Mobile Phone Blog:

I’ve gone on at unbelievable length (seriously, I never shut up about the subject), about how I love massive, powerful, big-screened superphones. The most recent example is the Samsung Galaxy S3, which fits those criteria perfectly, and before that, there was the HTC One X, a phone so magnificently impressive that I bought one.

And now, according to Engadget, LG have thrown their hat into the “massive, powerful, big-screened superphone” arena, with the LG Optimus 4X HD, a phone that can best be described as “what an HTC One X would be like if the Koreans made it”.

Yes, the specs really are that similar; this is like the One X’s brother from another mother… (more…)

Remember me talking about Google Glass, the project Google were working on, that entailed making a pair of Android-powered smart glasses? Well, we now have some brand new details about what these mythical beasties will actually entail, and it’s a bit less all-encompassingly futuristic than I expected, while still being pretty chuffing cool.

Y’see, according to CNet, we can forget any ideas of having a Terminator-style overlay, over everything we see. I can’t help but feel that’s a tiny bit disappointing, but let’s be honest, it should have been obvious that was never going to happen, because having your whole field of vision obscured by Youtube is sure to have you walking into an open manhole cover and dying… (more…)

Right then folks, we’ve seen rumours about this thing for a little while, now, but HTC have finally gone and made it official. Yup, the HTC Desire C has officially been announced, and we have a handy dandy video promo, to get us all excited…

Weeeeeell, okay, granted, it’s not that exciting, ‘cos the HTC Desire C is an entry-level phone, and they’re bound to be inherently less exciting than something like the HTC One X. Still, it’s quite a nice looking little phone, and do you know why I like it so much? Well, I shall tell ya… (more…)

Now then, I’ve gone on record as saying that the HTC One X is the single greatest smartphone I’ve ever used. However, even I have to admit that the recently announced Samsung Galaxy S3 (or Samsung Galaxy S III, depending on what mood you’re in) is right up there, as well, and is arguably as good as my HTC (although subjectively, I still prefer the One X, ‘cos of the Sense UI).

However, according to BriefMobile, it seems that LG might be on course to release a superphone of their own. That’s allegedly it, over there in the pic, and it’s purported to be called the LG LS970.

It’s also said to potentially be even more powerful than the HTC and the Samsung… (more…)

Oh, I love it when I see stories like this, I really do. Anybody who’s ever used a mobile phone will know that the gadgets we’ve come to rely on have a few idiosyncrasies, and never has that been more apparent than with voice controls. I saw it myself, over the weekend, when we were having an argument about The Ipcress File (awesome film, incidentally), and decided to google it on my HTC One X, to see who was right. I believe the result it came back with was “It’s Chris Farley”…

And now, according to TheNextWeb, Apple’s Siri has gone one better in the outright bleedin’ funny stakes, because it was telling users that the Nokia Lumia 900 is the best smartphone ever. Are we witnessing the greatest bug ever? (more…)

Okay, I’m going to confess that when I first read about this, I wasn’t entirely sure of the point behind this new app, that Nokia are releasing on their Windows phones over here in Blighty (as well as in a select few other countries); in fact, I was so convinced it would fail, that I made the image to the right, to show why it would fail.

And do you know something? After reading about it, I reckon my first instincts were wrong. Y’see, the app is called Nokia Reading, and to put it simply, it’s an e-book reader; thus, when I first read about it, my first thought was that the Amazon Kindle app would smash this wee upstart into the dirt. However, there’s actually a very good reason why that won’t necessarily happen… (more…)

Well folks, it’s Friday, and furthermore, it’s a slow news day, so let’s talk about something pointless. I’ve gone on record several times, to say that I love Chinese clone phones, ‘cos they also make me titter. There’s something inherently seeing a phone that’s blatantly a Nokia, but with a big badge on it that says NOKLA. Or that Blackberry rip-off that had the awesomely funny (seriously, I lol’d) Bleckbarry name.

So yes. Chinese rip-offs amuse me, so imagine my glee when I saw a story on Engadget, about a company who’ve ripped off the phone I myself own, the HTC One X. It’s called the Konka W900 (oh, and humorously, the name uses the Nokia font), and my first thought was that there’s no way it’s as powerful as the One X. And am I right..? (more…)

I really never thought I’d say this, but… do you know who I reckon has become one of the most exciting manufacturers out there, since the start of this month? RIM, that’s who. After all the whinging I’ve done about them this year, it came as a genuine shock when they unveiled the Blackberry 10 platform, and it turned out that it looks brilliant.

After that, the erstwhile make of Blackberry phones impressed me again, when I found out that Blackberry 10 would include the really clever imaging technology made by Scalado, and today, I find myself impressed again, courtesy of a story from Engadget. Y’see, RIM has now been granted a patent on a brand new design of keyboard, and it looks rather interesting… (more…)

Right then, a few weeks back, I did a blog post about a rumoured HTC phone which was purportedly going to be released in the not too distant future, and which was known by the development codename of HTC Golf. At the time, it was rumoured that it’d finally be released as the HTC Wildfire C, but now, the phone has leaked again, and it’s apparently not called that.

Apparently, according to ITProPortal, it’s actually due to be released as the HTC Desire C. However, if I’m honest, that strikes me as being a little bit odd. Y’see, the phone shares a lot of design cues with the much more powerful HTC One X, and HTC are all about their One series these days. So, why resurrect the Desire name? (more…)

Hohohohohoho, this gon’ be good! In the time that’s passed since the last time I did a blog post about him, I’ve decided that I actually love Stephen Elop. Y’see, every time he opens his mouth, he comes out with something that, to me, sound so wrong-headed, that I can’t help but laugh like one of those weird people you see in the street, who you fervently avoid making eye contact with.

Anyway, enough with the preamble; what amusing little peccadillo has Elop perpetrated this time? Well, according to Wired (and as I wrote in the title, up there), he reckons that people don’t care what OS their phone runs on.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight… (more…)