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The Android market – sorry…Google Play Store – is awash with music players for your smartphone. Check any forum discussing this topic and you’ll find at least five different suggestions for the ‘best’ player. I’ve tried countless music players over the years and found there isn’t one to rule them all. So instead I use [...]

Now that everyone is fighting against each other to see who takes the most desaturated photos using Instagram, it’s time to turn your iPhone into a retro gadget and be the coolest kid in the hood. The 80s mobile phone case is my favourite. I don’t have an iPhone but if I end up buying [...]

Instagram finally made its way to Android last week. The much sought after camera app has already been downloaded over 5 million times in only six days, proving how hungry Android users were for its release. Its success has now seen the company being bought by Facebook for $1 billion! It’s still unsure as to [...]

The creators of the famous mobile game are planning to branch out into cartoons later this year. An initial run of 52 episodes, of around 3 minutes, will begin in autumn. The head of animation at Rovio, the company that created this addictive game, has expressed his desire of offering the episodes for any kind [...]

The new iPad launched this month, smashing the opening weekend sales records of it’s predecessors by shifting 3 million units in three days. To paraphrase one of the great thinkers of our time, dear reader, we’re living in a tablet PC world, and I am a tablet PC girl. GUY! I’m a tablet PC guy…dammit. [...]

  There’s an elephant in Thailand; his name is Peter. But he’s no ordinary elephant, no sir. He’s a very clever elephant! He’s so clever, in fact, that when Samsung showed him their smartphone/tablet hybrid device, the Samsung Galaxy Note, he immediately started using it. Check him out taking photos and making music. This elephant [...]

Apple once again appear to be getting heckled over their new iPad. With the internet up in arms over the battery life of the new device, is this a case of people getting too excited to find flaws with new products or just rabid fans being very rigorous with their testing of their new iconic [...]

The mobile game Draw Something has taken the world by storm recently, becoming the number one game in most major countries. It was only a couple of months ago when the developers Omgpop were staring down the barrel of bankruptcy. That is until Cityville developers Zynga bought them for £113 milion.  Now, Draw Something has become [...]

One of many great things about the smartphone is the ability it gives you to stay clued up with the latest news and gossip; we have never been more informed. I can’t remember what it was like without Twitter and RSS readers. There are a ton of apps out there that perform the same function [...]

Sony has launched their first wave of post-Ericsson smartphones, and they’re just a wee bit sexy. Could 2012 be the year of the Sony Xperia?