Category: Handsets

ATTAB Seven 7″ Tablet, yours for £59.99

There’s a NEW LOW been reached on the high street in terms of mass market Android tablet prices, with the Dixons/Currys group now selling the ATTAB Seven 7″ Tablet for a shockingly low £59.99. For that you get a rather predictable power and feature set, with the tablet offering a 7″ display running at 800 [...]

BEST DEALS: Huawei Ascend P1 for £189

All sorts of alarm bells went off here this morning, as one of our favourite Android phones of last year received a significant online PRICE CRASH. Retailer Expansys is now selling the Ascend P1 for £189.99 including free delivery, for which you get a very capable and virtually unskinned Android model with a decent camera, [...]

Vodafone Smart III – 4″ 1GHz Jelly Bean model for £95

Literally out of nowhere Vodafone UK has announced the availability of the Vodafone Smart III, a 4″ Android “Jelly Bean” model powered by a single-core processor clocked at 1GHz. Vodafone says the Smart III features a WVGA 480 x 800 resolution display, 5megapixel camera with flash, and is yours for £95 on PAYG or on [...]

ZTE Grand X2 In – 4.5″ Intel powered Jelly Bean phone

ZTE has announced a new relatively high-end Android phone, with its ZTE Grand X2 In combining a 4.5″ 1280 x 720 resolution display with an Intel Atom Z2580 mobile chipset clocked at 2GHz. You also get 1GB of RAM and dual cameras (8MP and 1MP), plus 8GB of RAM you can augment with an SD [...]

STATS: Android device activations now at 900 million

Google used its I/O 2013 developer event to update us all on the progress of its Android baby, putting together a fancy graphic to illustrate the format’s continuing level of insane growth. In summary, Google’s seen some 900,000,000 separate Android phones and tablets activated around the world to date. That’s loads. Google also says its [...]

White Huawei Ascend P2 a Phones 4U exclusive

Mobile specialist Phones 4U has announced plans to stock a white version of the quad-core Huawei Ascend P2, which it’ll be selling in the UK exclusively. The retailer’s site currently has a whopping great information page up filling everyone in on the phone’s tech specs, plus lots of official shots of the whiter hardware. Just [...]

STATS: Samsung dominant in Q1, LG doubles smartphone market share

Yet more analysis of the global mobile phone scene has come to the usual, inevitable conclusion — that Samsung is crushing everyone. Into a SMOOTH PULP. Data published by Gartner claims Samsung took 23.6% of all phone sales (dumb and smart) in the first quarter of 2013, way ahead of surprise second place manufacturer Nokia. [...]

Sony Xperia ZR – waterproof 4.6″ model with 13megapixel camera

Sony’s just announced the Xperia ZR today, a phone that, despite the model name, differs from the popular Xperia Z quite significantly. The Xperia ZR is a slightly smaller 4.6″ model, powered by Qualcomm’s quad-core S4 Pro chipset, which is clocked at 1.5GHz and works alongside an LTE-friendly radio for 4G connectivity. The BIG THING [...]

Huawei Ascend P2 given June UK release date

The Huawei Ascend P2 will launch in the UK this June, with Huawei telling us that black and white versions of the quad-core 4.7″ Android model will arrive on “various network operators” from next month, in both black and white versions. The Ascend P2 is LTE-enabled, has a 13MP camera, and is by Huawei so [...]

Samsung Galaxy Note Jelly Bean update now live for unlocked phones

Those who are in possession of an unlocked original GT-N7000 Samsung Galaxy Note are emailing us in MASS EXCITEMENT today, thanks to the UK arrival of the Jelly Bean update for Samsung’s first monster mobile. The software update, now live for those with unlocked phones bought outside of the mobile networks, takes the Galaxy Note [...]

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