Retro-time The original Reckless Racing was a straightforward piece of smartphone gaming addictiveness. Based loosely on Radical Racing, a retro classic, it is a top down racer with an emphasis on drifting and crashing.? Reckless Racing 2 sees the series return to form in a much improved guise. In depth [...]
LTE to WCDMA mid-call Now, stick with us, because this might sound like the most technical opening to a news story in the history of Pocket-lint but it is a pretty big deal in the evolution of mobile phones: Qualcomm, working alongside Ericsson, has successfully completed the first voice call [...]
At Kensington and Chelsea College In what is believed to be a UK first, London’s Kensington and Chelsea College?is to offer budding photographers a photography course with a twist. For there won’t be any SLR action going on; the course, called “iPhoneography” is, you guessed it, centred on teaching fanboys [...]
Beans spilt A promotional video, starring Microsoft senior vice-president and Windows Phone product manager Joe Belfiore, has been leaked to the chaps at Pocketnow.com leaving them no choice but to tell us what the company supposedly has in store for Windows Phone 8. The promotional video – supposedly aimed at [...]
“World’s first bamboo mobile smartphone” A British university student has designed a phone that stands out from the usual array of black, grey or white plastic numbers – by building it out of bamboo. The Bamboo phone is called ADzero and was designed by 23 year-old Middlesex University student Kieron-Scott [...]
3-minute hands-on The forthcoming HTC Ville has made a 3-minute video debut online, revealing a great deal about the incoming Android 4, Sense 4 handset. Although the specs have previously been rumoured and we’ve seen images of the new Android handset, the video leaves little to the imagination. First up [...]
The shape of your next handset What are our phones going to look like in 10 years time; see-through displays, Star Trek-style tricorders? Ton Brand from the GSM Alliance – the organisation that promotes standardisation between mobile networks – has a pretty good idea. As programme director of Embedded Mobile, [...]
Streamlined UI detailed HTC Sense 4.0, the Taiwanese company’s latest Android UI, is set to launch sometime soon, possibly with the rumoured HTC Ville or HTC Edge and mobile site PocketNow is claiming to have the low-down ahead of its release. It has apparently had a play with a “non [...]
Your smartphone, your choices One of the joys of Android is supposed to be customisation and yet few people even bother to change their wallpaper after unboxing their little darlings. One of the problems is that most of us have been scarred by our early live wallpaper experiences – the [...]
Delay on the cards though? The rumour-mill is awash with Samsung Galaxy S III murmurs, following a couple of reports suggesting that the future flagship smartphone from the Korean company was facing a delay. The Galaxy S III grapevine seemed to suggest that the next big Sammy Android instalment would [...]