April 2011 Archive
28th April
- HTC Wildfire S: What’s in the box?
- HTC Rider and HTC Kingdom ride out of rumour mill: A UK-bound version of the Evo 3D?
- Channel 4 releases 4oD Catch Up app for iPad. Free, for now
- Rumour: HTC NFC phone could arrive later in 2011
- New iPhone 4 unlimited data plan arrives on Three pay-as-you-go
- Nokia E7 slides out on Vodafone: Free on pay monthly from £40 a month
- Orange confirms that it will sell white iPhone 4 today
- Samsung Galaxy S2: No NFC for UK confirmed
- White iPhone 4 sneaks out on Vodafone, 16GB and 32GB editions on 12, 18 and 24 month contracts
- Google Docs Android app: Use your camera to scan text to docs
- White iPhone 4 available now at Carphone Warehouse site, in stores tomorrow
27th April
- White iPhone 4: Officially arrives tomorrow, Thursday 28 April release date. Promise!
- Samsung Galaxy S2: What’s in the box?
- Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc stock problems? No, not really
26th April
- The Phone O’Clock News: 26/04/2011
- Samsung Galaxy Ace can run Android 2.3 Gingerbread: Unofficial version spotted
- CloudTalk for iPhone and Android: Swiss Army Knife IM app does voice, videos, pictures as well as good old text
- New TweetDeck app arrives on the iPhone
- Amazon MP3 for Android updates, adds lock screen widget but still no Cloud Player in the UK
- Next Android update may bring Gmail-based video-chat to phones
- Sony S1 and S2 Tablets announced: Android 3.0, Tegra 2, PlayStation Certified, Qriocity and Reader Store ebooks
25th April
21st April
- iPad 2 vs Motorola Xoom: The iOS tablet vs The Android 3.0 tablet
- Apple iPhone 3GS 16GB Review: In Depth
- Samsung Galaxy S Review: In Depth
- LG Optimus 2X: First impressions and hands-on pictures
- LG Optimus 3D gets release date: Glasses-free 3D fun from 9 June
- Windows Phone 7 gets hidden WiFi connectivity. What? It didn’t have it already?
- Samsung Galaxy S 2 II available for preorder. Phones 4u gets exclusive April 27 release date
- Angry Birds Seasons hatches 15 new Easter levels on iOS and Android
- HTC Wildfire S to preorder and priced at Carphone Warehouse. Free handset from £13.50 per month.
- Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP Micro hits iPhone for £1.79
20th April
- Nokia C1-02 Review
- New polyglot translator app arrives on the iPhone: Worldictionary Instant Translator
- iPhone secretly tracks where you go, stores location and timestamps
- Motorola Xoom 3G prices announced: £200 on 24 months at £25p/m, £580 on its own, exclusive to Carphone Warehouse
- Samsung Galaxy S 2.3 Update in UK: “Temporarily suspended”
- Flick Football Super Save gets free version for iPhone
- Latest version of Facebook for Android allows you to tag mates in updates
- Android phone concept with flexible body: Morphy
19th April
- Robot Unicorn Attack arrives in Android Market: Works on phones running 1.6+
- Rumoured ‘test version’ of iOS shows off new multi-tasking function on 64GB White iPhone 4
- BlackBerry PlayBook: Pre-register page pops up on Carphone Warehouse site
- Sonos Controller for Android app available for free- now!
- One Single Life for iPhone: Like an incredibly unfair Canabalt that we can’t stop playing
- Multiplayer Angry Birds Magic coming to Nokia with NFC… magic
- Robot Unicorn Attack coming to Android devices today! Our dreams came true!
- Tablets replace laptops. Best price for a tablet: “£250” says YouGov poll
- Motorola Xoom Review
18th April
- The Phone O’Clock News: 18/04/2011
- Nokia E7 Review
- Updated: Three UK is actually, really selling the white iPhone 4: £159 on £35 a month for 24 months
- New LG Windows Phone 7 details emerge: LG E700 doc with IE9 support hints at Autumn release
- Rumour: Yet another new HTC Windows Phone 7, codenamed Mazaa?
- Motorola Atrix: Early May release date, laptop dock priced
- Samsung Galaxy S owners on Vodafone get Android 2.3 Gingerbread update
- April 26 2011: Is this the final White iPhone 4 release date?
- New HTC Windows Phone 7 device rumoured to have 16-megapixel camera?
- Samsung’s 2GHz dual-core smartphone chip could arrive 2012
15th April
14th April
- Will my LG Optimus phone get the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update?
- HTC Sense 3.0 features to come to existing HTC phones
- Will my HTC phone get the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update?
- Last.fm apps for iOS, Android updated: Finally! A pause button! Plus other stuff
- Wordfeud arrives for iPhone and iPad: Popular Android Scrabble-esque game crosses the border
- The cheapest Android smartphone on pay-as-you-go? £30 from T-Mobile, with credit
- Windows Phone 7 Mango announced: Easier app searching, support for IE9 and HTML5, coming in Autumn
- Windows Phone 7 Mango announced: Easier app searching, support for IE9 and HTML5, coming in Autumn
- World of Goo for iPhone: Smaller goo, with pinch and zoom, and on sale
- Updated: Dell Streak 7 16GB priced up for the UK: £299, 7-inch Tegra 2 Froyo tablet
- Nokia’s first Windows Phone 7 models: Nokia W7 and Nokia W8?
- Three prices up Sony Ericsson Xperia Play: £99 on £35 a month, £499 on pay-as-you-go
- White iPhone 4 release date returns: Available in next few weeks
13th April
- Vodafone giving away HTC Desire S’s for free on 12 month £17.50 a month deals
- Dell Venue Pro: What’s in the box?
- Wacom iPad stylus unveiled: We get drawing with the Bamboo Stylus
- Angry Birds sync coming soon, Seasons to get 15 Easter themed levels
- New Photoshop apps for iPad coming next month
- G-Form case makes your iPad 2 bowling ball proof
- HTC Flyer: Release date 9 May. Plus our hands-on impressions.
12th April
- HTC Sensation comes to the UK on Orange and T-Mobile this summer
- BlackBerry Messenger 6.0: BBM screens get leaked
- HTC Sensation coming to Three, no price or release date yet
- sWaP Nova: Officially the lightest touch-screen phone in the world
- HTC Sensation: Hands on pictures
- HTC Sensation with Sense 3.0 announced: HTC Watch on-demand movies, 8-megapixel 1080p camera, 1.2 GHz dual-core CPU
- HTC Sensation appears on Vodafone Coming Soon page: 1.2GHz dual-core CPU, Android 2.3, 8-megapixel camera
- Glasses-free 3D demoed on an iPad 2
- Nokia E6 and Nokia X7 announced: The first two Symbian Anna phones
- Nokia announces Symbian Anna: New-look UI for Symbian^3, new browser and improved Ovi Maps, coming soon to Nokia N8
- Official: Nokia X7 coming to Three, runs on the new Symbian Anna, pricing TBA
11th April
- The Phone O’Clock News: 11/04/2011
- HTC Sense update arriving soon, with camera improvements? Will we see it tomorrow?
- White LG Optimus 3D available to pre-order from Phones 4U
- Nokia E7: What’s in the box
- Samsung Galaxy S II available in UK from 1st May on all networks
- HTC Flyer: 7-inch tablet available for pre-order, £599.99
- Nokia X7 outed in Three video: 8-megapixel camera, new Symbian browser, Qwerty keypad that works in portrait!
- Samsung to launch two more Bada 2.0 phones this year, says leak
8th April
- HTC Desire S on sale now from Vodafone
- Exclusive silver HTC Desire S, coming to T-Mobile
- HTC makes millions- spends some of them on a party, and you’re invited
- NoDo arrives: We update our Windows Phone 7
- Motorola Xoom: Using the barometer
- Motorola Atrix superphone will be exclusive to Everything Everywhere in the UK
- HP TouchPad screenshots leaked: What the new webOS will look like
7th April
- Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi: What’s in the box?
- Windows Phone 7 has a ball with Super Monkeys
- Atari’s Greatest Hits arrives- 100 games on your iPhone
- Samsung Galaxy S 2.3 Gingerbread update coming this month
- Words With Friends update connects to Facebook on iPhone and iPad
- Confirmed: Samsung Galaxy S II will be released this month
- SoundCloud for iPhone and Android: Share your recordings to Twitter and Facebook from your smartphone
- White iPhone erased from Apple Online store. Gone for good?
- Motorola Xoom 3G gets pre-launch price-cut at Carphone Warehouse
6th April
- Wooden phone hits the right notes (Video)
- Revealed: The slowest mobile internet towns in the UK
- HTC Sensation: New super phone named for the UK
- Talkmobile: Unlimited internet on contracts starting at £12 a month
- New HP webOS phone leaked: No keyboard
5th April
- FaceTime vs Skype Video Calling on an iPad 2
- Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo due arrive in UK April 19, SIM-free £360
- Royal Wedding gets first official Royal app for iPhone and Android phones
- Motorola Xoom WiFi gets price cut at Dixons. Down to £479.99, before it’s even on sale.
- The latest bizarre accessories for the iPhone
- HTC Desire S now available on Three from £30 a month
- Facebook App gets update on iPhone: Event check-ins, and be unfriendly- on the go!
- Leprechaun Drunkard: Silly Irish-themed tilting game for Android
- Next gen Sony Ericsson X10 Pro spotted: Sliding keyboard, bigger screen.
4th April
- INQ Cloud Touch Review
- The Phone O’Clock News: 04/04/2011
- iPad 2 gets its own Onion app- satire not veg
- HTC Desire S vs HTC Incredible S
- Android phones come top in the UK
- We ‘believe’ the iPad 2’s latest official video is pure parody fodder
- Sony making camera parts for Apple: 8-megapixel camera on iPhone 5?
- Samsung Galaxy Neo announced: Latest Galaxy Family member fits in with the rest
1st April
- INQ Cloud Touch: What’s in the box?
- Samsung will launch special NFC phone for Olympics 2012
- FaceTime on the iPad 2 and iPhone 4: Face/Off
- Sony Music Unlimited coming to Xperia Play this year
- BlackBerry Monaco and Monza pictures leaked
- Update: Sword & Sworcery soundtrack available to buy now as a real-life LP
- Samsung Galaxy Mini and Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc arrive on Three
- Sony Ericsson Xperia Play launches with over 60 titles, PS1 classics priced at £3.99