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By September 2, 2011 Read More →

The Smartphone Centre launches

logo As you know, we work with a few UK smartphone retailers and the eagle-eyed among you may have noticed some new banners appear on the site last night.

Whilst the The Smartphone Centre may be new there’s a wealth of experience behind the company. Check out their full press release below then head over to visit their shiny new site. www.thesmartphonecentre.com

 

The Smartphone Centre Ltd are pleased to announce the immediate launch of their brand new website, thesmartphonecentre.com.

The Smartphone Centre Ltd has been developed to address an ever expanding and confusing SIM Free smartphone market place.

The Smartphone market continues to grow at a rapid rate and with almost half of the UK population accessing the web on their smartphone, the choice of handsets can be confusing.

Our approach to providing simple unbiased assistance to customers of any technical know-how has helped us achieve our goal. Combining over 25 years of smartphone knowledge, we believe our approach is unique.

As a web based smartphone store, we are able to pass our savings direct to our customers and we’ve been told our customers like this approach.

The Smartphone Centre Ltd have a strong partnership and work extremely closely with HTC, BlackBerry, Motorola and ZTE to ensure we provide the very latest smartphones and an affordable price.

All of our stock is sourced within the UK and is manufacture unlocked. This enables you to stay with the network of your choice without having to worry about unlocking your smartphone. We are provided with priority stock allocation and access to special offers on new products providing us with an edge over our competitors.

The Smartphone Centre Ltd provide free standard delivery on all in-stock items, many of which arrive the following day.

Our dedicated customer care team can be contacted by calling +44 (0)1945 897 597, weekdays between 9am and 6pm or via email at any time, [email protected]. We are also available on Twitter; @tsctweets

For further information, please visit www.thesmartphonecentre.com

 

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By September 1, 2011 Read More →

HTC Titan specification

HTC TITAN - front right - Carbon Grey Following on from my earlier post from HTC’s press event I’m please to be able to bring you details of the new HTC Titan.

The HTC Titan certainly lives up to the Titan name with a 4.7″ display this has to be the largest phone I have ever seen. It’s perhaps a little surprising though that there isn’t a qHD resolution screen here but a 480×800 pixel panel is used instead. Either way this is going to be a nice phone for web browsing and video playback.

Other highlights include the 1.5GHz CPU and 16GB of on-board storage.

You can see the full specification below along with several more photos of the phone in all its glory. We’ll have our hands on videos etc. for you as soon as we can.

 

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By September 1, 2011 Read More →

HTC Radar specification

HTC Radar - front angle - Metal Grey The HTC Radar is the second of two phones announced by HTC today.

The HTC Radar is another Windows Phone device and is the little brother of the giant HTC Titan. The 3.8″ screen may be a more ‘sensible’ size for the masses.

Once again, we’ll have our hands-on videos and review just as soon as we can.

In the mean time the full specification and some pretty photos follow.

 

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By September 1, 2011 Read More →

HTC Titan and Radar press release

htc-logo-300x188 Following on from the news today that HTC have announced two new Windows Phone handsets I have pleasure in bringing you the full press release from HTC. As already stated we’ll be doing our best to get our hands on these new bad boys soon and will have videos and reviews asap.

Both devices are going to be available world-wide from October this year!

 

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By September 1, 2011 Read More →

HTC Announce two new Windows Phone devices

htc-logo-300x188 I’m currently sitting at an HTC press event in London where HTC are just about to announce two new Windows Phone devices, the HTC Titan and the HTC Radar.

It has been a while since we saw any new Windows Phone handsets so it’s great to see a couple of new devices launched today.

At the moment I’m not sure of the launch timing or what networks the phones will be on, if any, but should discover much of this during the event. I’m also hoping for some hands-on time with both phones.

I’ll be reporting more as we get and full details of both phones will follow this post shortly.

 

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By August 22, 2011 Read More →

Nokia X7 Review

Nokia-X7 When I was asked to review the X7 I was quite excited to see the changes that the latest update to the Symbian operating system brought to the table. My first smartphone was a Nokia and I had pretty much every new flagship device up to and including the N95. I’ve since moved on to be a confirmed iOS user with the occasional use of the systems (even WebOS!) but I have ignored Nokia’s devices since the 5800 showed how, in my opinion, not to do a touch interface.

Nokia’s X7 was launched at the same times as the new version of its Symbian mobile platform, Anna. Together with the E6, the X7 is shipping with Anna preloaded. Many Nokia and Symbian fans out there will love this smartphone as it has a fair crack at finally delivering a usable touch based interface.

Is the X7 an alternative and does Symbian Anna have what it takes to compete with Android, Windows Phone or iOS?

 

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By August 20, 2011 Read More →

Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro unboxing video

Mini_pro_Black When Sony Ericsson released their X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro handsets last year they were met with fairly mixed reception. Initially there was a lot of interest the two little devices but as they shipped with Android 1.6 and it became more apparent that updates to later versions of the OS were less and less likely their popularity was somewhat short-lived.

I think it fair to say that Sony Ericsson have learned from the mistakes made with the X10’s.

So now we have the Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro to look at. Originally known as the X10 Mini Pro 2, SE have now dropped X10 from the name. The specification has been updated quite drastically and although the overall size and form is virtually the same they’ve managed to shoehorn in 1 GHz CPU, plenty of RAM, 5MP camera and HVGA LED back-lit display.

Performance is impressive. Check out the unboxing below and see the benchmarks for yourself!

 

Posted in: Videos/Unboxings
By August 15, 2011 Read More →

Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility

Google-Logo Given the current situation with everyone suing everyone else in relation to alleged patent infringements it’s perhaps of little surprise that a number of big companies are going on the acquisition trail in order that they may bolster their position.

However the news this afternoon that Google are about to acquire Motorola Mobility is something of a surprise.

You’ll find the full press release below.

 

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By August 9, 2011 Read More →

HTC EVO 3D demo video

Evo-Main We got a chance to play with an HTC EVO 3D a few weeks ago at a launch event that HTC held in London and now we’ve managed to get hold of one for review.

The EVO 3D has been on sale in the US for a few weeks and is due to go on sale here in the UK soon too. It goes up against the LG Optimus 3D in the 3D smartphone sector (of Just two handsets!).

I have to say that when I first heard about and saw these new 3D phones I thought it was nothing but a gimmick. I suppose that may well be the case but with the ability to record 720p video in 3D as well as capturing 3D photos the EVO 3D is an interesting prospect.

Spec-wise it’s similar to the HTC Sensation and has the same CPU, screen res, OS etc. So performance should be comparable.

Our full review will be up soon but as always we’re starting with a video.

 

Posted in: Videos/Unboxings
By August 8, 2011 Read More →

LG Optimus Black review

OptimusBlack-Main LG’s Optimus Black has put itself in a crowded market. This phone is boasting some high end specs, with its NOVA screen technology and slim profile but can it stand out from the crowd? We’re looking beyond the flash PR box that was sent to us and comparing it to some other top spec phones.

 

 

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