Reviews

HTC Incredible S review

The HTC Incredible S was the first release of many devices that HTC announced at Mobile World Congress in February. The name ‘Incredible’ is not a new one for HTC as they have had the Incredible on the Verizon network in the USA for some time. So now us folks in Europe get an Incredible but as a newer generation we get an ‘S’ which must have taken HTC a long time to come up with that name!

With a 4 inch capacitive screen the Incredible S sits nicely in the middle between the Desire S with it’s 3.7 inch screen and the Desire HD and Sensation with their massive 4.3 inch screens.

With so many Android devices to choose from is the Incredible S a worthy purchase?  Let’s find out.

Acer Liquid Metal Review

Acer is not a company that many would expect to be making phones but they have and their latest incarnation is the subject of this review. The Liquid Metal is a mid-range device that has been created to conquer the demographic who doesn?t want a flip phone but cannot afford a full fledged smartphone. With competition like the HTC Wildfire S and the Galaxy Ace, can Acer with the Liquid Metal take on the competition or will it be defeated?

Read on to find out!

HTC Desire S review

So far this year HTC have announced 6 new products and here we are looking at the first, the HTC Desire S.

Many have said that HTC’s latest Android handsets are simply a refresh of last years models and while the HTC Desire S may not be a revolution the look and feel is fairly different to it’s predecessor. The screen size may indeed have stayed the same but it has now been switched to an S-LCD rather than AMOLED panel. In practical terms though the difference is hard to spot.

Perhaps the most noticeable change is that the physical buttons below the screen on the Desire have been replaced with the touch sensitive kind and the optical trackpad is long gone too. This shaves a few millimetres off the length of the handset.

The Desire S has been built quite differently to last years Desire. In fact the difference is from the ground up in that the body has been constructed from a single piece of machined aluminium in much the same way as we say with the HTC legend. This makes the handset really robust and have a cool-to-the-touch finish that you only get with metal.

Read on for the full review and to see how this years HTC Desire S shapes up to last years model as well as handsets from competitors.

Palm Pre 2 Review

Lets face it, the original Palm Pre was a huge fail. WebOS was and still is a great OS but paired with awful hardware, a bad camera and poor marketing  the Pre sold about as well as a pile of dog poop for £1000. Okay, I may be exaggerating a little but the original Pre just wasn’t a success.

So, has HP’s take over of Palm, webOS 2.0 and slightly new hardware done anything to make the Pre 2 more attractive? Should you get the Pre 2 even though the Pre 3 is just around the corner or will the sequel go the way of the original?

Read on to find out!

Windows Phone 7 Companion – Book Review

I am not really a book reader and reviewing them isn’t really my thing but I was talking to a friend of mine recently who has written one and I thought it may be worth a read. Windows Phone 7 Companion has been written by Matthew Miller. If the name doesn’t ring a bell then still you may of read his previous work. Matt not only writes for ZDNet.com but also runs nokiaexperts.com which is part of the Smartphone Experts group of websites.

I have been using Windows Phone 7 since launch and although I am pretty up to speed with the new operating system I thought that by reading the book I am bound to find out things that I didn’t know. And I was right.

With the recent news that Nokia will be using Windows Phone 7 as their primary OS in the future the WP7 market share is due to rocket. This means millions and millions of people will be getting a phone with a brand new operating system to them. For many people this is a daunting experience and maybe even a bit scary. This is where Windows Phone 7 Companion may well come in handy. What better than to have one place where you can discover all the benefits to your new Smartphone software and have all your questions answered.