Category Archives: Android

Episode 10 – Gav & Dave’s Tech Podcast is now live – Please RT

As you know, I co-host a weekly podcast with David from UKMobileTech called Gav & Dave’s Tech Podcast. It is a light hearted tech podcast broadcast bi-weekly. To subscribe click here for iTunes or copy and paste this link into your favourite podcast app.

Episode 10 is now live.

If you get a moment and have enjoyed the podcast, please leave some feedback in iTunes. Thanks.

Is the Samsung Galaxy S5 the phone to set new sales records?

According to T-Mobile US and Carphone Warehouse they have both received more pre registrations enquiries than the outgoing S4. T-Mobile US has already had 300,000 enquiries.

Sounds amazing but how many people will actually convert their interest into orders? How many people will have shown interest on multiple sites?

One thing is for sure, this phone will sell and will probably out sell all other offerings until the new iPhone arrives later on this year.

My other concern as with any new model, is there will be a surge of activity in the first few months and after that interest may subside. This is when the S5 sales longevity will be key to its success.

So who has this on their radar?

Sony Xperia Z Ultra – early views

Thanks to Clove Technology the Sony Xperia Z Ultra phablet arrived a few days ago.

Holding it you realise how large but also how thin it is.  It feels fairly light weight too, fits nicely in my suit pockets but not in my front shirt as it sticks out the top too much for my liking.

Next to my Note 3 the Z Ultra is super fast.  It makes the Note 3 appear to have constant lag.

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Size comparison above. Note 3 on left. Screens on max brightness. Note 3 is brighter.

I will have more views up later this week and will also be discussing it with Dave when record our next podcast episode.

In the meantime, below are 3 photo samples from the camera.

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If there is anything you would like to know about this huge phablet please let me know.

What Phone does Ellen DeGeneres really use?

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Samsung  spent a lot of money during last night’s Academy Awards promoting everything from phones to TVs. It wasn’t even commercials because the host, Ellen DeGeneres, promoted them as well. She even took a selfie of herself and a few audience members using a Galaxy Note 3 that ended up being retweeted and on all the news channels.

Except one big thing.

She really uses an iPhone!