Review: Plinth
Plinth Tablet Stand In the past I have had a few tablet stands in the forms of; cases, simple cut out bits of plastic and even Popobe Teddy Bear stands. I had never heard of Plinth before but I was sent a review unit having completely missed its initial kickstarter campaign. John Bull spent two years designing his Plinth tablet stand before taking it to the online crowd fund sourcing websit...[Read More]
Shade Runner
Shade Runner by Péter Pandula Endless rhythm games are nothing new to the mobile gaming world but it’s always nice to see different takes on them. With Shade runner you have to guide a rolling ball down a tiled road avoiding the differently shaded tiles. The game starts out nice and easy but quickly gets harder and harder as the ball picks up momentum and the shades of the tiles becom...[Read More]
Random Heroes 3
Random Heroes 3 The conclusion to the random heroes trilogy is finally out on android after 6 months of being on IOS but it’s better now it’s on android because… reasons!!!!!!! Aliens are again trying to invade after you took the fight to their home world in random heroes 2. You have 75 levels and 3 boss battles to fight though to save Earth. To help you complete your mission yo...[Read More]
EE Power Bar
EE Power Bar Power bars are becoming part of normal life as mobile usage has grown faster than battery technology. It doesn’t help that top brands like Apple are putting under 2000mAh batteries in flagship phones so that they look better rather than work better. Motorola and Samsung are slightly better, sticking to batteries which are at around 2500mAh and HTC and Sony going all out at arou...[Read More]
Sandisk Ultra Dual USB Drive 3.0 – Review
Sandisk Ultra Dual USB Drive 3.0 Early in the year Sandisk showed off its new dual USB drive at CES2015. With the amount of chatter about it from Android blogs its far from surprising it picked up an award for “Best Business Gadget”. 92 days have past since then and one has finally turned up on my desk. So have Sandisk just upgraded it to USB 3.0? Is it worth the upgrade? Let’s find out. For...[Read More]
Honor 6 Plus
Honor 6 Plus I saw honor twice in March, once for their big.LITTLE event in London. Named as it was the supporting event to CES and also their new Kirin925 chipset uses big.LITTLE architecture. The second time was at March of the Droids in Birmingham; a gathering for android enthusiasts. Just the sort of people Honor are trying to win over and with the crowd around the honor tablet compared to th...[Read More]
Heroes of Loot – Review
Heroes of Loot – Review Anyone who has followed my reviews will know by now that I am a massive fan of pixel art games. So when OrangePixel release a game I get very excited. With Heroes of Loot they have lived up to my expectations. It’s a rogue like dungeon loot game in which whenever you die everything is reset apart from how difficult the dungeons are. OrangePixel is main...[Read More]
Recently Android App
[root] Recently If you are not rooted no need to read any further. Google changed a lot of things with Lollipop. Some great, like smooth animations, some not so great, like the new notification settings. One thing they dropped the ball on was multitasking. Android users have been used to multitasking for many years with each OEM giving it a slightly different look. With Lollipop they changed it...[Read More]
honor 6+ big.LITTLE event in London
honor’s big.LITTLE event in London honor invited some of the smaller media outlets who couldn’t make it to their MWC event in Barcelona to a small sit down event where they could have a look at honor’s new devices. So who are honor? Well it seems they are a small division of Huawei. Built for “Digital Natives” as they call them, people born into tech who spend a third of their day looking at...[Read More]
Review – Mikey Boots
Mikey Boots Mikey Boots is the third in the Mikey series, this time around it is more of a flappy bird platformer. To move around in the levels you have to adjust the direction of the thrust in your Boots whilst dodging missiles, spikes and other obstacles. The game is split into 36 levels with 6 bonus levels. Each of these levels is graded out of 3 stars, to achieve all 3 you must beat the goal t...[Read More]
Review: Bamboo StyleSwap Cover
OnePlus One Bamboo StyleSwap Cover So you are one of the 520 million people who purchased a Chinese OEM android Device in 2014. Want to make it a bit more Chinese? What’s more Chinese than Bamboo?!… Well lots of things, but Bamboo is just amazing; it feeds adorable pandas, is used as scaffolding, and can even be used as clothes! OnePlus originally had plans for to produce seven ...[Read More]
NOON – Review
NOON – Review This game landed in my inbox with the subject “FOR MILO, WHO HAS PLENTY OF TIME”.So being that I was in the doldrums at this point anyway I installed it to see what it was all about. I quickly learnt that the game was about killing time, and phone screens. Nowadays we are used to almost impossible rhythm games and this game fits in that genre so much so that gettin...[Read More]