Recent content by Simon_Gardner

I'm looking for the Android phone with the best radio for my friend who lives in a fringe area. Her dumb phone works fine there. So far, smart phones - not so much. I hear the Moto G offers the best radio. Is this true?

I am hoping Samsung has dropped their boneheaded decision to drop memory expandability in the Note series with the Note 6. Rumour suggests it has? The Note 5 looked like a complete dud for that reason. I was left with abandoning Galaxy Note at that point. And will the larger internal phone...

I've been using Tile app for a week or so on my Note 3. This is a Bluetooth 4 device and associated app. I was one of many crowd funders of this but was about to sell my iPhone-only pre launch tiles when the company up and released an Android app for it. Works on only some Android phones. You...

I am trying this bluetooth remote release for the Note 3 camera. It so far works with the stock camera app but (at least so far) not my usual A Better Camera app. The first downside I've found is there is no 'off' switch which may or may not present problems - apart from the obvious battery...

My launch day Note 3 came with a bunch of what I assumed were replacement nibs for the S-pen. I can see no way to replace the nib. Anyone know how?

I know that Chrome and Firefox allow you to re-request a web page as the desktop version, is there a browser that only serves up desktop pages default and no 'phone' pages?

I now have a partial answer to my long-standing beef with my first smartphone - the Note 3. Yes it's that appalling radio performance compared to every dumb phone I've had. This meant the Note 3 only half worked "as a phone" in my home. Just so long as the wind was blowing the right way. A...

Anyone inform me what the firmware/software upgrade just did 2014/06/30?

Hands up who else has tried to write on a piece of paper with the S-pen? (It doesn't work.)

I must be an app fiend but with Kitkat only allowing apps to be installed on the phone's 32Gb along with some other functions, I'm beginning to find the 32Gb rather limiting. As I recall there was supposed to be a 64Gb Note 3 that nobody ever saw. Just me needing to keep an eye on that 32Gb...

I've just noticed that the writers of QuickPic app - which I use all the time - seem to have solved the KitKat deliberate crippling of the SD card. It now all works as it should irrespective of whether you are writing to or reading from the SD card or moving files to and fro or editing/working...

I'm trying to get accurate display from the Note 3 barometric pressure sensor. [in hectopascals or millibars] You all knew it had that sensor, right? There are apps around to give you a read-out. It seems you need to calibrate the thing and most of the apps don't allow for that despite...

I've used the button on the Samsung headphones cable as a camera release using A Better Camera software. It's a settings option. Curiosity got the better of me and I checked the standard issue Samsung camera software and the headphones switch works as a cable release with that as well. I'm...

Xxuend3?

Every now and again my earpiece [Plantronics Voyager Pro] - which I have for voice phone use and text when I'm doing stuff - randomly launches into playing MP3s from my small music library. I can't seem to stop it when it does nor can I work out which player is being activated though it might be...