Cancer. It’s not a nice thing to talk about and it’s not something I’d ever imagine doing a podcast about, but since the last Coolsmartphone Podcast (in July!) I basically very nearly died.

Here, then, is my story and how I went to a completely normal Sunday morning to being told, only a week later, that I had hours to live.

Don’t worry though, because there’s a lot more to this – it’s a story of hope and the how the utterly amazing NHS brought me back to planet Earth. There’s a number of lessons along the way.

Oh, and if you have a bit of cash floating about – do donate to the Blood Cancer UK for all the hard work they do.

Also a MASSIVE thank-you again to the utterly amazing NHS staff who have taken care of me throughout all this.

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The dog has no relevance but will raise interest in this post. Click-bait in your face, baby.

“Sporadic” seems to be the word for these podcasts. If you’ve listened to some of them then you might be aware that they’re usually recorded in the car as it’s the only free time I have. However, these are not normal times. These are very strange times and that “podcast I recorded the other week” was actually nearly 3 months ago.

Here, then, is my mini ramble about COVID-19, Huawei, Honor and the app installation methods needed on these phones. More a-coming guys! More a-coming..

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We discuss..

• How coronavirus has changed things.
• Working from home!
• Our current kit.
• Celebrating our key workers.
• Showing off the Honor MagicBook 14.
• The smartphones we’re just not using.
• 5G and mast fires
• Quibi
• Sunbathing on lockdown?!
• Much more!

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The coronavirus has changed things so much, and despite the fact that sitting at home is a lot better than being in a hospital bed, we’re all having an unexpected amount of time on our hands. This is why we started the “Home Active” feature, and in this special Lockdown Podcast, I’m sat in my kitchen looking at the various options available to keep your boredom at bay.

I just can’t really help with those home haircuts sadly.

Also, if you’re around next Tuesday evening, I’ll be doing an exclusive podcast with Paul O’Brien. Tune in for that one – we’ll have more details closer to the time.

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Yes, we’re back – the podcast has returned! We should have a big bumper news package after Mobile World Congress in Barcelona but, as you know, that went in the bin due to coronavirus outbreak.

In this episode we cover that and the impact it’ll have on the people who were going to attend. What about all those who invested so much to get there?

Also, I talk a bit more about leaving Sky, coming back and then leaving again. There seems to be a lot of interest in this at the moment as Sky TV have whacked up their prices quite a bit.

More to come, and another podcast will be online shortly, but do get in touch with me on Twitter or via our contact form.

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It’s been a huge two months since the last podcast. What happened? Well, normally I record these podcasts whilst driving and, just recently I’ve had a distinct lack of car.

Instead I’ve done the commute on my bike. It helped with the preparation for that mad bike ride I did last week, but I did get a sore bottom.

In episode 250..

• • Tracking and sharing your location live.
  • The OPPO Reno 5G
  • The Samsung Galaxy Tab S6
  • 5G on Three
  • VRJAM

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Also in this episode…

• • I pinched the wife’s car.
  • MOT failure!
  • OnePlus 7 details, and it’s now available.
  • 5G, and why it’ll probably benefit the networks more than you.
  • Valencia. Proper nice!
  • My thoughts on the Asus ZenFone 6.
  • Protein bars!
  • Huawei problems.
  • I struggle to end the recording because I’m stupid.

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• • The new Asus Flipper Phone.
  • Watch the squirrel!
  • Problems for Huawei
  • Ambulance!
  • I broke another phone.
  • New 5G opportunities
  • The Xperia 10 review.
  • New 5G opportunities
  • The Huawei Mate 20 X 5G appears
  • Hipster Troll Carwash

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• • F1 Car tech. Truly bonkers.
  • Xiaomi pricing.
  • Our rather expansive reviews.
  • Launches! Lots of launches!.
  • How to not use the toll booths

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I recorded this yesterday. Just yesterday. It’s our funtastical podcast – the one that walks that dangerous line between serious tech talk and how I once parked my Lexus underneath a Land Rover (no, really).

So week I’ve got you a slice of the following…

• • A properly professional introduction, definitely not ruined in any way.
  • In-car voice control systems. Just how bad are they?
  • Fitness tracker gadgets.
  • The dash cam starts to tell me what to do.
  • Glastonbury!
  • giffgaff goodybag changes.
  • Samsung Galaxy Fold – An update
  • InvisibleShield nano-technology
  • I try and buy some apples! A whole bag!
  • How can people not know how to park?
  • Cases that hold your cards
  • Virgin Media ramping up their packages and going quadplay.
  • How I crashed my car and very nearly properly hurt myself.

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Well, what a completely insane Easter weekend that was. We went to the countryside, I flew a drone, crashed it, then went to the beach and I also found time to mow the lawn, clean the bathroom and even clean out the car. My life is so rock and roll.

With all that I’ll be that … oh wait, there was beer too … so, with all that I’ll bet you didn’t think there’d be a podcast. But there is!

This week …

• • How is all this recorded?
  • The Samsung Galaxy Fold. Oh dear.
  • Virgin SIM-only deal
  • A rather in-depth look at why fibre broadband really isn’t fibre broadband

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I had a listen to last week’s podcast and, well, the audio quality suffered somewhat due to the rain on the windscreen. So, I had a bit of a think. This, then, is where the Coolsmartphone Mobile Podcast takes a massive leap forward this week, so it’s definitely worth a listen.

This week …

• Battered chips are the best thing in the world
• The latest Honor deals
• The new Huawei phones
• Mobile phone detection systems
• New Honor phones
• Detail on how these podcasts are recorded
• Your feedback
• My first ever IT contract
• Long commutes
• How “manly” car horns should sound.

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Yes, I’m straight off the plane and into the car to record the podcast. Driving down the M6 in heavy rain definitely makes for an interesting sound in the background. The podcast audio sounds like a badly-tuned FM radio station. Gotta love it. Gotta love it.

This week I’m talking about breakfast TV, 36 month contracts, Maltese beer, man flu, Dan leaving, Virgin deals and much more besides.

Do listen, do let me know your thoughts.

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This week it’s a 48 minute edition covering the story behind the Android bike computer, phone cases, the new Huawei P30 and my quest for a well-priced reconditioned iPhone.

As usual, the podcast is recorded in the car and all of the above is interspersed with me discussing how daft people can be sometimes (think lane discipline, filling up their cars and turning their lights on).

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Also included in this episode..

– Why do we call them “Petrol Stations”?
– Stealing Costa Coffee
– The Huawei P30 and P30 Pro
– Getting stuck in traffic
– Some road-rage nutter
– Automatic braking.

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This Podcast covers Mobile World Congress and I dive into the various announcements …. but, deep down, I had a bit of a problem with MWC 19. Listen in to hear more on that.

Also included in this episode..

– Smartphone-powered click farms
– Cars that tell you what to do
– Making (a small amount of) money from your smartphone
– Going to the gym
– Being unable to talk properly
– Dental work
– Audi drivers
– I’m getting a parcel!
– Great Vodafone SIM-only deal
– Get help with your coverage issues, sometimes for free!

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So, a quick update on what’s happened then. Matteo has left the building. He’s doing other stuff. John, who valiantly took over the podcast mantle after he left, has now had to take a step back too. He’s gutted, but there’s only so many hours in the day.

That leaves a few of us, but we’re all so busy writing and doing other things that finding time to fit in a podcast is tricky. This, then, led me to jumping in the time machine and going back to the old days. Many years ago I recorded a podcast during my journey to work, and I had a whole professional headset with a boom-mic next to my mouth to try and reduce the road noise.

This seemed to work quite well, but now that I’ve got a car which isn’t rattling and falling to bits, I decided to slap the phone into the holder on my windscreen and just talk to it. Amazingly it sounds very good indeed, so I decided to discuss all about how I got into all this mobile phone business. How the site started, what the first ever smartphones looked like and the rather surprising things that happened when I started writing on the t’interweb about these new-fangled smartphone things.

It includes…

– My experiences mobile phones at school
– Pagers! Yes, pagers!
– Awkwardness
– My car telling me I’m running out of diesel
– A lorry getting almost stuck in-between a wall
– Brick phones!
– Flashing LED aerials
– Rain! Lots of rain! Excellent for background noise.
…and more

It does NOT include …

– Any mention of the whole Brexit nightmare

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