Author: Leigh Geary
Owners of the HTC Touch Dual / T-Mobile Touch Plus may have already seen our coverage of the MMS sending bug and fix, but there is another rather annoying issue with this handset. When you're sending a text or email you'll no doubt have seen that the ...
It's reviews galore at the minute. Just a few days back we managed to grab some time with the Asus P526. Priced up at £288.99 off-contract this is a touch-screen Pocket PC hiding in a classic Smartphone shell. It packs a 2 megapixel camera, quadband ...
Well, it seems like at last things are happening - the HTC Shift is definitely coming to Orange and you'll be able to buy it before the end of February. Orange have just sent us the official press release which states... "The HTC Shift will be availa...
We've just added our review of the i-Mate JAMA 101. It's a tough little Windows Mobile 6 Pro phone which is currently selling for £199.95 off-contract. Equipped with a 2 megapixel camera, microSD slot and Bluetooth 1.2, we've perhaps seen higher spe...
During the Mobile World Congress Sony Ericsson were being pretty selective when demonstrating their new XPERIA X1 device. Now, thanks to this Hungarian blog, the reasons are becoming clearer. The XPERIA X1 runs a new version of Windows Mobile called "...
We've been keeping an eye on the Samsung i780 for some time and now it's available on Orange Business for a very strange price of £25.52. The Sammy i780 brings GPS, optical mouse technology and Windows Mobile 6 Pro.You guys have already been finding ...
Got a Windows Mobile Smartphone (Windows Mobile Standard / Non-touch screen) ? You do? Good. Want to download a free tool that'll create a fake call to your phone as a way to escape boring meetings or events? Err... You do? Blimey, you're a strange lo...
Kevin Osborne has just emailed in because he's spotted the HP iPaq 610 / 614 for sale. We spotted it some time back but, as of Monday, you'll be able to buy it off-contract for £389.99. The phone, which is called the "HP iPaq 614c" here, is powered …
It looks like Palm are taking full advantage of yet another outage on the BlackBerry system in the USA yesterday. RIM blamed the outage on "a system upgrade which went wrong" and is the second major failure in less than a year. Palm have taken out ful...
Available now, 3D Mad Cars is a highly detailed racing game where you get to choose your car and race through cities, fiels and beaches. You must use your skill and expertise to drive through the weather conditions and other beat other cars. There's a...
Just yesterday i-Mate announced the launch of two new handsets - the Ultimate 8502 and the Ultimate 9502. However, there's other i-Mate devices out there, and we decided to take a look at this - the JAMA 101. It's a dinky device and is pretty much the...
Engadget have some great hands-on photos of the upcoming HTC P3470, which we spotted last month. There's no WiFi or 3G, but leaving these technologies out will give you quite a tidy battery lifetime. HTC are thowing in a 1Gb microSD card with (possibl...
We were hearing just a couple of weeks back that the HTC P6500 was to arrive on Orange pretty damned soon. Well, here it is hidden away on the Orange website.It's got Windows Mobile 6 Pro and GPRS/EDGE/3G/HSDPA connectivity. The extra specs detail a 3...
Showing off the latest handsets at the Mobile World Congress is all well and good, but there aren't many you can go out and buy yet. The Samsung SGH-i780 is an exception, and you can purchase it right now on Orange. Forum member "krowboi" has just re...
i-Mate has just announced an exclusive deal to roll out two new handsets in Australia. The handsets in question are the all-new i-Mate Ultimate 8502 and i-Mate Ultimate 9502 and will be appearing on the Telstra network very soon. The i-Mate 8502 is a ...
GoodWin is a launcher and task manager for your touch-screen Windows Mobile. It's designed with the finger in mind and you simply need to slide your finger along to scroll the list of favourites, running programs, settings or installed applications. T...
Yep, another free browser has just turned up. This one is based on WebKit (y'know, the engine beneath the Safari browser) and it comes hot on the heels of NetFront 3.5. This is a first look at the Iris Browser from Torch Mobile. Now available for free...
You're probably all aware of the T-Mobile Sidekick thanks to people like Paris Hilton. At the heart of these units there's a suite of mobile internet apps made by a company called Danger. It adds features such as ringtone stores, games and even produc...
MSN Direct has just been announced in Barcelona. I've downloaded it, and.. it didn't install. Why ? Well, it seems that this is currently ONLY for non-touch screen devices. Try it on Windows Mobile Pro and you'll get a failed install reporting, "not m...
We've already seen announcements from Sony Ericsson and others at the Mobile World Congress, however Microsoft have now hosted their press conference. You can watch the replay from Barcelona here.
Samsung are about to announce several new handsets at the Mobile World Congress. We're expecting to see at least one new Windows Mobile handset in the form of the SGH-i200, snapped by theUnwired. More information will no doubt appear when Samsung hold...
The HTC Shift we reviewed has now been mad available by HTC. The Shift integrates the Micosoft Origami Experience 2.0, which you can see in action here. It basically gives a finger-friendly navigation around your UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) with a browser,...
It's been just weeks since our reviewed the HTC Advantage review. Today HTC are announcing more storage and the addition of the now familiar HTC Home Today screen plus the HTC TouchFlo technology for quick and easy navigation. The Opera browser and Go...
We ran a news story on the HTC Pharos a few weeks back, now it's official. The slim Pharos will be sold as the HTC P3470 and, although there's no 3G, HSDPA, or WiFi it will have GPS. The P3470 is set to launch on Orange in the …
Remember Visto ? They provide push email and got very upset some years back when Microsoft started to do the same thing. Now, however, they're to showcase a system called "WOW" - touted as the easiest-to-use mobile messaging solution. Not only that, b...
We'd heard rumours, but now it's here in the flesh. This is the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1, running Windows Mobile 6 Pro. Yes, you read that right - a Sony Ericsson running Windows Mobile. Just one more time for my own sanity.. it's a Sony Ericsson with ...
Access have just released the Mobile Concept version of NetFront, version 3.5. We last mentioned it in 2006 so a video demonstration is well overdue. NetFront version 3.5 brings fast, smooth browsing and quick draw time, zoom speed and rendering. Thi...
We've been constantly following the developments with PointUI Home. There's now good news for Windows Mobile 2003 users too - with alpha versions of the slick interface available for anyone running the older OS. If you head on over to PointUI Home you...
If you missed out last time then have no fear, the guys at devicewire have just taken delivery of yet more HTC Touch Cruise handsets. These phones are essentially the same as the o2 XDA Orbit 2 minus the o2 contract. Still selling at £384.99, it's pa...
We first saw this, the SPV E610, back in December. Then, last month we spotted it on the Business and Pay As You Go "Coming Soon" sections. Indeed, it's still showing this way in the Business section next to the Samsung i780. Good news though, because...
The T-Mobile Touch Plus has now appeared in both the Personal and Business section of the T-Mobile website. It's the T-Mobile version of the HTC Touch Dual we reviewed some time back. The T-Mobile variant has appeared following the one month exclusiv...
In the USA? Got a T-Mobile Shadow? You do? Head on over to t-mobileshadow.com to get the latest update. The update seems to add extra features and software to the phone, enhanced myFaves and menu graphics plus a better text-entry experience. As usual ...
Sprite Archie has just been released. For $14.95 (£7.63) it'll transfer your text and call logs to email, letting you check and backup the history of your communication. The software will automatically archive each sent or received message and can al...
The HTC Shift has, according to tracyandmatt.co.uk, just popped up on the Orange February pricebook. The UMPC comes with Windows Vista and a Windows Mobile layer for quick updates on your email and appointiments through the HTC SnapVUE system. Accord...
We've had several posts in our forum pointing out a change in the Orange Terms and Conditions. Apparently a tweak has been made yesterday which stops you from paying to upgrade months in advance. Now you can only upgrade 3 months to the end of your co...
Next week marks the start of the Mobile World Congress, but some companies have already started announcing what they'll.. err.. be announcing ... at the event. Opera have announced their new browser - version 9.5 - which will bring desktop-like browsi...
The o2 XDA Orbit 2 has now shifted over to the "Personal" section of the o2 website. It appeared last week in the business section but now it's available for all. Available from absolutely nothing up to £249.99, this is the o2 flavour of the excellen...
Regular readers will be well aware of PointUI Home, the new free interface for Windows Mobile. Today they've launched version 1.02b, which brings extended support for Smartphones (non touch-screen), bug fixes and the ability to grab a new black theme....
Kieran Russ has just emailed in to say that the T-Mobile MDA Touch Plus is now available from the T-Mobile sales team. T-Mobile launched the phone just days ago, and we're yet to see it live on their site, but it's available if you call them up on …
We mentioned the new threaded SMS system coming to Windows Mobile 6.1 just yesterday, however your can get it now in the form of "SMS-Chat" from iwindowsmobile.com. For just $14.95 (£7.59) you can enjoy threaded conversations, multiple SMS sending (e...
