Author: Leigh Geary
So it's official - Windows Mobile 6 has been announced. Wait, what's that buried in the press release? "In Europe, Orange plans to deliver the SPV E650 smartphone from HTC, and in Japan, SoftBank Mobile Corp. will offer new devices from Toshiba and ...
To most people the idea of "push email" is quickly dismissed when they read the weighty Microsoft documentation about it. I've had so many people tell me... "Why isn't it as quick to setup as the BlackBerry my mate has? I don't want to setup an Exchan...
The next version of Windows Mobile is coming and you've probably seen more leaks than a broken pipe. Here it is, we've got screenshots of the new OS plus information ahead of the 3GSM conference. Why announce this so early ? Well, a certain French pub...
Mike Shire has just emailed to remind me of an excellent piece of software called True Connect. We last covered this when it was at version 1.1, however it's now at version 2.0 and 2.1 is right around the corner to provide text messaging integration w...
We're getting to like HTC, their viral advertisements are a little mental and we're now totally converted when it comes to the new HTC X7500. It is, as Megachip and CD-ROM say, a lot smaller than we thought. Here they are during their mission steal an...
Astarware.com have announced their new game, Hammer Heads. You'll probably have already played this game for real in the local arcade. You know the sort of thing - the gnomes pop up and up bash them on the head as quick as you can. Available now for t...
I've just been watching this video comparing an o2 XDA Orbit with the new iPhone from Apple. Whilst the Windows Mobile handset effectively beats the iPhone on features, it worries me that many of the Windows Mobile programs shown aren't part of the or...
If you text a lot or you've got a teenager in the family who does, why not check out this rather excellent deal on Orange Pay As You Go. If you're really quick and fill in this form you can get up to 1000 messages per month and …
We've got more hot news about the upcoming Orange SPV M700 handset. We can now pretty much confirm that the SPV M700 does have GPS on the latest ROM and AKU3 is included. Orange SatNav runs on it and AGPS is on too, although the network doesn't suppor...
Remember the story we did yesterday on the upcoming Orange SPV E600 (aka the HTC Excalibur) ? We exclusively revealed that Orange will be picking up this handset and offering it very soon in Europe. Well, now we can go one better with an exclusive pic...
Yet more information coming in about future Orange handsets. I've just received a second email confirming that the Orange SPV M700 will have satnav at launch on Orange UK and will come with a new trial called Orange Maps. Also, the HTC S310 we told yo...
Anonymous emails often come may way. A lot of them make claims about new handsets, and I've sat on this one for a couple of days now trying to decide whether to run a story about it. Today though I tried to add ourselves to Google News and …
Having a Windows Mobile Phone can be confusing enough. If your mates ask you, "What phone do you have?", you'll usually end up saying something like, "It's an Orange SPV C600 Smartphone" Their eyes will probably glaze over and you'll spend the next 10...
A lot of people have recently done stories about Google Maps Mobile so I thought I'd give it a try. I installed it by browsing to www.google.com/gmm on my Windows Mobile phone and installing the CAB. It's so simple to use and there's a bag of options ...
Last night I was chatting with a mate about what software he had installed on his QTek 9000 (which, by the way, looks to have been removed by
We've been waiting a while for the this new 3G Windows Mobile handset. We've done story after story after story after story about the Orange SPV M700, pictured right. Finally, though, it's moved from the "coming soon" section of Orange catalogues to t...
Orange recently launched the SPV C100 in Romania. It's an Orange branded version of the HTC Oxygen. Here it is with all the Orange gubbins. OK, now forget all that, because things have gone a little weird. The commercial arm of HTC sell this the HTC S...
If you're lucky enough to have a decent enough graphics card, plenty of memory and a copy of Windows Vista then you'll know that the whole ActiveSync experience has changed. With Vista your mobile device is recognised the minute you plug it into the U...
The Orange SPV M700 has now popped up on the "Coming Soon" section of their site. The suspense is palpable, and we've been hounding it since September. The old "will it, won't it have GPS" rumours seem to have been settled now (we think), as the specs...
More shots of the interesting HTC Vox can be seen here at moblog.com.sg. Besides the fantastic pairing of numeric and slide-out keyboard it's also got Windows Mobile 6 on board, complete with Office Mobile, Windows Live, PDF viewers and more. Designed...
Although I'm back in the UK my head isn't entirely sure where I am, so I figured that I'd check out GPSGate.com. It's a GPS mapping portal which lets friends share their live location with other personally approved "buddies". The GPSGate people say it...
According to news today it looks like 2007 could see double the amount of GPS enabled equipment being sold compared to last year. During the first nine months of 2006 around 12 million GPS devices were sold, but research firm Canalys reckons 28 millio...
Every now and then we like to bring you a slightly off-topic post which may interest you. Today I spotted this news item about old satellites being re-used for new in-car entertainment systems in Europe.Cast your mind back a few years. Remember when S...
The T-Mobile Dash has been available in the USA for quite a while now, so it's good to see that it'll soon be available back in Europe as the T-Mobile MDA Mail. Made by HTC, it's known as the HTC Excalibur and comes with a full QWERTY keyboard, …
The excellent guys at T-Mobile PR have just sent me the following email.... "London, 25th January 2007: T-Mobile today announces that the Ameo device will be available exclusively to T-Mobile UK when it is launched later this quarter. The Ameo from T...
Just before Christmas we ran a story on an interesting looking device called the HTC Athena. Although at first it may look a little different than any other Pocket PC you've ever seen; the specs list is astonishing. It comes with Windows Mobile 5.0 (P...
Back in August last year we told you that the HTC Trinity and the HTC Artemis both definitely had GPS on board. Then we found out that the Trinity might not, but then we were told it definitely would have GPS on-board. Confused? Well, we then heard ab...
The guys at Teksoft posted a news item about CapturePro in our forum. This Desktop PC application will let you easily grab screenshots from you Pocket PC or Smartphone. You also get Mobile Device CapturePro included in the deal, which lets you grab s...
This is the Asus Pegasus Pocket PC phone and comes with GPS on board. It's a slim device with numeric keypad and jog dial for speedy navigation. Asus are already responsible for a large number of laptops and their skills for design and build are show...
I'm both annoyed and frustrated by this Guardian story which states that Virgin Mobile UK have sold less than 10,000 of their Lobster 700TV handsets, despite dropping the price heavily and launching a massive advertising campaign with Pamela Anderson....
The lack of a multi-touch screen on a Pocket PC secretly causes people to curse daily when they try and tap a number in quickly using the dialpad. Perhaps a way around this is to combine the slide-out QWERTY keyboard with a standard numeric keypad on ...
Keni has once again emailed following my recent rant at the Vodafone UK Press Team whilst trying to get news of the Vodafone v1210 / VDA IV. It turns out that he's got several contacts within Vodafone and they've confirmed to him that this handset sho...
Keni has emailed in after spotting recent news on upgrades to the HTC Hermes / HTC TyTn handsets. He's had a chat with the guys at Vodafone and they've advised him that the AKU3.3 Firmware is currently being tested and should launch soon. If you've go...
If, like me, you need telnet or SSH access into a server then you'll be used to using tools like Putty and secureCRT on your PC. For Windows Mobile you should definitely check out zaTelnet, which has support for telnet, SSH1 and now SSH2. There's two ...
WM Soft have released a freeware application called Export Contacts which will create a HTML or XML file with more than 50 properties, including photos and ringtones. Although your contact details are effectively backed up when you synchronise, this f...
Sure, I may be sat in my hammock here in Cancun, but I'm still here to bring you the latest news. Today it's the HTC Cavalier, which looks to be the successor to the current HTC Excalibur - seen as the o2 XDA Cosmo and T-Mobile Dash. TheBoyGenius …
You may remember our our earlier story on a Vodafone handset called the v1210 being released in Portugal. It's now also available in Germany here as the VDA IV. We were first to tell you of this handset along with its 3G capabilities which make it an ...
The 3GSM World Congress is coming up in Barcelona soon and you can bet there'll be plenty of new phones on display. Our friends at Emoze have an interesting plan for the event. You may remember their easy-to-setup push-email system we mentioned a few ...
Are you having problems with your o2 XDA Orbit or T-Mobile MDA Compact III ? Well, it seems that there's a possible issue with the transfer of data on storage cards. According to this forum the issue seems to arise when files are deleted. This simple ...
The o2 Zinc we spotted earlier looks to have slipped slightly. A release date of March is now being shown on the o2 site with a March launch date. If you're interested in this handset you can still click here to be informed when it's ready. Link - …
