Author: Leigh Geary
We've mentioned DVD to mobile several times here at CoolSmartphone. It's a great piece of kit that runs on your PC and will squash down your DVD's into a format and size which will fit on your phone. Makayama have now released a new version for Pocket...
Well, although we could almost see it coming, it looks like the Orange SPV C700 has finally hit the buffers. We mentioned the battery problems that plagued the handset during testing, however there was a continual glimmer of hope as it popped up in Or...
Now, stick with me on this one because it might get confusing. Orange, as you'll know, are to launch the Orange SPV M700. It's made by HTC and it's called the Trinity. There's been rumours about GPS in this device but it looks like it's either an opti...
Orange Romania have launched the SIM+ card alongside this - the Orange SPV C100 handset. The Windows Mobile 5.0 powered Smartphone has a 1.3 Megapixel camera, MicroSD slot, GPRS/EDGE, Bluetooth, IR and a lower-than-normal 176x220 resolution screen. Th...
I have several "industry" newspapers and magazines delivered weekly for both my work and website activities. One article that caught my interest recently is this Mobility Today interview with T-Mobile manager Jay Saw. The whole mobile picture is shift...
We're the first site in the planet to get hold of the official Press Release and launch details of the T-Mobile MDA Compact III. It's the first device from a UK mobile operator to offer built-in GPS and is also available with CoPilot® Live 6 satellit...
Remember that T-Mobile MDA Compact III we mentioned a couple of days back? Well, it vanished from their site shortly after we ran that story. Worry not though, because it's back. Have any of you managed to get one? If so, let us know in the feedback f...
Orange France are to carry a new handset soon called the SPV M650. This will be the GPS-enabled HTC Artemis / P3300 we've seen previously. There's a story on this at mobinaute.com, however it's backed up by info at Orange.fr plus pictures hidden away ...
How fast is your texting? Quick? Well, I doubt it'll compare with Ang Chuang Yang, a student from Singapore. He managed to type a 160 character message reading.. "The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most feroci...
YouTube. Let's face it, you've all heard of it. Unless you've been living under a rock on the moon then you'll no doubt have watched a video on YouTube at some point. It's great, but when you want to watch your favourite video on your phone, the wheel...
Cingular have just announced the launch of the Samsung BlackJack. The wafer-thin GSM Quadband device also comes with dual-band 3G and runs Windows Mobile 5.0 (Smartphone). There's a scroll-wheel, 1.3 Megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth 2.0 and the QWER...
Some questions get asked a lot here at CoolSmartphone. One in particular gets asked almost every day, "How do I use two SIM cards in one phone". You may have seen some batteries for handsets made by Nokia which include a second slot for adding that ex...
The o2 XDA Stealth is now selling across Australia, Singapore and beyond. The Stealth, shown here, is a clever phone / PDA combination featuring all the usual Pocket PC flexibility coupled with a phone-style design and slide-down numeric keyboard. The...
We love our readers. In fact, if we had enough cash then we'd take you all to the pub and buy everyone their favourite drink. Two emails have just come in - one from Johnny DeSilva who's spotted that the Orange SPV M700 has appeared in the "Coming …
That BenQ P51 we mentioned in the Spring has now finalled been approved by the FCC. The quadband GSM/GPRS device comes with integrated GPS, WiFi (802.11b/g), a full QWERTY keyboard, 1.3 Megapixel camera, touch-screen, SD expansion slot, MiniUSB and, i...
Thanks to Brian for tipping us off on the availability of the T-Mobile MDA Compact III. This is now showing in the Business section of the T-Mobile website here. It's the same handset you should also see coming soon on o2 UK as the XDA Orbit. The MDA …
You may remember our earlier stories on Hubdog - it ws previously just for Pocket PC users but now the excellent podcast, news and RSS reader comes to the Windows Mobile Smartphone too. Hubdog is totally free and will let you search and view video p...
Some Motorola Q news now - meet the Motorola Q Norman. Yes. Norman. Possibly the stangest name for a phone ever, this is a restyled Motorola Q with a new keyboard with larger, flatter keys plus some new shortcut buttons. But wait.. the front of the ha...
Here's another new ROM for Orange SPV M5000 owners. It's just popped up here at Orange.co.uk. It's dated November 6th and is a weighty 60Mb in size and corrects any issues with synchronisation failures that some users may have experienced when using A...
WiMax. What's it all about eh? Well, it's a way to deliver the "last mile" and is an alternative to cable and ADSL. Imagine a pumped-up WiFi router and then imagine a few of these routers dotted around in lamposts and signage in your local town. Wait ...
Yes, we're first with the news again. Guess what this is? Yes, it's the new o2 XDA Orbit and it's now on the o2 UK website. Wait though, it's only just appeared on the "Coming Soon" pages so you'll have to wait a bit longer yet. It shouldn't …
Pantech have just signed a deal with Orange to supply 3G handsets in France. Although this, the U4000, is not a Windows Mobile handset, it does mean that Pantech will now become an official supplier of handsets to Orange. Regular readers may remember ...
The Cingular 8525 has been officially announced today. It's to become the first UMTS/HSPDA-enabled Pocket PC phone in the USA and will operate on Cingulars' BroadbandConnect network giving average download speeds between 400-700Kbps. Powered by Window...
Regular visitors will probably be aware that the search system in the downloads area has been broken for a while. Last night I decided that it needed fixing, so I went to a mates' bonfire party and got completely leathered and stopped out until 4.30. ...
Blimey, Dopod are on a roll. They've already got the M700 and P800W plus the C800 too. Now they're adding another handset and it's HTC Excalibur we're seeing as the T-Mobile Dash in the USA. Dopod are calling this the Dopod C720W and it can be seen he...
Two more handsets from Dopod have just appeared - the M700, pictured left and the P800W, pictured right. The M700 is a tweaked version of HTC Artemis giving 256Mb of memory to deliver a more music-centric experience. It comes with built-in FM radio, a...
This is the new Eten Glofiish X500. Apart from the fact that I keep accidentally calling it a "Goldfish" it's the thinnest Pocket PC with GPS and Wifi in the world. The features are quite substantial with wireless, sat-nav, quadband GPRS/EDGE, a Samsu...
We've seen reviews of the HTC Herald already but now it looks like Dopod are to release it as C800. The device is pretty much a thinner version of the SPV M3100 or T-Mobile MDA II devices you're seeing on the streets now and comes with a TI …
Some of you may have heard about the Digg.com website. It's all about user powered content. Every article on digg is submitted and voted on by the digg community. We've now added "Digg this" links to all our stories so, if you like something, you just...
i-Mate are well known for their network free phones. They've previously re-branded HTC devices and sold them on as the i-Mate JASJAM, SPJAS, JAM etc. However, these handsets are now being sourced from elsewhere and this slim TechFaithWireless device, ...
A new sat-Nav system from Orange has been launched today which can be downloaded onto existing handsets. Seen here on the Orange SPV M600 it's priced at £150 excluding VAT and includes the software licence, a GPS receiver with in-car charger and a ca...
As an update to our earlier story we've been digging around for news of this handset. On a recent visit to an Orange store there were hardly handsets from the SPV range - just the M3100 and the M600. So where are the new SPV's ? Well, Jason …
As we mentioned earlier in our Virgin Mobile Lobster 700TV review, TV channel "ITN News" was showing up on the Lobster handset but was testing at the time. Now, however, Virgin Mobile have added the 24 hour news channel officially giving you all the l...
Andy has justed mailed in about the new Windows Media Player 11 which is now available to download. He's used it on his Orange SPV c600 and ActiveSync 4.2. He says.. "When I run Windows Media Player now I can syncronise it to my media files just like …
Last night my mate found this old picture of me from a trip to Ibiza years back. I've got mental hair, I look about 12 years old and I'm thin. Sure, it's an embarrassing photo but I figured I'd post it to promote a new section in the …
It's dark, the clocks have just gone back (at least here in the UK) and my "man flu" has kicked in again. Winter... it's rubbish isn't it ? Still, there's a new game out called "3D Constructo Combat" with some great 3D graphics and the ability to play...
Hello hello, what's this in the o2 Business store? Why it's the o2 XDA Graphite we saw just the other day from ASUSTek. Wait a minute though, o2 UK appear to be calling it the IQ. We're confused. Isn't this the o2 XDA IQ ? We saw the …
Earlier we showed you shots of Windows Mobile "Crossbow" for the Pocket PC. Codenamed "Crossbow" by Microsoft the Smartphone screenshots have now appeared at GPSPassion.com. Sure, it's got the same Vista shine with newly polished homescreen and icons,...
Many websites write what they call "reviews". Most of the time it's a three paragraph item with an image from the PR company. Let's face it, that's not a review, that's just plain rubbish. We however do things differently. When we do a review it's a p...
Another day and another handset appears from ASUSTek. It's looking more and more like HTC are no longer the primary builders of Windows Mobile handsets. This is the O2 XDA Zinc, known also as the Asus Mars II... hmm.. look familiar at all ? Yup, it's ...
