Author: Leigh Geary
First there was a graphic, then a real photo. Now we've got ..err.. a 360 degree look at the the upcoming HTC Excalibur. It's been spotted wearing T-Mobile clothing so this is yet more proof that the HTC QWERTY is on it's way. Link - Engadget Mobile
Blimey! Check out what's just landed on the Orange available handsets page! It's the Orange SPV M3100 and it's.. available RIGHT NOW?!! It's not yet showing as an upgrade but it may be worth giving them a call right now if you're after one! :) I've j...
Yes, we've just had it confirmed by T-Mobile UK themselves. Following our earlier story T-Mobile emailed to confirm a UK launch which will be announced shorty. More on this as we get it. Also while I'm here we did have a stack of response to our sugge...
The T-Mobile MDA Vario II should be out in Germany this coming Monday. The Vario II has undergone a bit of cosmetic surgery since we saw it last and now sports a cool new button layout and coloured keyboard. Giving theoretical internet speeds of up to...
The HTC Oxygen was spotted recently as the Orange SPV C100 and now there's a review of this entry-level Smartphone here. It's in Italian but you can do a machine translation by clicking the appropriate flag on the top right. They've even got some comp...
Based on the download rates for our more "risque" downloads this piece of software should prove very popular indeed. It's called "Arcades For Adults" and contains not one, not two but three different sexy games for all Windows Mobiles devices. Aimed a...
If you've purchased Legacy (Pocket PC or Smartphone - £10.45 / $19.96) then you'll be glad to know that there's a new expansion pack available. Called "Land Of Despair" it retails for a mere £2.88 (around $5.50) and should keep you entertained for h...
I'll let you guys into a little secret. Here in the UK there's quite a few mobile phone networks. You've got Orange, T-Mobile, Vodafone, o2, Three and then you've got the likes of Virgin, Fresh etc. I get a bit of contact from T-Mobile, plus Three and...
Newsland.net is a personal news service which syncronises your chosen news channels directly to your phone. Although it lacks a search function (something they've promised me they'll add) you can choose news sources from various different areas and ha...
VITO Ringtone Editor has now been upgraded to version 1.1. The new version brings lots of new features including... -Fast forward and rewind with joystick while creating long ringtones -Pause before playing to capture song from its very beginning ...
4WinMobile have a review of the Vodafone VPA Compact III (HTC Hermes). I'm not quite sure how they've got hold of this, or how everyone commenting seems to have one too, as I've been unable to get any info from Vodafone about this 1605 - the Vodafone ...
US Mobile network Sprint is to become the second carrier to pick up the Motorola Q handset following its' launch on Verizon. This should be a welcome addition to Sprint, who don't currently offer a lot in the way of Windows Mobile handsets - I could o...
The Orange SPV M3000 is a great handset. It got released by Orange in most of Europe but not here in Britain. It's appeared on o2 (XDA Mini S), Vodafone (QTek 9100) and T-Mobile (MDA Vario) but Orange UK didn't release it. We got mad. We started a …
The handset we saw in February is now known as the "Lobster 700 TV" and has started to appear in catalogues. You may have heard it called the "BT Movio" or the "HTC Trilogy". This will fit nicely into the new range of Virgin Lobsters including the 485...
Hot on the heels of the HTC Excalibur graphic comes the actual device itself! Here it is running what appears to be a T-Mobile flavoured Smartphone OS. Yes, it looks like T-Mobile are testing this out ready for a possible launch.This blurry shot (whic...
Following on from the story last year showing work desks to be dirtier than toilet seats, it's now emerged that your mobile phone is too. You mobile also has more germs and bacteria than the bottom of your shoe or a door handle and there's tens of tho...
If you're looking for a one-stop news site suitable for your mobile screen then try News4Mobile.com. It's a mobile portal featuring charts of mobile websites listed into categories. You can also use tage or do a search for news plus there's a ranking ...
In May we showed you a new piece of software called Gentimer which includes several configurable alarms, a stopwatch, timers and world time with maps. It brings a much more advanced alarm-system to the Smartphone which is far better than the lacklustr...
I've been having quite a few emails from CoolSmartPhone readers who are having problems getting hold of the excellent Orange SPV M600. We reviewed this a while back and we were very impressed by it, however there appears to be a temporary blip in supp...
Camera phones, they're everywhere. Surely there's got to be more useful things you can do with them than simply taking shots of your mates drunk? Well yes there is. This QuickMark software installs to your phone (I found that the Dopod 577W software w...
The Register have an interesting story on some data plan changes at Orange. Following the fantastic unlimited plans by T-Mobile Orange are going to bring in a top price on the Dolphin, Canary, Raccoon and Panther packages to include unlimited calls, t...
Windows Powered QWERTY-phones seem to be all the rage right now. We've seen the Motorola Q and the Samsung i320 so far, both super slim messaging handsets for text and email addicts. HTC, makers of the majority of Windows Mobile handsets, are now gett...
Management speak is sometimes confusing. Imagine your boss coming in one day and saying, "Hi guys, we're having a re-alignment of our service strategy". This is what happened in the Orange Call Centre at Peterlee recently. Translated this basically me...
You may remember that we were first to tell you of the QTek 9000 arriving on Three. Well, they've now got an information and specs page online plus this picture of how it'll look on the Three Network here in the UK. Three will be offering their own …
msmobiles have a blurry shot of that Palm Treo 750v we told you about last week. As you can see it's the same as our previous image but with the usual Vodafone red homescreen and a white Vodafone sticker. If you like the look of this and you're …
You guys from the US should be getting the lovely Star Trek sometime soon. You may remember we spoke about this just the other day when it got approved by the FCC so we figured it must close to release. Today, according to Gizmodo, it should be around...
Remember how we mentioned the i-Teq X-Bond phone a few days back. It has a TV receiver built into it which lets you watch terrestrial PAL / Secam channels and radio too. Mobile-review.com have got themselves one of these, although it's just called a "...
James Warburton has sent me in some lovely shots of the HTC TyTN (info and details here) alongside his HTC Universal (Orange SPV M5000) and SPV M600. This is pretty much the same device as the Orange SPV M3100 we saw the other week that'll soon be arr...
I've just spotted this PC Pro article which looks at smartphones from a business perspective. This group test included a wide range of handsets but over half were Windows Mobile devices. It's an interesting read, although it starts off badly with.. "...
AGH! Right, I've had enough of this. Today has been completely wasted due to spammers. At work I've had a server attacked by a hacker who was trying to bounce requests elsewhere for those fake ebay / paypal login screens, I've come home and had about ...
The guys at TechDigest have a rather interesting write-up on their visit to Microsoft in Seattle. They've had a good nosey around at the latest Windows Mobile phones and they're pretty damned impressed by everything. They managed to get a look at Wind...
The Mobile Life 2006 survey is out today with some interesting insights into todays mobile world. The survey, by the Carphone Warehouse in association with The London School of Economics, examines how mobile phones have changed the way we live. 16,500...
The guys at Blinkx.com have launched a new site today. SelfcastTV.com allows quick sharing and downloading of mobile videos via MMS. You register then - provided you're in the UK - you just upload your video via MMS and they appear online. The PR guys...
HTC, the company behind the manufacture of the majority of Windows Mobile handsets, have recently started selling their handsets directly via HTC.com. Now they've branched out to making accessories too. These two headsets have just popped onto their s...
"That" flip-phone, the HTC Star Trek / iMate Smartflip / Orange SPV F600 has been approved by the FCC for use on cellular networks and there's rumours that US network Cingular are sniffing around it too. There's a couple of versions - one with and one...
There's a rather interesting article here at The Register called "Whatever happened to Smartphones?" by Andrew Orlowski. It's a rather frank discussion into todays "dumbphones" and how advanced they are plus how popular they still are when compared to...
Want to keep up with the latest Windows Mobile news and goings-on here at CoolSmartPhone ? Well you may have already heard about these nifty "RSS feeds" which automatically push the latest news down to your favourite news reader or web reader (like Wi...
OK, you gotta check this thing out, it's called an i-Teq X-Bond (shaken, not stirred) and it's coming to the Batelco network in Bahrain. It's apparently the first Windows Powered PDA with TV to enter the Middle East market. Selling exclusively from Ba...
Say "RSS feeds" to most people they'll fall asleep. Although most people won't have any idea what they're for or what they do, they are very clever indeed. RSS / ATOM / XML, whatever you wanna call it they're basically stripped down data feeds from we...
If you're a Mac user then you're probably one of many walking around saying, "Why can't I sync my Windows Mobile 5.0 handset with my iMac?" Well, now you can. MarkSpace.com have announced the launch of The Missing Sync version 2.5 which adds the much ...
