Author: Leigh Geary

Orange Partner Camp – Get involved!

The Orange Partner Camp, being held from May 8th-10th is a chance for mobile games, ringtones, music, business solutions, applications, handset and network enablers or any other wireless services providers, to come together with Orange. This year the...

Exclusive first – v1240 and v1640 Now selling on Vodafone!

Remember a while back we exclusively revealed that Vodafone were testing the new Vodafone v1240 and v1640? Well, we're revealing that they've actually hit the shops and you can buy them right now!If you check the Vodafone UK Business store you'll find...

Red and Pink Handsets from i-Mate

Check this out! It's one of only 100 Ferrari red i-Mate JASJAR handsets. You've probably seen in less bright colours under different branding across the world (SPV M5000, o2 XDA Exec etc). According to NewMobile.com this and a pink version of the i-Ma...

o2 XDA Mini Push Email Update

Just a few days a go we told you to keep an eye on the new xda.o2.co.uk site for details of the push-email update for the o2 XDA Mini and o2 XDA Exec. Well, although the Exec update isn't here yet, the XDA Mini update is. If you've …

MobiLuck now for Windows Mobile 5.0 too

About this time last year we mentioned something called Mobiluck, the "BlueJacking" software that lets you detect all nearby Bluetooth devices and send / receive messages. Now compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0 handsets Mobiluck is a bit more than ju...

Shozu branches out

Shozu, the direct-pictures-to-web-from-your-phone-app, has announced that they're branching out to offer photo and video uploading to multiple personal blog and citizen photo-journalism sites such as Blogger, Typepad, Wordpress, CNN, the BBC and Scoop...

No more MSN in SPVs – The case continues

Michael Pearson has sent an email about this Orange Press Release which is actually from the 3GSM show on February 13th. It may explain the decision to drop MSN Messenger from the SPV range. The Press Release states an agreement between Vodafone and O...

Orange SPV M600 in the wild

Featured in my gadget photo blog is the Orange SPV M600 which we reviewed last week. I spotted it this afternoon in the Lichfield Orange store after grabbing a coffee. It just goes to show that this device is now readily available in stores. Interesti...

HTC Star 100 / QTek 8500 Preview

Lutzh at MSMobiles has yet again got his hands on one of the hottest Windows Mobile handsets around. The new HTC Star Trek, which is now also known as the HTC STAR100 and being sold as the QTek 8500 is a very slimline flip-phone that we've constantly ...

Bye Bye MSN on Orange SPV’s

Yes, it does appear that Orange did decide to remove MSN Messenger from the Orange SPV M600. They're apparently working on a new Instant Messaging (IM) application which, for the success of the handset, I certainly hope will include access onto IM net...

UK: o2 XDA IQ Cometh!

You may remember our previous story on the o2 XDA IQ, it's going to be the first big release of a WiFi-capable Smartphone. o2 UK now appear to have made it official, with this web page giving stacks of details and links for the handset. The new xda.o2...

Deploy Push Email and Microsoft Exchange

We've mentioned previously how to get started with all this push-email business. If I'm honest I wish it was slightly easier for end users, so that they could simply bang in a few details and get their POP account email sent straight away. Actually, I...

Mobile Registry Editor

Something I've just spotted whilst looking for a registry editor is this PC-based tool which connects to your phone and shows / edits your registry. I've been looking for one as I'm having trouble app-unlocking my C600 after the AKU2 update. Well, alt...

Max your broadband!

If you're after even faster broadband then it's worth looking at Internet Central. Right now they're offering up to 8Mb/s broadband with a whacking 30Gb data transfer limit per month for just £19.99. That's pretty fantastic when you realise that othe...

Stream live video to the web with ComVu

I spotted ComVu over at MoDaCo recently. It's a free piece of software that, after you've logged in and created an account, lets you stream live video and audio from your device. Yes - live. You can stream it over whatever connection you have, be it t...

CTIA: New slim QWERTY handset from TechFaithWireless

Y'know the Mototorla Q? Well, this isn't it, but you'd be forgiven for thinking it was. Chinese manufacurer TechFaithWireless have been showing this off at CTIA and it's the second clone of a Mototorla handset that we've seen from them following the M...

CTIA: HTC Announce Plans and another new handset

This is the HTC Foreseer, featured in this Phonescoop article covering the CTIA Wireless industry show in Las Vegas. Bearing a slight resemblance to the Virgin phone, it's a new DVB-H TV phone to be launched by Modeo in America. The HTC Foreseer has a...

Orange SPV M600 Review is here!

Aha! It's all done now. Get the full, completely finished review right here. Overall I was quick impressed with the 2 Megapixel camera and the design of the M600 is splendid. You may remember last night I put the "almost finished" version of the revie...

New push mail tariffs from Orange

Orange have announced pricing their new Microsoft Exchange Direct Push e-mail plans, according to this ComputerWeekly story. Data bundles will start at £6.50, giving users 10Mb of email. Medium usage packages will cost £12 per month for 30Mbytes, wi...

TechFaithWireless slide into play

Hey look ! It's the Motorola SLVR.. no, wait a minute.. It's actually a handset from TechFaithWireless. "Who?", I hear you cry. Well, these guys are from China and - like HTC - they design and build handsets for branding by networks and companies. Th...

New Version of Astraware Sudoku

Astraware have just announced that their popular Sudoku game has been updated to version 1.30. The new update gives you an improved menu system which was implented as a result of customer feedback. Howard Tomlinson, CEO of Astraware, said.. "Our cust...

Atomic Cannon Now officially available for Smartphone

You may remember the beta version of AtomicCannon we reported on earlier. Well now it's fully available and you can get more information here. It's already the best shooting game of last year, so don't waste any time in grabbing a copy. The controls h...

TVGenius – Get reminded about your favourite TV shows

Philip Nowlan has messaged in about a UK based service called TVGenius it's a website you can access on your handset by browsing to www.tvgenius.co.uk/mobile.html then bang in your favourite TV show and it'll remind you when it comes on! Hoho! Just wh...

Podcast 21 Online

Doing podcasts can sometimes be a tad annoying. This particular one has been recorded around 5 times. I've either broke into coughing fits, found that the microphone fell out without realising it, or the piggin' battery has gone flat. Tonight though I...

AvantGo – Now for Smartphone too

AvantGo is a free mobile content delivery service for your handset. It'll let you sync-up thousands of news feeds which are specifically made to fit your mobile device. AvantGo call these "channels" and they contain all your favourite news, weather an...

Compact Framework after the AKU2 update

There's an interesting blog post here by James @ root6technology.com. He noticed that after applying the AKU Push email update for his SPV M5000 he could no longer run managed software that was built by Visual Studio 2005. Compact Framework 2.0 won't ...

A bit of maintenance

Right, I'm going to confuse myself now. Here in Europe we're now on Daylight Savings Time, so all our clocks have gone forwards. However, in the USA their clocks haven't changed yet - that happens on April 2nd at 2am. So, if I've got this right, New Y...

Motorola Q – No, Not Coming in April..

This news item regarding the "April" release date of the Motorola Q raised a few eyebrows. There were in fact two different web pages at Motorola - one stated, "It's coming in April" and one said, "It's coming soon.. sometime... ish...". Well, the one...

o2 UK to Launch XDA IQ

o2 are currently prepping the new o2 XDA IQ. Now, we heard a while back that this was appearing on o2 Asia as the o2 Orion, however it was then strangely cancelled. It's also popped up on QTek as the 8310 and on Dopod as the 577W. The …

Dealexec – Neat free RSS Reader

This free software is billed as a "bargain hunter" and works by pulling the latest shopping deals and offers down via RSS feeds. It has the added bonus of letting you change the feeds and grab any RSS/XML feed you fancy. RSS feeds are basically text f...

Orange SPV C600 and M3000 Updates for the Netherlands

Orange Netherlands have now released the necessary ROM updates to enable the push email functionality. Install these updates if you're in the Netherlands and you have an Exchange server to sync with. Both the Orange SPV C600 and Orange SPV M3000 are n...

Orange SPV M600 Appears on Orange.co.uk

The Orange SPV M600 handset now appears to be available from this Orange Business page. It comes with a huge list of features, unfortunately not totally correct (there's no MSN Messenger, although you can install it here and it apparently has both Win...

Fizz Weather Version 2.2 Released

Fizz Software have announced that Fizz Weather version 2.2 is now available. Fizz Weather, which costs $14.99 (around £8.60 / €12.46) is a fully featured app and a home screen plug-in which supports over 58,000 cities around the globe. This new ver...

Windows Mobile Mini

This is the car currently being driven around the UK as part of a Microsoft advertising campaign promoting both Windows Mobile and the WindowsMobile.co.uk website. The Mini has a vivid green colour and the Windows Mobile swooshes on the roof and this ...

T-Mobile MDA Vario II – More shots

Here's the new T-Mobile MDA II. We've seen the real device already at CeBIT however these are the shots that'll be used to market the device to German customers very soon. You can get a full size picture of this here or this other shot. Our friends at...

Special Orange SPV C600 Handset Available

Over in the Netherlands Orange are keeping you on the cutting edge with the SupperClub. Yes, SupperClub. Not SuperClub. Here in the UK "Supper" is an evening meal, so you'd think a club for this sort of thing is just plain weird, however in the Nether...

Motorola Q Coming April .. ermm.. possibly..

Engadget Mobile have spotted this QUsers post linking to a promo page at Motorola for the much-anticipated Motorola Q handset. Now, this is where it gets a bit weird. There's this Motorola Q page that states it's "shipping soon" and then there's this ...

Get MSN Messenger on your Windows Mobile

UPDATE - Since writing this article various CAB files have appeared which will automatically install Windows Live Messenger for you. Download these, copy them to your phone and then RUN the CAB file on your device to install. Try here, here, here or h...

Mago Premium Smartphone

This is the Mago Premium Smartphone. It was designed by the Maslovdesign Studio for Mago Mobile, who appear to have their site redirected to some news-provider for mobile devices. According to sources, this should be out mid-2006 but there's a €3000...

T-Mobile Unlimited Browsing for £7.50 p/m – Confirmed

There were rumours, however it's now confirmed - T-Mobile are to launch a new Internet service on April 1st for £7.50 a month as an add-on to the already successful Relax and Flext tariffs. The unlimited web’n’walk means that e-mail, browsing and...