Author: Leigh Geary
In our continuing mission to keep you informed on the latest Windows Mobile handsets we've managed to get hold of an Orange SPV M600 for the next few days. I've had stacks of emails about this one and I'll be working on a full review as soon as …
You may remember we covered the SlingBox Windows Media Player before. Simply put, it lets you watch and control your TV and decoder boxes from any web-enabled device and now from your Windows Mobile Pocket PC or Smartphone too. Unlike Orb, which lets ...
Orange have today announced a new low cost deployment tool to make roll-outs of push-email a whole lot easier and quicker. From April 3rd business customers will not only be able to use the push email solution provided with Windows Mobile® 5.0 for Di...
Owners of this (imate SP5m) and the imate SP5 (HTC Tornado) will be glad to hear that the push email update is now available. Download the new 2.6.331.2 version here. There's many other extras in this update too, including file beaming over Bluetooth ...
In an attempt to make this site more orderly, I'll be introducing some more categories to the news and articles section. The first new one is "Fun Time Friday", which is our weekly slice of video goodness. This now has it's very own section within our...
I've had about 2000 emails (ok, slight exaggeration) asking just how to set up the new whizzy push-email functionality after the Orange SPV C600 and Orange SPV M5000 Updates. Well, there's a rather excellent guide here at HTCClub.net. It's not quite t...
A little tip for those of you who have an Orange SPV C600 and would like to application unlock it. Now, normally you can just go through the Orange Developers site however it's not recognising my IMEI for some reason. I even downloaded their suggested...
MobileMag are reporting that Microsoft are working on a SIP-enabled VoIP dialer for Windows Mobile 5. Apparently "a trusted source familiar with the inner workings" of Microsoft has been speaking to them about the move. If true, this would let you mak...
Unfortunately with a site of this size it's sometimes a little difficult to continually.. Errmm.. How do they say.. "monetize" it, however I did promise myself that I'd at least test those "flashy banner"-type ads you (used to) see on the side panels ...
For those of you lucky enough to have a device with the new hi-resolution QVGA screen (like the Orange SPV C550, C600, Cingular 2125 etc) then you're probably one of many people saying, "Hey, sometimes when I buy / download a game it comes out all sma...
More good news for you on this St. Patrick's Day - the M5000 DirectPush AKU2 update has just been published on the Orange website. Click here to get it plus more detail. Orange say of the update... "As part of our commitment to enable Customers to get...
If you're ever in the need of a encyclopedia when you're on the move, when not try typing in http://www.3g.co.nz/wiki into your device to get a mobile version of the huge Wikipedia.org site. New Zealand-based company "Instinct" have developed this por...
Makayama have today announced a new version of their DVD to Smartphone product which, as the name suggests, converts whole DVD's down so that they can be viewed on your Smartphone direct from the memory card. Now called "Smartphone Media Studio", this...
The brilliant Virtual Pool Mobile has been given the full hi-res QVGA treatment and is now Windows Mobile 5.0 compatible. This pool simulation is so real it's almost guaranteed to improve your game in the pool hall with an intuitive interface allowing...
Wouter at PocketInfo.nl has posted an extensive review on the HTC Star Trek handset, which is shortly to be sold as the i-Mate Smartflip and Qtek 8500. It's one of our most talked about handsets and we love the look of it. The PocketInfo article (mach...
The guys at NewMobile.com have just published this very interesting story detailing the Windows Mobile handsets shown at industry event CeBIT. They've got lots of very interesting detail which I've not seen elsewhere. The Qtek 8500 was on show, which ...
MoDaCo have this secret shot of the upcoming HTC Breeze, the 3G handset will run Windows Mobile 5.0 however from that we really don't know that much apart from what you can see here. Oh, and that on the right is the new HTC Star Trek that we've …
We've now got the promised push-email update for the HTC Wizard in the form of the QTek 9100 AKU2 update and the HTC Universal with the i-Mate JasJar one. But what of that Orange SPV C600 update? Well, it's here that I'd like to ask you guys a …
I had an email today from Ollie. His email was short - "Check out Orb.com. It's a neat piece of software" So I did.. and by god it's fantastic. Seriously - this is excellent. I always score things on basic principles - 1 - Does it install and …
I've just had a quick look at a site called Pod2Mob.com. In fact, I gave it a try on Thursday night when I got stuck in a traffic jam for over an hour. All I did was browse to the mobile version of the site on my phone …
WiFi ? On a bus? Yes, it's now possible on National Express coaches on the SH010 service from Cambridge and London. Working via a 3G connection, which then feeds into a WiFi access point. The WiFi access is included in the ticket price, so you can gra...
PhoneThemes have just announced their first ever animated themes for the PocketPC on Windows Mobile 5.0. You may remember that PhoneThemes showed this off when Bill Gates announced Windows Mobile 5.0 in his keynote speech in MEDC 2005. Plus there's g...
Steve Litchfield has just put his sixth Smartphones Show online. It includes a review of the QTek 8300 music phone and a beginners' guide to using more than one application at once on both Windows Mobile and Symbian handsets. Get the latest episode, p...
Yet more games for you today, this time it's Meteor by Mobile Stream. It'll make use of your entire hi-res QVGA screen plus it'll work a treat on every other Windows Mobile out there too. There's 90 - count them - 90 levels, smart fullscreen graphics,...
We've managed to get a great deal for you guys on the excellent GPrime Xtreme. Right now you can get 10% off the price of our exclusive CoolSmartPhone Edition just by quoting the promotion code of "XTREMECOOL" at the checkout. Give it a try here - bla...
Remember the Tatung M1 we covered earlier? It's had FCC approval and was being shown just a month ago at 3GSM. Well it's been binned and they've instead moved the keyboard around a bit and called it the Tatung M1A. It'll get rebranded though as variou...
The guys at Orneta have unveiled a new beta program designed to help power users preview upcoming Orneta releases. The Orneta Beta Program currently offers six pre-release products including Biorhythm Mobile, Calculator Mobile, Checkers Mobile, Notepa...
Engadget have some real-life shots of the Samsung SGH-i310. It's similar in design to the Samsung SGH-i300 that's currently on sale at o2 however the i310 has an 8Gb HD on board. That same design style has also been continued with the SCH-B600 10 Mega...
VITO have announced their AudioPlayer for both Smartphone and Pocket PC. This software will play all your MP3 files and it has Bass Boost and loads of different "play modes" including single file, current folder, current folder and all subfolders and ...
Engadget.com have got close-up pictures of the new T-Mobile MDA Vario II. "What!?", I hear you cry, "We've only just got the T-Mobile MDA 1!"Well yes, that's true. The USA only got the MDA (1) last month, however this new one is currently only slated ...
It's now available to download here! This will bring the push email facilities promised by Microsoft. It's a whacking 34.5Mb download called "c600_mail.exe" from the Orange Business site and brings your handset up to version 11.2.1.5. Orange state... ...
BenQ have announced this - the BenQ P51. Hmm.. it looks a lot like the P50 doesn't it? You may remember that the P50 recently had a rebrand and a few tweaks (including adding Windows Mobile 5.0) in order to be sold as the AnexTEK SP310. Now it …
Our mates at NewMobile.com have got news on a new handset from Samsung. This is the i310 and comes with an 8Gb hard drive. Samsung are really throwing the punches at the moment. Their Samsung i320 QWERTY phone is already thinner and smaller than the M...
Despite heavily misleading marketing campaigns from certain ISP's saying that "8Meg broadband is now available", it's not and it hasn't been. It will however be possible to get 8Mbit/s broadband from the end of this month providing your pretty close t...
Dipesh has just emailed me about the saga of the push email updates that are missing the stereo-over-bluetooth capability promised by A2DP. Dipesh says.. "I have been using the leaked ROM on my T-Mobile Vario for the last 2 weeks and I can confirm tha...
Way back in the day I remember playing a very similar game to this on my Amiga, however it's now available in the form of Atomic Cannon which is now available to download for the Smartphone here (full screen for WM5.0 handsets too!) or Pocket PC here....
Avvenu is an award winning free service that enables you to remotely access your computers from your smartphone or any internet-connected device. You can now download version 1.2 from our downloads section or from Avvenu directly. Once installed you c...
As you may know, iMate have now announced the ROM Update for the iMate K-JAM, which is also known as the T-Mobile MDA Vario or the O2 XDA Mini S. The good news is that, yes, push email is here and it's in the iMate update. Unfortunately it …
News today from industry analysts Gartner about the state of the mobile industry. Nokia is still the biggest hitter with a growth of 21% - selling 816 million devices. More and more sales in Western Europe and North America, where many sales are repla...
Here in the UK our major telecommunications company is still BT. Soon they will be spending more than £10 billion to roll out 21CN - the 21st Century Network. Yes, you heard right - £10 BILLION. BT make a yearly profit of around £1 billion, so you ...
