Author: Leigh Geary
Tomorrow (Monday) marks the start of a big mobile phone show in Barcelona. 3GSM is a chance for operators, networks and manufacturers to show off their products and services usually for the first time and it's always the place to look for hot new stuf...
This, as we all know by now, is the Orange SPV C550. Except... err.. it's not. This is actually the O2 XDA phone, now available in Germany here and loaded with Windows Mobile 5.0, a megapixel camera and bluetooth. This at least is evidence that the Or...
PocketInfo.nl have just emailed about their exclusive first shots of the i-Mate Smartflip, which is said to be based on the HTC Star Trek handset we got a glimpse of last October. According to this PocketInfo story it'll be running Windows Mobile 5.0 ...
The European Regulators are set to stamp down on mobile roaming charges. The commisioner in charge - Viviane Reding (right) - stated that they have long been concerned with the cost and complexity of international roaming charges and have admitted tha...
Whilst browsing around NewMobile.nl I found this Orange SPV M600 .. now doesn't that look like an HTC Prophet to you? Why I think it is! You may have already seen this as the Dopod 818 Pro / iMate JAMin. Let's see... 2.0 Megapixel camera? Check. WiFi?...
Steve Fossett is currently at the controls of the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer in order to set the record for the longest flight of all time. He's attemting to fly over 700 miles further than any aircraft or balloon has flown. Conchango are the Web Mi...
NewMobile.nl has always been one of my most checked websites. It contains a mountain of mobile phones, comparisons and photos of all the latest devices. Now it's even better because their English version is online at newmobile.com. If you're ever conf...
One thing that slipped through my net recently was the launch of EDGE in the UK on Orange. This is great news for those of you with EDGE compatible handsets (like the Orange SPV C600) however it still doesn't signal the release of the Orange SPV M3000...
Our friends at Phonethemes.com have published news of a case study into the development work required to produce WM5.0 applications. This follows last year's presentation of the PhoneThemes PocketPC media player by Bill Gates as he launched Windows Mo...
It looks like the Cingular 8125 we mentioned some months back has now launched in the USA. According to MobileMag it's currently... "...only offered to Cingular’s Business 2 Business partners, so for the average consumer, it is still just a bit out ...
Steve Litchfield has just published his fourth Smartphones Show which is available here and features a full video review of the Windows Mobile powered i-Mate SP5. His next show should feature the QTek 8300 music smartphone, so it's well worth keeping ...
I'm a big fan of VoIP however I feel that the existing peer-to-peer clients like Skype don't tell the whole story. Today a company called iC-Talk have announced the launch of their revolutionary business-class telephone solution. This is pure VoIP and...
MoDaCo mentioned this Eye On Call (PhoneSharp) software today so I decided to give it a bash. The software is delivered as a Zip file so you have to copy the contents across to your phone. When you initially run it you'll need to start "Loader.exe" an...
Back when PCs were the same speed as your Windows Mobile phone everyone was "overclocking" their CPU's. For the unaware Wikipedia states that overclocking is.... "Making a computer component run at a higher clock speed than the manufacturer's specific...
Owen from MSMobileNews has emailed in about a rather interesting issue. He's gone into Start-> Settings-> Security-> Certificates-> Root and found that the "GTE CyberTrust Root" one is due to expire in just a couple of weeks time. We're not 100% sure ...
I've added a review of the baby pink T-Mobile MDA Compact II. It's also available in a graphite colour too, so have a read if you're in the market for a tiny Pocket PC. The handset comes with a megapixel camera, Windows Mobile 5.0, 128MB of memory plu...
When you read stories of mobile phone masts being pulled down by concerned local residents it is usually due to the fact that they're fairly big, fairly visible and right next to a school or local houses. Some may question the anger. I myself remember...
Last month there were lots of news stories coming out of telecoms show "CES", however you may have missed one rather surprising announcement. Unbelievable yet true, the DECT standard has only just been approved in the USA. Approved late last year by t...
Spotted here at MSMobiles is something that looks quite familiar. O2 MediaPlus is an application that comes with the XDA Atom and gives us a interesting view of how the Windows Media Center interface style can be used on portable devices. You can see ...
More bad news for travellers today after this story highlighted the case of Joanne Lancaster. After getting the flu whilst on holiday Joanne decided to check a few film trailers on her Orange phone. Unfortunately, because she was in the French Alps, s...
Tom Baker has been brought in as the new voice of BT's text-messaging system. Now, when you send a text message to any landline in the UK, the recipient will hear the voice of Little Britain speaking back to them. The new system is much clearer and le...
OK so it's Monday and I've had a nightmare choosing winners! We've had Stuey Roscoe sending in pictures of girls, girls and yet more girls. We've had Lee Sainsbury freezing his phone to make a real "CoolSmartPhone", weird car accidents from Jonathan H...
This is the E-Ten G500. It's a Quad-band Windows Mobile 5.0 handset with a GPS SiRF Star III, MiniSD slot and a 400Mhz Samsung CPU. This is the first Pocket PC Phone from E-TEN to have fully integrated GPS capabilities. There's also a 1.3 Megapixel ca...
These two handsets are familiar to us already on many different networks, however we have it on very good authority that Vodafone are ready to release these in the UK. The HTC Universal (aka o2 XDA Exec / SPV M5000 etc) will be called the Vodafone v16...
OK, so it is Sunday and I did tell you guys that I'd have a winner for you yesterday, however I've been completely snowed under with entries. Right now I'm just finishing the upload of the photos that have been sent in and I'll have a winner for …
Following their Hogmanay Party Astraware are once again giving away stuff - this time it's up to $10 (£5.61) off games starting on January 30th. Astraware are starting their 'Enhance Your Lifestyle' promotion on January 30th and will be slashing pric...
Here's a lovely shot from a CCTV camera of a gang of youths attacking a homeless man. The gang were all eventually locked up, however they probably would've got away with it if the guy they attacked earlier in the night hadn't have died from his injur...
The guys at VITO Technology have released TaskSwitcher for Windows Mobile Smartphones. TaskSwitcher is already well-known on the Pocket PC and lets you switch easily between running tasks or stop them from a pop-up list. It's so simple to use - you ju...
Don't forget that time is running out if you want to be in with a chance of winning an Orange SPV C550 or a music dock. Here's the entries we have so far - we've had over 125 and they're fantastic!! Some of them just go to show …
If you've got Pocket Mini Golf 2 then you'll be pleased to know that there's yet another excellent expansion pack now available. Future City, available here, is now selling for the Pocket PC and Smartphone and comes with... - 18 New Futuristic Holes (...
MSMobileNews have spotted that Woize now has a client available for the Smartphone. Woize is a bit like Skype in that it'll let you make lots of calls for very little money. There's also a version of the software for Pocket PC too (seen here) which le...
o2 Germany have announced the o2 XDA Neo which will appear at Cebit in March. Based on the HTC Prophet (selling as the iMate JAMin & Dopod 818 Pro too) the device has Windows Mobile 5.0, Quad-band GSM/GPRS, 802.11b/g WiFi, 128 Mb of RAM and ROM and a …
Engadget are reporting that the T-Mobile SDA (HTC Tornado) and T-Mobile MDA (Vario - HTC Wizard) will be appearing in the USA early next month. Following our previous story the guys at Engadget say that the humpy SDA will come out on February 13th cos...
The Palm Treo 700w and the Motorola Q have received quite a bit of media attention recently with the Moto Q getting yet more rumours of cancellations. For the Palm Treo it's another fairly bumpy review here at MobileWhack.com. They've come to a simila...
Podcast number 18 is now online here. As you know by now I record these whilst driving home from work. I had to do this podcast twice because some muppet decided it'd be a great idea to try and join the M6 at 20mph on the slip-road. When …
Yet more evidence emerged today that "Happy Slapping" will just get you into sertious trouble. How the term "Happy Slapping" came about I'll never actually know. It's like "Joyriding", it's gonna get you banged up for a very long time. Case in point t...
Nearly forgot this one. T-Mobile have announced that the USA will be getting the T-Mobile MDA (the Vario) and the SDA... with a hump (a hump, a hump, a lovely lady lump, check it out) added. If you're in America this is extremely good news. T-Mobile s...
We've received quite a few entries to our mad competition where we're giving away a spanky new music dock. As I said previously I'm going to be adding to the prizes, so what better to go with a music dock than an Orange SPV C550 !?! Yes this …
The guys at e-fuze have contacted me about their company. They're an emerging Canadian company in Toronto and strive to produce high-end powerful mobile devices. They're encouraging you guys to sign up to their forum here and tell them what you're aft...
Today around town we popped into the Orange and o2 shops to look at some possible upgrade handsets for Em. Despite my advice (as if she listens!), handsets like the Samsung D600 and the Motorola PEBL attracted her more than the Windows Mobile handsets...
