Author: Leigh Geary
Although this has been mentioned before this could feasibly work with other Smartphones like the Orange SPV C500 / C550 / C600 due to the placement of the Mini USB and audio ports. This iMate SP5m Music Dock is available from Brando.com.hk and will he...
Another excellent homescreen website for you today. This time it's JDSKins.com who've also now added a seperate section for QVGA screens like the C550 / C600 etc. Click here to browse and then get yourself a cool homescreen or a complete theme like th...
If you've received a nice spanky new Windows Mobile Smartphone for Christmas then you should definitely make sure that Kleinweder.ch is on your favourites list. Yes, I know I keep plugging the Kleinweder.ch website, but his homescreens are unbelievabl...
Here's an interesting story I spotted whilst browsing SmartPhoneThoughts. Blogger "Headworx" has himself an i-Mate SP5m which comes with WiFi on-board. One problem though is that you can't really run stuff like Skype on it as the current Smartphone ve...
Some lucky dude at Engadget has got his hands on the Sharp W-ZERO3 / WS003SH Pocket PC Phone. It looks a bit like a PSP and a darker-than-average screen. It's got a megapixel camera, a polished black finish and is bigger than the HTC Universal (M5000...
I'm currently vegging out in front of the TV for the regulatory New Years chill-out Day following one too many beers last night. I'd like to pass on my best wishes for a Happy New Year to all our visitors. 2006 is going to be a pretty massive …
It looks like Windows Mobile has scooped quite a few of the Total Mobile awards for 2006. Jasons blog has the details which reveals that... -Best GSM Mobile - Samsung SGH-i300. Runner-up - Orange SPV550 -Best Smartphone - o2 Exec. Runners-up - iMate J...
As we get closer to the biggest boozing night of the year it's good to hear that our friends at Astraware are having a 14-day long Hogmanay ! They'll be offering a different product every day with at least 50% off. Just click here from 8am to find …
Our friends at Boxwave have just launched this HTC Wizard cradle. The Wizard is known as the O2 XDA Mini, Orange SPV M3000, T-Mobile MDA Vario, Qtek 9100 and the i-mate K-JAM. If you'd like yours to sit up straight in it's own special holder then this...
Exclusive to our shop you'll find Jokers Quest 2 - Revenge of the Bosses. It's the second episode of the funny action strategy game set deep in an underwater world. There's excellent gameplay, graphics, sounds and stacks of levels to get through. Get ...
Engadget are reporting that the HTC Apache will be launched under the "Verizon XV6700" name on January 5th. You may remember that competitor Sprint launched the same thing as the PPC 6700 some months back. Although Verizon have a bit of catching-up to...
Free Xmas mpg/wmv videos! Yet more great stuf from the guys at SmartPhoneVideoPlus.com Band Aid 20 - Do They Know It's Christmas.mpg Bing-Crosby_White-Christmas.mpg BoSelectas_ProperCrimbo.wmv Cheeky-Girl...
The Orange SPV C600 is now available if you're upgrading here. However, we've spotted a strange thing. A lot of people have noticed that Orange Backup has vanished on the C600. According to the mails we've received it's been removed because the persis...
We're now running at well over 9 million hits per month according to the stats, which continues to rise month by month. I love doing this site because of the supportive and appreciative emails dropping into my inbox, so today I just wanted to say a ma...
If you're looking for a way to view Microsoft Office files on your Smartphone then ClearVue is the answer. ClearVue suite is now confirmed as being fully compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0, so owners of the Orange SPV C600 or Cingular 2125 can grab th...
If you're interested in getting the very latest podcasts onto your phone automatically then this new article from Eric will help you a great deal. With his advice you'll be able to sign up to the RSS syndication feed (like ours here) and get the newes...
The o2 XDA Exec handset has been issued with a software update which can be downloaded here. The update will change the hefty o2 Active user interface and disable error logging on the handset. This will upgrade your handset to v1.13.188 and is availab...
The Boxing-Day sales have started a little early over in our software shop but who are we to argue? Now is your chance to spend as little as 2 quid on a proper Smartphone or Pocket PC game (none of that Java download nonsense) here. So this Christmas,...
Oh shame, the ringtone provider behind the demon cartoon character from hell has been fined £40,000 by phone regulator "Icstis". The ruling which can be found here - states that.. "......following the receipt of consumer complaints by ICSTIS ... in...
Listeners to our podcast will already know about this, however now it's been confirmed. After the T-Mobile Vario and o2 XDA Mini comes the Vodafone VPA Compact II, which is showing on the German Vodafone site right now. It's got a slightly different k...
This is the Gigabyte g-Smart Pocket PC Phone with built-in TV and radio (not digital though), a 2.1 mega pixel camera, Windows Mobile 5.0, a free 256Mb MiniSD card, Bluetooth, WiFi AND Push Email! Although currently only available in Taiwan, it is at ...
The new version of Skype is now online and includes better language support, Windows Mobile 5.0 compatiblity, a wider range of displays, 3G, EDGE and WiFi compatility plus Voice Mail access. If you want to know more about Skype and how it works, read...
What better thing to do on a Friday than record a huge great Christmas Podcast! This is a big-ass mother of a Podcast, with news of the C600, Visto trouble, free games, the Samsung i300, the MDA Compact II, our reviews and me being raced by some dude …
I'm just wading through my email and stumbled across a link for the i-Mate SP5m at Smartphonethoughts. Here's a taster... "The i-mate SP5m is the first of its kind to hit the street; a Windows Mobile Smartphone with WiFi built-in! Don't be fooled by i...
At this time of year everyone loves free stuff, so what better than a free game? Quartz X-Mas is a free follow-up of the popular Quartz puzzle series. It's available here to download now for both high-res QVGA screens (C550/C600 etc) and regular scree...
I've had a few emails regarding the release of the Samsung i300 on o2. There's several Windows Mobile websites out there announcing that it's now available and people are asking why we haven't covered it. Well, erm.. we have. In fact it was almost 10 ...
It's all kicked off today in the "push email" arena. True "push email" is promised on Windows Mobile devices early in 2006, however a company called Visto have taken great exception to the technology being used by Microsoft to do this, saying that it ...
Do you want to feel a nice warm glow all over you whilst trying to get the latest Smartphone ? Well now you can thanks to a bunch of eBay auctions designed to raise money for Children in Need. Our friends at o2.co.uk and Samsung are flogging the …
We're getting into the Christmas spirit here at CoolSmartPhone. I've got the biggest possible Christmas tree to fit in the house, plus I got a bit drunk and fell over at the office party (not totally my fault) and then had to walk miles to get home. S...
The Register are reporting the launch of the Mio A201 GPS-ready Pocket PC device. Although slightly larger it does have a flap and swivel GPS unit so that you can use the sat-nav display in any orientation you please. It also comes with the SiRFStar I...
So we've already mentioned that the Orange SPV C600 is on sale here in the UK, plus we've reviewed it too. Well, today you can now also get the American cousin of the SPV C600 in the shape of the Cingular 2125. The "bulgy version" is now on …
The much-praised mobile photo-blogging service at AtomicLava.net is to close its doors. In a statement James and the team said..."I regret to inform you that the service will be shutting down in the New Year. Its been a fun ride over the last 2 years;...
Many thanks to everyone emailing in to inform us that the Orange SPV C600 is now available to buy on the Orange Shop. The price? FREE! Yep, on selected packages you can get this Windows Mobile 5.0 handset for absolutely nothing! Don't forget that we'r...
Engadget have some info and HowardForums have lots of pictures of a "new" device from HP. The HTC Feeler - seen out as the new T-Mobile SDA / iMate SP3i amongst other names - is to be badged as the "iPAQ SmartPhone rw4500". This device should have the...
This afternoon I took a trip across to Russia, wait.. perhaps it was a disused military base in the UK. Either way, I found this RoverPC M1 Smartphone. It's even got a "Çåðêàëî äëÿ àâòîïîðòðåòíîé ñú¸ìêè", which I think is...
You may have read a bit of news from webmasters who were invited to the Mobius thing in the USA about Photon. Photon is the code-name for the next version of Windows Mobile. Although I wasn't there, I've already had a look at "what it might look like"...
Hey guys. Remember how I said, "The Orange SPV C600 review will be online by Monday". Well, I never said it would necessarily be last Monday did I ? :) You can now find the full review, with up-close photos, screen shots, animated GIFs, example camera...
OK so first up today a bit of bad news. I'm sure you'll all remember our campaign to try and get the Orange SPV M3000 released on Orange UK. o2 are releasing it as the XDA Mini and T-Mobile let us borrow one in the shape of the …
This Verizon page is now online showing the Treo 700w. Although not yet available, you can sign up to know when it is. Treo, you may remember, dipped their toes into the Windows Mobile platform and this 700w is the result. MSMobiles are reporting that...
Now, there was me thinking T-Mobile were joking when they said, "Hey, you'll love what we've got coming next - it's a Pink MDA Compact II!!" Aha.. no, it really is bright pink. Aimed directly at female and pink-pound customers this Windows Mobile 5.0 ...
