Author: Leigh Geary
MobileTechReview have had a look at the upcoming Pocket PC phones that'll hopefully be appearing very soon. Running Windows Mobile, these handsets include the Samsung i730, HP Mobile Messenger, MDA IV, ASUS P505 (looks a lot like the P900), Benq P50 a...
CoPilot® Live is basically door-to-door navigation via satellite from the guys at ALK Technologies. From today it'll be available as a bundle with the T-Mobile MDA Compact and SDA! The CoPilot® Live satellite navigation system transforms both the T...
CoolSmartPhone.com is, as you may know, based in the UK. However, I'm keen to include everyone, and so today I'm proud to announce the launch of the CoolSmartPhone USA Shop! Built and maintained by MobilePlanet, this shop includes the popular iMate JA...
Slightly off-topic this, but interesting none-the-less. Today Bill Gates attended Buckingham Palace to receive his honorary knighthood. The title of "Sir" isn't allowed though as he's not a British Citizen, however he will be able to use the letters K...
The 3G SPV that we've featured here should be out later this year. Umm.. I think. See, to be honest I'm not sure because I've had a sneaky look at the device road-map for Orange in 2005 and it mentions that... "A Windows Mobile-based 3G phone will al...
Seagate recently announced that it is shipping the highest capacity one inch hard drive available, with a capacity of 6 gigabytes. The drive is projected to be able to store 150 hours of music, or about 3 000 songs at 128kbps. Expect a 6GB iPod mini ...
The excellent Orange SPV C500 now comes free on certain plans, plus you'll get yourself this free Bluetooth headset if you take a plan which costs £30 or more per month. Now that's a bargain! :) Click here to learn more.
There's still some confusion over whether the SPV C550 we revealed last week will be 3G compatible. Although it would appear to be listed as a 3G handset there's no mention of video calling and there's no inwardly-facing camera, so you'd be unable to ...
It seems CoolSmartPhone is in the news itself, albeit only on the web. As an IT type person myself, I regularly trawl a number of sites aimed at like-minded profesionals. One such site is www.TheRegister.com, who are highly regarded as a source of new...
I've chatted to Joe from MobileJoe.de in the past and he's always been very complimentary about T-Mobile Germany and the support they've given him. T-Mobile were always keen to show the latest Windows Mobile Phones and get as many developers and custo...
I had an email about an hour ago from an anonymous source with this picture attached. Now, being the trained journalist I am (!), I've decided to post this picture without checking anything out first. I've decided to do this just in case this all work...
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I've just added a couple of nice applications from EdgeQ to our downloads section. The first free beta is called TrafficEdge and gives you up-to-the-minute traffic info for parts of the USA. It even includes traffic camera images so you can steer clea...
Fizz Software have announced today a new update to their excellent Fizz Traveller for Smartphone. You can get the latest version now, which is a 5 day trial, but if you're a traveller this is worth a go. The latest version is 2.1 and features.....
Oh dear, flamboyant Stelios, head-honcho at the "easy" empire, has landed himself in a bit of doo-doo with Orange. Only last week Stelios announced his new easyMobile service with T-Mobile. Stelios, who's always keen on protecting his "easy" brand nev...
MoDaCo have picked up this iDNES.cz story showing the new Newgen D2000W. If you don't want to translate, try visiting the NewGenTel.com site itself here and have a butchers. It's a slide-design and looks very nice indeed. It comes with a very quick In...
The T-Mobile SDA and MDA Compact are now available to buy direct from the T-Mobile UK Website. SDA prices start from a crazy £19.99 (on the Relax 400 plan) and MDA Compact prices start from £119.99. T-Mobile have given both devices a "5 star" rating...
There's a presentation and live demo on how to build and deploy applications on Microsoft mobile devices at Kingston University, Kingston Upon Thames in Surrey. It takes place on February 22nd 2005 and is a completely free open lecture. Places are lim...
MSMobiles.com have got themselves a sneak peek at the very early stages of a Samsung Smartphone. In the pictures here you can see the "demo board" - this is basically the insides of a phone, but not quite squashed up enough to fit into a case just yet...
Orange have announced a massive rollout of EDGE in France and aim to cover the entire country with EDGE, 3G and WiFi by the end of 2006. EDGE, for those who don't know, is like GPRS on drugs. EDGE will enhance the number of bits that can be …
Here's two new homescreen skins from kl1wd. The first, called BlueSky and features the MSN butterfly. The second, strangely called IamRunningOutOfNames and features the Windows Mobile logo. Get both of these by clicking the links below.... - BlueSky...
A New Ring to Outdoor Safety and Navigation Turn Your Windows Mobile Smartphone into an Outdoor Atlas 60,000 Off-Road Maps and Boating Charts for only $20! Maptech, Amesbury, MA – Some of us plan our outdoor escapes while others like to wing it...
So, we reported already on the PhoneThemes.com story, we showed you how animated homescreens were indeed possible. However, they've not released their work fully as yet. Step forward Madbeetle, who've generated their own homescreen plug-in for the Win...
Looks like Microsoft and Orange are teaming up to offer those interested in Exchange Server 2003 up to 3 Orange SPV C500's on a trial-basis for a month. Details on this offer can be found at the bottom of this Microsoft.com page. Here's some highlight...
Looks like TomTom have released a new version of their excellent TomTom Mobile, which we reviewed here earlier. The improvements are fantastic - TomTom Mobile 5 now has full compatibilty with the Orange SPV C500 (I presume they're selling it on MiniSD...
Damn this is good. Check out the killer 3D game, Flux Challenge from the guys at PDAMill, who brought us excellent Smartphone games such as Anthelion, the Gamebox series and the stunning Snails. You can pick up Flux Challenge for £5.26 ($9.95 | €7....
Our friends at MobyMemory.com have recently cut prices across the entire range of mini-SD cards to the following, with the 1GB cards now under £100 mark!: 1GB mini-SD - £99.99512MB mini-SD - £39.99256MB mini-SD - £20.99128Mb mini-SD - £12.99 Moby...
The T-Mobile SDA started appearing in T-Mobile shops recently, however I haven't heard much from those who've managed to bag themselves one of these devices. So, if you have one, let me know what you think! I'm also interested in receiving reviews of ...
Just a quick note about the mobile version of CoolSmartPhone.com (click here to see). As you may or may not know, when you browse to ... http://www.coolsmartphone.com ...on any device, the site will do some magic and will automatically detect whether ...
Right, so - you remember this InfoSyncWorld.com article from last week? This Windows Mobile Powered T-Mobile MDA IV offers GSM, GPRS, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi AND 3G - yes, 3G. It's apparently also to be badged under the Orange SPV range too. Some thought ...
This Monday morning at around 8AM UK time (GMT / UTC), CoolSmartPhone will be off-line for around 15 minutes while a core network switch is upgraded. Don't worry if you can't see us! We will be back within quarter of an hour! :) I have also added a …
A tiny little outfit calling themselves "Nokia" (never heard of them, have you?) may well be getting the mobile Windows Media Player on their devices very soon, according to this Nokia press release. In it, music delivery solution "Loudeye" is used in...
In this MySan.de article it's revealed that BenQ will be shipping the Handango InHand intelligent download client on its P30 (Symbian Smartphone) and P50 (Windows Mobile for Pocket PC) smartphones. This announcement is one of many occuring today at 3G...
Looks like Microsoft is aiming to get even more phones running its' Windows Mobile OS. In this ZDNet.co.uk story, from the 3GSM World Congress event, it was annouced that Microsoft are to use the Peabody platform. More info below ... "3GSM: Microsof...
Rey J Vegafria, owner and webmaster of the excellent Airfagev.com site has emailed in to tell us about his new funky site design. Airfagev.com is the place to go if you've got a Smartphone in the Philippines and Rey is always ready to help. He holds e...
Download Trailer ClickGamer Exclusive!Episode 3 For WM Smartphone And Symbian 2020. Hoggar desert - A young archeologist searches for the existence of a metropolis built, according to myth and legend, by the ancient Egyptian...
We've seen a glut of new Windows Mobile Devices recently. News about the MPx220 coming to Vodafone, then there's the 3G T-Mobile MDA IV plus the M500 too! It's been a busy week. However, now MoDaCo have news on the next Pocket PC Phone from Orange, th...
In this Register story there's plenty of info about the way things are developing in the Smartphone arena. While some, like the Microsoft Smartphones (C500 / SMT 5600) are getting smaller and smaller by the day, other smartphones are in fact getting l...
MoDaCo have been running a poll - a very worthy poll too. They're trying to get a UK network to come up with a £10 per month with an Acceptable Use Limit of 100MB per month GPRS plan. Now unfortunately they only want it to be available to …
If you live in Swindon, pop down to the T-Mobile shop at 57 The Parade (or call them on 01793 533888). Why ? Well, they've got some of these... Our "mole" (hiya Alun) has had a play with it and says.. "Bearing in mind it's a brand new …
