Author: Leigh Geary
kleinweder, the Smartphone home-skin master, is about to break the 100 home-screen barrier. Kleinweder is responsible for some of the greatest and best designed home-screens on the internet and bow he's even added an instructions page so you guys know...
MSMobiles.com have some shots here of the Samsung SCH-i730 Pocket PC phone. It'll have a slide-up QWERTY keyboard (by the way, I typed in "QWERTY" incorrectly about three times before getting it right.. how can that happen?!?!), and it'll run on CDMA ...
It's the SDA isn't it ? Well, yeah.. but it's called the SDA Eurotel.. for now. Seen here it'll probably soon be named the T-Mobile SDA anyway as EuroTel Slovakia will soon be known as T-mobile Slovakia. Janci, who emailed me about this, also mentione...
There's an update for QTek 8010 owners here at QTek.nu. According to the site... "This update is only for Swedish sold Qtek 8010 with software version 1.2.32.11. To check what version you have press Start>Settings>About, you find the information unde...
kl1wdr has posted an item on German super-forum MobileJoe.de about the arrival of the Motorola MPx220 in Switzerland. He's taken some pictures of it in the shop here. The MPx220 has had it's share of issues, which hopefully have been resolved now. The...
Over the next few days and weeks I'm going to be undertaking what'll probably be the biggest change for this website in it's history. This is an absolutely monolithic task and I may be a bit slow in replying to emails from you guys, for which I apolog...
Looks like the Windows Mobile phone is going 3G. A CDMA-based (3G, basically) Samsung i645 appeared this week at CES in Las Vegas. Powered by Windows Mobile 2003 Section edition, this handset also has a built-in 1.0 Megapixel camera. Full details can ...
Unforunately this article has been removed following an email from Microsoft. CoolSmartPhone is unhappy at this decision, as many, many other websites around the planet have the details still on line. We feel like it is like shutting the gate after th...
So, what am I to do ? It would appear that Microsoft are to phase out the "Pocket PC" and "Smartphone" brands, and instead head into "Windows Mobile" territory. But what does this mean? Will I need to rename the site.. ? CoolWindowsMobilePhone.com ? S...
ActiveSync has always been the tool Smartphone users use for linking their phone to their PC. It synchronises your data, your contacts, your inbox and calendar plus much more. Microsoft have now released the next version of ActiveSync, predictably cal...
At CES (Consumer Electronics Show, it's a gadget show in Las Vegas), Bill Gates made his keynote speech. It heavily emphasised the Windows Media experience and the wide range of devices and places that support it. For the Smartphone section, Bill used...
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cingular Wireless and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT - News) today announced that they plan to make the powerful experience familiar on desktops available to users through more Windows Mobile(TM)-based device...
Tomas in Prague has emailed in about the infamous HTC Typhoon, which is now selling on Czech provider Eurotel here. It'll be known this time as the Eurotel Smartphone II, and it adds yet another alias to the probably the most successful Windows Powere...
We've already raved about Dr. Neil's SMS Sender and Tools previously, and now a new spangly version of the much-improved SMSUtils application is now available for download from www.smartphone.roodyn.com here. This version fixes a number of known issu...
Some people (who I must give full credit to for sending this in, but I don't have everyones' email to hand), including Richard Norris and others, have mentioned that they found it difficult to connect the TomTom GPS box to their C500. This is only the...
The SmartJacking application offers users the convenience of using Bluetooth-enabled Microsoft OS Smartphone to find new contacts, communicate over small distances, and share information related to their business. SmartJacking works as follows: your p...
Hey look ! It's an SPV C500! Ermm... no, sorry, it's an Audiovox SMT 5600! .. oh, no.. wait.. it's erm.. yes, another name for the HTC Typhoon ! Although this new came out a couple of months ago it's worthy of a front page story. So this …
I'm joining pretty much every other Smartphone website by adding my support, publicity and money toward the Tsunami Fund which is being handled by the Disasters Emergency Committee. The DEC consists of many agencies, including the British Red Cross, O...
It was quite an eventful Christmas this year, and I want to thank all of you who sent emails following my car accident on Boxing Day. Yes, I am alright - just a tad shook up because no-one had bothered gritting and I completely lost all control. The …
Looks like T-Mobile UK are playing Santa Claus and dropping something nice into your stockings. Yes, the excellent T-Mobile SDA is most definitely coming to the UK very very soon. Check out this T-Mobile UK page for information. Although it doesn't gi...
Christmas time and another year is almost done. This is the point where a lot of sites do a "year in review" thing - however I couldn't be arsed so I'm here instead to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. :) 2004 …
Orange have become the first UK network to reach 14 Million active customers. Orange, measuring with their own strict guidelines, have only counted those customers who've used their Orange phone in the last three months. This means that a quarter of t...
In my recent TomTom Mobile Review I neglected to mention a rather excellent add-in feature which comes courtesy of the guys at PocketGPSWorld.com. This feature is basically to add in Speed Camera locations. Ber-loody excellent! Here in the UK we are p...
Skweezer is an excellent and now completely free web service that greatly improves browsing the web on small-screen mobile devices such as the Windows Smartphone. Skweezer dynamically reformats web content of any website and makes it look good when yo...
One week is a long time off when you're running a site like this. I'm well behind with my emails (I will reply!), and there's tonnes of news and file submissions to go through yet. Many thanks for all this! While I was off getting drunk with the …
It´s great to see that both Atlantis Redux Episode 1 and 2 are now bundled together and available at at stupidly low price of £3.57 (or €5.18). This means you can now get both episodes and progress even further into this excellent story for the ...
Well, here I am, sat in a sweaty web cafe with a funny-looking keyboard... all the damned symbols are in the wrong place! Aggh!! Good news travels quick though, and it would appear that the MPx220 is now available fully in the USA on Cingular.com. Th...
OK, I'm off now on hols. I'll be back next Sunday evening (19th December), all ready to hit the Christmas and New Year festivities full on. In the meantime, if I do pop across a web-cafe I'll update you guys with the latest Smartphone news and info. O...
OK, so it's not quite ready - I need to polish it off tomorrow (Friday 10th December) and I'll have it ready by about 9PM. However, I'm tired and I've been typing for hours on it! :) Click here for my review complete with pictures and an example …
Mozilla are now targetting the mobile phone market according to this ZDNet article. Their mini-browser, called Minimo (which is the slimmed-down Mozilla browser) is hoped to speed browsing up on mobile phones. Doug Turner, the project leader of Minim...
It's just been announced that the Orange SPV C500 (which is available elsewhere under the guise of the SMT 5600, Dopod 565, iMate SP3, TSM 520 etc) has won an award as most indispensable mobile of 2004 by Tech Digest. Find more details here at Tech Di...
There's a lot of chatter about this Beta Macromedia Flash player for the Smartphone right now. It's got the guys at MoDaCo talking quite a bit and they're even developing add-ons to allow you to zoom in on the flash files, like the excellent Flashhack...
The following contain direct links to the FREE Smartphone Videos - which you can use :)As it's Christmas time - enjoy these - FREE XMAS Smartphone Videos!Band Aid 20 - Do They Know It's ChristmasBing-Crosby_White-Christmas.mpgBoSelectas_ProperCrimbo.w...
Fizz Traveller 2.0 - Smartphone - New ReleaseVoted Best “Designed for Windows Mobile™” Application 2004 Welcome to the award winning Fizz Traveller 2.0 Your feature packed travel mate. Some of the best weather forecasts ever seen on a Microsoft ...
How's about this for a bit of theft? Yes, according to the Celluloco.com website... "Celluloco.com has compiled a few trendy "skins" (home screen savers) for your smartphone on this freebee page dedicated to all of those who have purchase smartphones...
I've lost count now.. I think about 700 people have asked, "when is the Motorola MPx coming?". Well, the short answer is.. dunno. Soon. Crap answer isn't it? "Soon mate". However, it could be "very soon" now because the FCC have now given it their st...
Neil just emailed me about the Orange Paper Film festival. It's a very interesting idea where you download paper chararacters (y'know, those characters from the Orange adverts) and backdrops, then film the characters on your phone and send them in! Th...
Benn has emailed in with a very interesting and valid point. DVD to Smartphone, which we've raved about here already is on sale for a mere £12.99 ($24.99 / €18.82) in our shop here. However, the Orange software shop, run by Handango. are selling ...
Voq Professional Phone™ makes its Canadian debut Cellcom Wireless and Uptown Communication House work with Sierra Wireless to deliver the Voq Professional Phone to the Canadian market. Sierra Wireless announced that the Voq Professional P...
CoolSmartPhone can exclusively announce that the author of SmartNotes (Mark Davison) is seeking a buyer to continue development of this application. The successful purchaser will get: - The full source code for the application (VB)- The full customer ...
