Author: Leigh Geary
That HTC built Typhoon gets around more than Jordan at the minute. It's already known as the Orange SPV C500, the Audiovox SMT 5600, the Dopod 565, iMate etc etc etc.. now, now it's got yet another badge on it and yet another name - this time in …
The price of Smartnotes, which is an excellent utility which enables you to create / edit notes on your PC, then access them via the Programs menu on your phone, has now dropped to just $10 - that's about £5.18. Check the link below for screen sho...
The Pocket PC Phone Orange SPV M2000 was officially launched today by Orange. It's built again by HTC (the "HTC Blue Angel") and is also known as MDA III, O2 XDA IIs and iMate PDA2K. It's got a slide-out keyboard and a while lot more. The full press …
Doah! Think you're having a bad day ? Well, at least you're not as stupid as David Kelly, who decided to rob a local estate agents. Driving down to the estate agents, in his OWN car, he proceeded to wave a hammer at staff and claim that it …
As we hurtle toward Christmas, what could be better than confirmation that yet another Windows Mobile Smartphone will be launching in the UK ? Well, the Motorola MPx220 will, according to my sources (they live in the cardboard boxes behind mobile phon...
Tong has emailed me (Who ? Pete Tong ? Ramalama ding-dong? .. oh, no.. different person.. it's Tong Zhang, the webmaster of the site below) to say that his new US-based Smartphone site / forum, SmartPhoneChatter.com is hosting a three-week giveaway ev...
OK, so you know the deal by now. An until-recently-fairly-unknown company called HTC makes the handsets, then the network plonk their badges on and call it their own... or other companies if you want. Heck, if the network pays enough they can change t...
If, like people I know, you smoke, but deep down you'd like to stop - then "My Last Cigarette" may help. It's (rather unsurprisingly) a piece of software to help you stop smoking for good. Plus, with smoking likely to be banned from many places, and t...
This Register story reports on a new breed of smartphones which will, in the future, predict where you're going and who you'll meet. The original news release comes from the New Scientist and details of "what could be" are quite interesting... "The Ne...
Orange shops have launched C500 on pay as you go at £149.99. Hurraaa! :) Although it's not on the Orange website as I type, I've had it on very good authority that the phone is available now on PAYG!
Yup, you guessed it, this app will protect your Windows Smartphone against viruses and tojans. Airscanner® Mobile Antivirus has already been out on the Pocket PC, but now it's here for the Smartphone. Airscanner® is the world’s market leader in Wi...
What is Skype and what does it do ? Well, it used to allow people to make free calls to each other over the internet - provided you were on-line and had a microphone and some speakers ready. Now however it's got "SkypeOut" added, which lets you call …
The iMate SP3i (available here) and the MPx220 (available here) are featured in this Smartphonethoughts.com photo shoot-out, so if you want to get up close on these phones, have a browse! Source - Smartphonethoughts.com
It seems that the Audiovox SMT 5600 is down, but by no means out. We'd always suspected that Cingular, after swallowing up AT&T, would test and re-introduce the Windows-Powered Audiovox SMT 5600 - now this Engadget.com story seems to support it. As yo...
MoDaCo.com are offering you the chance of winning either $1000 first prize or a $500 second prize - all just by filling in a simple web form! You don't need to be a developer, you just need to answer a few quick questions about how you use your …
Oradell, NJ November 23, 2004 LandWare announced today that it is readying a Windows Mobile Smartphone edition of their award winning Leonard Maltin 2005 Movie Guide. This compelling new Smartphone application has been especially designed for on...
A big-ass Nokia brick on the front page of a Microsoft Smartphone website ? Well, I guess my dad would be pleased, I had to convince him fairly recently to upgrade from his chunky Nokia 5.1 - it was pretty much the same size as this Nokia 2110. …
Silicon.com and many other news sites are reporting today on the news that the Queens speech is to include Government proposals to double the existing £30 and include 3 penalty points on your licence if you're driving with your phone held to your e...
Wll satellite navigators used in automobiles be banned in Norway? Yes, if the norwegian police have their way.According to a newsreport on TV2 the police in Norway are looking to ways to ban the use of satellite navigators and GPS's in automobiles. Bo...
Just a few short months ago it seemed that the US market was finally taking off for Microsoft-powered phones. The MPx220 launched, then the Audiovox SMT 5600 appeared and quickly received rave reviews as AT&T stocked it in their shops. Now, just a sho...
Yup, that's definitely an SPV C500! You can see it right here in the latest Maroon 5 video for their song "Sunday Morning". In the vid, the SMT 5600/C500 is being used to video a gang who are doing a spot of Karaoke on a night out, singing …
The MPx220 had a difficult first few months. Camera problems and sound issues plagued it, and then AT&T / Cingular / Best Buy recalled it to fix the sound. Well, it turns out that the phones will get returned, updated, then an orange sticker will get ...
The T-Mobile MDA Compact, T-Mobile SDA and the T-Mobile SDA Music are all coming to T-Mobile UK soon and Lutzh has got them all - plus an SPV C500 here at MSMobiles.com. The full story, along with incredibly high-quality photos, can be found here. Lut...
You drive a lot. You wanna know where to go. A satellite navigation kit such as the TomTom Go is around 400 quid, but what if you could get the same thing for around half the price on your Smartphone? Interested? Read on.. I've only had the TomTom …
Home | Downloads | Entertainment | Company | Contact | Licensing | Helpdesk 10/16/04 ONLY $ 4.99 Candy Crusher Tired of playing the Same Game over and over? Well, now you can a...
What a good idea! For those suffering from Diabetes, this could be a very helpful tool and helps you to control diabetes. SiDiary is in Beta stages at the minute, but is available here for you to use. It maintains all the important data - such as bloo...
This is the first official Boulder Dash sequel ever developed for PDAs and SmartPhones. This heart pumping, state of the art action game introduces us to Rocky and Crystal (the children of the star of the original game: Rockford). Join them on their j...
First we hear about the recall of the Motorola MPx220 (here at HowardForums.com) due to sound issues and now.. now we have more news from the States about the Audiovox SMT 5600. According to several websites, the recent Cingular / AT&T Wireless merger...
Fizz software are looking to beta test Fizz Traveller 2.0 in a week or so. If you'd be interested in taking part, have a look at the Fizz Traveller 2.0 beta page. The new version is packed with features, here are just a few : Smaller pr...
After far to much time Riki has released Theme Changer Version 4. Theme Changer allows you to change home screen themes, system screens, and windows media skins at the touch of a button. New in Version 4 is support for sound - allowing you to change s...
Following this story about the T-Mobile SDA here in the UK, we've got even more good news! T-Mobile have contacted me today regarding this... "I refer to your recent email about SDA handsets. I can confirm that we are planning to launch the SDA Bu...
Not a major story this, but interesting to see that the Orange Shop has labelled the silver C500 as the "Orange SPV C500 S" - you can get more detail on getting a silver one by clicking here. The silver C500's are available to customers taking the O...
You may have heard about the Samsung i640 / i645 Smartphone already - this is the follow-up to the fairly chunky Samsung SCH-i600 handset. Well, here's the Samsung i640 / i645 running Windows Mobile 2003 SE. If you're confused on the name, the i640 h...
Following our earlier story about the T-Mobile SDA, we can now give you some more info! Very reliable sources are now telling us that both the T-Mobile MDA III and the T-Mobile SDA are both planned for launch later this month / begining of December. I...
Just a small bit of news. I've tweaked the site so that it'll work with Mozilla Firefox 1. Firefox is a new web browser which is currently gaining a lot of users. I know what everyone is gonna say...."Ugh! I'm not downloading this Firefox browser if p...
Blimey ! This is one flippin excellent game and has already sold like freshly baked bread rolls on the Pocket PC. Now it arrives on the Smartphone and comes complete with music and spoken dialogue too! Atlantis Episode 1 is available exclusively fro...
Orange have geared themselves up for a Christmas launch of their 3G handsets. 6 will be available at launch - all non-MS powered things. :) They come from Motorola, LG, Nokia, Samsung, Sanyo and SonyEricsson. This ZDNet.co.uk story has more info on ...
I've just had a message from the guys at T-Mobile Customer Services. I asked them whether the T-Mobile SDA would be coming out in the UK a few months back, but they were pretty tight-lipped. However, in a phone call from them today they stated... "Th...
OK, so you know about this event by now? Yes? Good. If you don't, click here and get your name down quick! .. tssk.. fancy leaving it until the last minute eh? You're like those drivers in roadworks who bomb down the outside line and try and cut …
David Knipe has just nudged me about this BBC News story for Stuff Magazine's top Christmas Gadgets. Topping the chart is (rather unsurprisingly) the iPod, however the Orange SPV C500 is in the list too, which is well deserved. You can buy Stuff Magaz...
