Author: Leigh Geary
Yes, it certainly seems that way, according to this GSMStunts.nl story. The T-Mobile SDA is gradually weaving its' way across Europe, and will be available in the Netherlands later this month. The handset is free on the "Relax 300" package and above,...
As you may be aware, I'm based in the UK. I know a lot about the SPV handsets, but not a great deal about the T-Mobile SDA / SDA Music (Germany) or the Audiovox SMT 5600 (USA) or even the Motorola MPx220. CoolSmartPhone has a large range of …
The latest Pocket PC Phone from Orange - previously code-named the HTC Blue Angel - is now online here at the Orange shop. Yes, this is the one with the sliding keyboard!The SPV M2000 comes with a massive list of features, some of which are included b...
If you're in the USA then you'll have the luxury of chosing between two new Microsoft Windows Mobile phones - the Motorola MPx220 and the AudioVox SMT 5600. Which is best ? Well, this MobileGizmo.com article should help you. Personally, when I saw the...
CoolSmartPhone launched as a single web-page way back on November 1st 2002. At first it was just a test page saying, "this is the SPV, it's a phone from Microsoft". About a fortnight later I managed to get my hands on the original Orange SPV and the s...
The huge MobileJoe.de website is now back online. This comes following our earlier story regarding the traffic situation at MobileJoe after it bacame the place to resolve any T-Mobile SDA issues. Click back viewers!
We've already seen the Sagem MyS-7, but now it's due to appear under the MiTAC brand as the MiTAC Mio 8870. No info on a release date or anything, but it's good news all the same.MiTAC have a major problem.. they just don't put Bluetooth in their hand...
Many of our German visitors will be aware that the excellent MobileJoe.de website is experiencing some problems at the moment. Joe, webmaster of the site, will hopefully not mind me explaining the reason why. Basically, it's all down to the T-Mobile ...
Our friends at Orange (who brough us the SPV range) have reached and breached the 52 million-customer mark. This "TheRegister.co.uk" article also states that ... "In the UK, the average annual amount each punter spends with Orange was up £4 to £...
There's some things I'm not a great fan of. There's no big list really, although I'd have to include the people at Motorola who postponed "indefinitely" the Motorlola MPx100 and the continuing delays to the Motorola MPx being just two (Come on Motorol...
Skyforce is one helluva game. It's already taken the PocketPC and Symbian platforms by storm and is a top seller. This wicked shoot-em-up is available exclusively from our friends at Clickgamer, who do a fantastic job running our software shop here. ...
Yep, Liam G has emailed to inform me of this ebay.co.uk auction for a Motorlola MPx. The MPx is a cleverly designed Pocket PC Phone with a dual-action hinge. If you wanna get in on this auction, click here. Oh, by the way, this Ebay seller has no …
Blimey, it's handset day today! o2 have announced the release of the O2 Xphone II in Singapore today, stirring rumours that they may add or replace the MPx220 handset from Motorola in the UK. The Motorola MPx220 hasn't been released on o2 in the UK ye...
MSMobiles.com is reporting on this .... this ...and ... this offering from EuroPhone. Although we don't know much about these phones as yet, we're hoping to hear a lot more about them soon! For more info, click here to go to the EurophoneUSA.com. All...
I've had a few emails about people wanting Windows Media Player 10 for their Smartphone. You'll be aware that the Audiovox SMT 5600 has it, but many other handsets don't. Well, according to MS themselves you CANNOT download it. However, there's a beam...
Remember the HTC Vivida? Well, the guys at Mobile Gadget News were taking a stroll around the CTIA Wireless 2004 event in San Francisco when they came across the Audiovox stand. Audiovox were showing off their SMT 5600 (AKA the Orange SPV C500) and .....
Some rather hilarious but possibly missed solutions to the Motorola MPx220's problems have been uncovered by the guys at SmartPhoneThoughts.com. Firstly, the volume issue could be all down to a small piece of sticky tape over the speaker. These small ...
James Kennedy has emailed in about these MiniSD cards from Offtek.co.uk. They're ruddy cheap - 57 quid for a 512Mb MiniSD card, 35 quid for 256Mb and 25 quid for 128Mb! Check them out here at Offtek.co.uk.
More bad news from the USA about the MPx220. The volume on the handset appears to be causing many users to return the phone and now some stores are beggining to cease selling them. It's another blow for the MPx220 handset, which is the successor to th...
I've been lucky enough to get my hands on a MiTAC Mio 8390 handset for a short while. The Mio is on sale in Taiwan and elsewhere and is now being distributed in the UK by AGBGlobal.com. The Mio runs Windows Mobile 2003 on a very nippy Intel …
Essentially both the Orange SPV C500 (Europe) and the AudioVox SMT 5600 (USA) are the same handset and they're getting some excellent coverage across the web at the moment. However, I'm annoyed to see the silly "bad points" mentioned in some web revi...
I've just added a recent submissions page which will show you the latest 100 file additions. These are the very freshest downloads in our downloads section. This is designed to complement the existing Top 100 Downloads. Both of these will show you how...
This is a fantastic utility which includes... 1. Countdown: Tells you how much time is left in days, hours, minutes and seconds for a particular event (say Christmas). Enter any holiday or event date. Default is Christmas. 2. Date Difference: Comput...
After our roaring review of DVD to Smartphone, Greg Rawlings has emailed in about PocketDivXEncoder, which encodees video into a size and format suitable for playing eaily with the excellent free Betaplayer, which is a free video-viewing util fot your...
Martyn Hardacre has spotted this EBay auction which is selling a 512Mb MiniSD card for £55. It's branded as ATP and comes from a German Power-seller. I've purchased a digital camera from Germany recently over EBay and I can vouch for the quality of...
Orange have just released an upgrade for SPV C500 users - and guess what? It fixes that gaming issue we mentioned in our review here (note, this has now been amended following this fix), so now there's absolutely NOTHING to stop you from buying one of...
Silicon.com report today on the new Orange "push" email service, which drives emails down to handsets rather than emails being retrieved manually by users. Orange have chosen Smartner to do this with their "Duality" software and are keen to point out ...
We've featured Mavec before, but it's flippin' good and we like it. Mavec is a multi-user game for Windows Mobile 2003 owners and allows you to adventure around the virtual world, then syncronise with a central server and meet others. The new version...
This is pretty good - a new "locate any mobile" service which costs just 5 quid a month and includes... - Locate service on up to 5 mobile phones - Cost per additional mobile - 50p per month - Includes 10 Location Requests per month - Includes 10 …
Looks like MobileJoe have found a way to security unlock the SDA - and possibly other HTC phones (such as the SPV C500, Audiovox 5600) - this mobilejoe.de story (translated) explains how it's done. It looks like some registry tweaking, so if you do th...
At last, the guys at Agile have released version 3 of their excellent multi instant-messenger client for the Smartphone. You can download the appropriate version here (2003 or 2002). It's a Beta, but bugger that - just install the frigger. :) As we m...
Good to see that Motorola finally getting around to announcing the reatil availablility of their MPx220 handset (which we've already seen announced by Microsoft and AT&T earlier this week). Their press release can be read here or below.New Motorol...
Yet more praise about this excellent software following this earlier story. This time from Ravi Patel.."2 of my mates have gone out to get the phone after seeing Pulp Fiction playing on my SPV C500. One even paid off his contract (£100) for the pri...
Yes, here it is, ready for download. Grab this CAB file, copy it across to your phone and then run it (with SmartExplorer or any other file explorer) on your phone. This will install the first version of Opera ever seen for the Windows Mobile Phone. H...
Looks like the camera issue with the MPx220 is still a major topic of conversation. We've now got PhoneMag.com showing actual pictures taken with this phone, which all appear to be blurry when zoom is used. Whilst some of this can be put down to the u...
You may have already read my well deserved praise of DVD to Mobile (Smartphone Edition). Well, it gets even better. DVD to Mobile works along with the bloody brilliant BetaPlayer (available here) - a free and rather splendid movie-player with wide-scr...
Yup, the SPV C500 is travelling across the water to the new world. America will now get the Audiovox SMT5600 - for this is what it is known as over there - on AT&T Wireless. A full Press Release will be posted here soon, but AT&T Wireless themselves …
Orange are to launch their range of 3G handsets in 2005, according to this PC Advisor article. Orange CEO Sanjiv Ahuja spoke at the Etre technology conference in Cannes... "There's a lot of hype in the industry around convergence but more often than...
Rumours reaching us here yet again about Vodafone. These rumours seem pretty consistant and have been rumbling in during the past few weeks. Now we're hearing it will be arriving with a nice Vodafone sticker by the end of October.. Will it ? Well, ma...
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