Category: General
Orange Accessories have a great deal on the "Orange HomePlug dLAN Starter Kit". It's just £30 and for your money you can instantly turn your home power circuit into an ethernet network. Plug an ethernet cable from your router into one HomePlug, then ...
Remember the HD2 battery with the kickstand? The official one? It's now avilable to buy from easydevices and they're currently going out to pre-orders. More stock is due in soon, so if you're looking to extend the life of your HD2 battery you can now ...
No, it's not "T-Orange", "OrMobile" or "TOM", the name for the Orange and T-Mobile joint venture is "Everything Everywhere". The press release is below and details the merger of the two companies and the teams. The switch-over will happen on July 1st ...
The official HD2 extended life battery (complete with kick-stand) sells for around £41.11. For less than half the price you can have this one instead. It'll boost the existing 1230mAh HD2 battery up to 2400mAh, which is more than the official battery...
Some interesting news which was just found tonight and is sending shockwaves through gadget fans in the UK is that from 1st June 2010, Vodafone will change the conditions on charging for data use on mobile phones. At present all phones with exception ...
The Car Upgrade Kit for the HD2 has been in my car for the past week and now the review is online. This is made by HTC and fits on your windscreen or dashboard. It'll charge your device and activates the HTC HD2's special "NaviPanel" application too. ...
The Laybag Leipzig is a different kind of phone holder. It's a machine washable bean-bag with small plastic pellets inside. Pop your phone (or portable media player, PSP or whatever) onto the bag and a small lip at the bottom of the bag holds it in pl...
Palm have produced some rather nice Windows Mobile handsets over the years. We particularly liked the Palm Treo 750v. Now they're under new ownership after HP announced the purchase of the company for a cool $1.2 billion. HTC were previously rumoured ...
Micrsoft has just announced that it's entered into an intellectual property (IP) licensing agreement with HTC. This will let HTC use Microsoft's patented technology in Android mobile phones. No financial details have been disclosed but the agreement s...
We've covered this over on iPhoneBANG but now things have taken an even stranger turn with that unreleased iPhone. So, the story so far. A poor Apple employee went out and had a few too many German beers. In his pocket, an all-new unreleased iPhone di...
It was a possibility but, according to Reuters it's now not going to happen.. "The world's No. 5 smartphone brand and one name associated with a possible offer, was approached about making a bid but decided to pass after reviewing Palm's books, a sour...
Recently I had to use the train quite a bit. The experience wasn't as bad as I'd remembered from my teenage years. The trains were on-time, quiet and clean. I spent the daily commute into Birmingham listening to music on my phone but, after playing ne...
We review lots of mobile phones, but we also like to take a look at other cool gadgets and gizmos from time to time. Today it's the turn of this, the Sumo Gamer chair. Those long-time readers may remember a review we did back in 2006 of another …
A recent survey by Appcelerator last month has shown what we all kinda knew. Developer interest in Windows Phone isn't as high as it could be. The full survey, which is available for download, involved 1028 developers and shows that 87% are "very in...
Our dedicated forums for lucky HTC Desire and HTC Legend owners are now online. For Windows Mobile owners we've also added HTC HD2 and HD mini forums for your handset-specific questions.
Palm is now up for sale. The company once made Windows Mobile handsets and likely bidders include HTC and Lenovo. Palm have posted 11 straight quarterly losses with the Pre and Pixi handsets failing to rescue the sliding share prices. Palm saw its sha...
Three have added some extra plans for anyone intending to buy the HTC Desire on their network. This is in response to customer feedback. Spotify has been chucked in for the length of the contract on the 24-month £35 Internet Texter plan, with the pho...
Orange have added some new mobile broadband deals to their portfolio with extra data allowances for businesses and data-hungry customers. Four contract options now include the folowing packages.. "Business Everywhere 5 to 9" - Unlimited data between ...
I've just had a look around the Virgin Mobile website and there's now a really good range of handsets. Virgin are an MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) using the T-Mobile network here in the UK. They've just put the HTC Desire in their catalogue a...
T-Mobile have just announced a new offer for their customers. It's called "Night In" and from next week it'll let you enjoy a mid-week treat from Blockbuster. T-Mobile customers can rent a game and a movie or two movies for two nights and grab some sn...
What's this ? The o2 April catalogue? What's this I spy inside ? Well I'll be, it's the Android-powered HTC Desire and the Windows-powered HD mini. The HD2 is in the middle, this is a phone that's already out on o2 and may get a sales boost thanks …
So this morning I was told about this hands-on of a hands-free device called the "Cell-Mate". It's now available to buy and the Cell-Mate website is full of mildy hilarious photos of people using it. There's no Bluetooth involved and it's a rather .. ...
HTC have just launched their very own shop in the USA. Head over to www.shopamerica.htc.com to find all the HTC devices available in the US along with your choice of network. You can search for the right plan and the right phone for you, plus there's ...
Mozilla has just put the brakes on any further Windows Mobile development. This means that Firefox won't now be coming to Windows Mobile any time soon. Mozilla also state that work will also stop on a Windows Phone 7 version as... "Microsoft has unfo...
UK network "3" have some good and bad news this morning. In a blog post yesterday they have admitted that their range of handsets needs to increase.. "We’ve come in for a lot of flack in the past (and on this blog!) for our handset range to date, …
HTC Hero owners are currently perched on the edge of their seats. At the moment Android 1.5 powers the device and, with enhancements in apps like Google Maps that aren't compatible with 1.5, they're eager to get the new Android 2.1 and updated HTC Sen...
TrueCaller is an app for Windows Mobile and Android that'll do quite a few interesting things. It can display the name and address of an unknown caller when possible, although it appears that the UK isn't supported yet. The app will also update Twitte...
Ok, so you're on a site called "coolsmartphone.com". It's possible that you're a friend of mine that I've linked to this trying to show off, and it's also possible that you're just very, very lost and you're looking for directions back to Google, but ...
HTC have just put out a press release in response to the Apple lawsuit. The response puts a heavy emphasis on the history of HTC and the many awards that HTC have received. HTC completely disagree with the Apple claims and they intend to fully defend ...
Six new Android phones will be appearing on UK network "3" in the next three months. The details, announced by Mobile News, mention Sony Ericsson and Samsung, with the HTC Hero already selling. The Spotify app location - which lets you listen to music...
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UberGizmo have come across some information on a new Android 2.1 device being rebranded under the Vodafone name and is to be called the 'Vodafone 845' The Vodafone 845 features a 3.2 Megapixel camera, 2.8 inch QVGA screen, Android 2.1, 3G/HSDPA and Wi...
The comScore MobiLens service reports on trends in the US mobile industry. In the three months between October 2009 and January 2010 their stats, which come from Smartphone subscribers aged over 13 years old, show that Microsoft appear to have lost gr...
Some months ago I blogged about how the Google car had snapped pictures of my entire family. Today the journey is complete and all those millions of photos are online. Google Street View has expanded to cover most of the UK and it's available right no...
Today I'm proud to announce our new mobile phone deals website. Working in partnership with The Blog House I wanted somewhere where you guys could search all those thousands of tariffs on all the networks and find the best deal. To find a plan, just ...
I posted this originally in my blog but I feel it deserves space here too. Sometimes whilst travelling you can overhear discussions which are really interesting. I’m in one of those situations right now. I’m at an airport somewhere in the world an...
Remember this ? It's the original SPV (HTC Canary). I bought it back in 2002 and started a little web page about it. The website grew and, after nearly 8 years and several billion hits, we're now in a world of Windows Phone. Tonight I took a trip …
Remember when the Pink Project Phones got leaked ? Now there's more info - it's coming to Verizon in the USA. Gizmodo have got hold of some marketing material and it shows Verizon as the carrier. The images are the same as before but there are more wh...
Devicewire seem to be on a mission. After announcing crazy low prices for the new HTC handsets they're now offering up
My appologies for missing two weeks; South Africa was very intense and left me in no fit state to write this as soon as I got back. I feel it has been improved by the extra time I had, though As a current denizen of the Scottish …
