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T-Mobile will be ditching their Combi and Flext tariffs next month. All 12 months plans will also be dropped, with the Solo SIM-only tariff getting the boot too. According to Mobile Magazine new plans will include "flexible boosters" of unlimited text...
Last week Tom Ranson pinged us about his new App Review Show and we ran a story about it. Today he emailed us again to promote the new episode where he has a look at the Brodit ProClip mount and CoPilot Live 8. Now, we're not just going …
Next month is the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and, following the fairly quiet Windows Mobile showing at CES, it's been universally assumed that Windows Mobile 7 would get launched at the European event between February 15th and 18th. However.....
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Total Telecom is reporting the the Nexus One handset will actually be available on several networks here in the UK. Vodafone was initially reported as carrying the device here but now there's news that T-Mobile UK and 3 UK are in negotiations to suppo...
Announced today at CES in Las Vegas, this is the HTC Smart - a "more accessible device for global markets". It's up now on the HTC website and is the more "affordable smartphone” with a flavour of the HTC Sense interface. Excited? Well, calm down a ...
Last week we pointed out some great January Sale deals from Orange. We couldn't find a lot of them on the Orange website, however they've since appeared in the PayAsYouGo section. The Toshiba TG01 is now £149.00 + £10 top up (it was £399.99 when we...
We've removed the "retweet" buttons from our main page as they were slowing the site down somewhat. This is an unfortunate side-effect of pulling data from third-party servers constantly, but they're still included in each news item if you click into ...
There's a lot of deals in the January sales so we've had a look at the Windows Mobile and Android devices that have come down in price. The first is the G2 Touch (HTC Hero reviewed here) free on T-Mobile £25 per-month plans until Jan 31st. There's a …
It's Christmas Eve and there's snow falling across the land. It's been quite a big year for coolsmartphone.com. We've added a totally new look-and-feel to the site, overhauled the entire navigation, added Android news and a seperate iPhone news site. ...
Let's face it, the majority of your Christmas presents may end up being a bit naff. I like to buy a Christmas present for myself, so I'd like to recommend this neat accessory. It's a desktop cradle - this one is for the HTC Hero and is available …
Thanks to everyone emailing in about the continuing o2 data problems here in the UK. According to o2 Tweets it's due to an IP addressing problem and they'll have it fixed as soon as possible. Let us know if you're affected, or even if you're not! Upda...
Just yesterday I was browsing rainymood.com and thinking, "That's a bit weird, but I guess I can understand why people would want it". It's basically a website that plays "mood sounds" - in this case rain and the odd crackle of thunder. There's other ...
I want to thank everyone for contributing towards our yearly donation drive. It's fantastic to receive help from you guys and everything we're receiving is going into paying for our server bandwidth and co-lo costs. There's just a few hours left to do...
Yesterday devicewire.com had an offer on the HTC Hero Gift Set. It's an ideal present idea for yourself or anyone who has recently picked up the Hero, and the good news is that the offer has been extended, so you can still get one for just £26.99 wit...
Well, it's that time of year again. A big HTC leak has just hit the web and it shows what appears to be the Q1 / Q2 Global Roadmap from T-Mobile. There's a stack of goodies in here, including an Android handset with a numeric keypad (look Ma, …
I've just read this DailyFinance article and I have to agree on the majority of the findings. Android developers are enjoying quite an open and easy application ecosystem. Apps appear in the Android Market without much difficulty and customers love th...
Remember that HTC Touch B that popped up on mobifrance the other day? Well, we didn't know a fat lot about it and for some reason other sites guessed that it'd run Android. Well, it doesn't. Worse still, it doesn't run Windows Mobile either. It actua...
Although we're in the middle of giving away some stuff already, our friends at Orange have emailed in about some more chances to win. Think back to when you were a kid - sitting around the Christmas tree trying to figure out what presents you'd got. I...
Mobifrance.com has just posted pictures of this, the HTC Touch B. Known also as the HTC Rome it's very similar in appearance to the HTC Touch2 we reviewed some time back. The Google translation doesn't offer up much detail about this device though. If...
We're currently upgrading the coolsmartphone.com server and adding yet more horsepower. It's costing extra cash, which is why I had to ask for donations a few weeks back. We didn't get a huge response, so I've decided to raid the coolsmartphone.com cu...
Hey, are you a Vodafone customer? Well, feel free to burn as much data as you want tomorrow, because Voda UK are letting you use the internet for absolutely nothing tomorrow (November 27th). Vodafone, it seems, are doing this to celebrate the Christma...
Engadget have just posted some rather sad news about Sony Ericsson. According to the story, 2000 employees are being let go, with 450 already dropped last year. The Research Triangle Park facility in North Carolina is set to close, with offices in Mia...
I've learned through my many years of running this site that I do things best when I've had a drink, so - after a hugely long wait - I've had a beer and finally rigged the site so that you can go to "Next Page" or "Previous Page" …
HTC have today launched a new ad campaign, further promotion of the "uuumazin" HTC HD2 and a new look website. A new brand slogan, "HTC - quietly brilliant", has also been revealed and you can watch two of the new TV ads below. Both ads feature the An...
A few days ago I asked which direction we should be heading in. You guys are the backbone of Coolsmartphone, so it made sense to ask what the best way forward was. I've had bags of emails, Tweets, comments and forum posts on this and I want to …
OK people, I need your help with something. Since we started covering Android alongside our WinMo coverage things have got a bit cramped. I'm currently working on a switcher so you can flick between "Android" news or "WinMo" news but, to make things e...
Right, I've got to apologise to o2. They sent us the o2 XDA Venn about a month ago and we've only just got the review out the door. We've not seen many "non touch" devices of late (other than the HTC Snap) so it's great to see a …
The CTIA Wireless IT&E 09 event is currently taking place in San Diego. Microsoft have a range of new handsets including the Omnia II and this, the Samsung Interpid on Sptint. The Intrepid has the stock WinMo 6.5 build, a 3.2 megapixel camera and a QW...
If you're sitting down to do some lunch-time browsing I'd heartily recommend this BBC news story. It covers the recession and how it's affecting mobile phone sales. Whilst many "mid-range" handsets are being hit by the world credit problems, smartphon...
Orange have just announced an exclusive - the Android-powered Motorola DEXT will be on sale today only on their network. The first of the handsets will only be available from the new Milton Keynes store, situated in thecentre:mk. It's a new venture fo...
Right, just to bring you up to speed. The HTC Hero. It's an Android handset with the HTC Sense experience. Last month it had an update to take it from "brilliant" to "super-brilliant". HTC unlocked handsets got their update on September 15th and then ...
I'm not perfect. I'll admit that the phone has distracted me whilst driving in the past. Sometimes a text arrives and you may try to at least see who it's from. Here in the UK it's illegal to physically use the phone, so more people have Bluetooth kit...
A little news snippet for you this morning from Palm. We're hearing that they're laying off staff in the US. We're doing a little more checking into this currently. Apparently it's due to "restructuring" but a number of staff have been dropped. Link -...
Yesterday we were pretty much the first people to reveal that the iPhone was officially coming to Orange. It explains why o2, who have had the exclusive rights on the iPhone here in the UK for two years, are sniffing around the HTC Leo / HD 2 and …
A quick apology. If you tried to get to coolsmartphone.com between 23:00 BST and 03:30 BST or anytime around 14:45 today then it probably would've failed. The news from our data centre is that an emergency router firmware upgrade went a little wrong l...
Listen up coffee lovers. If you're a regular at one of the UK's Starbucks then this will definitely be of interest. You'll no doubt have seen the BT Openzone WiFi access points but perhaps ignored them due to the price. However, there is a way to get ...
Fancy a chance of winning something ? We love giving stuff away and today there's a chance to win CoPilot Live 8. It's worth £73.99 and it'll work on either Android or Windows Mobile. You know the deal - this is an award-winning sat-nav system giving...
Oh what's this over on the Vodafone coming soon pages? Not one, not two, but three hot new phones we've been covering. First is the HTC Tattoo is coming to Voda exclusively in black next month. It's the Android device for the masses and has a 3.2 mega...
American readers will soon be getting the HTC Whitestone in the shape of the "HTC Imagio" on October 6th for Verizon customers. The device, which features Windows Mobile 6.5 running on a 528Mhz CPU and a 5 megapixel auto-focus camera, will be one of t...
