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A while back I had a good old rant about the cost of calling 0800 numbers from a mobile phone. 0800 numbers are free from normal landline phones, but the mobile operators have chosen to add a charge just for handling the call. I was charged £1.18 for...
Following our coverage of the Orange data plans and the eventual changes Orange now seems to have gained 2.9 million users with data revenue now making up 23.1 percent of total revenue. Coverage has now hit 94 percent of the population, with the USB d...
Want a free phone? Do you? Well great news. I've got a Nokia 5.1 in the garage that I've just run over by accident. If you want something newer, head over to omio.com where they're giving away a HTC Touch Pro. To enter the draw you'll need to …
Have you recently defected to the iPhone? Are you interested in everything Apple? If so, give me a shout. A new site is about to launch and writers / editors are needed to promote and expand the new venture. You will need to show a commitment to publi...
We don't just review phones here at coolsmartphone.com. Over the past few weeks we've been trying out the myhome247 Security System. It's an easy-to-setup monitoring and control system for your home or office. You can get it all ready in a few minutes...
If you're lucky enough to be going abroad any time soon then you'll probably want to take your phone with you too. Before you leave you'll probably find an array of travel adaptors to choose from, so having everything ready before you go should ease t...
Last week we published a scan of the HTC Touch HD in the Orange "Work" magazine. We also told you about the 3 month exclusive Orange had on the handset. Now Orange have confirmed everything with a full press release which reveals an early November lau...
OK, listen up dear readers because this news item contains some special stuff you won't see elsewhere. Our good friends at Devicewire have added a few goodies and new services of late. First up is their recycling service. Sure, it's great being green,...
There's an interesting discussion kicking off in the o2 forums about a certain "XDA Flint". The device is definitely on the way, but there's a bit of confusion about what it is. An email from o2 states.. "The XDA Flint will be a take on the HTC Athena...
Our earlier story on the HTC Touch HD has already sparked some interest. It's listed on page 34 of the Orange "Work" magazine and is coming soon. We're now hearing that it'll be on a 3 month exclusivity agreement with the Orange network, however it ma...
Coolsmartphone and the news items you see online daily would be nothing without you lot. Tips, scans, photos, information and press releases keep the wheels churning here, so please let me know if you've got any Windows Mobile news we should be lookin...
It looks like O2 are going to be grading their customers with a new scheme called the "O2 Priority Club". If you've selected an O2 Priority Club Portfolio tariff and have been with the network 5 months then you can join. O2 are also putting you into a...
Remember the days when the Orange SPV seemed to be the only Microsoft phone around ? Well now you can re-live them, thanks to a huge splodge of reconditioned SPV handsets from Orange. The Orange SPV C500 is for sale for £19.99 whilst the C600 is ...
We did a quick competition a few days back to win a 2GB pen drive. It's a credit-card sized unit and they gave these away at the HTC Touch Diamond launch. I asked for some "interesting" photos and we'd choose the best. There were hundreds, and it was …
This is a 2GB HTC Touch Diamond memory card drive. These were given out during the huge HTC Touch Diamond launch and I've actually got one in my wallet. They come in very handy for transferring data around and they're thin enough to slot into your wal...
This story popped up around the web yesterday so we thought we'd take a look too. The video, which you can see below, shows an iPhone which can supposedly dual-boot into Windows Mobile. Norwegian iPhone developer Erik Kristiansen is responsible for th...
Hello new and existing o2 customers. Want the Sony Ericsson X1? Do you? Have a look what's coming soon on o2. Kishan Sthankiya spotted this in the o2 catalogue and sent it into us. If you, like us, have been waiting since the start of February to get …
Just yesterday we ran a story about the o2 XDA Serra popping up in o2 catalogues. It's the o2 flavour of the HTC Touch Pro and both Kishan Sthankiya and Andrew Keith sent in scans so we can all see the evidence. No prices are showing as yet, …
Rumours over at Engadget suggest a new LG phone running Windows Mobile is about to appear on AT&T. It's been a while since we saw an LG packing Windows Mobile, which is strange in a way because the KS20 was a gorgeous handset and I was surprised not …
The Motorola Q 11 has been rumoured for a while now, but Motorola have now gone all official with details appearing on their site. Yes, a Windows Mobile phone from Motorola. It's been years since we saw such a thing here in the UK. The Q11 uses Window...
A great review of the Sony Ericsson X1 is now available on jouwmobiel.com. What? You want more? Well, how about a comparison with the T-Mobile G1 huh? Now you're talking. Both articles include screenshots, up-close shots, videos and, by the looks of ...
Following our earlier X1 story and the launch on Vodafone, it's now started to show up in advertisements next to o2 branding. The o2 forums are already buzzing about the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, with October 13th mentioned as a possible launch date. T...
Addicted to the Johnny X videos ? Waiting for the new Xperia X1 to appear on Vodafone? Well, you might have to wait a little longer. Voda appear to have pushed back the release date to October 17th. This Vodafone post forum a member of staff doesn't ...
Keep everything crossed guys, because I think we're now back to full steam. For those of you who aren't aware, the webmaster, tech guy, coder, reporter and guy doing the server management is.. me. If anything goes wrong, like it did last week, I have ...
Now that the "invisible" iframe causing the virus / badware / spyware problems has gone, I today moved onto removing how it got there in the first place. I've implemented a new security policy into our MySQL / Apache configuration and I'm currently te...
OK, a quick update on how things are going with the site. Google have no pretty much knocked us off the internet. Any search you do in Google that returns a Coolsmartphone page will have a horrible message under it saying, "This site may harm your com...
About 30 minutes ago Firefox blocked our site. If you click on the "Why was our site blocked" you'll find a nice Google page that says there's no problems. I've been asked to go into the Google Webmaster Tools an request a review of the site, however ...
Our friends over at Devicewire currently have some "B-Grade" stuff on sale. Y'know the sort of thing, they've possibly been opened or returned but they're still in excellent condition and you can save some dosh. They've got a few HTC Touch Diamond ha...
Check this out. It's part of my Orange phone bill for last month. I've changed my package and this particular phone doesn't get used a great deal. I pay around £30 per month, but this bill totalled over £55 so I looked deeper into it. Last ...
If you've got yourself a HTC Touch Diamond on Orange then you may still be waiting for the 1.93 update. This update has already been rolled out on some other Diamond variants, but Orange users have had to wait a little longer. The new firmware improve...
Here in Europe we often get spoiled with the hottest new mobile phones arriving first on our side of the pond. In the USA, Sprint has announced that the HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch Pro will be landing on their network from October 19th. Engadget h...
Mention an underground railway here in the UK and most people will talk about The Tube - aka The London Underground. It's the oldest and longest system in the world and serves 268 stations, but sadly lacks air-con or a phone signal pretty much everywh...
OK, the iPhone. It's exclusive to o2 here in the UK, so other networks are trying their best to compete. Orange have setup a dedicated web page which is accessible from the "Mobile Phones and Plans" section of the Orange website. There's a link called...
During the last few days you may have noticed some spam messages appearing in our forums. These usually advertise some mobile phones with a fake UK postal address. Many thanks to everyone who's spotted them and informed me - also to the excellent mods...
Crickey! We're starting to love Vodafone more and more each day. We've already seen that the Omnia is on the way, plus the Touch Pro should be landing any day now. Now there's more good news... First up, the Samsung Omnia is now live on the Vodafone B...
The HTC Touch Diamond is one of our favourite handsets, however you'll no doubt be handling it carefully and polishing it with any bit of material you can lay your hands on. Luckily Boxwave have developed a great armoured case which fits perfectly ont...
The guys at smartphoneTV have just announced a whole new look to their site with added extras. The new website lets you download hundreds of free videos for your mobile. Videos are being added daily and there's lots of great things to choose from. You...
Orange are pushing several packages and phones at the minute. They have the BlackBerry Bold exclusive to the network (the first 3G BlackBerry as far as we're aware) and we've just revealed that the Samsung Omnia i900 is now selling on Orange too. Howe...
Got a HTC Touch Diamond from Vodafone? You have? Good. Envious about those those OS upgrades for handsets bought direct from HTC? Hey, don't worry. Vodafone have released the 1.93 upgrade for their customers right here.Wehay ! Well done Vodafone! Why ...
Jason Langridge has just posted about this SIMable unlocking solution. It's a small chip which fixes to your SIM card which should then let you use your SIM in locked phones. On certain handsets there's a degree of SIM-card-snipping and hole-punching,...
