Category: General
Oh dear, it looks like the camera phone has yet again caused problems. This time it's not in the work-place, which is usually a cause for concern, but in a school. This Sky News story tells how a pupil at St Cuthbert's Catholic High School in Newcastl...
Dopod have launched the S300 which we've seen as the HTC Star Trek previously. Dopod showed off the device with all the usual flair, displaying the obvious ultra-flat style and cool design. Powered by Windows Mobile 5.0 (for Smartphone) it has a 1.3-m...
WiFi providers TheCloud have announced a new "UltraWiFi" package which, for £11.99 per month (subject to 12 month contract), will let you use any of their access points for as long as you wish. The new package, available from July 1st, means that use...
Torsten has emailed about iAudioguide.com who offer free mp3 audio guides. At present there are guided tours of Barcelona, London and Paris. You just need to save the .zip file to your PC then open it up. There's several mp3 files in the z...
We really LOVE files here at CoolSmartPhone and we need your help now that we've got a file-hungry downloads system all ready for your stuff. We're looking for either.. 1) Good audio files which are less than 30 seconds for ringtones (MP3 / WAV / WMV)...
This week I've managed to break the new feedback forum, then I succeeded in breaking the entire server. So, it seems fitting that I should break the microphone whilst recording the latest podcast, but hey - what else could go wrong ? :) Podcast number...
You may have noticed that the sparkly new downloads system has been a bit empty of late. This is mainly because the "botch it together to fit into the forum" implementation didn't work too well. Comments weren't working, the screenshots weren't workin...
So, you guys out there now have the push-email updates right? Orange SPV M5000, C600 - check. O2 XDA Mini S and Exec, check. Hmm - what about T-Mobile ? Ermmm.. Well, after I received a few emails asking that very question I did a bit of digging. …
We've all seen those people walking around with BlackBerry handsets haven't we ? Yes, we Smartphone / Pocket PC owners can now get "instant email" too, but it's just not as easy to setup is it? Well, thanks to the guys at Mail2Web Live it is now! Just...
It looks like a fight is about to start between the Samsung SGH-i320 QWERTY handset and the Motorola Q QWERTY. Literally days after the long-delayed Moto Q got approved for use by the Federal Communications Commision (FCC) and the SGH i320 does too! ...
Just yesterday we told you about the full availability of the Orange SPV M600 in our shop. Well, if that wasn't news enough, how about winning some tickets to the World Cup ? Oh yes, you can be in with a chance of winning a pair of VIP …
Earlier on we mentioned how the Orange SPV M600 had been made available to all customers on the Orange. However, shortly after it went "Out of stock" on the Orange.co.uk website... damn... Luckily we've managed to have a few words with our friends in ...
PhoneScoop.com report today that the Motorola Q has now passed the necessary tests at the FCC, making it ready to rock 'n roll. This comes after the Q was spotted lurking around the Verizon site. This FCC ruling should mean no further delays for the Q...
A totally new downloads area will be online soon. It will, for quite a while, run in tandem with our existing downloads section here. This is to maintain all previous links from articles, news items and other pages around the web. Due to the fact that...
You may recall that I spotted posted a story about the this Bluetooth virtual keyboard in the Orange shop at Lichfield. It's selling for £129.99 and is compatible with the Orange SPV range and other Windows Mobile phones and Pocket PC's - you can Fro...
Nearly 4 years ago all of this was a just a single web page. It's evolved over the years into the epic beast you now see before you. However, at the start of this year I wasn't 100% happy with things. The new login system was slowing the …
The guys at QUsers.com have managed to fish out this picture of the Motorola Q from a backstage area of the VerizonWireless.com site. They've also spotted the date on the phone - 10/11/2006, which some might say indicates an October release :) (Before...
Hmm.. I've had way too many emails about this. You may know about the Orange SPV M3000 and the fact that it's not getting launched in the UK. It's safe to say that were were a tad disappointed by this decision, but we're getting a heck of a …
The Orange Partner Camp, being held from May 8th-10th is a chance for mobile games, ringtones, music, business solutions, applications, handset and network enablers or any other wireless services providers, to come together with Orange. This year the...
Remember a while back we exclusively revealed that Vodafone were testing the new Vodafone v1240 and v1640? Well, we're revealing that they've actually hit the shops and you can buy them right now!If you check the Vodafone UK Business store you'll find...
Yes, it does appear that Orange did decide to remove MSN Messenger from the Orange SPV M600. They're apparently working on a new Instant Messaging (IM) application which, for the success of the handset, I certainly hope will include access onto IM net...
If you're after even faster broadband then it's worth looking at Internet Central. Right now they're offering up to 8Mb/s broadband with a whacking 30Gb data transfer limit per month for just £19.99. That's pretty fantastic when you realise that othe...
I spotted ComVu over at MoDaCo recently. It's a free piece of software that, after you've logged in and created an account, lets you stream live video and audio from your device. Yes - live. You can stream it over whatever connection you have, be it t...
Y'know the Mototorla Q? Well, this isn't it, but you'd be forgiven for thinking it was. Chinese manufacurer TechFaithWireless have been showing this off at CTIA and it's the second clone of a Mototorla handset that we've seen from them following the M...
Orange have announced pricing their new Microsoft Exchange Direct Push e-mail plans, according to this ComputerWeekly story. Data bundles will start at £6.50, giving users 10Mb of email. Medium usage packages will cost £12 per month for 30Mbytes, wi...
Hey look ! It's the Motorola SLVR.. no, wait a minute.. It's actually a handset from TechFaithWireless. "Who?", I hear you cry. Well, these guys are from China and - like HTC - they design and build handsets for branding by networks and companies. Th...
Philip Nowlan has messaged in about a UK based service called TVGenius it's a website you can access on your handset by browsing to www.tvgenius.co.uk/mobile.html then bang in your favourite TV show and it'll remind you when it comes on! Hoho! Just wh...
Doing podcasts can sometimes be a tad annoying. This particular one has been recorded around 5 times. I've either broke into coughing fits, found that the microphone fell out without realising it, or the piggin' battery has gone flat. Tonight though I...
Right, I'm going to confuse myself now. Here in Europe we're now on Daylight Savings Time, so all our clocks have gone forwards. However, in the USA their clocks haven't changed yet - that happens on April 2nd at 2am. So, if I've got this right, New Y...
This news item regarding the "April" release date of the Motorola Q raised a few eyebrows. There were in fact two different web pages at Motorola - one stated, "It's coming in April" and one said, "It's coming soon.. sometime... ish...". Well, the one...
Engadget Mobile have spotted this QUsers post linking to a promo page at Motorola for the much-anticipated Motorola Q handset. Now, this is where it gets a bit weird. There's this Motorola Q page that states it's "shipping soon" and then there's this ...
UPDATE - Since writing this article various CAB files have appeared which will automatically install Windows Live Messenger for you. Download these, copy them to your phone and then RUN the CAB file on your device to install. Try here, here, here or h...
This is the Mago Premium Smartphone. It was designed by the Maslovdesign Studio for Mago Mobile, who appear to have their site redirected to some news-provider for mobile devices. According to sources, this should be out mid-2006 but there's a €3000...
There were rumours, however it's now confirmed - T-Mobile are to launch a new Internet service on April 1st for £7.50 a month as an add-on to the already successful Relax and Flext tariffs. The unlimited web’n’walk means that e-mail, browsing and...
Orange have today announced a new low cost deployment tool to make roll-outs of push-email a whole lot easier and quicker. From April 3rd business customers will not only be able to use the push email solution provided with Windows Mobile® 5.0 for Di...
In an attempt to make this site more orderly, I'll be introducing some more categories to the news and articles section. The first new one is "Fun Time Friday", which is our weekly slice of video goodness. This now has it's very own section within our...
A little tip for those of you who have an Orange SPV C600 and would like to application unlock it. Now, normally you can just go through the Orange Developers site however it's not recognising my IMEI for some reason. I even downloaded their suggested...
Unfortunately with a site of this size it's sometimes a little difficult to continually.. Errmm.. How do they say.. "monetize" it, however I did promise myself that I'd at least test those "flashy banner"-type ads you (used to) see on the side panels ...
If you're ever in the need of a encyclopedia when you're on the move, when not try typing in http://www.3g.co.nz/wiki into your device to get a mobile version of the huge Wikipedia.org site. New Zealand-based company "Instinct" have developed this por...
The guys at NewMobile.com have just published this very interesting story detailing the Windows Mobile handsets shown at industry event CeBIT. They've got lots of very interesting detail which I've not seen elsewhere. The Qtek 8500 was on show, which ...
