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Engadget are reporting that the T-Mobile SDA (HTC Tornado) and T-Mobile MDA (Vario - HTC Wizard) will be appearing in the USA early next month. Following our previous story the guys at Engadget say that the humpy SDA will come out on February 13th cos...
Podcast number 18 is now online here. As you know by now I record these whilst driving home from work. I had to do this podcast twice because some muppet decided it'd be a great idea to try and join the M6 at 20mph on the slip-road. When …
Yet more evidence emerged today that "Happy Slapping" will just get you into sertious trouble. How the term "Happy Slapping" came about I'll never actually know. It's like "Joyriding", it's gonna get you banged up for a very long time. Case in point t...
Nearly forgot this one. T-Mobile have announced that the USA will be getting the T-Mobile MDA (the Vario) and the SDA... with a hump (a hump, a hump, a lovely lady lump, check it out) added. If you're in America this is extremely good news. T-Mobile s...
We've received quite a few entries to our mad competition where we're giving away a spanky new music dock. As I said previously I'm going to be adding to the prizes, so what better to go with a music dock than an Orange SPV C550 !?! Yes this …
Today around town we popped into the Orange and o2 shops to look at some possible upgrade handsets for Em. Despite my advice (as if she listens!), handsets like the Samsung D600 and the Motorola PEBL attracted her more than the Windows Mobile handsets...
People are going to think I'm nuts here.. and they'd be right. You may remember that I bought this music dock recently. £20 of my own hard-earned cash was spent getting this over from Hong Kong. I've reviewed it and now I've decided to give it away t...
Boxwave.com have just announced this armoured case for the i-Mate K-JAM / O2 XDA Mini / Orange SPV M3000 / T-Mobile MDA Vario / Qtek 9100. As with the Samsung i730 case, it's form-fitting and designed specifically for your handset. Made of anodized al...
The guys at Smartphonethoughts have just published this review of the Nextel i930 Smartphone by Motorola. It's an iDEN-based flip phone which first appeared way back in 2003 but never really became available until very recently. It's got no bluetooth,...
Sean Murphy @ MobileGadgetNews.com has just posted this... "It is with a heavy heart that I write this post. Tomorrow at around noon Pacific time, MGN will go up on the auction block on Ebay. I have been running this site since October of 2003 and it...
Remember how I said I was ordering a music dock? Well, it's arrived. In fact it arrived yesterday but after the problems this weekend I've only just started playing with it. It took just 10 days to arrive from Hong Kong and works perfectly with the Or...
A quick thank-you to the guys at Spoonydunappa for helping me get CoolSmartPhone.com back online today. We were hit by a double-blow this weekend. Firstly we had several thousand IP's trying to grab a rather large file from our downloads area directly...
Jeez.... Log files.. I hate looking at them. That's all I've been looking at this weekend, mainly because we have been attacked, massively. I've never had a Denial Of Service Attack before and I never want to again. This one, I believe, was a "distrib...
We've added another one of those fantastic Podcasts online today. Download it here or subscribe to the RSS feed. Don't forget that you can get a huge range of RSS feeds here at CoolSmartPhone, and if you don't know what they are just click here and I'...
A new internet TV-show is now available at smartphones-show.com covering all smartphones, not just Windows Mobile ones. It also touches on Windows PC's, video iPods and more. I've had a brief look at the first show, which has the T-Mobile MDA Vario, w...
The amount of news flinging out of CoolSmartPhone is getting quite hefty now and stuff sometimes doesn't stay on the front page long. We've already added the option to see the last 200 news items, plus there's the "News Extra" block on the top right o...
Following our earlier story about the Dualcor handset, the guys at Dualcor have agreed to send us one to review!! Wehay! .. oh... wait.. no.. Apparently I got that a tad wrong. Apparently their email says that they're sending some high quality pictur...
We've already seen some of the booths at CES in Las Vegas. The Microsoft and Motorola stands are looking prety nice, however Geekzone now have some hi quality photos of the device everyone is asking me about - the Motorola Q. Here it sits on a pink di...
This DualCor device has kicked up quite a bit of media interest of late. It's a whole new kind of device which combines Windows XP Tablet Edition and Windows Mobile 5.0 in one device. Equipped with not one but two processors (a 1.5 GHz and 400 MHz one...
I've been waffling on about about this Music Dock quite a bit over the past few days. As I couldn't find it locally I've gone and ordered one to see if it'll fit my C550. If it does, then I want to hear the sound of European and …
If you've got a T-Mobile MDA Vario it may be worth checking out this link, where you can get the latest version of the ROM. There's expected to be another update in March but be sure to check it periodically to keep your Vario up-to-date. Although it'...
If you're lucky enough to have the Samsung i730 (available in the US here) then you'll probably want to make sure that it's well protected. This is where this new Armor Case comes in, which will stop you scuffing your shiny new device. It's a form-fit...
Lee Smart has emailed regarding our earlier story on the music dock kit. He's found a company in Birmingham called MobileFun that'll do a iMate K-JAM / o2 XDA Mini / T-Mobile MDA Vario version for just £19.99 here. There's also an iMate JAM / T-Mobil...
I've just added a new category to our links section called photoblogs. If you've got yourself an online photo gallery then submit yours now by logging in and clicking this. It'll then appear after I've approved it and will get cycled around the "Rando...
This Verizon Press Release confirms our earlier story about the launch of the XV6700. It's the HTC Apache, which is pretty similar to the HTC Wizard (AKA MDA Vario etc) but with a chunky aerial on the top. According to the Press Release, which you ca...
Last night Bill Gates made his keynote at CES in Las Vegas (webcast here). In the speech he states that there's now a hundred Smartphones on 93 networks in 55 countries with 5 million devices being shipped in 2006 - 36% up on 2005. The Treo 700w, whic...
Are you sat at home sorting through the Christmas gifts and finding socks, socks and more socks? Is your girlfriend / wife out at the sales buying 5 identical-looking tops "because they're half price"? Well maybe it's about time you bought yoursel...
Although this has been mentioned before this could feasibly work with other Smartphones like the Orange SPV C500 / C550 / C600 due to the placement of the Mini USB and audio ports. This iMate SP5m Music Dock is available from Brando.com.hk and will he...
Some lucky dude at Engadget has got his hands on the Sharp W-ZERO3 / WS003SH Pocket PC Phone. It looks a bit like a PSP and a darker-than-average screen. It's got a megapixel camera, a polished black finish and is bigger than the HTC Universal (M5000...
I'm currently vegging out in front of the TV for the regulatory New Years chill-out Day following one too many beers last night. I'd like to pass on my best wishes for a Happy New Year to all our visitors. 2006 is going to be a pretty massive …
Our friends at Boxwave have just launched this HTC Wizard cradle. The Wizard is known as the O2 XDA Mini, Orange SPV M3000, T-Mobile MDA Vario, Qtek 9100 and the i-mate K-JAM. If you'd like yours to sit up straight in it's own special holder then this...
Engadget are reporting that the HTC Apache will be launched under the "Verizon XV6700" name on January 5th. You may remember that competitor Sprint launched the same thing as the PPC 6700 some months back. Although Verizon have a bit of catching-up to...
The Orange SPV C600 is now available if you're upgrading here. However, we've spotted a strange thing. A lot of people have noticed that Orange Backup has vanished on the C600. According to the mails we've received it's been removed because the persis...
We're now running at well over 9 million hits per month according to the stats, which continues to rise month by month. I love doing this site because of the supportive and appreciative emails dropping into my inbox, so today I just wanted to say a ma...
Oh shame, the ringtone provider behind the demon cartoon character from hell has been fined £40,000 by phone regulator "Icstis". The ruling which can be found here - states that.. "......following the receipt of consumer complaints by ICSTIS ... in...
This is the Gigabyte g-Smart Pocket PC Phone with built-in TV and radio (not digital though), a 2.1 mega pixel camera, Windows Mobile 5.0, a free 256Mb MiniSD card, Bluetooth, WiFi AND Push Email! Although currently only available in Taiwan, it is at ...
What better thing to do on a Friday than record a huge great Christmas Podcast! This is a big-ass mother of a Podcast, with news of the C600, Visto trouble, free games, the Samsung i300, the MDA Compact II, our reviews and me being raced by some dude …
It's all kicked off today in the "push email" arena. True "push email" is promised on Windows Mobile devices early in 2006, however a company called Visto have taken great exception to the technology being used by Microsoft to do this, saying that it ...
The Register are reporting the launch of the Mio A201 GPS-ready Pocket PC device. Although slightly larger it does have a flap and swivel GPS unit so that you can use the sat-nav display in any orientation you please. It also comes with the SiRFStar I...
So we've already mentioned that the Orange SPV C600 is on sale here in the UK, plus we've reviewed it too. Well, today you can now also get the American cousin of the SPV C600 in the shape of the Cingular 2125. The "bulgy version" is now on …
