Category: General
The 3G SPV that we've featured here should be out later this year. Umm.. I think. See, to be honest I'm not sure because I've had a sneaky look at the device road-map for Orange in 2005 and it mentions that... "A Windows Mobile-based 3G phone will al...
Seagate recently announced that it is shipping the highest capacity one inch hard drive available, with a capacity of 6 gigabytes. The drive is projected to be able to store 150 hours of music, or about 3 000 songs at 128kbps. Expect a 6GB iPod mini ...
It seems CoolSmartPhone is in the news itself, albeit only on the web. As an IT type person myself, I regularly trawl a number of sites aimed at like-minded profesionals. One such site is www.TheRegister.com, who are highly regarded as a source of new...
I've chatted to Joe from MobileJoe.de in the past and he's always been very complimentary about T-Mobile Germany and the support they've given him. T-Mobile were always keen to show the latest Windows Mobile Phones and get as many developers and custo...
Oh dear, flamboyant Stelios, head-honcho at the "easy" empire, has landed himself in a bit of doo-doo with Orange. Only last week Stelios announced his new easyMobile service with T-Mobile. Stelios, who's always keen on protecting his "easy" brand nev...
MoDaCo have picked up this iDNES.cz story showing the new Newgen D2000W. If you don't want to translate, try visiting the NewGenTel.com site itself here and have a butchers. It's a slide-design and looks very nice indeed. It comes with a very quick In...
Orange have announced a massive rollout of EDGE in France and aim to cover the entire country with EDGE, 3G and WiFi by the end of 2006. EDGE, for those who don't know, is like GPRS on drugs. EDGE will enhance the number of bits that can be …
Our friends at MobyMemory.com have recently cut prices across the entire range of mini-SD cards to the following, with the 1GB cards now under £100 mark!: 1GB mini-SD - £99.99512MB mini-SD - £39.99256MB mini-SD - £20.99128Mb mini-SD - £12.99 Moby...
The T-Mobile SDA started appearing in T-Mobile shops recently, however I haven't heard much from those who've managed to bag themselves one of these devices. So, if you have one, let me know what you think! I'm also interested in receiving reviews of ...
Just a quick note about the mobile version of CoolSmartPhone.com (click here to see). As you may or may not know, when you browse to ... http://www.coolsmartphone.com ...on any device, the site will do some magic and will automatically detect whether ...
This Monday morning at around 8AM UK time (GMT / UTC), CoolSmartPhone will be off-line for around 15 minutes while a core network switch is upgraded. Don't worry if you can't see us! We will be back within quarter of an hour! :) I have also added a …
A tiny little outfit calling themselves "Nokia" (never heard of them, have you?) may well be getting the mobile Windows Media Player on their devices very soon, according to this Nokia press release. In it, music delivery solution "Loudeye" is used in...
Rey J Vegafria, owner and webmaster of the excellent Airfagev.com site has emailed in to tell us about his new funky site design. Airfagev.com is the place to go if you've got a Smartphone in the Philippines and Rey is always ready to help. He holds e...
In this Register story there's plenty of info about the way things are developing in the Smartphone arena. While some, like the Microsoft Smartphones (C500 / SMT 5600) are getting smaller and smaller by the day, other smartphones are in fact getting l...
MoDaCo have been running a poll - a very worthy poll too. They're trying to get a UK network to come up with a £10 per month with an Acceptable Use Limit of 100MB per month GPRS plan. Now unfortunately they only want it to be available to …
If you live in Swindon, pop down to the T-Mobile shop at 57 The Parade (or call them on 01793 533888). Why ? Well, they've got some of these... Our "mole" (hiya Alun) has had a play with it and says.. "Bearing in mind it's a brand new …
During the past couple of weeks I've tried in vain to contact the UK Press Office of T-Mobile. I haven't heard a squeek out of them at all, but today I did get this picture from a completely different source. The handset in question is the T-Mobile SD...
Hey! Do you want something cool in your inbox every week ? Do you want the latest Smartphone goss ? The latest downloads and lovely stuff for your SPV / SMT5600 / MPx200 etc etc ? Well now you can 'cus we're .. (me, I mean me.. it's …
Today, DAT Group plc and Dangaard Telecom announced they would form a new company, Tabella LP, to develop and market a new mobile email solution. The service has been specifically designed to match the market demand for managed mobile messaging soluti...
Friedrich has emailed in regarding my earlier story on the TIM network picking up the MPx220. It would appear that I got a few bits wrong. Mainly, I had trouble translating stuff because the site is actually in Portuguese, not Spanish.. DOAH. Anyway,...
I'm not sure whether this has been covered yet, so I'm going to do a quick story about it. It was announced last week that telecoms network TIM will be carrying the Motorola MPx220 phone. More information direct from TIM can be found here. TIM is a Br...
Online Petition for SPV C500 users with screen dust ingress There is now an online petition for people who'd like decisive action on the persistent problem many SPV C500 owners are experiencing: dust getting in and covering areas of the LCD screen. I...
Yes, another news item on the MPx220. :) Although here in Europe the MPx220 is yet to make its mark, it's interesting to see what's coming. The 220 has a megapixel camera, bluetooth and is Motorolas' second clamshell Windows Mobile phone after the ver...
I've had quite a few emails since this news item about the MPx220 went online. You guys wanted some more info about my Motorola MPx220, like what version of the OS it's running and where it came from. You also wanted to know when it was coming out …
Marc Wintle has been emailing me for a few days now about a new service from BonusPrint which prints your Smartphone photos or puts them into an online gallery. I've been a little slow to pick up on it and it's now been mentioned elsewhere (see this M...
Another addition today is the improvement and re-working of the syndicated feeds coming in from other Smartphone websites. You can find these here and they now all have very clever little sub-menus too. Updated also is your photo blog, where you can i...
After spectacularly falling off the non-drinking wagon last night, I did some of my infamous late night completely drunk PHP coding. The end result, as I look at it the next morning, seems quite good. It basically means that you can now quick link to ...
Well, in a word. No. We've heard about the camera issues it had, plus the low volume on calls. However, I've got one right here with the very latest OS Version and I wanted to put a few things right before finishing off a full review. Firstly, the …
A few hours ago I posted this story about the CoolSmartPhone server being shut down by our hosting company. Well, it would appear that it was all one big ... umm.. well, we're not sure what happened. I'm sat here just trying to figure out what the duc...
For reasons best known to themselves, the company hosting this site believe that I have been using my server for "an eBay scamming scheme". I have just received an email saying that my account will be closed and the server will be removed immediately....
Quick update, we've now moved again! We're now located in California and have an even bigger server this time, with room to play with both bandwidth-wise and storage-wise. If you're reading this and are having trouble logging in, it may be worth tryin...
Just when you think you've got a funky phone, along comes someone with an even better one. Step forward XCute Mobile Corp, who've produced this digital movie camera / 3 mega-pixel digital still-camera / DVD player (with TV-out!) / MP3 / phone combo ! ...
Looks like Vodaphone have grabbed themselves 5.4m more customers in the last quarter of 2004. However, the actual spending of their user-base is down and the "ARPU figure" (ARPU stands for "average revenue per user" fell. Hmmmm.. sounds like they coul...
CoolSmartPhone member Wez (hi Wez), emailed in about a great deal he's spotted on MiniSD cards here at MobyMemory.com. At the moment they're only £119.99 for a whole GIG! Each card comes with a 5 year manufacturers warranty and 14-day money-back guar...
The new version of SmartPhoneTV.com that has just been launched. SmartPhoneTV.com can officially claim that they are now the worlds largest video site for mobile phones. They now cater in wmv, mpg and 3gp videos (which the newer windows smartphones pl...
Youssof emailed in with info on the proposed release date of the MPx220 on Vodaphone in the UK. Hopefully we may even see the MPx ... "I got this message from Vodafone and thought u might like to see it. I sent them a question concerning the MPX's …
For those of you who don't know, there's an incredibly useful website on the net called The Wayback Machine. It works by allowing you to browse old versions of websites which have been either cached or saved on a couple hundred modified servers situat...
I've been tweaking around with the XML feeds here at CoolSmartPhone. To get the full range of XML feeds that are now available, just click here. I've had a few emails regarding the previous feed, which included my blog. People don't tend to want to in...
If you're reading this then it means that we've successfully shifted to our new hosted server in the USA. My attempt at upgrading the site to a new version of it's Content Management System had to be aborted as it just couldn't take the load. This is ...
Cingular talk here about their continuing commitment to Windows Mobile devices in 2005 and firmly put the Motorola MPx220 and Audiovox SMT5600 in their 2005 portfolio. Details from this d-silence.com article include details of the existing phones on C...
