Category: General
As we hurtle toward Christmas, what could be better than confirmation that yet another Windows Mobile Smartphone will be launching in the UK ? Well, the Motorola MPx220 will, according to my sources (they live in the cardboard boxes behind mobile phon...
Tong has emailed me (Who ? Pete Tong ? Ramalama ding-dong? .. oh, no.. different person.. it's Tong Zhang, the webmaster of the site below) to say that his new US-based Smartphone site / forum, SmartPhoneChatter.com is hosting a three-week giveaway ev...
OK, so you know the deal by now. An until-recently-fairly-unknown company called HTC makes the handsets, then the network plonk their badges on and call it their own... or other companies if you want. Heck, if the network pays enough they can change t...
This Register story reports on a new breed of smartphones which will, in the future, predict where you're going and who you'll meet. The original news release comes from the New Scientist and details of "what could be" are quite interesting... "The Ne...
Orange shops have launched C500 on pay as you go at £149.99. Hurraaa! :) Although it's not on the Orange website as I type, I've had it on very good authority that the phone is available now on PAYG!
It seems that the Audiovox SMT 5600 is down, but by no means out. We'd always suspected that Cingular, after swallowing up AT&T, would test and re-introduce the Windows-Powered Audiovox SMT 5600 - now this Engadget.com story seems to support it. As yo...
MoDaCo.com are offering you the chance of winning either $1000 first prize or a $500 second prize - all just by filling in a simple web form! You don't need to be a developer, you just need to answer a few quick questions about how you use your …
A big-ass Nokia brick on the front page of a Microsoft Smartphone website ? Well, I guess my dad would be pleased, I had to convince him fairly recently to upgrade from his chunky Nokia 5.1 - it was pretty much the same size as this Nokia 2110. …
Silicon.com and many other news sites are reporting today on the news that the Queens speech is to include Government proposals to double the existing £30 and include 3 penalty points on your licence if you're driving with your phone held to your e...
Wll satellite navigators used in automobiles be banned in Norway? Yes, if the norwegian police have their way.According to a newsreport on TV2 the police in Norway are looking to ways to ban the use of satellite navigators and GPS's in automobiles. Bo...
Just a few short months ago it seemed that the US market was finally taking off for Microsoft-powered phones. The MPx220 launched, then the Audiovox SMT 5600 appeared and quickly received rave reviews as AT&T stocked it in their shops. Now, just a sho...
The MPx220 had a difficult first few months. Camera problems and sound issues plagued it, and then AT&T / Cingular / Best Buy recalled it to fix the sound. Well, it turns out that the phones will get returned, updated, then an orange sticker will get ...
The T-Mobile MDA Compact, T-Mobile SDA and the T-Mobile SDA Music are all coming to T-Mobile UK soon and Lutzh has got them all - plus an SPV C500 here at MSMobiles.com. The full story, along with incredibly high-quality photos, can be found here. Lut...
First we hear about the recall of the Motorola MPx220 (here at HowardForums.com) due to sound issues and now.. now we have more news from the States about the Audiovox SMT 5600. According to several websites, the recent Cingular / AT&T Wireless merger...
Following this story about the T-Mobile SDA here in the UK, we've got even more good news! T-Mobile have contacted me today regarding this... "I refer to your recent email about SDA handsets. I can confirm that we are planning to launch the SDA Bu...
Not a major story this, but interesting to see that the Orange Shop has labelled the silver C500 as the "Orange SPV C500 S" - you can get more detail on getting a silver one by clicking here. The silver C500's are available to customers taking the O...
You may have heard about the Samsung i640 / i645 Smartphone already - this is the follow-up to the fairly chunky Samsung SCH-i600 handset. Well, here's the Samsung i640 / i645 running Windows Mobile 2003 SE. If you're confused on the name, the i640 h...
Following our earlier story about the T-Mobile SDA, we can now give you some more info! Very reliable sources are now telling us that both the T-Mobile MDA III and the T-Mobile SDA are both planned for launch later this month / begining of December. I...
Just a small bit of news. I've tweaked the site so that it'll work with Mozilla Firefox 1. Firefox is a new web browser which is currently gaining a lot of users. I know what everyone is gonna say...."Ugh! I'm not downloading this Firefox browser if p...
Orange have geared themselves up for a Christmas launch of their 3G handsets. 6 will be available at launch - all non-MS powered things. :) They come from Motorola, LG, Nokia, Samsung, Sanyo and SonyEricsson. This ZDNet.co.uk story has more info on ...
I've just had a message from the guys at T-Mobile Customer Services. I asked them whether the T-Mobile SDA would be coming out in the UK a few months back, but they were pretty tight-lipped. However, in a phone call from them today they stated... "Th...
OK, so you know about this event by now? Yes? Good. If you don't, click here and get your name down quick! .. tssk.. fancy leaving it until the last minute eh? You're like those drivers in roadworks who bomb down the outside line and try and cut …
Yes, it certainly seems that way, according to this GSMStunts.nl story. The T-Mobile SDA is gradually weaving its' way across Europe, and will be available in the Netherlands later this month. The handset is free on the "Relax 300" package and above,...
As you may be aware, I'm based in the UK. I know a lot about the SPV handsets, but not a great deal about the T-Mobile SDA / SDA Music (Germany) or the Audiovox SMT 5600 (USA) or even the Motorola MPx220. CoolSmartPhone has a large range of …
If you're in the USA then you'll have the luxury of chosing between two new Microsoft Windows Mobile phones - the Motorola MPx220 and the AudioVox SMT 5600. Which is best ? Well, this MobileGizmo.com article should help you. Personally, when I saw the...
CoolSmartPhone launched as a single web-page way back on November 1st 2002. At first it was just a test page saying, "this is the SPV, it's a phone from Microsoft". About a fortnight later I managed to get my hands on the original Orange SPV and the s...
The huge MobileJoe.de website is now back online. This comes following our earlier story regarding the traffic situation at MobileJoe after it bacame the place to resolve any T-Mobile SDA issues. Click back viewers!
We've already seen the Sagem MyS-7, but now it's due to appear under the MiTAC brand as the MiTAC Mio 8870. No info on a release date or anything, but it's good news all the same.MiTAC have a major problem.. they just don't put Bluetooth in their hand...
Many of our German visitors will be aware that the excellent MobileJoe.de website is experiencing some problems at the moment. Joe, webmaster of the site, will hopefully not mind me explaining the reason why. Basically, it's all down to the T-Mobile ...
Our friends at Orange (who brough us the SPV range) have reached and breached the 52 million-customer mark. This "TheRegister.co.uk" article also states that ... "In the UK, the average annual amount each punter spends with Orange was up £4 to £...
There's some things I'm not a great fan of. There's no big list really, although I'd have to include the people at Motorola who postponed "indefinitely" the Motorlola MPx100 and the continuing delays to the Motorola MPx being just two (Come on Motorol...
Yep, Liam G has emailed to inform me of this ebay.co.uk auction for a Motorlola MPx. The MPx is a cleverly designed Pocket PC Phone with a dual-action hinge. If you wanna get in on this auction, click here. Oh, by the way, this Ebay seller has no …
MSMobiles.com is reporting on this .... this ...and ... this offering from EuroPhone. Although we don't know much about these phones as yet, we're hoping to hear a lot more about them soon! For more info, click here to go to the EurophoneUSA.com. All...
Some rather hilarious but possibly missed solutions to the Motorola MPx220's problems have been uncovered by the guys at SmartPhoneThoughts.com. Firstly, the volume issue could be all down to a small piece of sticky tape over the speaker. These small ...
James Kennedy has emailed in about these MiniSD cards from Offtek.co.uk. They're ruddy cheap - 57 quid for a 512Mb MiniSD card, 35 quid for 256Mb and 25 quid for 128Mb! Check them out here at Offtek.co.uk.
More bad news from the USA about the MPx220. The volume on the handset appears to be causing many users to return the phone and now some stores are beggining to cease selling them. It's another blow for the MPx220 handset, which is the successor to th...
I've been lucky enough to get my hands on a MiTAC Mio 8390 handset for a short while. The Mio is on sale in Taiwan and elsewhere and is now being distributed in the UK by AGBGlobal.com. The Mio runs Windows Mobile 2003 on a very nippy Intel …
Essentially both the Orange SPV C500 (Europe) and the AudioVox SMT 5600 (USA) are the same handset and they're getting some excellent coverage across the web at the moment. However, I'm annoyed to see the silly "bad points" mentioned in some web revi...
I've just added a recent submissions page which will show you the latest 100 file additions. These are the very freshest downloads in our downloads section. This is designed to complement the existing Top 100 Downloads. Both of these will show you how...
Martyn Hardacre has spotted this EBay auction which is selling a 512Mb MiniSD card for £55. It's branded as ATP and comes from a German Power-seller. I've purchased a digital camera from Germany recently over EBay and I can vouch for the quality of...
