Category: General

WORLD EXCLUSIVE – REAL MPx220 pics!

I've just been forwarded this exclusive picture (top) of an actual MPx220 ! Check it out! :) (By the way, it's 12.08pm when I'm writing this boys and girls, I haven't started on the beer yet! It's real!) Below it is another picture, taken from SmartDe...

Text spammers fined

I'm sure we've all seen those friggin' irritating text messages that pop up on the phone. Y'know the type, "You've got a TCS answer phone message, dial XXXX to collect" - you call it, then there's some woman telling you you've won hundreds of thousand...

Mpx220 Rumour 2387

Apparently Orange are now beginning to test the Orange Motorola MPx220. Just talked to Orange about an upgrade to my SPV, I talked about an SPV E200 but then asked about the MPx220. They are testing it now ready for a launch. Now, do I want silver or …

MS researched in Europe

In Neil Enns third video for Channel 9, he admits that Microsoft did indeed do most of their research (before entering the mobile phone market) in Japanese and Europe. Why? Well, mainly because these areas are more advanced in mobile technology and if...

Mobile Phone Virus

I've lost count of the amount of times that this has been forwarded to me recently. It's rubbish, ignore it - for more info click here to visit Symantec.com.If you get any mails like this, please bin them and stop forwarding them!!! :) "ALL MOBILE PHO...

Camera phones illegal in US

Crazy it might sound, but yes - it appears to be going that way. The US have now approved the "Video Voyeurism Prevention Act", and since passing the Senate last year, it's now also gone through the House Judiciary Committee. It's well on it's way to ...

More MPx100 and Sagem myS-7 pics..

In amongst the hundreds of irritating "Wandadoo" adverts here at Mobinaute (the one that used to be Smartphony.org) are these piccies of the MPx100 and Sagem myS-7 handsets, shortly to appear on networks. Yes, yes, that's all good. But I do have to s...

Rumours, rumours…

More stuff I'm hearing today.. the MPx220 is apparently due in August on UK network o2 and in September on Orange... It looks like Motorola are gonna take the MS Smartphone to a whole new level this Autumn! :)

TV SD Recorder

An interesting story here on a device which records TV programs direct onto an SD card, which can then be slotted into a phone for playback anywhere. Mitsubishi Plastics makes the pyramid-shape recording device, which connects with a TV or VCR. An SD...

E200 Car Kit Ready to Go

Over at SmartPhoneAddOns.com the E200 fully fitted car kit is now in stock and ready to roll, so have a butchers if you don't wanna get caught by the cops! :) Suitable for the SPV E200, Qtek 8080, iMate2 and O2 X-phone, it needs professionally fitting...

VPN that Voq!

  Sierra Wireless Embeds Certicom's movianVPN Client in new Voq Professional Phone™New smart phone to provide business users with secure email capabilities while leveraging existing security infrastructureMISSISSAUGA, Ontario - May 11,...

Brits say "no" to MMS

It seems that MMS just isn't tickling the fancy of us brits. In a recent survey by NOP it appears that 80% of those surveyed want absolutely nothing to do with it. Orange are currently pushing hard with free trials for new products and services - th...

Preorder the MPx220

Barely a few days after pouring doubt on reports that the MPx220 is coming soon, it now seems that US-based SmartPhoneThoughts.com affiliate Tek'nToys is taking pre-orders for the MPx100 here and - more amazingly, the MPx220 here I'm confused, because...

SD + Wifi Card coming

We've reported on this before, but it's still good to see that it's on the way! :) Cydex emailed me about this story at Brighthand. It seems that SanDisk is planning on suppying a 256Mb SD complete with Wi-Fi for the Smartphone! The story goes onto s...

MPx220 on AT&T soon?

News from Mobile Gadget News reaches us today of a release date for the MPx220... apparently it'll be out at the end of this month. Now... I'm confused. Moto haven't announced this handset at all. They came out with the MPx100 and the MPx recently wi...

Titbits from the web…

So, after all the MPx220 rumours, I decided to email Motorola myself and ask about the infamous clamshell handset - still yet to be announced by Moto. Here's what they said..."Thank you for your recent correspondence to Motorola. In reference to your ...

MPx220 – USA News!

This comes from Ben Ferguson, who says... I received the following today after my enquery about the MPX220 in the USA, thought you may want to see the reply..."Dear Mr. Ferguson,Thank you for contacting Motorola e-mail support. We really appreciate yo...

Another MPx220 response…

Another surprising email from the guys at Motorola UK today, following the email sent to MoDaCo.com here earlier. John Naylor picked up this email after asking Moto about the MPx220... I'll let John take up the story himself... :) Having emailed moto...

Happy Buffday Orange!

Today marks the tenth birthday of network operator Orange. Ten years ago today Orange set up the UK's fourth mobile network in competition with BT's Cellnet (now o2), Mercury One-2-One (now T-Mobile) and Vodafone. At the time observers predicted that...

SmartFone.net swaps to SlashPhone

April 26, 2004 (Internet) – today SmartFone.net announced that it intends to change its name to SlashPhone . Since its birth in November of 2003, SmartFone.net has experienced incredible growth, and has attracted a sizable following...

MoDaCo Meet

MoDaCo.com has their Spring event today. On show was the MPx, plus the MPx100 and many other MS Smartphones. Unfortunately I couldn't make it as .. well, the sun was out - it was a nice day and I had to enjoy it. At least that was my …

More MPx220 mumblings

See I reckon you're an 8 or a 9, maybe a 9 and a half in four beers time.. Yes, it's bloody catchy isn't it ? Even the entire lyrics are here! Anyways.. where was I ? Yes yes, oh yay. There's more rumours that the well-hidden Motorola …

Nokia in trouble

Poor old Nokia appear to be having some problems right now. Faced with increasingly tough competition from Samsung and Motorola amongst others. This Silicon.com story quotes analyst Urban Ekelund at Redeye, who says... "It does not look good. It is o...

The MPx220 appears again

By gum, the Motorola MPx220, which is similar to the MPx200 but with an integrated camera and bluetooth, has now been featured in a Motorola competition. This is good news, especially when the MPx100 and MPx was announced recently, but the MPx220 was...

The Summit….

If you missed our previous article on MVP's you may wanna check this picture out, which shows most of us Mobile Devices bods at the recent summit. We're pulling some strange pose here. I'm not quite sure why ;) I'm right at the back with my thumb up, …

What’s an MVP?

You guys may have heard me mention the "MVP" thing previously. What is all this "MVP" stuff I hear you ask ? (Maybe) :) Well, it stands for "Most Valuable Professional" and is a yearly award given out by Microsoft to those who've helped the community ...

Boom! Exploding Nokia 4!

Yahoo! reports on yet another Nokia exploding today. This comes just a few short months after studies found the some Nokia batteries to be dangerous and 3 other Nokias blew up. Have a read of our earlier stories on this .... Exploding Nokia #1 Explo...

The MPx220 – yes, it is coming!

Over at MoDaCo.com there's confirmation via an email from Motorola regarding the production of the Motorola MPx220, which can be seen here. The MPx220 hasn't been mentioned much since it appeared around the web, however we have seen Motorola confirm t...

It’s that time again..

Yes folks, it's that time again - the quarterly bills for bandwidth and hosting. This time they aren't too bad, but I'm gonna try hard to pull on your heart strings here. ;) ;) CoolSmartPhone.com is .. me, basically. I put the majority of the news an...

SmartPhoneThoughts.com

You may have heard about this article recently, which stated that smartphones were no good and supported badly.Although the article didn't state which particular smartphones they were on about (Sony Ericsson smartphones? Nokia smartphones? MS Smartpho...

VnuNet.com review the E200

VnuNet.com have reviewed the Orange SPV E200 here and they've given it a well deserved 4 stars. Thanks to the recent update, which improves battery life somewhat, there is very little to complain about. Although the reviewer does make a few mistakes ...

April Fools…

(By the way, this was posted this morning - AHA! It was all a big April Fools Joke) ;) Shocking news this morning. I've just got off the phone with Paul at MoDaCo.com, who has accepted an offer from Nokia to purchase the MoDaCo.com site. Paul has jus...

Sierra and Handango get pally

  Sierra Wireless Bundles Handango's On-Device Download Catalog on the New Voq Professional Phone™Catalog offers unique data services and drives revenue for operators from application sales and downloadsSierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIR - ...

New accessories deal !!

Here at coolsmartphone.com we're always on the look out for the latest deals and bargains. That's why we've linked up with the guys at SmartPhoneAddOns.com to give all coolsmartphone.com visitors an instant 10% discount on every product - however, you...

More MPx100 shots compared to the MPx200

Here at MPx200.org / Mobile Gadget News there's some crackin' pictures of the Motorola MPx100 alongside the MPx200 that's currently on the market. Although the MPx100 in these shots is running Windows Mobile 2003, it does show the Bluetooth symbol an...

CoolSmartPhone Software Shop!

Today (well, actually it was yesterday, but I had a few too many beers) marks the launch of the CoolSmartPhone Software Shop! We're working with "ClickGamer" to bring you the hottest Smartphone games, and don't forget to try before you buy ! Grab the...

Help make us famous!

Congrats once more to my cousin for winning the Approved Car Finance Heart of England Rally Championship. Dave and his co-driver Aid Camp picked up their awards at Hagley Golf Club, Hagley, Worcestershire and you can see pictures here.Their most recen...

Aldi to sell the Smartphone!?

It looks like king of the "cheap 'n cheerful" supermarkets - Aldi - is to start selling the Smartphone too. A company called Medion do their IT and entertainment products, which include Bluetooth headsets from a mere £39.99! According to this MSMo...

I want one !!!!!! :)

I've had 1...2...3,4,... well, about 500 emails asking me, "how do I change my case", or "I wanna change my facia, how do I do it?". Up until now it's not been as easy as the Nokia handsets, which seem to have all manner of extra bits on …

MPx100 – a closer look

The MPx100 and the Sagem are, to be honest, a bit similar in the way they look. The major differences are the inbuilt camera (the Sagem will have a 640x480 pixel camera like the E200 has now, whereas the MPx100 will have a 1.3 megapixel camera) and Bl...