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msmobiles.com reports on the dopod 515, which is now out for sale in Hong Kong. It comes equipped with the Smartphone 2003 OS and a TI OMAP 133MHz (yes, 133Mhz). All this on .. an SPV ? Yes, have a looksie - it's a HTC Canary, the original …
OK, I've had about 4 emails today asking roughly the same question. A few of you have noticed that the massive Smartphony.org is now splitting into a wider interest website, which will cover not only the MS Smartphone platform - but Symbian and Palm O...
France Telecom is set to buy out all minority shareholders of Orange. This may seem like a strange tactic for the debt-riddled company, who currently owes € 49.3bn. However, by getting control of Orange completely, France Telecom also gains access t...
Another milestone flies past as 20,000 people have now joined the coolsmartphone.com family. Woo hoo! We're bigger than microsoft.com baby!!! :) Well, OK... not quite... :) A big thank-you to everyone who has visited coolsmartphone.com!! You guys make...
Have you stopped in a hotel recently ? Were you annoyed that your mobile phone had no signal ? Well, it may not be your networks' fault. A dodgey Scottish business-man by the name of Ronnie McGuire is selling hi-tech phone jammers - which he's bought...
Control your pc and read and send email from your SPV using pockethub. PocketHub lets you remotely access your own PC wherever you are. You can use your existing mobile phone, your PDA or another computer to control and manage all your files, email, a...
Wi-Fi in a phone? Sure, we're waiting for Bluetooth still - but how about a bit of wi-fi on your mobile? Why? Imagine - high-bandwidth video streaming, fast email send/receive with large attachments - all while you're at the airport / motorway service...
Smartphone users from all around will be heading for Birmingham this Saturday as MoDaCo.com holds their summer event in association with Orange. The event will be at the Orange Studios in Cannon Street between 2 and 6, and is by pre-registration only....
SoBig.. SoBig SoBig SoBig SoBig SoBig SoBig.... I've got one piece of advice to everyone on the Internet. If you have a PC and plan to use it on the internet, use virus protection. It is essential now. This is my inbox (right) - it is now getting …
Vodaphone is about to trial a new project to reduce the number of spam SMS messages that their customers receive. Text spam, especially in the UK, is becoming a huge problem. Now Vodaphone is asking anyone who receives such messages to forward it to ...
Keni Barwick has emailed in to offer CoolSmartPhone.com users a special deal. As you know, the new MiTAC Mio 8380 is currently only available in Taiwan. However, Keni is going to ship some over, and you can grab one for £410 (not including P+P and ...
A good and bad day today. Good because my fiances' sister gave birth to a healthy baby boy. Bad because, as we ran through the hospital, I lost the grip on my Smartphone and.. well.. It's now cabbaged.The TFT screen itself is now cracked, no sound com...
There's a small preview of the Motorola V700 Smartphone over at mobile-review.com. The phone appears to have two batteries, which at first sight addresses the battery-life issue head-on - however the back-up battery only supplies enough power to keep ...
Poor old Hutchinson, they're having a really tough time trying to get 3G off the ground here in the UK. They have now lost £300 Million from their "Three" network, as other networks (who are due to launch 3G soon) watch closely for any signs of suc...
This poor lady dropped her Nokia whilst she was shopping, but when she picked it back on and turned it on - the thing BLEW UP! The 33 year old lady suffered burns from the phone. Best of all is the comment from Nokia... "Similar incidents had happene...
Analyst house Quocirca recently looked into the confusing world of tariffs. It appears that, although voice tariffs are pretty simple to understand - the advent of mobile data tariffs, MMS, GPRS, WAP and SMS "bundles" is confusing the hell out of Joe ...
Silicon.com asks whether it may be a good idea to have mobile devices implanted into children. This comes off the back of recent news announcing the HUGE uptake in mobile phones for children, plus the increasing revenue gained from ringtones etc. Cra...
I've now added a new link called Your Photo Blog where you can easily email in your fave Smartphone camera shots!Just attach the picture to an email using your Smartphone (or send it from your PC if you wish) to
[email protected] and your pi...
As a Smartphone tweaker, I'm always browsing around all the sites in the links section to check the "vibe" and see what the latest news is. The latest from MS Mobiles intrigues me. I see quite a bit of MS Smartphone bashing in my everyday life to...
MiTAC have revealed that the Mio 8380 (seen in detail here) is to be released in Europe in September. Stated here on MiTAC's website is the Q3 release date, although it doesn't mention what network it will be available on or which parts of Europe it w...
Pictures of the next MiTAC Mio - the 8390, are appearing around the web. This is MiTAC's second Smartphone after the 8380 and will probably be as locked as the 8380, which makes development as use of this particular handset quite tricky. At present th...
A new service from BlueHereNow allows anyone with a camera phone, digital camera, laptop or PDA to send in photos that are related to local news events. This is an excellent idea and has already been seen in the UK recently when people sent pictures o...
I've now made it easier than ever before to include coolsmartphone.com news into your website. Simply click on the link that reads "Use our News Feed" (or click here if you want) to include the latest news and information into your website.Any problem...
Crappy, expensive, annoying "bleep bleep bleepy bleep" ringtones are set to beat the sales of CD singles, it was reported today. Ringtones are now more profitable to record companies than singles! Ringtones already fleece mobile-phone users to the tu...
Despite intense media advertising, incredibly cheap price plans and attempting to reduce the cost of handsets, Hutchinson is stuggling to shift their 3G handsets on their "3" network. City analysts estimate the company has probably signed up less tha...
In the UK it now appears that soon half a million kids will have mobile phones. This is according to research by mobileYouth. At the moment 400,000 children in the UK have a mobile, and often have them bought by parents who are concerned for their s...
A recent survey by msn.co.uk has shown that newer technologies including text-messages and instant-messenger services are changing the way we speak.It found that far less people begin a text with "Hello" and instead use more informal greetings like "H...
The new CoolSmartPhoneShop.com is now online and ready for action ! Check it out by clicking on the link to the left, or browse directly by clicking here. Naz from smartphones.org.uk will be running and updating the shop, as I'm busy doing the usual a...
Although the E100 (Tanager) has appeared on orange.co.uk and several other Orange sites, it was absent from the international orange.com website until very recently. Now you can check out this page at orange.com to see where you can buy your E100 and ...
Well, it has exceeded any expectations I could have dreamt of. Now we've blown past 15,000 members on coolsmartphone.com! :) While I still have some checking to do (there's some duplicate email addresses etc), this is a huge boost for the MS Smartpho...
Have you received an email from me recently that says..."I would like to inform you about important information regarding your email address"With a Zip attachment ? DO NOT open it - this is a virus, and can come from ANY email address. It wasn't sent ...
Using an calling card on spv to work with Orange!! My old T68i had a calling card feature in which you could presend a 0800 freephone number before sending the tones of a number in your telephone book. This is so that you can call numbers very cheaply...
The Mitac Mio, which we have raved about quite a bit here, is now available to buy on.... Orange! Surprised? Well... yes, we were to. In fact, you can get this phone just by clicking here! The catch ? Well, it's not Europe - or the USA - …
The review of the SPV E100, which was published a few weeks back in Web User magazine (UK based mag) is now up on their website. It gives the SPV E100 a well deserved 4 stars across the board, apart from features - where it gets 5 stars. …
Intel appears to be hitting a bit of a problem with their XScale chips, in that they're sucking battery power. Intel have released an "optimisation kit" to help deal with these issues. This should improve battery performance quite a bit. Gaming especi...
A full review for the splendid Jabra Bluetooth headset is now available here in our reviews section, so take a look and see what you think.Although the Smartphones of today do not have Bluetooth built-in, this is a great way around the problem and all...
Enrico from Pocket PC Italia has just emailed in his video of the new clam-shell Smartphone from Mitac. View it by clicking here. This is in addition to the earlier video from mobilejoe.de and shows off the phone well. Check it out.
The Register reports here that sales of Mobile Phones are on the increase again. Plus, it shows that additions like cameras are helping to pull in more punters and get their existing phones upgraded. The IDC research report also says, "After remarkabl...
Just a few short months ago I bodged together a single web page and called it "My SPV Stuff". It had a few tricks 'n tips for the original Orange SPV, which I'd bought from a shopping centre a few days before. Little did I know that some …
I'm constantly amazed by how popular this site is, and I try my hardest to make sure you lot enjoy it. I spend a lot of time updating, writing articles, uploading stuff and replying to around 30 emails and questions a day. The site itself has to be …
