Category: Website news
SmartPhoneCinema.co.uk and YourSmartPhoneShop.com are now working together to make the worlds biggest collection of Smartphone videos. Brian and Bobby are hoping that the new www.smartphonevideo.com is going to be a massive success. They have loads of...
With over 2 million hits in a mere 9 months, huuuuge Smartphone-viewable website SmartPhone2000.com (which can be viewed on any browser too!) has a competition for you lucky lot. SmartPhone2000.com has had a major revamp and always has the latest sof...
News about the MS Smartphone has been a bit quiet this week. In fact, you could say that it was about as non-existant as those famous "weapons of mass destruction" (oh, political, political - I promise not to mention the glaring lack of evidence, but ...
MVP's are awarded recognition from Microsoft for "spreading the word" about Microsoft products, plus helping the community. I've been proud to be amongst this gang, and now it's expanding even further. You can see a list of the newbies here at MSMobil...
For our German-speaking friends you may be aware of a top MS Smartphone fansite called MobileJoe.de. Well, Joe (the webmaster of MobileJoe) informed me about a week back about his rise to MVP status, and has recently told the world on his forum here (...
Well, I'm back and currently in the middle of downloading several thousand emails. To make things worse, about 99% of them are virused emails - which I presume is this "MyDoom" email virus that I've heard about. In fact, even since my last mail collec...
Well, here in Antigua the sun is blazing and the sea is warm.. but - I have to return sometime! Yes, I'm coming back to a very very snowy England tomorrow morning. :) I'm just gonna have a few more bottles of Carib, then it's time to hit …
Chris Pendlebury has emailed about the Orange Developers site. It's undergone a massive overhaul. Brilliant, good stuff.. But .. where .. where has the Over-The-Air Application Unlock gone ? Well, thanks to jonnybarf at Modaco for finding it again - it can now be found here. Ohh .. …
ChrisJM has emailed me about SmartPhoneStuff.co.uk, which has just been launched. You'll find news, reviews, downloads and... ermm.. everything you'll find here basically.. wait up ! They're in direct competition with me and I'm plugging them! What am...
Yet another chance to win, this time over at new-boys MSMobileNews.com, they've got a spanking new Motorola MPx200 up for grabs, amongst several other things too! (Like StarBlaster, Outlook Task Manager+, SmartPong, Crazy Bubbles, eWallet, ListPro, Ru...
You may have entered our recent competition to win an Orange SPV E200 handset, or one of four Orange SPV E100 hansets - courtesy of our good friends at Orange. If you didn't win, don't worry - you get another chance! This time, courtesy of the good pe...
Well, it's been a long time coming (we know, we know). We wanted to announce the winners on Christmas Day or around New Years, however we had to contact each winner in advance and arrange their prizes! My personal thanks to the many hundreds of you th...
Over at TreoCentral they've popped into one of Microsoft's Mobility User tours to have a look how the Treo compares to the Microsoft Smartphone. They appear to have got the wrong end of the stick though, and state that, "the first mainstream Windows ...
Well, that's it.. I'm back from my last (I hope) bit of Christmas shopping. Nothing is wrapped, no cards have been written ... but that's usual for me. :) All that remains ... apart from wrapping, writing cards and finding some sticky-tape, is to wish...
There's some sites that have been on-line since the early days of the MS Smartphone. msmobiles.com, MoDaCo.com and... us! :) But there was another - a fantastic French site called smartphony.org ...... Now... I'm a normal bloke .. certain things attra...
I'm gonna slightly abuse my position here and say a big congratulations to my cousin - who you may have read about previously here - for winning this year's regional rally championships. After travelling down to London to take part in the final race,...
Anyone want to play the top Xmas videos on their phone? XMAS SONGS BoSelectas_ProperCrimbo.wmv TheCheekyGirls-CheekyChristmas.wmv TheDarkness-ChristmasTime.wmv TheIdols_HappyChristmas-WarIsOver.wmv Wham-LastChristmas.wmv &nb...
I wanna say a big thank-you for your support, your emails and your appreciation during 2003. As we head toward Christmas I wanna give my thanks to all of you, who keep coming back, keep emailing and keep me going! Now, this time of year means several ...
Corey over at the new SmartPhoneMinds.com has TWO Motorola MPx200 handsets to give away, courtesy of Motorola and Microsoft. If you want to find out more, just click here for more information!
Moving in a bit on msmobiles.com's turf is newbie msmobilenews.com - this site has been launched by some MoDaCo members you may well recognise and it's well worth a click. There's some excellent home screens, skins, news and a mobile version of the ...
A bit of a busy week this week. With many competition entries to go through, lots of sh*t to do at work, plus stuff to sort out at home and many other bits this week has been a bit "full". :) Added to that I had to move …
I'm sure you guys will all join me in congratulating webmaster Paul over at the ever-excellent Smartphone forum MoDaCo.com on the birth of his daughter Lucie at 03:29 on Thursday December 4th 2003. Vanessa, Paul and little Lucie Elizabeth O'Brien - w...
Another Smartphone site has joined the internet today, namely SmartPhoneMinds.com - sister site (I believe) of PocketPCMinds.com .. With the Moto and Samsung Smartphones currently crawling their way over America, it's good to see more of a following...
Ok ok! :) I've had LOTS of people asking about this competition and when results will be known. Many thanks to everyone who entered! Your entries have been sent directly to the good people at Orange.co.uk, who are sifting through the hundreds and h...
New site www.mobway.com is on the look out for any developers or enthusiasts to drop by and post any Smartphone stuff to www.mobway.com. If you haven't visited it before, be sure to add it to your list!
I'll tell you a quick story. It's a bit boring, but it's worth telling you lot. Firstly, I had a bit of a problem with the server that runs www.coolsmartphone.com. We'll say "a bit of a problem" and try and cover up the fact that coolsmartphone.com ha...
Bob @ tv2phone.com has pointed me toward his new service, offering live TV streams direct to your MS Smartphone. Just browse to tv2phone.com and click on music, news or whatever and bingo!Some streams work in the cradle (saving your GPRS charge!) - th...
As you guys know, this site is hosted on its own server and is taking up quite a bit of bandwidth. However, I've now reached.. a problem, shall we say. Basically I need some hosting, and sharpish. I've asked this before, and had lots of generous offer...
Due to continual abuse, people advertising porn pages, people offering to SIM unlock and network unlock phones etc etc. I have now removed the comments system, which allowed you guys to add your feelings to articles and news. Apologies for this. I ha...
To celebrate the debut of the MPx200 and the launch of MPx200.org, they are giving away a huge pile of great prizes! So far there are 46 copies of 18 different software titles and some surprise goodies to be given away just about every four days over ...
OK guys, as you all know this site takes ... well, a lot of bloody work. We're talking several hours a day. :) So I need a bit of help.The articles section, which holds most of the stuff I've written about the Smartphone, needs a bit of a …
You may think it a little crazy of me to be plugging other "competing" websites, but you'd be wrong - the more the merrier, as it benefits the Smartphone community! Today MPx200.org appeared on my screen. It's run by Sean from the USA, and he's just ...
Thanks to Paul over at the worlds best Smartphone forum, MoDaCo.com, I've now stuck a link in to their online chat! You can now chat live to people by simply clicking "Chat" on the left panel. Give it a try. Click me to chat!
Thanks to Arthur Konze, I've now implemented a new feature on the downloads section that'll allow you to see a preview screenshot of what you're downloading! Hurray!! :) This has been a long time coming, and I know a lot of you have been asking to se...
As you may have seen, coolsmartphone.com vanished last night. This was due to various boring reasons that I won't go into, but I want to thank everyone who's sent donations and offered hosting / help etc. On a personal note, I'm moving into our first ...
You may have noticed a new addition on the left-side of the site today. This is a calendar, where you can add events and important dates. I've stuck a couple in to get it started - like the birthday of this site on November 1st 2003. Hurra! We …
Paul over at the massive MoDaCo.com sends this...Full Details: http://smartphone.modaco.com/viewtopic.php?t=94755 "We are very excited to annouce the MoDaCo Prize for Innovation 2003. An anonymous benefactor has donated £500 as a prize for the indi...
Running a site of this size unfortunately does have the odd bad point - spam and viruses being the major ones. Swen, probably the most (un)popular virus at the moment, has been filling up my inbox for months now. In fact, if I didn't have broadband I'...
We like skins - they jazz up the Smartphone and make it look well sexy. One fave site of mine is www.kleinweder.ch, which has just been redesigned by webmaster and design guru Philipp. Although I don't speak the language, I can understand "Download:"....
Strewth! 30,000 people - and as I speak, there's 310 people on-line.. I'm still pretty fazed by all this y'know. :) I'm waiting for the Motorola MPx200 and the Orange SPV E200 .. these two phones are really going to change things. The Motorola MPx200,...
