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Friends of the site CLOVE are running a great competition where you can win a whole host of goodies and all you need to do is share photos… it’s that simple!. Over on their official site there is a lot of information which we have copied below for …
Mobile Phone retailers Clove are currently running a competition, the prize is an HTC Incredible S. All you have to do is create an Androidify Avatar and email it them. Obviously the more unique it is, the more likely that you might win. The idea is to get …
AT&T are a massive network over in America (just in case you didn’t know) and even were the launch partner for the original iPhone. In a recent interview head of AT&T spoke out about Windows Phone 7 devices and it seems from a network view he wishes it …
Yes, the commenting system was down yesterday. Strangely this time it had nothing to do with beer but involved our content delivery system trying to take over. Everything should be fine now, but do let me know if you spot anything strange. Please feel free to add your …
Hello. Forgive my indulgence here but I’ve just read our local paper and I felt compelled to do something about this. Meet Cameron, he’s eight. In 2010 he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma. He had chemotherapy and radiotherapy and was a really brave …
Right, I’ve had a fair amount of stick about this. During our huge facelift earlier this year we dumped the original mobile site. A lot of you use mobile websites and wanted this functionality back. An even greater number found that our new site didn’t render properly in …
I recently decided to start a series of podcasts, discussing various areas of technology. In episode one, we focus on the rumours surrounding the iPhone 5 and iOS 5.
Recently I was asked if I would like to take part in The Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast which is run by our friends at Tracy & Matt and their team to which of course I agreed. As a listener of the podcast for a while it was a real honour …
We’ve just added another server to our cluster for extra speed and reliability. You should hopefully see an improvement in page loading, especially on the main page. For the tech-heads our main server is an Intel Core i7-920 Quadcore with Hyper-threading and 12GB of DDR3 RAM. Content Delivery …
I’m not looking to promote another site. Let me make this clear. However, Endgadet are experiencing some changes. A couple of weeks ago, Paul Miller, a senior editor announced he was leaving. Then tonight, Nilay Patel and Editor in chief Josh Topalsky have announced that they are leaving. …
Some of you may have noticed a new magnifying glass icon appearing next to your search results over the last few days. Clicking on these icons launches a new Instant Previews feature which Google has just introduced. They provide a great way for visually searching through sites when …
Woaha, and I really mean “Woaha!”. We really weren’t expecting that. Apologies for the downtime last night (Wednesday morning). We appear to have had a LOT more traffic than we could have ever expected.. and I mean.. A LOT. This effectively knocked the main server clean over last …
Over the last couple of days we’ve had a number of issues. It’s a fallout from the big design and back-end website management change we did recently. Since everything went live we’ve seen memory usage on our main server rise considerably, and no amount of caching seemed to …
So we are well and truly into 2011 and January is already half over….. that means we are just weeks from this years Mobile World Congress event which is the highlight of the year when it comes to mobile phones and mobile communications, just after everyone has had chance to recover from …
As mentioned previously we’ve changed the site from a very old content management system to a new one. This has taken a long time to do, however earlier this week we were getting to the point where all news items had to be duplicated across both systems. This …
Finally, after months of work, we can now reveal our new look. This is our ninth year online and this fresh new look also marks a whole new backend for the site. It’ll make updates, reviews and navigation a whole lot quicker and easier, but for those of …
As we approach the end of 2010, Mobile World Congress is just around the corner and is once again held in Barcelona, Spain between February 14th - 17th. Last year I was kindly invited along with Sony Ericsson to be their blogger and also to spend some...
During the last few years we've obviously linked to a number of sites and there's one in particular that's perhaps gained a certain reputation for a rather combative and tabloid writing style. The msmobiles.com site hadn't received an update for some ...
Phonesdirect.com has just launched with a range of SIM-free HTC kit to choose from. The website is now online and there's a new partnership with Vodafone to reduce the cost of SIM free phones. Danny Key, Business Development Manager of phonesdirect.co...
Morning all. I'd just like to keep you posted on a few things that are happening behind the scenes.It's been an incredibly busy few days. Last week we started seeing drive errors on our server, so we shipped everything to a temporary box and swapped t...
Thanks for your feedback on our commenting system yesterday. We've taken a few things on board. A few of your have suggested a site redesign, which is something we've considered too. It's on the cards and we'll be changing the way everything looks and...
I have a question for you lot. Just lately, due to hardware problems and firewall tweaks, we've been fiddling around in the datacentre and generally scratching our heads quite a bit. It's got me thinking about the way the site works and I'm feeling th...
If you're reading this then welcome to our temporary home. We've rapidly moved servers due to a rather severe drive problem on our existing server. I've got to go down to the data centre at some point and swap the drives on it but, with any luck, you …
Recently the annual What Mobile Forum Meet-Up was held in London and was the place where members of the site and fans of mobile can get together and chat tech and drink, plus get to meet a few more people like yourselves who want to check out the …
Conflipper, for those who aren't aware, has been a great source of information for HTC, Windows Mobile and Android news for quite some time. However, it looks like he's now hanging up his keyboard, with shipped-roms.com finally coming to an end too. ...
See? I told you we'd have another competition. This one is thanks to the lovely people at Mobilefun.co.uk and is for you lucky HTC Desire owners. They've sent us a genuine HTC carry pouch (normally £15.47) and this cool pouch (normally £12.47) which...
A couple of weeks ago we gave you the chance to win one of three MSDN Ultimate subscriptions. We had over a hundred entries, but the lucky winners are as follows... Ian Smith - Dave Poyser - Paul Williams We've had a good rummage around the Coolsmartp...
Today we did some tweaking to the site and pretty much pressed the "Turbo" button. The amount of extra traffic to the main page is simply shocking, so we've added some extra magic beans to get things moving at light speed. To celebrate we're giving aw...
We've experienced quite a lot of extra visitors recently, so my rather strange coding has been under some severe strain during peak times. We've previously added extra PHP script caching and this has helped a great deal, however it's still not enough ...
Shipped ROMs recently had a cease and desist letter from HTC. It looked like HTC wanted the whole site offline, but now there's a twist, with HTC telling site owners that only test and carrier files must be removed. This is because certain carrier / n...
We've recently expanded again to cover iPhone news. To make sure you're getting the news you want, we've created separate news feeds and sub-sections. The little RSS feed icon on the top-right will show all the feeds you can have, plus there's the lin...
For iPhone coverage we have a separate site - iPhoneBANG. However, with the release of the new iPhone 4 I've had quite a few people who are surprised not to see info on coolsmartphone.com. Many have asked for us to start covering the iPhone on the mai...
Our dedicated forums for lucky HTC Desire and HTC Legend owners are now online. For Windows Mobile owners we've also added HTC HD2 and HD mini forums for your handset-specific questions.
Hey you. You lovely, lovely person you. See all this news 'n stuff ? That's all because of you that is. If you've heard or seen something we've not covered, give us a nudge. We love your
Today I'm proud to announce our new mobile phone deals website. Working in partnership with The Blog House I wanted somewhere where you guys could search all those thousands of tariffs on all the networks and find the best deal. To find a plan, just ...
A quick personal note. Since the site started I've maintained a blog on blogs.coolsmartphone.com. It's been my own special section for quite some time now, however, with the increased size of this site and the introduction of more writers I can no lon...
Hey. Come close. Are you heading to the Mobile World Congress next month ? If you are, let us know, because we could have a little surprise for you. On a seperate note, we'll be introducing further writers to the site soon. If you'd like to contribute...
Last week Tom Ranson pinged us about his new App Review Show and we ran a story about it. Today he emailed us again to promote the new episode where he has a look at the Brodit ProClip mount and CoPilot Live 8. Now, we're not just going …
Next month is the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and, following the fairly quiet Windows Mobile showing at CES, it's been universally assumed that Windows Mobile 7 would get launched at the European event between February 15th and 18th. However.....
Do you work for a PR company, a network, manufacturer, software company or are you a coder wanting recognition ? Let us know we'll take a look and, if it's newsworthy we'll add a post or write a review of your product. We'd also like to know if …
