Category: Website news
We've removed the "retweet" buttons from our main page as they were slowing the site down somewhat. This is an unfortunate side-effect of pulling data from third-party servers constantly, but they're still included in each news item if you click into ...
It's Christmas Eve and there's snow falling across the land. It's been quite a big year for coolsmartphone.com. We've added a totally new look-and-feel to the site, overhauled the entire navigation, added Android news and a seperate iPhone news site. ...
I want to thank everyone for contributing towards our yearly donation drive. It's fantastic to receive help from you guys and everything we're receiving is going into paying for our server bandwidth and co-lo costs. There's just a few hours left to do...
Although we're in the middle of giving away some stuff already, our friends at Orange have emailed in about some more chances to win. Think back to when you were a kid - sitting around the Christmas tree trying to figure out what presents you'd got. I...
We're currently upgrading the coolsmartphone.com server and adding yet more horsepower. It's costing extra cash, which is why I had to ask for donations a few weeks back. We didn't get a huge response, so I've decided to raid the coolsmartphone.com cu...
I've learned through my many years of running this site that I do things best when I've had a drink, so - after a hugely long wait - I've had a beer and finally rigged the site so that you can go to "Next Page" or "Previous Page" …
A few days ago I asked which direction we should be heading in. You guys are the backbone of Coolsmartphone, so it made sense to ask what the best way forward was. I've had bags of emails, Tweets, comments and forum posts on this and I want to …
OK people, I need your help with something. Since we started covering Android alongside our WinMo coverage things have got a bit cramped. I'm currently working on a switcher so you can flick between "Android" news or "WinMo" news but, to make things e...
A quick apology. If you tried to get to coolsmartphone.com between 23:00 BST and 03:30 BST or anytime around 14:45 today then it probably would've failed. The news from our data centre is that an emergency router firmware upgrade went a little wrong l...
Fancy a chance of winning something ? We love giving stuff away and today there's a chance to win CoPilot Live 8. It's worth £73.99 and it'll work on either Android or Windows Mobile. You know the deal - this is an award-winning sat-nav system giving...
As you may know, we started this site some 7 years ago. To begin with we were covering the classic "Smartphones" - those Microsoft-powered non-touch devices like the Orange SPV E200 and so on. We branched out to "Pocket PC's" and, just recently, we've...
Having problems with you Twitter client on Windows Mobile or Android? Well, don't fret - you're not the only one. It appears that quite a few people are getting messages such as "Unknown response from server" or "Communications error" in Twitter clien...
We've just added two new sections to our forum dedicated to software. Head to WinMo Apps or Android Apps, whatever your flavour, and tell us what software we should be checking out. I've kicked things off in the Android section with some essential sof...
OK, a few changes have been happening here at Coolsmartphone.com of late. Firstly, all news stories now also include details of the category they're filed in - look, this one is in "Website News". See? :) Secondly, we've got some additional newsfeeds ...
The server completed it's move last night and we're now in a brand new data centre with greatly enhanced network connectivity. If you were trying to get here between 0:30 and 1.45 GMT (1:30 - 2.45 BST) this morning then the site wouldn't have shown up...
We've got to announce some scheduled maintenance to the server today. Tonight, at some point between 22:00 BST and 05:00 BST our server will be turned off, unplugged, removed from the server rack and packaged up. The server will then be transported to...
Hello everyone. Welcome back :) Yesterday we had a problem. I'll not go into detail as it's far too dull and technical to desribe. We got a big warning sticker from Google and rightfully so. The addition of a nasty IFRAME by a hacker was my own fault …
At around 6.57 this morning a hack attempt was made on our server. We get a few of these and this one was removed by the system automatically at around 8AM. An IFRAME was added which basically tried to put software down your browser. Unfortunately dur...
Following our announcement yesterday I just wanted to remind everyone about how you can keep updated with all the latest Coolsmartphone news. There's several ways you can do it. First up you can simply browse to Coolsmartphone.com or yo...
Coolsmartphone is 7 years old this year and during our time we've brought you all the latest Windows Mobile gossip, news and reviews. It all started in 2002 when I popped into an Orange shop and upgraded to an SPV Classic. Back then it was just called...
T3 Magazine have just opened up voting for their 2009 Gadget Awards. There's spot prizes to be won just for taking part. HTC are up for "Tech Brand of the Year" and the HTC Touch Diamond2 is in the shortlist for "Drop Dead Gorgeous Gadget" and the "Ph...
This post in our forum got me thinking about our coverage here at coolsmartphone.com. As you'll know, we cover Windows Mobile and everything to do with it. Just recently we launched our sister site iPhoneBANG, which you'll see a newsfeed from on the r...
We love it when people tell us about free stuff. If you're a twitter user you can bag yourself a free HTC keyring just by following devicewire and tweet with the #devicewure hash tag. It's a first come, first served basis but we're hearing that they'v...
A few weeks back we asked for your opinions on Windows Mobile. We felt that seven important questions about the platform, the phones and the future needed answering. We've had the results checked - over 700 Windows Mobile fans answered our survey ...
It's a big Bank Holiday weekend here in the UK, so if you get time don't forget to fill in our Coolsmartphone survey. There's only 7 questions to answer and we've already had hundreds of your responses already. If you've not done so yet, get your opin...
Just to note, I'm seeing the "Free money" ad appearing in the top right corner of the site. This shouldn't be appearing and I'd appreciate if you could let me know if you're seeing this too. I'll tweak it when I get back home, however this internet co...
We've seen mobile recycling schemes several times here at coolsmartphone.com. There's now quite a few to choose from with each one offering cash for those unused mobiles, but just how do you find which one offers the most ? Well, in my never-ending qu...
On Monday Google launched their "Google Sync" service for Windows Mobile. It's basically a free contact and calendar sync service pushed over the air for your Windows Mobile. At last, free push-email done simply and easily. Ah... no.. wait. There's no...
Here in the UK there'll be several confused people after news of SkyBox appeared on the web. No, it's nothing to do with Sky TV or their Sky Box, it's actually a system to sync information between your mobile phone and the web and it's from the people...
Yes, we know you've heard it before and there's probably a lot of other sites out there (do tell us if you've seen a good one) but the guys at www.selloldphone.co.uk have pinged us about their service. You know the deal by now, the guys dish out cash …
Today I'm excited to announce the launch of a new venture - iPhoneBANG! This new website is the result of several emails and forum posts from people who have decided to choose the iPhone. People wanted a place like coolsmartphone.com, but for their iP...
Apologies for the outage yesterday guys. I took the decision to re-format my laptop at home following a rather nasty virus / malware attack. Murphy’s Law dictates that, when I go out for the day and leave my mobile at home and my laptop formatting i...
Right, an update. On New Years Eve our forum collapsed in a heap. Over the years it has been gently moulded and tweaked to fit in with the main content management system on the site. It's taken some time to do this but, when the forum broke I …
Something I probably haven't mentioned for a while is the various ways you can keep up-to-date with our news here. You can use our RSS feeds at the top of the site here. Bang them into your Google reader, netvibes or whatever reader you use and it'll ...
Want a free phone? Do you? Well great news. I've got a Nokia 5.1 in the garage that I've just run over by accident. If you want something newer, head over to omio.com where they're giving away a HTC Touch Pro. To enter the draw you'll need to …
Have you recently defected to the iPhone? Are you interested in everything Apple? If so, give me a shout. A new site is about to launch and writers / editors are needed to promote and expand the new venture. You will need to show a commitment to publi...
OK, listen up dear readers because this news item contains some special stuff you won't see elsewhere. Our good friends at Devicewire have added a few goodies and new services of late. First up is their recycling service. Sure, it's great being green,...
Coolsmartphone and the news items you see online daily would be nothing without you lot. Tips, scans, photos, information and press releases keep the wheels churning here, so please let me know if you've got any Windows Mobile news we should be lookin...
We did a quick competition a few days back to win a 2GB pen drive. It's a credit-card sized unit and they gave these away at the HTC Touch Diamond launch. I asked for some "interesting" photos and we'd choose the best. There were hundreds, and it was …
This is a 2GB HTC Touch Diamond memory card drive. These were given out during the huge HTC Touch Diamond launch and I've actually got one in my wallet. They come in very handy for transferring data around and they're thin enough to slot into your wal...
