Category: Windows Phone
OK, we get a lot of these. Price comparison sites are obviously a big thing for both you and the people behind them. PowerupMobile.com have sent us this press release stating that the HTC HD2 will be available on both T-Mobile and Vodafone. Now, readi...
Today being the the launch of 6.5 we're happy to see "the" handset of the moment announced at last. The HTC HD2 will have the latest 6.5 OS and comes with HTC Sense (yes, the software you saw on the Android-powered Hero). It'll be available later this...
We've already had a good poke around with the new WinMo 6.5 and were more than impressed with the My Phone service. Although it's still a little stylus-driven the idea of storing your pictures, contacts, texts and other important phone data online is ...
You may have seen the leaked builds of Windows Mobile 6.5, you may even have installed it, but during our time with the Touch2 we finally got time see the official release. We've detailed our thoughts on the new OS within the review. In short, the han...
Today marks the launch of several handsets with the all-new Windows Mobile 6.5 OS. One of them is the HTC Touch2, which is available unlocked for £284.99. We mnanaged to get one of these a short while back and we now have a full review online, comple...
To mark the launch of Windows Mobile 6.5 a new Windows Phone website is now online. It features the new orange colour scheme, the "Windows Phone" logo and quick links to mobiles, updates and apps. Today though there's growing rumours on the web about ...
Windows Marketplace appeared a day early today. A few lucky AT&T owners have picked up HTC devices with it on board and some of you with cooked ROM's have got it too. But what of us Windows Mobile 6.0 / 6.1 owners? Well, word on the street is …
The HTC Leo is thw Windows Mobile powerhouse that's already caused tremours across the web. It's rumoured to be the first device to support Windows Mobile 7 and it should be landing on o2 very soon. We've seen it in T-Mobile colours too with the name ...
Tomorrow Windows Mobile 6.5 launches officially. However, things have already started slipping out a little early. In the US the HTC Tilt 2 (Touch Pro2) and HTC PURE (Touch Diamond 2 are both now available on AT&T with 6.5 on board. Elsewhere Vodafone...
Just a day before the big launch of Windows Mobile 6.5 and there's yet more bad news for Microsoft. Palm have dropped Windows Mobile, Motorola seem to have done the same and now Acer are to shift focus. Although we've not seen a massive amount of Acer...
Eagle-eyed Johnny De'Silva has spotted that the Omnia II recently got a public outing whilst collecting Orange email. Although this is speculation Orange did pick up the original Omnia so it wouldn't be a huge surprise, especially as we haven't seen a...
Well, slap me with a fish. Just a few minutes after posting the painfully short LG GM750 video I get an email from top man Johnny De'Silva saying, "There's stacks more". LG themselves have uploaded all these. There's demos showing the weather theme, m...
Just yesterday we broke the news that the power-house known as the HTC HD2 was about to land on T-Mobile. Not only that, but the Touch2 is coming too. Great news all round.Today we've had another anonymous tip, this time with a picture attached showin...
The LG GM750 marks the beginning of the "LG WinMo Assault" and it should be available any day now from Vodafone. There's a 5 megapixel camera, GPS, WiFi and a 3" touch screen. You can see it in action in this all too brief video from FoneHomeUK. There...
Yes, another post about the HTC HD2. It used to be called the HTC Leo but - whatever you want to call it - the device is really stirring interest. HTC have thrown everything at it - a 1Ghz CPU, 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus and flash, a …
It's fairly safe to say that o2 are probably a little upset to lose the iPhone exclusive. They're now looking around for powerful handsets to bulk up their range and they already have the exclusive on the Pre. Today there's the concrete proof that the...
We've not really seen much of the Omnia Pro B7610 since it got announced some months back but, if this YouTube video is right, it's had a certain amount of magic fairy dust thrown over it. The official Samsung video, shown here, shows a different des...
Monkey Boy Moon Head (yes, really) has spotted the Samsung Omnia Lite over on Carphone Warehouse as coming soon. It's showing on an Orange tariff but we're still not entirely sure which network which actually be carrying this in their range. The Omni...
We've got the HTC Touch2 right here and you may have already seen the unboxing video. We'll have the review online next Tuesday - it's a Windows Mobile 6.5 device with WiFi, GPS, 3.2 megapixel camera and a 3.5mm audio jack. If you're interested in on...
SPB Mobile Shell has always been good but now the very latest version brings enhanced personalization and customization. Widgets are now included which support Facebook and Twitter plus there's new enhanced Internet searching. Available from today you...
A few days back we launched a competition to win CoPilot Live 8. The sat-nav software comes courtesy of our friends at devicewire.com, where you can buy it for £73.99. We had hundreds of entries and our randomizer has picked out Bizhan Shokouhi as th...
Two ROM updates have just appeared on the HTC support site for the HTC Touch Pro2. An update is available for the Vodafone and Orange versions to bring your device up to the latest version. There's no real detail on what is improved here, but if you w...
Seriously, how much are we probably going to love the HTC Leo when it arrives ? The benchmarks are now available at it shows the 1Ghz CPU leaving skid marks all over the shop. The stats show a 300% speed boost over the existing Touch HD on 3D …
We've added a video showing the Touch2 being unboxed. It's a preview unit, but we've got WinMo 6.5 and TouchFLO on board and it's looking all ready for the October 6th launch. We take a look around the handset, contents of the box and the all-new Wind...
We reported a week back that i-mate had closed up shop and CEO Jim Morrison had left the country. Then, just recently, Jim popped up to state that "fraud" had caused the company to suspend operations for a while. Now, though, it's emerged that the ope...
We doubted it. We couldn't understand why o2 would want to pick up a potential competitor to the iPhone, especially when they have the exclusive on it. Following the earlier story the guys at engadget have had a picture showing promo material with the...
Shh.. Keep this on the down-low. pocketnow.com have just got some more bits of information regarding the HTC Leo / HTC HD2. Yes, it will be called the HD2 and yes, it does have a 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash. The BIG 4.3" WVGA capacitive scr...
Look what just arrived - the HTC Touch2. It comes equipped with Windows Mobile 6.5 and has a 3.2 megapixel camera, 2.8" QVGA screen, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, GPS, 3.5mm audio jack and microSD expansion. A review will be online in a few days and we'll have...
Before the video interview took place Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer admitted a few things that we kinda already knew at the Venture Capital Summit in Silicon Valley. People in the audience posted Tweets as the event took place. Twitter user beninato tel...
There's an interesting interview with Steve Ballmer over at TechCrunch today. He did touch on mobility, discussing the "Microsoft Phone" that kinda got revealed yesterday with two phones appearing based on Sharp hardware. Although they're not "built b...
Just a few days ago we said our goodbyes to i-mate. It was a sad farewell but, just when you thought CEO Jim Morrison had packed up and headed into the sunset, he then re-appears. Apparently the company is merely going through some "troubles" which a...
It seems that the HTC Leo is becoming more popular by the day. Now there's even more juicy information - the Leo is apparently due to appear on o2 on October 12th. According to engadgetmobile.com... "A trusted tipster with a proven past just gave us t...
Got Windows Mobile ? Want to stay with it ? I don't blame you. However, you've probably experienced a small amount of envy when you see how well Twitter is integrated into the HTC Sense experience on the HTC Hero (well, if it worked). There's news fro...
We've been told several times that Microsoft Pink doesn't exist. We've also been told even more times that an Microsoft "own branded phone" doesn't exist. Well, the latter is partially true, there won't be a phone "built by" Microsoft but it may have ...
There's a great little utility here for doing network tests like ping, traceroute and upconfig on your Windows Mobile. It's completely free and also shows you ping trip times, DNS lookup times and more. There's a couple of ways to download it and it'l...
The HTC Leo, Pro.Three, HTC Touch HD2. Call it what you will this is one very nice device indeed. XDA-Developers member "B3ler3fonte" has got some more shots of the device including a comparison shot of it sitting next to the HTC Hero. Although we've ...
Over 30 new Windows Mobile 6.5 devices before the end of 2009? Yes, according to DigiTimes there'll be 30 devices from 15 different manufacturers. Benjamin Tan, Senior Director in the "GCR Mobile Team" at Microsoft China revealed the tit-bit of inform...
Got Gmail ? Got Windows Mobile? Cool. There's some good news from Google. Now you can get your Gmail sent directly down to your phone via the push-email / Exchange protocol. It means that mail comes directly into your WinMo mail client. Try it out he...
Arne from theunwired.net has managed to get one of those generic boxes we love messing with. Inside is the Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 - the new Windows Mobile device with 8.1 megapixel shooter, laptop-esque sliding QWERTY keys, WiFi, aGPS, 3.5mm headset ...
The Leo. We've added post after post here at coolsmartphone,com and although we already kinda knew it'd be the Touch HD successor there's now even more evidence courtesy of these pics from techblog.gr. Now sure, round the back there's some nice "HTC P...
