Category: Windows Phone
The Samsung i200 has been available on Orange for quite some time now. It's a classic Smartphone running Windows Mobile Standard (non-touch screen) and has a 2 megapixel camera, microSD expansion and HSDPA internet connectivity. Now it looks as if Vod...
Whilst I didn't manage to look at a real-life Xperia X1 during my trip to Birmingham, it is at least becoming more widely available. Matt Gough has spotted the X1 on mobiles.co.uk with immediate delivery whilst Johnny De'Silva has picked it up in the ...
Devicewire have just shuffled forward their arrival date for the HTC Touch HD. Yesterday it was expected to arrived on November 30th, but today it's now November 13th - just over two weeks away! Pricing is yet to be confirmed, but get your name down i...
Today I got dragged kicking and screaming popped into our second city to do a spot of early Christmas shopping. During our day in Birmingham I've seen about a dozen adverts for just one handset - the Samsung Omnia. It's everywhere. In the Bullring, ou...
I've just been to Birmingham. During our shopping trip to Birmingham I've seen about a dozen adverts for the Samsung Omnia. It's everywhere. In the Bullring, on billboards across the M6 at Junction 9 and inside nearly every in-store phone catalogue. D...
Harv Singh has just spotted the HTC Touch HD in the coming soon section of the Orange Business magazine for October. There's rumours of an exclusivity agreement on Orange, although we're still hearing that the Touch HD will be on Vodafone too. The Tou...
This program costs $6.99 (£4.15) and will... err.. chime every hour. Well, that alone isn't worth the cash, but you can choose between a range of chimes or you can have the program speak the time to you. In addition, you can tell the program not to m...
If you've got the HTC S621, HTC S620, HTC P4350, HTC P3300 or HTC Advantage then listen up. If you've not already done so, upgrade your handset to Windows Mobile 6 now, because HTC are about to remove the links. This HTC bulletin details the changes, ...
If you put your nose into the wind you can almost smell the X1. It's so near and yet so far. Sony Ericsson are now dangling the carrot right in front of us with a full user manual online. In the manual you get to see the panels …
Unlocking your device is usually pretty simple on touch-screen devices and not many of us use any kind of password encryption. Throttle Lock will help lock your device and give a certain level of security. It's in an early stage at the present but, u...
Just a few hours ago we ran a story about that whole Windows Mobile on the iPhone thing. It turns out that the site running the video was mearly a viral site and so we figured the video evidence was just some sort of mock-up application. However.. ove...
Kishan Sthankiya sent us a few scans of the o2 catalogue so we're able to grab some interesting bits of information. Here's the XDA Zest once more. It's the Asus-built handset we spotted on their website last week. The specs reveal GPS, 3 megapixel ca...
Lee Sainsbury popped into his local o2 shop this afternoon and had a looksie in their catalogue. The o2 XDA Serra (HTC Touch Pro) is listed as coming soon with a pictures and specs. Staff in store reckon it'll be out in the first week of November, wit...
The new Viigo Beta is now available to download. It's a free easy-to-use application which will keep you in touch with the world. There's a stack of features including mobile 5-day weather forecasts, sports news, stocks and finance information and all...
This is the HTC T8290. It's just appeared over on nedge2k.com and looks like a thinner version of the Touch HD, but that's where the similarity ends. Sure, this device has GSM, WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0, but there's also WiMax too (read more about WiMax ...
Last year I took the HTC Touch Cruise around a local safari park as part of our review. It's a touch-screen device with a 400MHz processor, 3G / HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, GPS and dual cameras (3 megapixel at the back and a CMOS cam up front for …
If you head over to the HTC website and dodge around that big "G1" thing you'll find an update for the HTC Touch Dual at the bottom of this page. It's the Windows Mobile 6.1 upgrade and will bring you.. "improved usability, messaging and connectivity ...
The Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 has just popped up on the Carphone Warehouse website. You can buy the X1 on the o2 network and get the handset completely free on the £45 per month tariff. That'll get you 1200 minutes and unlimited texts.. woaha, I sound ...
Back in April we spotted some blurry shots of the T-Mobile Shadow II. Now more have appeared, courtesy of CellPhone Signal. It looks like the phone is getting ready for market at last and it seems to function a lot like the HTC Touch Dual. Rumour has ...
Teksoft has just released a new version of their Bluetooth mouse control system for Windows Mobile. It's now called BlueInput and lets you control your phone with a Bluetooth mouse. You can see it in action below. Bluetooth keyboards can also be attac...
If you read our HTC S740 review and are busy saving up, there's some good news from Devicewire. They've got the unlocked HTC S740 priced up at £339.99 (which is £289.35 without the VAT) and stock is expected in just a few weeks time on October 23rd....
o2 have just put the Windows Mobile 6.1 update online for the o2 XDA Orbit 2. The update brings better battery management, (slightly) improved Internet Explorer experience and a quick start help system. You'll need a valid IMEI to proceed, and as usua...
Got a Samsung Omnia ? Oh, you lucky sausage. Now you can upgrade it .. ummm.. if you're in France, Italy, Malasyia, Singapore or the Philippines. Uh-huh.. Where's the update for other countries? We're not sure. Keep an eye on this Samsung page though,...
Last night I nearly threw something at the TV when a Christmas commercial popped on the screen. Surely it's not that time of year just yet is it? Perhaps not, but Halloween is just a few weeks away and you can get some suitably scary ringtones for yo...
In February 2007 we mentioned an exciting new service called "Didiom". It's now developed into an all-in-one application which will let you steam music from your PC to your phone wirelessly. It's free and you can either use your own music collection o...
Sure, we've still got the odd server problem here at Coolsmartphone HQ but it'll never stop us bring you the latest news. Johnny De'Silva has spotted the o2 XDA Zest on the coming soon pages. The Zest is the Asus-built device we saw last month and pac...
HTC have just uploaded this Touch HD product tour. Although there's no true hands-on action, it gives you a taster of how you can watch movies, surf the web and communicate in high-definition widescreen quality. Read on to watch the video or click th...
Steve Ballmer, Chief Exec at Microsoft, has been making his feelings on Google and the Google Android platform known in this BBC news report. In the article Steve said that Microsoft would stay ahead of competitors like Blackberry, Google Android and ...
Today is October 1st, so it's surprising to see the HP Silver still alive and well in these sneak shots over at Engadget. We saw it at the very start of 2008 in a leaked Vodafone roadmap, but alas it never appeared in July as promised. There's GPS …
Hey, Mac users. Come close. Have you heard about SyncMate ? Version 1.4 has just been released and the free edition will let you organise your contacts, texts, calendar entries and more. You can also sync too, with your contacts and calendar details l...
We've been covering the new Xperia X1 from Sony Ericsson quite a bit recently. Following the photo special and the appearance on Vodafone we were certainly impressed with the rather massive advertising campaign and "Johnny X" films. The X1, as you may...
This is a new game called Touchdown. It's been designed to make the most of the VGA screen on the HTC Touch Pro but should also work on the Diamond and possibly other VGA devices too. It's still in early development, so you'll need to download the dem...
I don't know about you, but I use my phone as an alarm every day. If you've got a Diamond or a Touch Pro then this is the business. A new app, by Koushik Dutta, will not only sound an alarm but it'll also turn off again when …
We've had a couple of interesting bits of news regarding upcoming handsets on Orange. First we're hearing that the HTC S740 should be turning up on the network towards the end of October. There's nothing on the coming soon pages just yet, but we'll ke...
Here it is at last - the HTC S740 review. We got a chance to video, photograph and fully test this handset last week. The resulting review is now online complete with example photos from the phone and screenshots of the interface. This is the first tr...
Well, the HTC S740 has sadly had to go back home, but we do have a review coming very soon and day 2 of our "Weekend With" is now online. This one is over at Google Video due to the length. I've crammed in as much as possible …
With HTC starting to make non-Windows Mobile phones, the iPhone dominating headlines and Google Android appearing today, the very last thing Microsoft need is a delay with Windows Mobile 7. Alas, this seems to be the case according to this CNET articl...
OK, you know the deal. Today the T-Mobile G1 will be announced. It's the Google phone, the Dream, the Android thing. Built by HTC it's already slipped onto the net in these T-Mobile product shots. We've already seen it several times, but this time it...
We're spending the weekend with the HTC S740. Here's day 1 of the video blog - a tour around the handset showing the two keyboards and the HTC Sliding Panels interface. We also have a look at the screen switching speed and the overall design of the de...
While I'm busy on eBay selling anything that isn't nailed down to afford one, the HTC Touch HD is appearing in yet more photo specials. Following the photos and video yesterday, there's now even more shots over on cnet.com. Close-ups? Check. Compari...
