Category: Windows Phone
In what seems like the busiest week of my life it's always great to get an anonymous email saying, "Hey, I've just seen the Orange roadmap". We like that, because although we can't confirm it, the promise of new handsets makes us nice and warm inside....
Want to wow your mates with an excellent demonstration of what your Windows Mobile can do? Check this out. It's Raging Thunder, an excellent new racing game with great 3D fluid graphics and a full shot of adrenalin. You take control of one of the th...
The guys at SoloPalmari have grabbed themselves shots of the new handset from HTC. This is the HTC Herald that we mentioned back in June. Think the HTC Hermes (SPV M3100 / T-Mobile MDA Vario II) with around 4mm lopped off the depth. This photo, with m...
You'll know by now that we've mentioned the Lobster 700TV phone from Virgin quite a bit. It's a Windows Smartphone with a DAB tuner built-in but it does far more than just receive radio - it's a TV receiver too. We're lucky enough to be one of the …
Whilst in the USA it was great to see the large marketing push for the Motorola Q. It's a smart QWERTY and I even spotted a guy in Starbucks using one. Although I'm back home in the UK now there's still global Windows Mobile coverage here at CoolSmart...
Traffic Vizzion is now available for your Smartphone or Pocket PC. You can try or to buy a 12 month subscription for £20.83 ($38.99). It's an innovative product which lets you view traffic cameras on the road ahead. Traffic Vizzion brings live images...
The Virgin Mobile Lobster 700 TV handset is now on sale. As previously mentioned it's the first Windows phone to be carried by Virgin but that's not all - it'll also let you watch TV where-ever you are. You can get it for just £199.99 on a pay-as-you...
A new service from Mecora lets you access to your music on your PC from your mobile phone. Mercora, a digital music company, is now running this service as a free preview until the end of October. Srivats Sampath, top dog at Mercora, said, "Mercora M ...
French site Mobinaute have pictures of the Orange branded HTC Trinity (seen here previously) as the "SPV M700". This Windows Mobile 5 (Pocket PC) device not only has smooth iPod-esque looks but also GPS built-in. Yes, you read that right - the Trinit...
Paul from MoDaCo is currently sat to my right busily snapping photos of the latest developments from the Mobius event. Some of the highlights so far this morning are this visual dialing plugin for your homescreen, a photo browser for your homescreen p...
See this? It's the Orange SPV C700. It's already appeared in Orange magazines and catalogues here in the UK however it's not quite ready as yet. To keep updated on when it will be available just sign up for our Orange SPV C700 update. We'll let you kn...
Jason at Smartphonethoughts.com is currently in Thailand for one of the Mobius conferences happening over the next week. The conference is a chance for webmasters of influential websites to exchange ideas, suggestions and to get a heads-up on the new ...
Well it looks like the summer is pretty much over here in the UK. All we've got to look forward to now is dark evenings, cold weather and yet more depressing episodes of "Eastenders". Still, with games like Chase HQ 2 Evo and GearStorm available for a...
This howardforums post has pictures of the Samsung SGH-i607 coming to Cingular very soon. It looks like Samsung has several variants of the SGH-i600 series which is also known as the "BlackJack". This one has yet another keyboard configuration by the ...
Fancy stimulating your brain ? Sure, you could do the crossword in high-brow newspapes like "The Times" but, let's face it, no-one ever completes that and besides you'd look crazy sat on the train trying to fold the thing. If you want a more compact, ...
You may well remember Sniper that we mentioned earlier. It's brought to us from the guys at GadgetApps.com and, if you do a bit more digging, there's more goodies to be found. Firstly SmartTweaker brings us 55 tweaks for your Smartphone to let you tune and speed-up your …
The Leonard Maltin Movie Guide is now available for the Motorola Q and other Windows Mobile powered Smartphones. The software, which is also available for Pocket PC, will instantly transform your device into the most up-to-date, comprehensive and reli...
CamerAware 1.0 is now available here at MoDaCo.com. Put simply it'll tell you when you're near to a "safety camera" and it'll also let you upload your position for remote monitoring. You can download and try it now then get a licence for £19.99 which...
NewsGator Go! for Windows Mobile is now available and brings RSS feeds down to your phone easily. You can read and manage subscriptions directly from any device running Windows Mobile and feeds are automatically formatted for the device you're using. ...
Astraware.com yesterday celebrated "International Talk Like a Pirate Day" and raised a whole heap of money for Marie Curie Cancer Care. They decorated their entire office and dressed up like swashbuckling pirates as you can see in their gallery here. ...
I was lucky enough to grab hold of the Palm Treo 750v for a short while this afternoon. It's a heck of a lot smaller than I imagined and if I'm honest I would've loved to have had longer with it. Although I didn't get chance to meddle …
Another handset announced by the boys at o2 Germany is the o2 XDA Cosmo. Yup, it's our old friend the HTC Excalibur - soon to show up also on T-Mobile USA as the "Dash". It's got WiFi, Bluetooth, 1.3 Megapixel camera and of course that full QWERTY key...
About a month ago we mentioned that a well-known network was going to pick this device up, then last week we kinda spilt the beans a bit so it's no surprise that o2 Germany has today announced the device as the o2 XDA Orbit. The XDA Orbit will …
Today I wanted to get MSN Messenger on the Orange SPV M3100. We've heard about the new messaging software on the way from Orange however it's still not here and I want to chat to friends with non-Windows phones who do have Messenger. (Grrr!). Yes, fo...
Sick of being the only person in the pub who can't send and receive stuff over Bluetooth properly ? Well yes, we are too. Whilst you can download free software like SmartExplorer to help you out, there's also cool apps like Sniper which you can downlo...
Hello, hello! Look what's in the September issue of the Orange catalogue. Yep, it's the hot new Orange SPV C700 3G-enabled Smartphone. Quoted as having a MiniSD card plus 128Mb internal memory and a 1.3 Megapixel camera it's on page 21 of the Orange "...
My old teacher used to tell me "You don't get something for nothing in this life". Pah, what did he know?! In fact, just to show how wrong he was we've got yet another free game for you! This time it's a Tetris clone (ahh come on, everyone …
Whenever I hear about the new Microsoft Zune I instantly think of that damned Mazda commerical, however the Microsoft Zune (Zune Zune Zune!) has now touched down and there's a couple of videos of it in action below. The Zune is a new Microsoft-driven ...
Crickey, this is a bit good. Check out findsounds.com. You just bung in a word and it'll crawl the t'interweb to find an audio file to match. I've just tried it with the word "beer" and found stack of different beer sounds. To use just click this the...
After a rather embarassing drunken mistake last night (I'll tell you lot later) it's another morning of handsets, handsets and even more handsets. This is the HTC Libra, soon to be released as the UTStarcom 5800 and it's another Windows Mobile device ...
We've been sent more pictures of the i-Mate SPL and the i-Mate JAQ devices. Check them out below. You can now also get a full specs sheet here for the JAQ and here for the SPL. Both handsets will be available SIM-free from various sources soon. Link -...
More pictures and a preview of the o2 Stealth we mentioned yesterday have now appeared on the internet. Popping up on CNet Australia the news is that this will appear towards the end of this month down under with then perhaps a roll out across other t...
More than a year ago the Samsung i730 Pocket PC phone appeared complete with a slide-out keyboard. A successor has now appeared in the shape of the Samsung IP-830w. Equipped with Windows Mobile 5.2 (we're seeing more of the "5.2" is specs, we assume...
i-Mate, who are now opening their range to include non-HTC devices, have recently launched the i-Mate JAQ (QWERTY device) and i-Mate SPL (RAZR-esque Smartphone). Their press release makes it clear that they're on a mission to "hit" as many different t...
Yesterday we mentioned the launch of the Palm Treo 750v on Vodafone. Paul Ockenden managed to get his grubby mitts on one of these and has taken some snaps for us. Whilst we may be dwelling on the lack of 3G video calling and WiFi Paul states.. "Palm …
You have to love the FCC. They spend all day testing the latest handsets making sure they don't fry your brain, then they go and plonk pictures on the internet for all to see. Fantastic work. This time it's a new Pocket PC phone with a slide-out numer...
If you've recently won the lottery or split from a very rich pop star then you could be in the market for a $300,000 (£161,000) Smartphone. Engadget now have some real shots of the Black Diamond Smartphone which runs Windows Mobile 5.0 with an Intel ...
As expected Vodafone Uk have announced the Palm Treo 750v - a device we first mentioned almost 2 months ago. The 3G device will run Windows Mobile 5.0 (Pocket PC) and has 128Mb memory with 60Mb flash, Bluetooth and all the regular Pocket PC software y...
It's had more names than Puff Daddy and now there's a review of it here. The HTC Excalibur, recently launched by the HTC commercial guys as the HTC S620 is to be known as the o2 XDA Cosmo and Arne at TheUnwired is lucky enough to have one …
HTC have just announced a stack of handsets in this press release. Although they're "new" regular Coolsmartphone visitors will be pretty familiar with these already. They've announced four new handsets and they've all got new HTC names too. First up i...
