Category: Windows Phone
On Sunday 120 supercars set off from Pall Mall in London for the Gumball Rally 2006. Celebs such as Pink, Tony Hawk, Jody Kidd and Tim Westwood (shown right, he's the Radio 1 DJ who tends to say, "Yeah baby girl, bow down and kiss the ring. Zactly!") …
You may recall our earlier report about MSN being dropped from future SPV handsets. We wanted to know from Orange whether the new Orange Messenger, which is to replace it, will be interoperable with other IM platforms like MSN, Yahoo! and ICQ etc. The...
The public Beta of ActiveSync 4.2 is now available here and addresses some issues with Desktop Pass Through, Outlook synchronisation and USB connectivity. Microsoft have been watching forums and websites to ensure that any problems are resolved in thi...
esoft have now brought stacks of their games to the Smartphone! Traffic Jam, Arcade Challenge and Word Challenge are now all ready for you to grab on your Smartphone. There's stacks more too - just click here to see them as they cover the Pocket PC as...
We like the T-Mobile Vario, however this weekend I've noticed that it's vanished from the T-Mobile UK website. In fact, some readers have spoke to T-Mobile and they're telling customers that this MDA Vario II is due to be released in the UK sometime i...
Unwired Software, Inc. has released version 1.3 of the best new mobile technology of 2006 – the popular InfoShare List Manager for Pocket PC and Smartphone. InfoShare List Manager is the first wireless software application that allows individuals an...
Arcade Park is a collection of games designed to revive the legendary games of the past. There's Arcade Ball, Asteroids, Rushman, Digger, Gold Hunter, Galaxy Invaders, plus military games Real Tanx and Riverside Assault. So, for one price you get eigh...
GPRS Remote Control lets you connect and remotely control your desktop computer through your mobile phone. You can send and receive mail, browse net, edit documents and hundreds of other things that you'd typically do behind your home or office comput...
Are you after the super-slim QTek 8500 ? Well, according to expansys.com this will be available on May 10th for £359.95. You can also get it at the USA site here for $569.95, although there's no release date on that site. Links - QTek 8500 @ expansys...
Remember last week we mentioned the o2 XDA Mini update that enabled push-email ? Remember how we said, "..although the Exec update isn't here yet.." ? Well, now it is :) Just click here if you have an o2 XDA Exec and you'd like to use the Microsoft …
Noel Guthrie has emailed in after spotting that the excellent Orange SPV M600 is now available to us regular people in the orange.co.uk store. This means you no longer need to be a business customer to get one. Yay! Prices currently start at £99.99 f...
Smartmobil.no have a great article here all about the QTek 8500, aka the iMate Smartflip / HTC Star 100. Both the pink and the black version can be seen here with some nice shots of the device in action. While we're talking about new phones, Martin ha...
The guys in our games and applications shops have had a fantastic idea. In fact, I thought they were a bit nuts when they came up with it, but heck - it's their money and their idea, so I'm backing it all the way! :) They've got a …
If you're after the new Samsung i300x with its 4Gb internal hard drive then check out DOML.com, where it's now selling for £429.99 ex VAT. The SIM-Unlocked handset comes with a 240x320 screen, 1.3 Megapixel camera, Windows Mobile 5.0 and you can get ...
Check this out! It's one of only 100 Ferrari red i-Mate JASJAR handsets. You've probably seen in less bright colours under different branding across the world (SPV M5000, o2 XDA Exec etc). According to NewMobile.com this and a pink version of the i-Ma...
Just a few days a go we told you to keep an eye on the new xda.o2.co.uk site for details of the push-email update for the o2 XDA Mini and o2 XDA Exec. Well, although the Exec update isn't here yet, the XDA Mini update is. If you've …
About this time last year we mentioned something called Mobiluck, the "BlueJacking" software that lets you detect all nearby Bluetooth devices and send / receive messages. Now compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0 handsets Mobiluck is a bit more than ju...
Shozu, the direct-pictures-to-web-from-your-phone-app, has announced that they're branching out to offer photo and video uploading to multiple personal blog and citizen photo-journalism sites such as Blogger, Typepad, Wordpress, CNN, the BBC and Scoop...
Michael Pearson has sent an email about this Orange Press Release which is actually from the 3GSM show on February 13th. It may explain the decision to drop MSN Messenger from the SPV range. The Press Release states an agreement between Vodafone and O...
Featured in my gadget photo blog is the Orange SPV M600 which we reviewed last week. I spotted it this afternoon in the Lichfield Orange store after grabbing a coffee. It just goes to show that this device is now readily available in stores. Interesti...
Lutzh at MSMobiles has yet again got his hands on one of the hottest Windows Mobile handsets around. The new HTC Star Trek, which is now also known as the HTC STAR100 and being sold as the QTek 8500 is a very slimline flip-phone that we've constantly ...
You may remember our previous story on the o2 XDA IQ, it's going to be the first big release of a WiFi-capable Smartphone. o2 UK now appear to have made it official, with this web page giving stacks of details and links for the handset. The new xda.o2...
We've mentioned previously how to get started with all this push-email business. If I'm honest I wish it was slightly easier for end users, so that they could simply bang in a few details and get their POP account email sent straight away. Actually, I...
Something I've just spotted whilst looking for a registry editor is this PC-based tool which connects to your phone and shows / edits your registry. I've been looking for one as I'm having trouble app-unlocking my C600 after the AKU2 update. Well, alt...
This is the HTC Foreseer, featured in this Phonescoop article covering the CTIA Wireless industry show in Las Vegas. Bearing a slight resemblance to the Virgin phone, it's a new DVB-H TV phone to be launched by Modeo in America. The HTC Foreseer has a...
Aha! It's all done now. Get the full, completely finished review right here. Overall I was quick impressed with the 2 Megapixel camera and the design of the M600 is splendid. You may remember last night I put the "almost finished" version of the revie...
Astraware have just announced that their popular Sudoku game has been updated to version 1.30. The new update gives you an improved menu system which was implented as a result of customer feedback. Howard Tomlinson, CEO of Astraware, said.. "Our cust...
You may remember the beta version of AtomicCannon we reported on earlier. Well now it's fully available and you can get more information here. It's already the best shooting game of last year, so don't waste any time in grabbing a copy. The controls h...
AvantGo is a free mobile content delivery service for your handset. It'll let you sync-up thousands of news feeds which are specifically made to fit your mobile device. AvantGo call these "channels" and they contain all your favourite news, weather an...
There's an interesting blog post here by James @ root6technology.com. He noticed that after applying the AKU Push email update for his SPV M5000 he could no longer run managed software that was built by Visual Studio 2005. Compact Framework 2.0 won't ...
o2 are currently prepping the new o2 XDA IQ. Now, we heard a while back that this was appearing on o2 Asia as the o2 Orion, however it was then strangely cancelled. It's also popped up on QTek as the 8310 and on Dopod as the 577W. The …
This free software is billed as a "bargain hunter" and works by pulling the latest shopping deals and offers down via RSS feeds. It has the added bonus of letting you change the feeds and grab any RSS/XML feed you fancy. RSS feeds are basically text f...
Orange Netherlands have now released the necessary ROM updates to enable the push email functionality. Install these updates if you're in the Netherlands and you have an Exchange server to sync with. Both the Orange SPV C600 and Orange SPV M3000 are n...
The Orange SPV M600 handset now appears to be available from this Orange Business page. It comes with a huge list of features, unfortunately not totally correct (there's no MSN Messenger, although you can install it here and it apparently has both Win...
Fizz Software have announced that Fizz Weather version 2.2 is now available. Fizz Weather, which costs $14.99 (around £8.60 / €12.46) is a fully featured app and a home screen plug-in which supports over 58,000 cities around the globe. This new ver...
This is the car currently being driven around the UK as part of a Microsoft advertising campaign promoting both Windows Mobile and the WindowsMobile.co.uk website. The Mini has a vivid green colour and the Windows Mobile swooshes on the roof and this ...
Here's the new T-Mobile MDA II. We've seen the real device already at CeBIT however these are the shots that'll be used to market the device to German customers very soon. You can get a full size picture of this here or this other shot. Our friends at...
Over in the Netherlands Orange are keeping you on the cutting edge with the SupperClub. Yes, SupperClub. Not SuperClub. Here in the UK "Supper" is an evening meal, so you'd think a club for this sort of thing is just plain weird, however in the Nether...
In our continuing mission to keep you informed on the latest Windows Mobile handsets we've managed to get hold of an Orange SPV M600 for the next few days. I've had stacks of emails about this one and I'll be working on a full review as soon as …
You may remember we covered the SlingBox Windows Media Player before. Simply put, it lets you watch and control your TV and decoder boxes from any web-enabled device and now from your Windows Mobile Pocket PC or Smartphone too. Unlike Orb, which lets ...
