Category: Windows Phone
It looks like the Orange SPV C600 rumour mill has kicked into gear again. You may remember our story which forecasted it plus the this earlier picture from Mobile-actus.com. Well, now SmartPhoneFrance.info have got a picture of it (right) plus this st...
We've already seen the HTC Universal badged up by Vodafone and by T-Mobile as the MDA IV, but we haven't really seen proper shots of the Orange variant - the M5000. Sure, we've seen one on a projector here at TechEd, but how about some shots of the …
Sudoku .. what's it all about eh ? Well, som would say that it's a placement puzzle, also known as Number Place in the United States. The aim of the puzzle is to enter a number from 1 through 9 in each cell of a grid, most frequently …
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Apparently Ubergizmo.com reckon that this is the new Samsung M600. Is it? It looks a lot like the Samsung SGH-i750 to us. Have they changed the name ? UberGizmo say that the "M600" is designed to..."...challenge Korea’s first Microsoft based smartph...
If you want a Pocket PC phone without the size then the new Orange SPV M500 is well worth a look. The Register have posted a review of the handset here, and they've given it an absolutely glowing 95% verdict stating.. "The M500 - and the Spy, if …
I'm always saying that it's the CoolSmartPhone members who make this site what it is. Yes you lot - all 191,661 of you at the last count. Take this article by Findlay Colquhoun - a very well written item about his experiences with TomTom 5 after upgra...
Eh up! There's a fantastic 40% off 1-GameBag right now. "What's that?", I hear you cry? Well, it's not one, not two but eight addictive full priced games for one tiny price! There's the classic Invaders (pictured right), plus Pong, Dominoes, Checkers ...
Marked up at £99.99 on this page at Orange.co.uk, the M500 is a PocketPC on a diet. It's a tri-band Pocket PC Phone with a 1.3 Mega pixel camera. Click here for a full list of features or, if you want to get some excellent deals on this …
Marcel Alberts has just emailed me about this Dutch SPV C500 update. I can't see a direct link with the Orange Netherlands site, however this update has been delivered to the smartphone-club.nl website first because Orange Netherlands take their commu...
I've received a load of emails about the update to the C500 and the problems it causes with the Bluetooth communication needed for TomTom Mobile 4 and 5. It would appear that some problems can be sorted by doing this (read last comment) or by followin...
We've just received the official release information from Orange on the SPV C550. The Press Release and super-jumbo sized pictures of the new phone can be found below (click "Read More"). We also have a specification sheet, which you can download by l...
More great news for you lot today - The new version of Opera 8 is now available which will actually work on the Orange SPV C500! You may remember our earlier story which promised this fix, so check it out here and give this browser a try. Make …
Some of you lucky lot have managed to get your hands on the brand spanking new Orange SPV C550 we mentioned yesterday. You've already been sending in your views on it, and James @ TekTar has taken pictures of the C550 alongside his C500. This article ...
A quick peek at the new silver C550 is available here at MobileGazette.com. The article goes over the C550 and tells you what's in the box. There's an included 128Mb MiniSD card, which is good - plus it's definitely selling in the silver colour. More...
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Following up our hot news about the release of the Orange SPV C550 we now bring you some spectacular offers on the teeny-weeny Pocket PC Phone - the Orange SPV M500 ! We've teamed up again with our great partners to offer these tremendous deals so tak...
Get it ? Review "en route" ? Eh ? EH?! Oh.. I'm wasted me, I tell ya - I could write for The Sun. This, my friends, is the infamous TomTom Mobile 5. I say "infamous" because it still - apparently - takes a minimum of 5 weeks …
The brand-spanking new Orange SPV C550 is available to you guys right NOW - no pre-orders, this is the real deal. We've been bugging our mates at fonetasticmobile.com for quite a bit, and now we've managed to get some great deals out of them. I know m...
In an update to our earlier story we now have confirmation that the Orange SPV C550 is available online for customers in the Netherlands. Just click here for more information. Unfortunately we still haven't seen a C550 in a shop here in the UK yet, bu...
Remember this news story from last week? Well, Opera has finally come out of beta - however it didn't seem to load on SPV C500's at all. Oh dear. Opera have now identified the problem and announced a fix for it, which should be available as a complete...
Now available for the Smartphone is Battery Pack Pro, an excellent package of tools which allow you to clean and monitor your phone. There's a Battery Bar which displays battery, memory, storage card, time etc on the home screen. Plus there's Power Ta...
Doah! Come on Orange UK! :) MSMobiles.com are reporting that the C550 is on the shelves in Orange Shops across the water in Holland. Apparently shops in Dordrecht, South-East of Rotterdam, have been spotted stocking the device. Hopefully, sometime nex...
We're now just days from the release of the C550, which we reckon will be out next Monday. More info is being drip-fed through to us now including these specs and adverts that MoDaCo have picked up. It's interesting to note that the C550 will come wi...
Although the M500 doesn't appear to be fully available just yet, the manual is at least online at Orange.co.uk. Just click onto Orange.co.uk, choose "Help and Support", then switch "My Phone" to the Orange SPV M500 to download the manual. You can also...
Over at MoDaCo is news of a new free utility allowing better memory management on your Smartphone. PocketMem, available here, lets you view the biggest folders and files, plus the newest or last-changed files. This can be helpful in diagnosing why an ...
Yesterday at TechEd 2005 Orange showed off their latest handset - due to arrive later this year we believe - to the crowd. It's the Orange SPV M5000, which we saw back in February as the "3G SPV". MSMobiles.com have the story on this device, which is ...
One thing gets me about Pocket Internet Explorer on the Smartphone. It doesn't support frames. Even in Windows Mobile 5, it still doesn't support frames. Why-oh-why-oh-why ? But wait, Opera browser for the Smartphone has now entered the non-beta stage...
I'm far too busy doing my day job at the minute to give this a proper right-up, but it's worth noting the release of Facade, which is a home-screen plugin allowing.. Launcher bar - Bring your favorite application shortcuts directly to your Home scree...
Simbsoft now have 30% off Volleyball 1.1 for Smartphone. You can grab it here or try it out. The object of Volleyball is to win volleyball match with jelly boy. Yes.. yes.. Jelly boy. Don't ask me, I'm not sure. I'm really not sure. Anyway, you can c...
The guys at Jeyo.com are a little too modest in my opinion. They've released version 2 of the excellent Jeyo Mobile Extender for Outlook with bug fixes (remember these bugs we mentioned in our review of version 1.11 ?) and a free upgrade path for exis...
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I forgot to mention this, but SmartPhoneThoughts.com have a good write-up on the "first thoughts" of a Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone. Check it out here.
You may remember back in January we ran this story about phonethemes.com. I got the chance to play with some of these excellent animated homescreens - which are far more than an animated gif! Phonethemes bundle background images, colour schemes, theme...
XS Portfolio (MS Smartphone) 1.21 by XCite Software now has a 30% discount !XS Portfolio is the ultimate in stock management. A complete stock system and packed with features: *Multiple stock exchange support*Long / Short / Watch stocks*Multiple portf...
Remember this story from just a few short days ago ? Well, it appears that this Pocket PC handset is now on sale on T-Mobile Germany. It's available as part of the T-Mobile "Take-Away" promotion which is aimed at the business customer This device is G...
Blimey, we'd almost forgotten about the Peabody. It's a cheapo mass-market handset made by Flextronics and will run Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5.0. If you've not heard of Flextronics then prepare to be quite amazed. They're actually one of the world'...
If you've gone out and bought the excellent Pocket Mini Golf 2 (more info on this game in our earlier story here), then you'll no doubt be gagging for more. Step forth Fire Island - an excellent expansion pack for Pocket Mini Golf 2 and exclusively av...
Yet more excellent Windows Mobile devices are on the way. Today Orange - the network that brought us the first ever Windows Smartphone back in 2002 - put the Orange SPV C550 and the Orange SPV M500 on their shop in the "Coming soon" section. Click he...
