A fantastic new way of shopping is coming out of Japan. Mobile phone users are soon to be shopping by snapping a photo of a special bar code which will sit alongside a product. Mediastick, the firm behind the idea, will licence their special MediaSti...

A new light-projected keyboard is being worked on by Californian company Canesta. Their chipsets will allow a beam of light to project a fully functional keyboard onto a flat surface! NEC and an un-named American manufacturer are already working on h...

Here's the full translation (thanks to Ian Charlton) of the email sent to smartphony.org from the Smartphone project at Orange France... An e-mail to Smartphony.org from the Head of the Smartphone Project, Orange France   I’ve just received an ...

Looks like an early August launch for these cards ! These things look great and surfing/syncing whilst strolling around home without those GPRS charges is all good news. However I cannot find any compatability listings for the Smartphone OS, I presum...

Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics have decided to form an alliance to fend off market dominance from Microsoft and Intel in the mobile phone arena. The two chip manufacturers said that they had "formed an alliance to spur development of a wider...

Today sees the closure of two great Smartphone websites, which have been around since the early days and have helped to build and develop the Smartphone community. Firstly, the excellent French site SPVNews.com is to close, which has had Cyberb0b at...

Hello, what's this ? A Linux Smartphone ?  The Filewalker will have 5 languages included (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish) and is to be powered by a Texas Instruments' Omap 5910 Dual Core processor with 150 MHz, 64 Mo of RAM (low-p...

This new black version of the Flexis FX100 keyboard is now selling on orangesp.com.. These keyboards have been selling quickly, so make sure you get your name down for one.See orangesp.com or click here for our review.

Previously we ran a story stating that Fonix Voice Dial fails to work. It should be noted that this was when running the "Compact" version - which is NOT designed for the Smartphone. Please don't let this put you off purchasing the product, as there ...

After leaving mmO2 in 2001, BT appears to be getting back into mobile, with a little help from T-Mobile. BT is the UK's largest telco and will team up with T-Mobile to offer mobile services to businesses and consumers, which will see BT attempting t...

A new smartphones category has now been added to pdatopsoft.com - PDA software downloads resource. Customers and developers are welcome!

At 14.55 BST today something very special happened... The 13,000th person joined Coolsmartphone.com! To be honest, I'm amazed! This version of the site (the new spangly one) has only been running for 2 months :) The recent surge of registrations is du...

I've been away, so I'm a little behind - you may have heard of this already, but hey.. Sendo have decided to drop their much talked-about lawsuit regarding the Smartphone. More details can be found here (ZDNet) and over here (cnet.com) This is, of c...

The analogue clock plug-in is now available for purchase. You can get it from smartphone.net now. We have already used and abused a similar plug in several months back to display analogue clocks, which can be seen and used

Cerience Announces FREE RepliGo Software for your PDA, Smart Phone and Windows The most powerful document solution for your mobile device just got even better! Read a summary of this exciting offer below or visit www.cerience.com to get the whole sto...

Hello from IA Style, IA Album for Smartphone has been upgraded to be 100% compatible with the Orange SPV e100, the new model of SPV, and its new plug-in digital camera. We also have a new 15-day trial version available for download. And if you alrea...

Launching Q4 this year is the MS Smartphone from o2. At present though, they have no name for it. However, you can help, simnply by clicking onto the Myo2Smartphone.com website and giving them your suggestion. They are looking for a name with a "Zing...

This one has been wanted for a while now, and here it is! I've tested this out and it works brilliantly!You will need to install Microsoft .NET Framework (23Meg download from MS) to run this software, but this is mainly because it uses some Microsoft ...

    Pocket PC Magazine nominated no less than sixteen AIM titles for the 2003 Pocket PC Awards, of which 6 Pocket PC titles and 10 Smartphone titles. The Third Annual Pocket PC Magazine Best Product Awards will...

If you are a regular traveller, you should check out new software from Fizz Software. Coming soon for a $9.99 for the Smartphone, this really is a brilliant, must have piece of software. Whether you travel alone or with others, make room for one more...