I received this from Orange: Dear Ghufran Thank you for your mail regarding the new SPV phone trial. I would like to advise that a number of Orange customers have received an email which claims to be from Orange inviting them to participate in a tr...
Oh dear. It appears that my earlier guess was correct. Not only are Sendo pi**ed off at MS / Orange for releasing the Orange SPV (HTC Canary), which apparently infringes on the Sendo PCB design, but now - after checking the virtually identical SPV E10...
Handsprings new Treo - which is powered by the ARM processor - is being shown on their website. Although the Treo 600 is not an MS Smartphone, it at least pays to see what the competition is up to.The new Treo has a fully-integrated QWERTY keyboard, b...
Cambridge-based chip designer ARM is to increase the speed of mobile phones (like the Smartphone, which has an ARM CPU) with their new Thumb 2. Thumb 2 is an update on the company's original Thumb instructions, a set of commands inside the ARM archite...
Just received this email this morning from Orange. Very confusing! Dear Sam Thank you for your mail. I have checked with the appropriate department and have been unable to confirm whether there are any plans to release an SPV2. For the latest info...
I didn't think it would happen, but this excellent game has got me hooked. It's a simple matter of clicking on three or more blocks of the same colour that are connecting. Yet I can't seem to put it down! I was at number 10 on the High …
T-Mobile has launched an always-on email for Symbian devices in the UK. T-Mobile launched the wireless email service, called Instant E-mail, in the UK last week. Symmetry Express supports any handset based on Symbian OS 6.1 or 7.0, which includes smar...
IA Style now let you create your OWN templates! Best of all - the software that lets you do it is... free to download here!!What? You don't have IA's Caller ID software ? What are you playing at? Get it here now!
ONLY $9.99 (about £5.93) Candy CatchupA game you just can NOT put down! Candy Catchup is simplicity itself. When you click three or more connected candies of the same color, they explode. As the level increases...
As mentioned earlier on coolsmartphone.com, Orange have now flatly denied that there is any "trial" of the SPV, and they've put to bed rumours of any other handset coming out - the SPV E100 will be out next month.How this email came about is a bit of ...
Annemarie Duffy, Mobility Marketing Manager, Mobile Devices division at MS, is showing off the HTC Tanager model to the press. She mentions in this article (which I must admit is a couple of months old) that Bluetooth is definitely be on the road map,...
Very curious. It appears that the Orange SPV trial was / is all a fake. After the news story was spotted on newswireless.net, we reported on it Saturday. Julian Hope, the man purported to be behind the trial, is on holiday at present. In his absence, ...
I've now updated the PREVIEW of MiTACs Mio 8380 in the new Previews section with some extra info plus a downloadable PDF and specifications. Be sure to check it out! More piccies and info can be found here on MiTACs website.The upload system is now so...
The number of complaints regarding Spam text-messages received by mobile watchdog ICSTIS has increased dramatically. ICSTIS - the UK regulator for all premium rate telecoms services - said complaints increased by 43 per cent in 2002 to 11,572. A hug...
The classic Space Invaders has been ported to the Smartphone! Check it out at Smartphony.org or grab it from the downloads section here.
PPCW.net have come up with an innovative way to prevent your screen from being ruined by dents and scratches. Just check this link out for more info.
The long-awaited Mio 8380 made a fantastic debut yesterday in Taipei. MiTAC spokesperson Justine Liu said, "We are targeting heavy PC users, they will find the Mio easy to use since it is using a Microsoft operating system - a familiar user interface....
PocketTV Classic and PocketTV Enterprise Edition for Smartphone have been released. PocketTV Enterprise Edition have both been released for Smartphone. PocketTV lets you play any MPEG-1 video file (extension .mpg or .mpeg) on your Smartphone. W...
If you want to upload your own stuff (sounds or skins etc), just create an account, then click "Downloads" - you can then upload your stuff to the correct place !!!Also, if you want to submit your own news stories (new products, utils or games) - just...
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