This weekend I've had a short while to play with the HTC HD mini. There's simply not enough time for a full review, but I do have plenty of up-close photos including that yellow see-thru battery compartment. Day 3 of the video diary is online here and...
"Sorry boss, I was just having a coffee when I heard this 'click' and.." Oh dear, it looks like someone has managed to snap the "Turtle" handset we saw in renders back in September. This is one of the Pink Project phones and we should hear more about …
OK, I give up on trying to produce brilliantly professional videos. Half way through this one our son, Billy, popped in to do some colouring. We've only got the HTC HD mini for a couple of days so I've stuck it online anyway :) Today we compare the …
Something is happening on Twitter. The #tmdp tag is being mentioned more and more with Tweets now coming from San Francisco - the location for the April 12th announcement. This particular Tweet references the recent glut of big product announcements f...
Here's a very interesting blog post from a computing student in London. It details how Andrew, a computing student from London, located and retrieved his stolen belongings using WaveSecure on his HTC Hero. The app will let you backup and restore your ...
Guess what we've got ? No, it's not another Android phone. It's actually a Windows Mobile phone. The HTC HD mini is here but we've only got it for the weekend. As usual, we'll be putting this through its paces over the next couple of days and sticking...
Yesterday we got to borrow the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. It's got an 8.1 megapixel camera, 480x854 WVGA screen, WiFi, aGPS, Bluetooth and all the usual Android goodness. Sony Ericsson have also added the Timescape and Mediascape applications to help y...
The Orange Wednesdays app has been around for the iPhone for some time but wait, the Android version is now here too. With Orange Wednesdays you get 2 for 1 cinema vouchers and this app will tell you what's on near you and will let you read reviews, …
Every now and then I tend to write a "warning" post and this, I'm afraid, is another one for Microsoft. One of the first came in 2007. I said that
Lookie what's just turned up at coolsmartphone towers. It's the white Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. This particular shade is exclusive to Orange and a very nice looking handset, if a little wider than we remembered. We're just getting to grips with the So...
Orange have added some new mobile broadband deals to their portfolio with extra data allowances for businesses and data-hungry customers. Four contract options now include the folowing packages.. "Business Everywhere 5 to 9" - Unlimited data between ...
The HTC Desire. o2 are selling it, Three will shortly be doing the same and, good news, Vodafone seem to have it live and T-Mobile do too. This morning Orange started shipping it and you're all busy chatting about it in the forums So great news then. ...
The poor Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 has had a fair amount of bashing. It was supposed to move on from the X1 and was all set for a huge exclusive on Vodafone. However, delays soon occured and then Vodafone dropped it all together. The Android-powered X10...
The HTC Desire is now available to buy on Orange. We're not seeing it on the Orange site right now, but Matt Gough has emailed in to say.. "Just got off the phone to Orange (from calling 150) and the HTC Desire has been launched as of 9AM. …
The Motorola DEXT is available for just £149 on Pay As You Go in the Orange Easter sale. That's half the normal price, so you can bag a very decent Android QWERTY for a very decent price. It's also available on contract from nothing, plus you can div...
With Apple beginning to sell the iPad and a new version of the iPhone OS just around the corner it's now time for Microsoft to reveal something too. An event in San Francisco on April 12th has been setup with this invite being posted out to journalist...
Three are to launch the HTC Desire on Tuesday April 20th in stores, online and through telephone sales. Prices range from £35 per month on the "Internet Texter" plan for "unlimited" internet, unlimited texts, unlimited 3-to-3 calls and 750 minutes. O...
Orange have an Easter Sale on their PAYG range of handsets and the best value is a 50% price drop on the Android powered Motorola Dext now at only £149.99 down from £299.99 The Dext is the first phone from Motorola to feature MotoBlur whic...
Woah. We weren't expecting that. After (slightly) taking the mickey out of the "windows Phone 7 Series" name here at coolsmartphone they've only gone and dropped the word "Series" ! We always thought that it was slightly cumbersome to say, "Hey, have ...
A few days ago we spotted the Xperia X10 popping up in o2 magazines along with other Android and Windows Mobile kit. Now we're hearing that people have already starting to get them from o2 via retentions. We've had an anonymous mail telling us that th...
