Slide Screen is an app for Android that's probably best seen and we'd heartily recommend this video which shows it in action. It's a home screen replacement that creates a "meaningful hierarchy" out of a your info. Just drag the centre bar up and down...
Windows Mobile has a store. It's called Marketplace and there's lots of apps inside. A lot of them, however, are paid-for apps. Step forward OpnMarket - a store which showcases the latest, most popular and free applications. This is by the guys behin...
Sheesh, those Windows Mobile 7 rumours are now reaching fever pitch. This latest batch sounds so good it almost makes you understand why Microsoft are trying to keep things under control. Apparently two versions - Windows Phone 7 "Business Edition" an...
The Android-powered LG GW620 may be targetting the teen-texters but hey, we like the look of it. Following our earlier story LG have sent us the full press release below. It confirms the 5-line QWERTY keyboard, 3" touch screen, 1500bAg battery and a ...
Hey, y'know how Virgin Mobile said they'd be doing "more high-end handsets" ? Well, following the introduction of the HD2, they've now gone all Android on us with the LG In Touch Max GW620. It's free on the £22 p/m, 18-month contract and for that you...
We've managed to get a look at those HTC Espresso shots from yesterday and have uploaded the whole lot here. This is the new Android interface from HTC, building on the success of the HTC Sense GUI. Click on to see the pictures in all their up-close ...
Respected analyst and editor Eldar Murtazin appears to have got himself a looksie at the upcoming Windows Mobile 7 OS and has posted his impressions of an early build. How he's seen this we're not entirely sure, but it seems that it's incompatible wit...
Although there's non-stop chatter across the t'interwebs about what may or may not be announced at the Mobile World Congress, there is at least confirmation of sorts from LG. They've repeatedly mentioned that an LG Windows Mobile 7 device would be com...
This may or may not be the Motorola Shadow. It may or may not be the Google Nexus Two. Confused? Well, it's another one of those interesting rumours but there's a definite slice of the market that love those slide-out QWERTY keyboards, so why not ? T...
Some weeks ago we spotted the new HTC Espresso UI. It was met with mixed response - some even calling it ugly compared to the existing HTC Sense interface. Now there's more shots and, whilst the glass-effect buttons are still there, there's a lot more...
Steve Ballmer mentioned Windows Mobile in his keynote address at CES last week. Sure, that mention was the fantastically brilliant HTC HD2 and it's arrival into the USA, but.... that was it. The tech world logically assumed that the "big" Windows Mobi...
Sometimes one of the most annoying things about touch-screen phones is just typing on the thing. Mobilnaut have launched "Keyboard 3" to bring simple and quick typing to your device. It works by dividing the keyboard into sections - you then just whac...
We're loving your news tips today - keep them coming in! Next up we've got Speeed Reader for Windows Mobile (Android version coming soon), a Google Reader Client for pulling RSS feeds from your favourite websites. Grab this for free, connect to your G...
If you're on business and need to keep track of expenses then Easy Expenses is a great free application for doing just that. Sander Nijdam has pointed this one out to us following our request for your useful apps and it's a great way to keep track of …
We hate to say it, but when you're in the local mobile phone shop the world is a different place. In that world there's excellent 3G / HSDPA connectivity everywhere and you'll never have a flat battery. The reality is slightly different, and many peop...
Well, we asked for your news and we weren't disappointed. First in line is a mail from Aden Earnshaw about the HD2 stylus which is now available from htcaccessorystore.com. Despite the excellent finger-control on the HD2 it looks like this is a popula...
T-Mobile will be ditching their Combi and Flext tariffs next month. All 12 months plans will also be dropped, with the Solo SIM-only tariff getting the boot too. According to Mobile Magazine new plans will include "flexible boosters" of unlimited text...
Last week Tom Ranson pinged us about his new App Review Show and we ran a story about it. Today he emailed us again to promote the new episode where he has a look at the Brodit ProClip mount and CoPilot Live 8. Now, we're not just going …
Next month is the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and, following the fairly quiet Windows Mobile showing at CES, it's been universally assumed that Windows Mobile 7 would get launched at the European event between February 15th and 18th. However.....
Another update for the HTC HD2 today and it seems to be a second SMS update. This seems to be slightly different to the earlier one and is applicable to anyone using ROM version 1.66.XXX.X or lower. On Twitter Tanoop tells us .. "New SMS update is gr...
