Unofficial HD2 6.5.3 ROM appears

For those who don't mind upgrading their sexy new HD2 with unofficial software, there's now a "cooked" 6.5.3 ROM over at MoDaCo and more HD2 ROMs on xda-developers.com. Using the latest ROM version that we saw in the T-Mobile colours and includes the ...

New Android Sense UI in video

The Android version of the HTC Sense UI has already impressed us greatly but there's yet more to come with a new version (codenamed "Espresso") now appearing on the web hacked into the Hero. In the vid below you can see the new chrome-effect icons and...

Merry Christmas and a Happy 2010!

It's Christmas Eve and there's snow falling across the land. It's been quite a big year for coolsmartphone.com. We've added a totally new look-and-feel to the site, overhauled the entire navigation, added Android news and a seperate iPhone news site. ...

Nexus One Details leaked – possible invite-only sales

Specs and rumoured "invite only" sales for the Nexus One have popped on Engadget.com. The specs seem to match the HTC Bravo we saw in leaked details from earlier this month. A 5 megapixel shooter, 1Ghz CPU, GPS, compass, accelerometer, 3.7" WVGA AMOLE...

Motorola Milestone Reviewed

We'll have our Motorola Dext review online later today. It's the European version of the Motorola Cliq - an Android handset with slide-out QWERTY. It's bigger brother is the Motorola Droid - a handset which is being advertised heavily in the USA. Here...

Nexus One – A proper video at last

I'm sure I saw this video floating around the t'interwebs last night but it had a dirty great website logo in the middle. Thankfully a much clearer version is now available which at last gives us a fairly decent walk-through of the new HTC device from...

Hot HTC Hero Deal

Yesterday we pointed out a gift idea for .. yourself this Christmas. Today there's another one - the the T-Mobile G2 Touch (aka HTC Hero) for £19.99 per month. OK, so it's a 24-month contract and that is quite a long time, but you only pay £20 for …

More snaps and video of the Nexus One

We carried quite a few videos uploaded by thenexusone.com recently. It looks like everything has been pulled off-line now - the videos have been remove from YouTube and the website is offline. Luckily there's now more video and much clearer pictures h...

Buy yourself a Christmas gift – HTC Cradle Review

Let's face it, the majority of your Christmas presents may end up being a bit naff. I like to buy a Christmas present for myself, so I'd like to recommend this neat accessory. It's a desktop cradle - this one is for the HTC Hero and is available …

Voda trims HD2 sales. Offers iPhone as possible alternative

The iPhone is now expected to arrive on Vodafone on January 14th. You can read more about it on iPhoneBANG, but we're more concerned about this post in the Vodafone forums. It seems to suggest that the HTC HD2 is being pushed aside to give the upcomin...

o2 Data network having issues

Thanks to everyone emailing in about the continuing o2 data problems here in the UK. According to o2 Tweets it's due to an IP addressing problem and they'll have it fixed as soon as possible. Let us know if you're affected, or even if you're not! Upda...

New HD2 ROM leaked and loved

HDBlog.it have just posted this video showing the latest 2.01 ROM on the HD2. There's improvements in the music tab and also a bran new documents tab which shows previews of your PDF's, Word, XLS documents and much more. Bits of this have already appe...

Xperia X10 hits FCC – Not too long to go now..

The Xperia X10 has just popped up on the Federal Communications Commission website and there's pics-a-plenty. A user manual for the "X10 / X10i" has also appeared which details the funky GUI (aka "Timescape") and the media experience known as "Sony Er...

Another HTC HD2 Update for your collection

We neglected to mention yet another update for the mighty HTC HD2 on Friday. This one is for any version equal or less than 6.26 (build 1921.1625) and will "extend support" of the SD card storage capability. Grab it on the link below, and many thanks...

HTC Begins to offer widgets via Android Market

HTC have turned on their widget listings within the Android Market today. Four are listed so far and it shows just how far HTC have travelled - the hardware, the GUI and now extra software for the GUI and the OS itself. Although these are fairly simp...

Missing YouTube in your HD2 ?

If there's one thing that really annoys us it's when something gets removed from a phone by an operator. We'll review a handset - like the HTC HD2 for example - and then receive emails that a network operator version is different and lacks some of the...

Orange launch a new way to de-stress this Christmas

Just yesterday I was browsing rainymood.com and thinking, "That's a bit weird, but I guess I can understand why people would want it". It's basically a website that plays "mood sounds" - in this case rain and the odd crackle of thunder. There's other ...

Motorola Backflip / Enzo Shots and specs

phandroid.com have shots of the new Android-powered Motorola Enzo online. It's also known as the "Motorola Backflip" and has no doubt received that name due to the way that the keyboard rotates round - it actually parks itself facing outwards as you'l...

WinMo Powered LG eXpo now on sale

We told you about the LG eXpo some weeks back after it got announced by AT&T. Today it's available online or at AT&T stores for our US readers. Inside is Windows Mobile 6.5, a 5 megapixel auto-focus camera, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1 and tri-band 3G / HSDPA ...

WinMo in the US – the state of play

The USA is an incredibly different mobile market to that of Europe, however we just couldn't ignore the figures that are coming out of comScore. Published on dev site fiercedeveloper.com it shows that the iPhone now has a greater market share than all...