Well, it used to be the Scholes, now it's the Tao. Blurry pictures of Motorola's new Android phone have appeared on the web in all their blurry glory. The screen appears to take up most of the device, which is due to arrive later this month. The Tao …
It's fairly safe to say that o2 are probably a little upset to lose the iPhone exclusive. They're now looking around for powerful handsets to bulk up their range and they already have the exclusive on the Pre. Today there's the concrete proof that the...
We've not really seen much of the Omnia Pro B7610 since it got announced some months back but, if this YouTube video is right, it's had a certain amount of magic fairy dust thrown over it. The official Samsung video, shown here, shows a different des...
Monkey Boy Moon Head (yes, really) has spotted the Samsung Omnia Lite over on Carphone Warehouse as coming soon. It's showing on an Orange tariff but we're still not entirely sure which network which actually be carrying this in their range. The Omni...
We've got the HTC Touch2 right here and you may have already seen the unboxing video. We'll have the review online next Tuesday - it's a Windows Mobile 6.5 device with WiFi, GPS, 3.2 megapixel camera and a 3.5mm audio jack. If you're interested in on...
A little news snippet for you this morning from Palm. We're hearing that they're laying off staff in the US. We're doing a little more checking into this currently. Apparently it's due to "restructuring" but a number of staff have been dropped. Link -...
SPB Mobile Shell has always been good but now the very latest version brings enhanced personalization and customization. Widgets are now included which support Facebook and Twitter plus there's new enhanced Internet searching. Available from today you...
A few days back we launched a competition to win CoPilot Live 8. The sat-nav software comes courtesy of our friends at devicewire.com, where you can buy it for £73.99. We had hundreds of entries and our randomizer has picked out Bizhan Shokouhi as th...
Yesterday we were pretty much the first people to reveal that the iPhone was officially coming to Orange. It explains why o2, who have had the exclusive rights on the iPhone here in the UK for two years, are sniffing around the HTC Leo / HD 2 and …
Two ROM updates have just appeared on the HTC support site for the HTC Touch Pro2. An update is available for the Vodafone and Orange versions to bring your device up to the latest version. There's no real detail on what is improved here, but if you w...
Seriously, how much are we probably going to love the HTC Leo when it arrives ? The benchmarks are now available at it shows the 1Ghz CPU leaving skid marks all over the shop. The stats show a 300% speed boost over the existing Touch HD on 3D …
Linux users may already be well aware of the old "what's open source and what's not" argument. Certain flavours of Linux will appear without certain parts you'd expect because they're not legally allowed to be distributed that way. Sure, you can downl...
We've added a video showing the Touch2 being unboxed. It's a preview unit, but we've got WinMo 6.5 and TouchFLO on board and it's looking all ready for the October 6th launch. We take a look around the handset, contents of the box and the all-new Wind...
The Boy Genius has managed to get his hands on the Motorola CLIQ - soon to be coming to our shores as the Motorola DEXT. It's an Android-powered device with a 4-row sliding QWERTY and 5-way directional pad. The CLIQ has a 3.1" capacitive display, 5 me...
We reported a week back that i-mate had closed up shop and CEO Jim Morrison had left the country. Then, just recently, Jim popped up to state that "fraud" had caused the company to suspend operations for a while. Now, though, it's emerged that the ope...
We doubted it. We couldn't understand why o2 would want to pick up a potential competitor to the iPhone, especially when they have the exclusive on it. Following the earlier story the guys at engadget have had a picture showing promo material with the...
Shh.. Keep this on the down-low. pocketnow.com have just got some more bits of information regarding the HTC Leo / HTC HD2. Yes, it will be called the HD2 and yes, it does have a 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash. The BIG 4.3" WVGA capacitive scr...
Look what just arrived - the HTC Touch2. It comes equipped with Windows Mobile 6.5 and has a 3.2 megapixel camera, 2.8" QVGA screen, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, GPS, 3.5mm audio jack and microSD expansion. A review will be online in a few days and we'll have...
A quick apology. If you tried to get to coolsmartphone.com between 23:00 BST and 03:30 BST or anytime around 14:45 today then it probably would've failed. The news from our data centre is that an emergency router firmware upgrade went a little wrong l...
Android users may well have heard about the CyanogenMod. It's an optimized and tweaked build of Android based on bits of Donut and some excellent contributions from xda-developers.com. Now, whilst ROM cooking and tweaking has been going on for years w...