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...

Before the video interview took place Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer admitted a few things that we kinda already knew at the Venture Capital Summit in Silicon Valley. People in the audience posted Tweets as the event took place. Twitter user beninato tel...

There's an interesting interview with Steve Ballmer over at TechCrunch today. He did touch on mobility, discussing the "Microsoft Phone" that kinda got revealed yesterday with two phones appearing based on Sharp hardware. Although they're not "built b...

Just a few days ago we said our goodbyes to i-mate. It was a sad farewell but, just when you thought CEO Jim Morrison had packed up and headed into the sunset, he then re-appears. Apparently the company is merely going through some "troubles" which a...

It seems that the HTC Leo is becoming more popular by the day. Now there's even more juicy information - the Leo is apparently due to appear on o2 on October 12th. According to engadgetmobile.com... "A trusted tipster with a proven past just gave us t...

Got Windows Mobile ? Want to stay with it ? I don't blame you. However, you've probably experienced a small amount of envy when you see how well Twitter is integrated into the HTC Sense experience on the HTC Hero (well, if it worked). There's news fro...

We've been told several times that Microsoft Pink doesn't exist. We've also been told even more times that an Microsoft "own branded phone" doesn't exist. Well, the latter is partially true, there won't be a phone "built by" Microsoft but it may have ...

There's a great little utility here for doing network tests like ping, traceroute and upconfig on your Windows Mobile. It's completely free and also shows you ping trip times, DNS lookup times and more. There's a couple of ways to download it and it'l...

We've seen the Galaxy Lite before in a rather funky colour scheme. The Android-powered device has a 3.2 megapixel camera, 3.5mm audio jack, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS and the Samsung TouchWiz interface. Here's a shot of the device we've seen before but the...

The HTC Leo, Pro.Three, HTC Touch HD2. Call it what you will this is one very nice device indeed. XDA-Developers member "B3ler3fonte" has got some more shots of the device including a comparison shot of it sitting next to the HTC Hero. Although we've ...

Over 30 new Windows Mobile 6.5 devices before the end of 2009? Yes, according to DigiTimes there'll be 30 devices from 15 different manufacturers. Benjamin Tan, Senior Director in the "GCR Mobile Team" at Microsoft China revealed the tit-bit of inform...

Hey HTC Hero users. Have you been having problems with HTC Peep of late? Yeah? You're not the only ones. We've seen that "unexpected error" and "force close" far too much of late. Luckily Paul over at MoDaCo has spotted that if you clear the cache it ...

Listen up coffee lovers. If you're a regular at one of the UK's Starbucks then this will definitely be of interest. You'll no doubt have seen the BT Openzone WiFi access points but perhaps ignored them due to the price. However, there is a way to get ...

Got Gmail ? Got Windows Mobile? Cool. There's some good news from Google. Now you can get your Gmail sent directly down to your phone via the push-email / Exchange protocol. It means that mail comes directly into your WinMo mail client. Try it out he...

Fancy a chance of winning something ? We love giving stuff away and today there's a chance to win CoPilot Live 8. It's worth £73.99 and it'll work on either Android or Windows Mobile. You know the deal - this is an award-winning sat-nav system giving...

Oh what's this over on the Vodafone coming soon pages? Not one, not two, but three hot new phones we've been covering. First is the HTC Tattoo is coming to Voda exclusively in black next month. It's the Android device for the masses and has a 3.2 mega...

Arne from theunwired.net has managed to get one of those generic boxes we love messing with. Inside is the Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 - the new Windows Mobile device with 8.1 megapixel shooter, laptop-esque sliding QWERTY keys, WiFi, aGPS, 3.5mm headset ...

Let's be honest, this isn't the best picture ever. I mean sure, there's a Sony Ericsson logo at the top and a Android-esque home keys at the bottom but it's still a "possible" sighting of the new Android-powered Xperia X3. We were all ready to ignore ...

The Leo. We've added post after post here at coolsmartphone,com and although we already kinda knew it'd be the Touch HD successor there's now even more evidence courtesy of these pics from techblog.gr. Now sure, round the back there's some nice "HTC P...