Oh. What's this. 5-row sliding QWERTY keyboard? 3" screen, Bluetooth, 5 megapixel camera and the Android OS. This is the LG Etna and it should be available in Germany before the end of this year. The device itself is sitting on the Vodafone stand at I...

We'll have a review of the o2 XDA Venn online shortly but, until then, we've got an unboxing video for you to enjoy. The XDA Venn is a classic Windows Mobile Smartphone, so no touch-screen but instead two keyboards to use - a sliding QWERTY from the s...

The Touch HD is a Windows Mobile device that we reviewed some time back. It's got a huge, crisp screen and GPS with WiFi, Bluetooth and a 5 megapixel camera. Just a year later and there's already discussion of the Touch HD 2. Great yes? Well, wait. Re...

VsNotepad lets you make notes and organise your life on the go. You can create workbooks and reminders easily and it's completely finger-friendly. You can browse your notes, set reminders and there's an auto load / save function along with a calculato...

Twitter client Twikini has just been updated to version 1.5. The bugs have been fixed, including images getting mangled when scrolling, tweets not opening properly and more. Improvements include tweet sharing and quality tweaks to comply with Windows ...

Twitter clients seem to be everywhere at the moment and Windows Mobile has just got another one to add to the list. moTweets is available in free (ad-supported) and paid-for ($3.99 / £2.44) versions. It's got all the Twitter stuff you'd expect plus d...

The recent announcement of the Sprint Hero has raised a few eyebrows due to the lack of "chin". We've never had so many emails about a chin before ! (OK, so we had 3, but that's all chin-related, which is weird in itself). Coolsmartphone member "badas...

We've all seen Google Maps. It's great, sure, but there's many people who'd prefer full OS Mapping. A new Android app simply called "OS Map" will show full Ordnance Survery maps on your phone with fast GPS positioning, smooth panning and custom waypoi...

If you're in the USA and looking for a new phone then, if we're honest, the Sprint network is looking fairly good right now. The Android-powered Hero is coming on October 11th (get a review here) and the WinMo-powered HTC Touch Pro2 will be launching ...

The Xperia X2 has had plenty of coverage already but we're loving this vid from HDBlog. They've uploaded a very nice video of the X2 onto YouTube. This is a really in-depth 10-minute vid showing you incredible close-ups of the phone and interface in a...

The Xperia X2 launched just yesterday and will be exclusive to Vodafone. The device has a 8.1 megapixel auto-focus camera with zoom, image stabilizer, geo-tagging and a light. There's also stereo speakers, stereo Bluetooth with equalizer, auto-rotate ...

OK, remember the whole "Hero doesn't quite work right on Vodafone" story we posted ? It looks like Paul over at MoDaCo has sorted it. Now, there's already a work-around for FlickR and Facebook but the Twitter client (Peep) refused to work properly whe...

Back in September 2007 we spotted a cool-looking device called the Pantech C810. It was destined for a US launch on AT&T and the device had 3G / HSDPA connectivity, a 2 megapixel cam, GPS, 528Mhz CPU and Windows Mobile 6 as the OS (non-touch). It look...

If you've got an Android phone then you'll no doubt have used the Android Market to get apps and games. There's a stack of free and paid-for apps but, at times, it's a little hard to find the popular or useful ones. Now, with the new version you'll …

When we ran a story some months back about Moto leaving Windows Mobile it was rumoured that WinMo would take a back seat in favour of OS's such as Android. Previously Chief Sanjay Jha had said that it considered Android superior this year and had may ...

For those lucky owners of a HTC Hero there's now the HTC updated ROM available to download at MoDaCo. To install this Generic HTC ROM (version 2.73.405.5) you'll need to stick the recovery image on, copy the updated ZIP file to your SD card and then r...

The American network Sprint has today announced the launch of the HTC Hero. It does indeed lack that "chin" we've come to love / hate here in Europe and you'll be able to buy it on October 11th through their website, shops and Best Buy for $179.99 aft...

Got a Touch HD from Orange ? Listen up. Orange have just put an update only (version 1.59.61.2) which improves the HTC Touch HD as follows.. - Improved Opera browsing performance - GPS Update speed improved - On-screen slider feature for answering cal...

A few days back we spotted the Samsung Galaxy i7500 selling on the o2 site. Today we've received the .. err.. announcement that it's available. Yeah, we know already, but we're guessing that this announcement means that it's more "widely" available, l...

T-Mobile have announced the launch of their third Android handset in the form of this, the T-Mobile Pulse. It's a device we saw rendered just a week ago and has a 3.2 megapixel auto-focus cam, WiFi, GPS and a big 3.5" HVGA touchscreen whilst still mai...