o2 have kindly dropped off a o2 XDA Guide for us to borrow so, ahead of the usual collosal review, here's some real photos of the device fresh out of the box. Look, it's still got that "don't sit on the phone with it in your back pocket" …
Looking to buy the new o2 XDA Guide? Head on over to techradar.com for a full review of this new handset including details of the CoPilot Live navigation software, screenshots of the HTC TouchFLO system and example camera shots. The XDA Guide is the o...
Most new Windows Mobile handsets now come with GPS capability. The system lets you navigate your way around our fair planet, geo-tag your photos or track your girlfriend when she goes to visit "the bloke about the curtains". What's perhaps not known a...
We love it when you guys nudge us about news stories. Today SilentBob has made a forum post about these rather sexy Touch HD cases. They have a slim fit hard cover with a reflective metallic finish. The case is also moulded to ensure that you have ful...
A couple of software updates for you XDA owners have just appeared. The first is for the XDA Zest and is a full firmware update. Browse to the my-xda.com page, choose "Software updates" from the menu and then select the appropriate update from the dro...
You may have read about HTC's current TV ads here in the UK. They're part of a 6 month sponsorship of the 9 o'clock movie on Film4 here in the UK. If you missed the ad last night you can watch it here or read on. The Touch …
The Touch Pro2 has been spotted in the USA branded with the Sprint network logos. SprintUsers.com user "bigchico68" got to play with it and snap some photos. There's a rumoured mid-June released date and further news that the HTC Snap will arrive in J...
Last month we heard that the MDA Compact V (aka Diamond2) would appear some time in May. Now further confirmation is appearing in magazines like Mobile News which shows a launch date of May 21st - this Thursday. The phone will be free on plans costing...
Back in February we took a look at MyPhone. The service is part of the Windows Mobile 6.5 offering but anyone can use it, yes even with 6.1 :) Simply put it's a way to backup and restore your phone information to a secure website. The whole thing …
We've already uncovered the o2 XDA Guide and the fact that it's coming soon. But, what we've now found out, is that it's actually coming very, very soon ideed and you may already be able to grab one. Several people have emailed us and o2 shop staff ha...
The HTC Iolite leaked earlier this year when expansys.com splashed it across their site. Now it's been given some o2 branding and has appeared on the my-xda.com site as the "XDA Guide". Guide. Geddit? GPS? Google Maps? :) CoPilot will be supplied with...
Another snippet of news has just popped out of last weeks Tech Ed conference after it was revealed that Windows Marketplace users can run purchased apps on up to five phones at the same time. This, according to Senior Product Planner Daniel Bouie, wou...
http://e.msteched.com/public/us/TTK24.wmv With Windows Mobile 6.5 now ready we're hoping to see it arrive on new handsets within the next few months. If you're interested in getting a WinMo 6.5 handset then this video gives a great run-down of the fe...
You will no doubt have spotted recent developments including the completion of Windows Mobile 6.5 and the decision to only include Marketplace in 6.5 and above. A massive shift in thinking has taken place across the mobile phone industry since the lau...
Recently a few big things happened in the Windows Mobile world. Number 1, information appeared on the net that future WinMo handsets could be sorted into Chassis. Chassis 1 is rumoured to be either at the heart of the much-rumoured "Pink" phone or fut...
Got a HP iPAQ Data Messenger or an iPAQ Voice Messenger from Vodafone UK? You do? There's some updates you should be aware of here for the Data Messenger and here for the Voice Messenger. The Voice Messenger has 8 updates and both of these are pretty ...
Yet more Windows Mobile kit is headed towards Vodafone. Following news of the Touch Pro2 arrival there's also a new Samsung QWERTY to arrive called the C6625v. Now, this news comes just a day after my lovely Windows Mobile work phone (T-Mobile Vario I...
Coolsmartphone really wouldn't be much without your input, which is why I was so glad to see stacks of your emails after returning from holiday. Johnny De'Silva has been on the hunt for news and, yet again, he's turned up trumps. We've heard already t...
Fennec, the browser from Mozilla (ala Firefox) is creeping slowly towards a Windows Mobile near you. Yet again this is targeting Touch Pro users and it's another early alpha version. Memory is now handled more efficiently, there's better UI handling a...
Recent handset announcements seem to now be following a pattern. They're launching with Windows Mobile 6.1 and will be getting "Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrades" soon. In truth the situation is still far from ideal. Customers buying a new HTC Touch Diamond...