The future of mobile phones is always a hard thing to forsee. However, the guys at IA Technolody appear to have their idea. Now, bear with us here because you'll have no dount heard this before, but they claim to have created the worlds most completel...

Yes, we know you've heard it before and there's probably a lot of other sites out there (do tell us if you've seen a good one) but the guys at www.selloldphone.co.uk have pinged us about their service. You know the deal by now, the guys dish out cash …

Today I'm excited to announce the launch of a new venture - iPhoneBANG! This new website is the result of several emails and forum posts from people who have decided to choose the iPhone. People wanted a place like coolsmartphone.com, but for their iP...

We've been following the T-Mobile MDA Vario IV for some time now. It's the T-Mobile variant of the HTC Touch Pro we reviewed some time back and now, finally, it's appeared properly on the T-Mobile UK site. It's available for consumer and business cust...

We've mentioned the excellent iPlayer a few times here at Coolsmartphone.com. If you've got yourself a HTC Touch Diamond then this is the app you'll need. It'll let you browse and stream content from the BBC iPlayer service plus you can download progr...

After submitting a rather huge document back in 2008 it looks like Apple have now had multi-touch patentented. The document mention Steve Jobs by name and covers the dtection of "one or more finger contacts with the touch screen display, applying one ...

We mentioned this in an earlier story and we've taken a look at the Exeda mobiles before, but it certainly warrants another story. This is perhaps the first time we've seen what is reported to be Windows Mobile 6.5 on a manufacturers website. With a...

If you're lucky enough to have a Samsung i780 you can now upgrade it to Windows Mobile 6.1 using the Samsung Mobile website. Their FAQ states the benefits of upgrading as... "There are new functionalities with the latest OS on this version." Meh? The ...

Apologies for the outage yesterday guys. I took the decision to re-format my laptop at home following a rather nasty virus / malware attack. Murphy’s Law dictates that, when I go out for the day and leave my mobile at home and my laptop formatting i...

Well, it was hardly a secret was it ? The HTC Iolite is now officially splashed all over the HTC website. As we suspected it's the replacement / update for the original HTC Touch Cruise, so they've branded as the.. err... HTC Touch Cruise '09. The ne...

Windows Mobile 6.5. We've been talking about it for some time and we're expecting a launch announcement in just a few days. Now we can see it in action on .... a really old PDA. Anyone remember the XDA II / SPV M2000 ? I'll bet Microsoft weren't …

Ever since we first saw Pointui Home we were massively impressed. It appeared just over a year ago and things have exploded since then. It's a completely new GUI for your Windows Mobile and their all-new site has just popped online. It's promising ......

What's this ? A new Android handset from HTC ? Ah.. it's that Saphire we saw a few days back. It looks rather posh in iPhone white and comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera. There's not much else we can gleam from the engadget story other than the …

More on that HTC Iolite we mentioned some days back from theunwired. There's yet more pictures to pour over, plus news that it'll arrive on o2 Germany as the "XDA Guide" to replace the XDA Orbit 2. Powered by a Qualcomm MSM 7225 CPU running at 528 MHz...

Quiet huh? Well, it's Mobile World Congress in a few weeks so a lot of companies are holding off announcements until then. This, of course, means that the rumour mill has already started spinning along with lots of "announcements of planned announceme...

Hey, got a HTC Touch Diamond direct from HTC? Come close. HTC have just released an update which includes several improvements and fixes. The fixes include ... 1. When you launch the Camera while the system is working on other programs, the preview s...

Viva ! Yep, it might have a funky HTC name, but T-Mobile Germany have decided to brand the Viva as the ... err.. T-Mobile MDA Basic. A 2 megapixel camera, the TouchFLO 2D system, WiFi and a 2 megapixel camera isn't to be sniffed at though, so we're …

Windows Mobile is what we're all about here at Coolsmartphone, but we still sometimes look at other OS's and think, "I wouldn't mind having a dabble with that". Here CompuLab have fixed the "grass is greener" thoughts with the "Exeda" - a dual-boot de...

Last night a DJ saved my life, yeah. Now you can too, with DJ Party Mixer from Makayama. For just $12.99 (£8.92 / €9.95) you can compile and edito playlists and mix your MP3's in real time. Originally meant for the iPhone the strict rights manageme...

Following our earlier report on the whole "is it or isn't it available" situation, we can now say for definite that the Vario IV is available on T-Mobile. Steve Clark has just ordered his and there's a stack of people at xda-developers.com getting the...