Vodafone now selling the Samsung i200 too

The Samsung i200 has been available on Orange for quite some time now. It's a classic Smartphone running Windows Mobile Standard (non-touch screen) and has a 2 megapixel camera, microSD expansion and HSDPA internet connectivity. Now it looks as if Vod...

Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 – At last! Available to buy on Voda

Whilst I didn't manage to look at a real-life Xperia X1 during my trip to Birmingham, it is at least becoming more widely available. Matt Gough has spotted the X1 on mobiles.co.uk with immediate delivery whilst Johnny De'Silva has picked it up in the ...

HTC Touch HD arriving earlier than expected

Devicewire have just shuffled forward their arrival date for the HTC Touch HD. Yesterday it was expected to arrived on November 30th, but today it's now November 13th - just over two weeks away! Pricing is yet to be confirmed, but get your name down i...

Samsung Omnia marketing kicks into overdrive

Today I got dragged kicking and screaming popped into our second city to do a spot of early Christmas shopping. During our day in Birmingham I've seen about a dozen adverts for just one handset - the Samsung Omnia. It's everywhere. In the Bullring, ou...

Touch HD on Orange – 3 Month exclusive and more

Our earlier story on the HTC Touch HD has already sparked some interest. It's listed on page 34 of the Orange "Work" magazine and is coming soon. We're now hearing that it'll be on a 3 month exclusivity agreement with the Orange network, however it ma...

White HTC Diamond pictured

I've just been to Birmingham. During our shopping trip to Birmingham I've seen about a dozen adverts for the Samsung Omnia. It's everywhere. In the Bullring, on billboards across the M6 at Junction 9 and inside nearly every in-store phone catalogue. D...

Touch HD appears in Orange magazines

Harv Singh has just spotted the HTC Touch HD in the coming soon section of the Orange Business magazine for October. There's rumours of an exclusivity agreement on Orange, although we're still hearing that the Touch HD will be on Vodafone too. The Tou...

Keep those news stories coming in

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Hourly Chime – Keep track of the time

This program costs $6.99 (£4.15) and will... err.. chime every hour. Well, that alone isn't worth the cash, but you can choose between a range of chimes or you can have the program speak the time to you. In addition, you can tell the program not to m...

O2 Priority Club – Get your perks, if you spend enough

It looks like O2 are going to be grading their customers with a new scheme called the "O2 Priority Club". If you've selected an O2 Priority Club Portfolio tariff and have been with the network 5 months then you can join. O2 are also putting you into a...

Orange SPV bargains

Remember the days when the Orange SPV seemed to be the only Microsoft phone around ? Well now you can re-live them, thanks to a huge splodge of reconditioned SPV handsets from Orange. The Orange SPV C500 is for sale for £19.99 whilst the C600 is ...

Last chance for updating to WinMo 6.0

If you've got the HTC S621, HTC S620, HTC P4350, HTC P3300 or HTC Advantage then listen up. If you've not already done so, upgrade your handset to Windows Mobile 6 now, because HTC are about to remove the links. This HTC bulletin details the changes, ...

Pen drive winners

We did a quick competition a few days back to win a 2GB pen drive. It's a credit-card sized unit and they gave these away at the HTC Touch Diamond launch. I asked for some "interesting" photos and we'd choose the best. There were hundreds, and it was …

Read the Xperia X1 Manual

If you put your nose into the wind you can almost smell the X1. It's so near and yet so far. Sony Ericsson are now dangling the carrot right in front of us with a full user manual online. In the manual you get to see the panels …

Throttle Lock – Pattern-lock your device

Unlocking your device is usually pretty simple on touch-screen devices and not many of us use any kind of password encryption. Throttle Lock will help lock your device and give a certain level of security. It's in an early stage at the present but, u...

No, actually Windows Mobile does run on the iPhone

Just a few hours ago we ran a story about that whole Windows Mobile on the iPhone thing. It turns out that the site running the video was mearly a viral site and so we figured the video evidence was just some sort of mock-up application. However.. ove...

Memory card give away

This is a 2GB HTC Touch Diamond memory card drive. These were given out during the huge HTC Touch Diamond launch and I've actually got one in my wallet. They come in very handy for transferring data around and they're thin enough to slot into your wal...

Windows Mobile in an iPhone ? Ummm…. no

This story popped up around the web yesterday so we thought we'd take a look too. The video, which you can see below, shows an iPhone which can supposedly dual-boot into Windows Mobile. Norwegian iPhone developer Erik Kristiansen is responsible for th...

Sony Ericsson X1 in o2 catalogues

Hello new and existing o2 customers. Want the Sony Ericsson X1? Do you? Have a look what's coming soon on o2. Kishan Sthankiya spotted this in the o2 catalogue and sent it into us. If you, like us, have been waiting since the start of February to get …

The XDA Zest? Wait a minute, that’s not it. Is it?

Kishan Sthankiya sent us a few scans of the o2 catalogue so we're able to grab some interesting bits of information. Here's the XDA Zest once more. It's the Asus-built handset we spotted on their website last week. The specs reveal GPS, 3 megapixel ca...