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

Coolsmartphone and the news items you see online daily would be nothing without you lot. Tips, scans, photos, information and press releases keep the wheels churning here, so please let me know if you've got any Windows Mobile news we should be lookin...

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...

o2 XDA Serra in store catalogues – pictured

Just yesterday we ran a story about the o2 XDA Serra popping up in o2 catalogues. It's the o2 flavour of the HTC Touch Pro and both Kishan Sthankiya and Andrew Keith sent in scans so we can all see the evidence. No prices are showing as yet, …

o2 XDA Serra in store catalogues, coming soon

Lee Sainsbury popped into his local o2 shop this afternoon and had a looksie in their catalogue. The o2 XDA Serra (HTC Touch Pro) is listed as coming soon with a pictures and specs. Staff in store reckon it'll be out in the first week of November, wit...

Viigo Beta – New Coolsmartphone Edition now available

The new Viigo Beta is now available to download. It's a free easy-to-use application which will keep you in touch with the world. There's a stack of features including mobile 5-day weather forecasts, sports news, stocks and finance information and all...

New LG Incite on the way to AT&T?

Rumours over at Engadget suggest a new LG phone running Windows Mobile is about to appear on AT&T. It's been a while since we saw an LG packing Windows Mobile, which is strange in a way because the KS20 was a gorgeous handset and I was surprised not …

HTC T8290 WiMax handset pops onto the web

This is the HTC T8290. It's just appeared over on nedge2k.com and looks like a thinner version of the Touch HD, but that's where the similarity ends. Sure, this device has GSM, WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0, but there's also WiMax too (read more about WiMax ...

HTC Touch Cruise gets Windows Mobile 6.1 too

Last year I took the HTC Touch Cruise around a local safari park as part of our review. It's a touch-screen device with a 400MHz processor, 3G / HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, GPS and dual cameras (3 megapixel at the back and a CMOS cam up front for …