Bye Bye Standby Review

A few weeks back the guys from Bye Bye Standby emailed in to say, "Hey, check out our Online Controller, it'll let you control your electrical devices using your mobile phone". Well, who are we to say no? There's two parts to this solution - some clev...

HTC Touch Pro and Diamond comparison shots

Sure, we've seen the HTC Touch Diamond and the HTC Touch Pro, but what about the two together? Well, it turns out that the sleeky, slender HTC Touch Diamond is even more sleek and slender when compared to the Touch Pro. The QWERTY-packing Touch Pro ad...

Update – New data plans for Orange

Following our earlier story about the imminent arrival of the HTC Touch Diamond on Orange, we've had some interesting news. By now you'll all be aware of our battle with Orange and their data plans. Personal customers, like myself, get just a 30Mb lim...

BenQ announce UK availability of the E72

Coolsmartphone launched several years ago dedicated to Windows Mobile Smartphones. These were cool new devices, usually with a numeric keypad and never with a touch-screen. Over time we've branched out to cover all manner of Windows Mobile devices but...

HTC Touch Diamond shows up on Orange website

The HTC Touch Diamond has just popped onto the Coming Soon section of Orange.co.uk. No prices as yet, but we're hoping Orange manage to come up with a good data tariff for prospective "personal" customers. A device like this, which shows full web page...

Popping out that lens cover on the HTC Touch Diamond

When we took a look at the HTC Touch Diamond we noticed that a couple of photos seemed a little blurred. This shot in particular seemed to show the issue and we quickly worked out that the small plastic cover for the camera lens was just where your …

More cheap memory cards and accessories

Last week we spotted this SanDisk 8Gb microSD card for £18.98 delivered. Now there's one even cheaper over at play.com for just £17.99 delivered! If you think 8Gb is just too vast, try the 4Gb one for £9.99, again with free delivery. Don't forget t...

Vodafone v1615 WinMo 6.1 Available for download

Tucked away in the Windows Mobile 6.1 Upgrade for the Vodafone v1615 (aka TyTN II). You can now grab it direct from their site and enjoy the new features and improvememnts, such as threaded SMS, improved IE browsing, getting started wizard, easier Blu...

Voda to sell the Diamond for £230 without contract?

From what we're hearing it sounds like the HTC Touch Diamond has started appearing in network catalogues. It's popped up already in the Orange brochure, but strangely it's appeared in a Vodafone catalogue sporting a price of £230.... handset only. Y...

Orange SPV E650 ROM Update

If you've got an Orange SPV E650 you may have missed a new ROM which appeared sometime in May here at Orange Business. We're not entirely sure what's been updated here, although the PDF is dated June 12th. If you've installed this, please let us know ...

HTC Touch Diamond price drop

Still thinking of getting a HTC Diamond? Well, devicewire.co.uk have just dropped the price to £433.99. Wehay ! What? What's that you say? You've already bought from them and you paid the higher price? Don't worry, I've stumbled across an offer on t...

Official Spec Touch Diamond – With improved ROM

Since doing our special "Week with the HTC Touch Diamond" video blogs we've seen other sites picking up the handset and commenting on it. Some of you may have seen these sites calling the interface "slow". Indeed we had a couple of issues with the ear...

HTC Touch Diamond now officially available

We've covered the HTC Touch Diamond in depth through our special report and all eight videos detailing our "week with" the handset. Now that magical day has finally arrived - you can buy the official UK model over at devicewire.co.uk. Selling for £4...

T-Mobile doubles the cost of 08 numbers

T-Mobile appears to have announced a new set of charges today. The prices, which will take effect on July 28th, are detailed here. It appears that T-Mobile have chosen to completely ignore an Ofcom ruling which states.. "Ofcom will require mobile and ...

New MyMobileR version available

One of my essential bits of software has to be MyMobileR. It'll let you remotely control your windows Mobile via an on-screen window or by moving the mouse off your monitor. Version 1.23 has just been released and there's now IP connection (over WiFi ...

Cheapo microSD cards on offer

The credit crunch is hitting everyone right now so saving money is a must. As for me, I'm still feeling the pinch after spending £11 to watch that Sex and the City movie (really, how many minutes did they spend writing and filming that eh?) Anyhow, o...

HTC Touch Diamond lands onto Vodafone UK

It's all been a little quiet of late. To be honest we're all waiting for those recently "announced" phones to become "available" phones. The HTC Touch Diamond has, at least, taken a step closer on Vodafone. Vodafone now joins Orange and T-Mobile in a...

Commodore 64 and Vic 20 Emulator Available

Being just 21 (ahem) I can't remember anything about the Commodore 64 or Vic 20, however there's now a rather splendid emulator for those that do. It's got a completely re-written core and interface and you can switch between Vic20 / Commodore 64 emul...

HP iPaq 900 Now finally (almost) here

Back in early September last year we first heard about a new iPaq 900 handset from HP. Well, following the "available soon" announcement you should now be able to buy the thing, a full 9 months later. You can find it here in the "Handhelds and Calcula...

T-Mobile MDA Vario IV – Up close and personal

We've already heard about the HTC Touch Pro (Raphael) and the T-Mobile incarnation (MDA Vario IV), but Coolsmartphone reader Lawrence has just pointed us to these photos of the upcoming device. No computer graphics here - this is the actual MDA Vario ...