Special Opera Mobile 9.5 announced for Touch Diamond

I've had a few emails about the availability of Opera Mobile 9.5. The truth is you can't actually buy it at the moment. The press release, shown here, actually relates to the Opera Mobile 9.5 browser that you'll find inside the new HTC Touch Diamond ...

Palm Treo 500 Review

It's been a bit quiet here at Coolsmartphone.com for the last couple of days. Usually that means that something big is about to happen, and in this particular case it's rather huge indeed. Check back over the weekend to find out what it is ;) In the m...

Touch Commander 3.1 now available for touch-screen phones

Hot on the heels of version 3.0, the guys at Mobilityflow have just released version 3.1 of their Touch Commander Suite. Bearing more than a passing resemblance to the HTC homescreen and TouchFLO technology, there's also skins available to download to...

Machines At War 1.2 available

Machines at War is now available in version 1.2. It's a real time strategy game where you must command an army across the battlefield and defeat the enemy. Last year we covered the beta, however now there's extra ground units, new attack strategies, r...

HTC Touch Diamond – 2 Million sales this year

After selling a million HTC Touch devices in just a few months, HTC have announced that they expect to sell two million Diamond handsets this year. Given the fact that sales may not start until late June, this means a doubling of the sales made by the...

Orange launch their Liveradio kit

This is the Orange Liveradio. It'll give you the ability to listen to internet radio stations easily and has a "drag and drop" function to let you create favourite stations. Costing £99.99 it'll connect to your WiFi router and update itself on the fl...

Beat the petrol prices – earn cash while you travel!

I've just managed to get myself a HTC TyTN II handset to keep (aka T-Mobile MDA Vario III / O2 XDA Stellar / Vodafone v1615 / AT&T Tilt etc etc) and I'm currenly loving having GPS and WiFi once again. GPS will shortly become even more widespread when …

Skybox – New highly customizable GUI

There's quite a few new interfaces for Windows Mobile phones at present. Skybox is another one seeking to make its' name and should give your touch-screen device a completely new look and feel. It's not all about what you see here, although the grid-v...

HTC P6500 Review now online

The HTC P6500 is, I'll admit, a rather chunky handset. It's a hard-wearing device that you'll probably see being used in demanding environments outside the comfort of most offices. Equipped with 3G, WiFi, a 3 megapixel camera, two SDIO slots, Bluetoot...

Flick Software demo multi-touch wizardry

A few weeks back we posted about iSwish and iZoom. The video of it in action had an interesting twist at the end - multi-touch functionality. How was this possible? Well, the guys at Flick Software aren't really saying, however they have emailed in to...

Touch Diamond keyboard hacked and downloadable

Well, if you can't quite wait to get the HTC Touch Diamond you can, at least, get the cool "iPhone-esque" keyboard from it. The guys at xda-developers.com have somehow managed to grab the necessary bits to bring you the Diamond Keyboard, Keypad and QW...

Orange data tariffs – the saga continues

As you'll all know by now, I'm currently on Orange. I'm one of the many customers who are paying a rather large amount of cash for data. Today I've been charged nearly £12 for using just 7Mb of data, which seems to come from the "Pay As You …

Ringo Ringtone Manager

This is Ringo - it'll provide an easy way to change your ringtones on your device plus you can set tones and pictures for friends, contacts and groups of people all at once. Users of the Ringo ringtone manager will now get a free collection of "blips...

Hexxagon Labs – New logic game

Hexxagon Labs is now available from Herocraft. It's a fun logic game with 17 tricky levels to overcome. The goal of the game is to occupy as many cells on a field as possible, capturing pieces of an enemy. You can play against the artificial intellect...

Elecont Pocket PC and Smartphone Manager now available

Elecont have just announced a new animated plugin for your Today screen. It'll let you manage, control and monitor your device and quickly switch between programs. Elecont Pocket PC and Smartphone manager also displays memory usage information for eve...

Wot no iPhone? Can the Touch Diamond steal the show?

For the geeky amongst us, you may be interested to know that the HTC Touch Diamond has now popped up at the FCC. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is a US agency charged with regulating communications in or originating in the USA. This docum...

Windows Mobile 6.1 Update coming to the Orange TyTN II

We're hearing more news on Windows Mobile 6.1 for existing devices. According to some emails we've received, Orange will be rolling out a 6.1 update for the HTC TyTN II mid-May, so we should see it pop up sometime next week. Keep checking the TyTN II...

HTC Diamond – Full Orange press release

We've just received the Orange press release for the HTC Touch Diamond. Like the T-Mobile variant, it'll be arriving in July, so it's looking like HTC will be selling these in June - a few weeks before the networks. The Orange branding has been carefu...

Broadcasting live – from your phone

Earlier in the week you may have seen our live coverage of the HTC event in London. During the day I posted live pictures, details and bullet-points from my Windows mobile phone. I wanted to cover the day without having stacks of extra equipment, so I...

HTC Event video, plus o2 XDA Diamond coming soon

OK, I'll keep this quick because I know you've probably got "Diamond Overload" by now :). If you didn't catch our live video feed from the event, HTC have now added a full video of the event so you can see and hear exactly how the phone was …