Here's another cool interface for your touch-screen phone. It's called "Ultimate Launch and you can buy it for £7.95 or download a trial. It's a very powerful plugin for your "Today" screen and you can add as many tabs as you like. Switch between the...
If you read my blog you may have spotted this blog post from yesterday. I blogged about a guy who answered his mobile whilst in a toilet cubicle and started chatting to a colleague. I was a bit puzzled why someone would want to do this, however I …
We've mentioned it many times and, thankfully, the phone manufacturers are well aware of it - the standard Windows Mobile homescreen and interface is getting a bit long in the tooth now. Another phone manufacturer - GSmart has now announced "Smart Tou...
I bump into far too many people using the standard Microsoft "Today" screen on their devices, so it's great to see yet another GUI in development to replace the tired home screen. iSwish, currently under development by Flick Software, brings that iPho...
The Taipei Times has just posted a story on HTC, makers of most of the Windows Mobile phones on the market. It seems to confirm the HTC "Diamond" and it's referred to within the article, although not by HTC staff. HTC Financial Executive Cheng Hui-min...
The Palm Treo 500 is now available on o2. Previously available on Vodafone, o2 are selling the handset for a grand total of £0.00 in both their Personal and Business sections. The handset packs 3G connectivity, 2 megapixel camera, microSD expansion, ...
Following our story earlier which detailed Windows Mobile 6.1 on the Vodafone v1615, we've had word from Craig Rider that T-Mobile may be ready to do the same thing for their phones, and it may also include the T-Mobile Touch Plus (aka HTC Touch Dual)...
Yep, we've succumbed to several social networking sites recently. Perhaps the most useful from a mobile perspective is Twitter.com - this is pretty cool because you can update your status and tell all your mates where you are via a single text message...
Dave Griffiths and Tom Weeks have emailed in with more information on the excellent Sony Ericsson Xperia X1. Arne at TheUnwired.net has posted this tasty video of what to expect. There's fluid animation, a souped-up home screen and an album interface ...
After we followed news of the upcoming HTC handsets in leaked images and then documentation it was just a matter of joining the dots and working out that the HTC Touch Diamond / HTC Diamond will probably be the replacement for the popular HTC Touch. t...
The Orange SPV E650 that we reviewed some time back is still a big favourite. The branded HTC S710 is now available from Orange for £109.99. The phone, which has a spring-out QWERTY keyboard, WiFi, 2 megapixel camera, MicroSD card slot, stereo Bluet...
The Orange Shop seems to be having a spring clean. Apart from the Samsung i200 we mentioned earlier, Johnny De'Silva has spotted that a white HTC Touch has popped up in the "Pay As You Go" section of the Orange website. The handset, reviewed here, run...
Steve Hurcombe has just emailed in about Windows Mobile 6.1 He's got himself the rather tasty Vodafone 1615 (the Voda version of the HTC TyTN II) and he wanted to know if it'd be updated to 6.1. Now, here at Coolsmartphone Towers we've got so used to ...
Remember the Samsung i200 ? It was spotted earlier this year at the Mobile World Congress. Now it's popped up on the "Coming Soon" pages of Orange.co.uk Business site. The phone has a 2 megapixel camera, microSD card slot, Bluetooth and EDGE plus 3G ...
Those who know me well will know that I'm a tight-wad. Mr Frugal, that's me. If I go out for a pint for the lads I'm usually the one who suddenly has to tie his shoe lace on the way into the pub. :) So, to find some …
Here in Europe we've seen HTC stand up as a phone manufacturer - not just a company who makes phones for other people (like the Orange SPV range, T-Mobile MDA range etc). However, in the USA there's still a lot of rebranding going on so now HTC have …
Oppsey. It looks like Engadget have managed to grab more news on upcoming HTC kit. The HTC Diamond is showing as the replacement to the HTC Touch, whilst the HTC Raphael is the replacement for the HTC Mogul. Both units, even in these grainy leaked ima...
I'm lucky enough to be an MVP - it's an award from Microsoft which you can read more about here. Every year they send a little gift out, and this year it's these Bluetooth headphones. They've been languishing in a box for a number of weeks as I …
microSD cards. They're great. Whack one in your phone and you can get up to 8Gb (provided your phone is SDHC compatible) in seconds. Wait though, because there's another use for that slot (ahem) - you can put a microSD WiFi card in. WiFi cards have be...
OK, so we know that HTC are hosting a big event on May 6th - could some of these handsets be part of it? Well, apart from the P3470 (second handset in) we've never seen any of these before. The picture, taken from mobile-review.com (we've chopped the ...
