Orange to carry the TyTN II … too!

Looks like Orange are to sneak out the HTC TyTN II also. MoDaCo have managed to snap some shots of a dummy unit popping into Orange stores, complete with Orange homescreen and a tiny Orange logo at the rear. It's great to see Orange rolling out this p...

HTC S730 Images appear online

Meet the HTC S730. We sniffed this out some months back now when there were rumours of GPS. This will be the worthy successor to the rather excellent HTC S710 that I use daily. The S730 ("Wings") has a rapid 400 Mhz Qualcomm CPU, 3G, face-pointing ca...

HTC Touch Slide sneaks onto the web

Doah, you just knew it would happen didn't you? Yes, this is the HTC Touch Slide and it should be one of the devices appearing on Monday during the HTC announcement. These pictures have appeared on this blogpsot website. This is in fact similar to the...

A message from coolsmartphone.com

I had an email today. It came from someone who has been visiting this site for nearly four years. Whilst I'm not going to mention names, I will mention what the email said.. "Well eventually you have managed to squeeze so many adverts and revenue lin...

Office 6.1 for Windows Mobile.. err.. not quite yet

When I first loaded up Office 2007 on my PC I was a fairly happy bunny. I say "fairly happy" because, when I saved a Word document it would use - by default - the .docx format. This was all well and good if you're sending the file …

HTC Phoebus appears on the FCC

Look what's just turned up on the FCC. It's the HTC Phoebus and there's a 2 megapixel shooter round the back and WiFi on board. There's not much we can gleam from the FCC documents, however the one image we do get looks a helluva lot like the …

Ted Baker Needle online at Carphone Warehouse

Remember those Ted Baker handsets we mentioned nearly a month ago? Well, they'll be touching down at your local Carphone Warehouse in November 2007. This little purple monster (ahem) is a slightly re-worked version of the HTC Touch and, although there...

HTC TyTN II price drop and more

Right, listen up. Remember how we told you when the HTC TyTN II came on sale? Remember how it sold out a few days later? Well, if you missed out don't worry, because it's back and there's 464 of them available. Devicewire have dropped the price too - …

Windows Mobile – The celebrity view

Stephen Fry. You know him. He was in BlackAdder, Jeeves and Wooster, Fry and Laurie, Harry Potter and even that Twinings TV advert. Here's something I bet you didn't know though, because Stephen is a bit of a Smartphone geek. His official website has ...

UltimateSearch Released

This is UltimateSearch. It's a homescreen plugin that'll let you easily search Google, Wikipedia, Movie databases, local businesses, dictionaries, news, Yahoo, Flickr, answers.com and YouTube - all from one box. Simply install, type in your search, ch...

Vario III Available from T-Mobile

First came the review, then news that it was coming soon to T-Mobile. Now it's (almost) officially available with the launch details quoting, "The MDA Vario III will be available from 28th September to purchase from T-Mobile stores and online at T-Mob...

Dopod C750 surfaces

Meet the Dopod C750. It comes with a whacking 640x480 display and looks a heck of a lot like the HTC Juno we saw ealier. It appears to be running Windows Mobile Standard (Smartphone) and has a Blackberry-esque keyboard. Other specs are a little hard ...

Photo Contacts Pro now with additional features

Photo Contacts PRO has now been updated to version 5. The new version brings this home screen plug-in to should your favourite contacts and recent callers, a fully integrated schedule for swapping profiles when you need, an SMS answering machine, enha...

A Windows Mobile Sony Ericsson? The news from HTC

Late last week the Commercial Times reported that Sony Ericsson was sending orders to HTC for a Windows Mobile handset. Apparently a new Smartphone will appear in the latter half of 2008 with an estimated one million handsets being produced. HTC have...

Samsung SGH-i640v in more detail

Remember that Samsung SGH-i640v Vodafone sneaked out in their Christmas line-up? Well, it turns out that it's more than just a SGH-i620v with a paint-job. The i640, shown below in a YouTube video from DinarSoft, gets GSM 900/1800/1900 GPRS, EDGE, 3G a...

Samsung SGH-i780 on display

Remember that Samsung handset we saw the other day? It had an on-screen pointer, track-ball-style navigation and touchscreen. It turns out that this phone is in fact the Samsung SGH-i780. Billed as a "hybrid messaging handset" it'll run Windows Mobile...

The iPhone threat continues

Recent news about the iPhone has caused quite a debate in the forum. Your comments here and here show just how passionately you feel about it. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a recent interview that the iPhone has "no chance of getting any signifi...

Want a classy Windows Mobile? Get this!

Right. A question for you. Do you have some money stashed away somewhere ? You do? Good. Meet the Gresso Avantgarde collection. It runs Windows Mobile Standard and, for a mere £4899, you can own one of these ultra-posh phones. Made from African Black...

Orange-branded Samsung appears – with a roller!

When people mention Windows Mobile they tend not to think of Samsung. Why I'm not sure, because their Samsung Blackjack is a fantastic handset and, if Orange PR are listening, we'd love to review the Samsung i600 on Orange. Samsung look to be testing...

Why Bluetooth, camera phones and beer don’t mix

Here's how lager and Bluetooth can drop you into a whole world of problems. This guy decided, after several beers, to ... errmm... cause some damage to a Lamborghini Murcielago parked in the street. Filmed on various phones by his mates, the resulting...