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...

Explore the Titanic with Astraware

This is Hidden Expedition: Titanic from Astraware. They're developing and publishing handheld versions of Big Fish Games and this highly addictive hidden-object game will also immerse you in georgeous graphics as you explore the 14 diving missions. I...

Standby UK Windows Mobile fans – the iPhone cometh

Our earlier iPhone story caused quite a stir with you lot, but there's at least some good news. The UK-bound iPhone will not have 3G. Indeed, it's exactly the same 8Gb handset that our US-cousins now have, except we'll be getting it for just £269 - a...

Vario III pops onto T-Mobile .. with the right piccy

You may remember how we picked up on the T-Mobile Vario III - aka the HTC TyTN II / Kaiser showing up on the T-Mobile website. T-Mobile plonked it into their "Coming Soon" section, but it showed the MDA Compact III on the image instead. Good news thou...

TextR – Threaded text messaging

TextR is a conversation-based texting system messaging for Windows Mobile Pro (Pocket PC) devices. It stores and archives your conversations on the storage card and features pop-up notifications, photo integration, emoticons and much more. You can tr...

Palm 500v interface in action

Jason Langridge has done a nice YouTube video demonstrating the Palm 500v user interface in action. It combines Vodafone Live plus all a whole new menu interface making it easy to glide between menu pages and choose your favourite program. Check it ou...

vTap – Online video and wikipedia search

So after yet another bizarre week (I'll tell you more in time) in my life, I was sat down this morning going through the various Windows Mobile websites. MoDaCo have a feature on vTap which, I have to say, is an absolutely excellent application. Why e...

MDA Vario III appears on T-Mobile UK

Here it is, the T-Mobile branded version of the HTC HyTN II listed as "Coming Soon" on their website. Wait... hang on a minute. That's not the HTC Kaiser / HTC TyTN II we all know and love .. it's the MDA Compact III! Oh dear, it looks …

HTC Juno exposed on the web

The Boy Genius has come up with another soon-to-be-announced HTC device called the "Juno". To be honest there's not a huge amount of information about it as yet. 3G connectivity, a 2 megapixel camera and Windows Mobile Standard (Smartphone) has been r...

Treo 500v Goes Official

Well, just as we expected way back in June, the Palm 500v is now official and yes, it is coming to Vodafone. Palm UK have just put a full page online detailing the specs, which inclide pretty much everything... except.. WiFi (doah). The 500v does, how...

Viigo – Cool free Windows Mobile RSS Reader

Free RSS readers. We love them. This one is particularly good, featuring OMPL importing from the URL of your choosing plus there's a slick interface allowing Technorati search, blog feeds and pre-sorted categories to choose from. You also get an auto-...

The new Palm handset – revealed!

Doah, don't you hate it when someone says, "See? We told you so?" Well, yes, we kinda suspected that the new Palm Smartphone would be Windows Mobile powered and here it is. This, we can assume, is the mysterious "third device" coming to Vodafone's Chr...

Vodafone 920 – More details and specs

OK, so we heard earlier that Vodafone sneaked in a rather fine looking Windows Mobile Smartphone into their Christmas line-up called the Vodafone 920. It didn't get mentioned much, so we simply had to contact Vodafone and get some more information. We...

Vodafone announce their Christmas line-up

Well, it sounds like summer is officially over. Why? Well, we've just been reading what handsets Vodafone will be launching this Christmas... yes, Christmas. There's a couple of interesting points in this story. Firstly is the fact that Vodafone quote...

Blackjack Competition – The winner is..

We ran a huge competition recently to win a brand new Samsung Blackjack. I spent a good while going through the entries and then passed them across to my wife to look at. Strangely enough, without even knowing, we both chose this shot from forum membe...

That new Palm Smartphone – it smells like Windows Mobile

Right, just to bring you up to speed with the story so far, Palm put this site online to promote a new phone arriving here in Europe. Everyone thought it was the Palm Centro (800p), which runs the Palm operating system. However, we crossed everything ...