I've just been watching this video comparing an o2 XDA Orbit with the new iPhone from Apple. Whilst the Windows Mobile handset effectively beats the iPhone on features, it worries me that many of the Windows Mobile programs shown aren't part of the or...
If you text a lot or you've got a teenager in the family who does, why not check out this rather excellent deal on Orange Pay As You Go. If you're really quick and fill in this form you can get up to 1000 messages per month and …
We've got more hot news about the upcoming Orange SPV M700 handset. We can now pretty much confirm that the SPV M700 does have GPS on the latest ROM and AKU3 is included. Orange SatNav runs on it and AGPS is on too, although the network doesn't suppor...
Remember the story we did yesterday on the upcoming Orange SPV E600 (aka the HTC Excalibur) ? We exclusively revealed that Orange will be picking up this handset and offering it very soon in Europe. Well, now we can go one better with an exclusive pic...
Yet more information coming in about future Orange handsets. I've just received a second email confirming that the Orange SPV M700 will have satnav at launch on Orange UK and will come with a new trial called Orange Maps. Also, the HTC S310 we told yo...
Anonymous emails often come may way. A lot of them make claims about new handsets, and I've sat on this one for a couple of days now trying to decide whether to run a story about it. Today though I tried to add ourselves to Google News and …
Having a Windows Mobile Phone can be confusing enough. If your mates ask you, "What phone do you have?", you'll usually end up saying something like, "It's an Orange SPV C600 Smartphone" Their eyes will probably glaze over and you'll spend the next 10...
A lot of people have recently done stories about Google Maps Mobile so I thought I'd give it a try. I installed it by browsing to www.google.com/gmm on my Windows Mobile phone and installing the CAB. It's so simple to use and there's a bag of options ...
Last night I was chatting with a mate about what software he had installed on his QTek 9000 (which, by the way, looks to have been removed by
We've been waiting a while for the this new 3G Windows Mobile handset. We've done story after story after story after story about the Orange SPV M700, pictured right. Finally, though, it's moved from the "coming soon" section of Orange catalogues to t...
Orange recently launched the SPV C100 in Romania. It's an Orange branded version of the HTC Oxygen. Here it is with all the Orange gubbins. OK, now forget all that, because things have gone a little weird. The commercial arm of HTC sell this the HTC S...
If you're lucky enough to have a decent enough graphics card, plenty of memory and a copy of Windows Vista then you'll know that the whole ActiveSync experience has changed. With Vista your mobile device is recognised the minute you plug it into the U...
The Orange SPV M700 has now popped up on the "Coming Soon" section of their site. The suspense is palpable, and we've been hounding it since September. The old "will it, won't it have GPS" rumours seem to have been settled now (we think), as the specs...
More shots of the interesting HTC Vox can be seen here at moblog.com.sg. Besides the fantastic pairing of numeric and slide-out keyboard it's also got Windows Mobile 6 on board, complete with Office Mobile, Windows Live, PDF viewers and more. Designed...
Although I'm back in the UK my head isn't entirely sure where I am, so I figured that I'd check out GPSGate.com. It's a GPS mapping portal which lets friends share their live location with other personally approved "buddies". The GPSGate people say it...
According to news today it looks like 2007 could see double the amount of GPS enabled equipment being sold compared to last year. During the first nine months of 2006 around 12 million GPS devices were sold, but research firm Canalys reckons 28 millio...
Every now and then we like to bring you a slightly off-topic post which may interest you. Today I spotted this news item about old satellites being re-used for new in-car entertainment systems in Europe.Cast your mind back a few years. Remember when S...
The T-Mobile Dash has been available in the USA for quite a while now, so it's good to see that it'll soon be available back in Europe as the T-Mobile MDA Mail. Made by HTC, it's known as the HTC Excalibur and comes with a full QWERTY keyboard, …
The excellent guys at T-Mobile PR have just sent me the following email.... "London, 25th January 2007: T-Mobile today announces that the Ameo device will be available exclusively to T-Mobile UK when it is launched later this quarter. The Ameo from T...
Just before Christmas we ran a story on an interesting looking device called the HTC Athena. Although at first it may look a little different than any other Pocket PC you've ever seen; the specs list is astonishing. It comes with Windows Mobile 5.0 (P...
