Got Vista? Get Windows Mobile Device Center

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...

Orange SPV M700 takes a step closer to UK

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 detailed images of the HTC Vox

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...

GPSGate – Easily keep tabs on your mates!

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...

GPS Phone sales set to explode

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...

European Satellite Radio coming soon?

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...

T-Mobile Dash crosses the Atlantic to become the MDA Mail

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, …

First : T-Mobile UK to release the Ameo

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...

T-Mobile AMEO / HTC X7500

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...

Vodafone VPA Compact GPS

Back in August last year we told you that the HTC Trinity and the HTC Artemis both definitely had GPS on board. Then we found out that the Trinity might not, but then we were told it definitely would have GPS on-board. Confused? Well, we then heard ab...

Teksoft CapturePro – Easy screen capture via PC or mobile!

The guys at Teksoft posted a news item about CapturePro in our forum. This Desktop PC application will let you easily grab screenshots from you Pocket PC or Smartphone. You also get Mobile Device CapturePro included in the deal, which lets you grab s...

Asus Pegasus Pocket PC Phone

This is the Asus Pegasus Pocket PC phone and comes with GPS on board. It's a slim device with numeric keypad and jog dial for speedy navigation. Asus are already responsible for a large number of laptops and their skills for design and build are show...

Lobster 700TV sales prove disappointing – Maybe because..

I'm both annoyed and frustrated by this Guardian story which states that Virgin Mobile UK have sold less than 10,000 of their Lobster 700TV handsets, despite dropping the price heavily and launching a massive advertising campaign with Pamela Anderson....

HTC Vox – Sneak shots

The lack of a multi-touch screen on a Pocket PC secretly causes people to curse daily when they try and tap a number in quickly using the dialpad. Perhaps a way around this is to combine the slide-out QWERTY keyboard with a standard numeric keypad on ...

Vodafone v1210 / VDA IV Coming February to UK

Keni has once again emailed following my recent rant at the Vodafone UK Press Team whilst trying to get news of the Vodafone v1210 / VDA IV. It turns out that he's got several contacts within Vodafone and they've confirmed to him that this handset sho...

Vodafone v1605 Updates on the way

Keni has emailed in after spotting recent news on upgrades to the HTC Hermes / HTC TyTn handsets. He's had a chat with the guys at Vodafone and they've advised him that the AKU3.3 Firmware is currently being tested and should launch soon. If you've go...

zaTelnet – Remote telnet and SSH access for Windows Mobile

If, like me, you need telnet or SSH access into a server then you'll be used to using tools like Putty and secureCRT on your PC. For Windows Mobile you should definitely check out zaTelnet, which has support for telnet, SSH1 and now SSH2. There's two ...

Free contact exporting tool now available

WM Soft have released a freeware application called Export Contacts which will create a HTML or XML file with more than 50 properties, including photos and ringtones. Although your contact details are effectively backed up when you synchronise, this f...

HTC Cavalier unboxed and online

Sure, I may be sat in my hammock here in Cancun, but I'm still here to bring you the latest news. Today it's the HTC Cavalier, which looks to be the successor to the current HTC Excalibur - seen as the o2 XDA Cosmo and T-Mobile Dash. TheBoyGenius …

VDA IV Available at Vodafone Germany

You may remember our our earlier story on a Vodafone handset called the v1210 being released in Portugal. It's now also available in Germany here as the VDA IV. We were first to tell you of this handset along with its 3G capabilities which make it an ...