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 ...

Emoze throw down the gauntlet to BlackBerry

The 3GSM World Congress is coming up in Barcelona soon and you can bet there'll be plenty of new phones on display. Our friends at Emoze have an interesting plan for the event. You may remember their easy-to-setup push-email system we mentioned a few ...

Orbit and MDA Compact III Issues?

Are you having problems with your o2 XDA Orbit or T-Mobile MDA Compact III ? Well, it seems that there's a possible issue with the transfer of data on storage cards. According to this forum the issue seems to arise when files are deleted. This simple ...

o2 Zinc Launch delay

The o2 Zinc we spotted earlier looks to have slipped slightly. A release date of March is now being shown on the o2 site with a March launch date. If you're interested in this handset you can still click here to be informed when it's ready. Link - …

HTC Omni specs rumours

A lot of people will have seen the HTC Universal. It's available as the Orange SPV M5000 and the o2 XDA Exec, however HTC plan to shrink it down to look a bit like our artists impression. The resulting smaller device will be called the HTC Omni - …

Vodafone v1210 Available in Portugal

This is the Vodafone v1210 Smartphone. It's now available on Vodafone Portugal. It comes with 3G capability, 240X320 pixel screen, Bluetooth, MiniSD slot and the usual push email stuff. This is a nice looking Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone with zippy 3...

HTC P4350 Reviewed

We've been busy beavering away on this rather huge HTC P4350 review of late and it's now available for your delectation. The P4350, soon to be seen as the Vodafone VPA Compact IV, has a full auto-sliding QWERTY keyboard and comes complete with both Ad...

Apple iPhone slides into play

Here it is, the new Vista phone from Microsoft... Oh.. wait.. Sorry, it's the Apple iPhone. ;) It'll come with just one hardware button, which we presume is the power, and a multi-touch screen. It runs on OS X and there's WiFi 802.11b/g, iTunes syncin...

Palm 750v announced on Cingular

You may remember our Palm Treo 750v review. It's safe to say that we were more than a little impressed with this exceptional phone and it showed. Until recently it's been exclusive to Vodafone in the UK and Europe, however Cingular now plan to release...

Hold up, the Samsung i760 has changed a bit?!

This, according Engadget, is the Samsung i760. Hmmm... weird.. it looks completely different to how we remember it but hey, we'll mention it as Samsung were keeping very quiet about it during CES (Computer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas. The Engadget ...

o2 XDA’s are go, go, go!

All-round top geezer Johnny De'Silva has just emailed in with some fantastic scans from the o2 UK catalogue. Inside is o2's XDA Orbit and you could indeed be forgiven for thinking that it's pretty much the same handset as the T-Mobile MDA Compact III ...

izenMobile KSMT and KRMA to be released

Meet the izenMobile KSMT, known also as the Glofiish M700. This is possibly the first real shot of the device on the web (larger image and other shots below) and, along with the izenMobile KRMA, they are shortly to be available from the San Diego-base...

Orange SPV M700 – Still coming soon, can’t be long now

I've just taken a trip into town and picked up the latest Orange catalogue. Inside is the Orange SPV M700, proudly sat on the "Coming Soon" pages with the following details beside it. The larger version of this page is below and, although we've seen i...