Eric has just emailed in about a new game called Ballistic. Available to try or buy (£4.06) you have the deceptively simple task of getting the ball into the pot. To make things a bit trickier you've got moving platforms, explosions, homing missiles ...

Do you want to get into Today screen or Home screen design? Well, look no further than the PhoneThemes Studio toolkit. Hundreds of people were involved in beta tests for the application so it's already tried and tested. PhoneThemes Studio is a one-sto...

The HTC Vox - a QWERTY / numeric keypad-combo device - has yet again appeared on the internet. You'll have to excuse the badly placed Smartphone screenshot, however it does tally with previous suspisions of a Smartphone OS... then again, who knows?! W...

You've heard of "Pimp My Ride", well - how about trying "Pimp My Mobile". Rey Flores certainly has, he's added some serious styling to his phones thanks to the rather excellent Kei Stylist. His Windows Mobile handsets have been given the "bling" treat...

Everybody has heard of Skype. Thanks to Skype I called the UK from Boston and Seattle for hours on end and yet it only cost me about £6. All it took was a Pocket PC and a WiFi connection, however it's now properly available for the Smartphone too. …

Virgin Mobile Lobster 700TV owners will now be able to enjoy Channel 4 Live. Previously only available in "bite size" edited chunks, Channel 4 will add to the existing BBC One*, ITV1, E4 and ITN News. There's already some fantastic offers available on...

I'm guessing that a lot of alcohol was consumed in the making of this new promo video from our friends at ClickApps and ClickGamer, however we're prepared go with it because they're promoting "Snowed In 5 - Flaked Out". It's now available for Windows ...

Remember how we told you how cheap the Virgin Mobile Lobster 700TV was ? Well, how about getting it for absolutely nothing ?! Yup, on the Virgin £25 contract or above you get the phone for absolutely nothing but wait - even if you want just the £20 …

I have a slight dilema. Granted it's not your "every day" dilema, however I'm going to try and turn it into a very useful article for you guys. The problem? Well, take a look at the picture. I now have not one, but two T-Mobile MDA Compact III …

The guys at software shop Pocketland.net have a rather interesting new product on their books - it's a Marziphone! Yup, it's mobile and edible ! This is better than any Chocolate phone - 100 grams of pure marzipan from Lübeck marzipan maker J.G. Nied...

GadgetApps have just released GA Ringtone Manager. For just £3.02 you can get this easy-to-use program which lets you add, change or remove ringtones on your Smartphone. MP3, WMA, WAV or MIDI files are supported as ringtones plus you can also tweak y...

I've had quite a few emails and there's already been some questions in the forum about this. Let's imagine the scene - you've had a Pocket PC for a while and you've gone out and purchased TomTom for it. Then, some months later, you upgrade to the T-Mo...

Here's the Lobster 700TV handset that we reviewed earlier. Paul at MoDaCo has done some fishing around and he's found it selling for £90.98 with £50 worth of call credit! How good is that eh? To get this offer you just need to visit this page and no...

Wehay! Look what arrived this morning (larger picture here). It's a T-Mobile MDA Compact III along with CoPilot Live 6 ! Strictly speaking this is actually my work phone, but I did "encourage" them to go with Windows Mobile handsets so there's now an ...

I'm sorry, but if any other company in the UK sends me a press release that says, "Happy Holidays" or "Out in time for the Holidays", I think I'm going to go insane. I don't know of anybody I've ever met who is offended by me saying, "Merry …

Ascender have just released the Ascender Personality Kit for both Pocket PC and Smartphone. It combines ringtones, themes, background images and fonts into categorized sets which you can easily choose from and apply. I've tried this out on a Samsung i...

With all these dark, wet, windy days we need something to cheer us all up. How about a new game? The guys at Momentum Games have been busy working on a new hit since the release of their Pocket Mini Golf 2 smash. Here it is - Meltdown. …

A new version of Mobile Manager has been released by synchronica.com. Version 1.3 brings support for a wider range of handsets and additional management functions to support the latest AKU updates in Windows Mobile 5.0. Mobile Manager is aimed at busi...

We've seen quite a few new devices from HTC of late - the Excalibur, Herald and the Hermes that we've already reviewed as the T-Mobile MDA Vario II and Orange SPV M3100. Now here's another - a QWERTY sliding... Smartphone. It's got quad-band GSM / EDG...

I get lots of emails here at CoolSmartPhone. I'm quite glad they're not "real" at times because the postman would have a bad back and I'd probably be swimming in junkmail. Anyhow, I'm saying this because I forgot to mention the competition currently u...