We've mentioned DVD to mobile several times here at CoolSmartphone. It's a great piece of kit that runs on your PC and will squash down your DVD's into a format and size which will fit on your phone. Makayama have now released a new version for Pocket...

Well, although we could almost see it coming, it looks like the Orange SPV C700 has finally hit the buffers. We mentioned the battery problems that plagued the handset during testing, however there was a continual glimmer of hope as it popped up in Or...

Now, stick with me on this one because it might get confusing. Orange, as you'll know, are to launch the Orange SPV M700. It's made by HTC and it's called the Trinity. There's been rumours about GPS in this device but it looks like it's either an opti...

Orange Romania have launched the SIM+ card alongside this - the Orange SPV C100 handset. The Windows Mobile 5.0 powered Smartphone has a 1.3 Megapixel camera, MicroSD slot, GPRS/EDGE, Bluetooth, IR and a lower-than-normal 176x220 resolution screen. Th...

I have several "industry" newspapers and magazines delivered weekly for both my work and website activities. One article that caught my interest recently is this Mobility Today interview with T-Mobile manager Jay Saw. The whole mobile picture is shift...

We're the first site in the planet to get hold of the official Press Release and launch details of the T-Mobile MDA Compact III. It's the first device from a UK mobile operator to offer built-in GPS and is also available with CoPilot® Live 6 satellit...

Remember that T-Mobile MDA Compact III we mentioned a couple of days back? Well, it vanished from their site shortly after we ran that story. Worry not though, because it's back. Have any of you managed to get one? If so, let us know in the feedback f...

Orange France are to carry a new handset soon called the SPV M650. This will be the GPS-enabled HTC Artemis / P3300 we've seen previously. There's a story on this at mobinaute.com, however it's backed up by info at Orange.fr plus pictures hidden away ...

How fast is your texting? Quick? Well, I doubt it'll compare with Ang Chuang Yang, a student from Singapore. He managed to type a 160 character message reading.. "The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most feroci...

YouTube. Let's face it, you've all heard of it. Unless you've been living under a rock on the moon then you'll no doubt have watched a video on YouTube at some point. It's great, but when you want to watch your favourite video on your phone, the wheel...

Cingular have just announced the launch of the Samsung BlackJack. The wafer-thin GSM Quadband device also comes with dual-band 3G and runs Windows Mobile 5.0 (Smartphone). There's a scroll-wheel, 1.3 Megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth 2.0 and the QWER...

Some questions get asked a lot here at CoolSmartphone. One in particular gets asked almost every day, "How do I use two SIM cards in one phone". You may have seen some batteries for handsets made by Nokia which include a second slot for adding that ex...

The o2 XDA Stealth is now selling across Australia, Singapore and beyond. The Stealth, shown here, is a clever phone / PDA combination featuring all the usual Pocket PC flexibility coupled with a phone-style design and slide-down numeric keyboard. The...

We love our readers. In fact, if we had enough cash then we'd take you all to the pub and buy everyone their favourite drink. Two emails have just come in - one from Johnny DeSilva who's spotted that the Orange SPV M700 has appeared in the "Coming …

That BenQ P51 we mentioned in the Spring has now finalled been approved by the FCC. The quadband GSM/GPRS device comes with integrated GPS, WiFi (802.11b/g), a full QWERTY keyboard, 1.3 Megapixel camera, touch-screen, SD expansion slot, MiniUSB and, i...

Thanks to Brian for tipping us off on the availability of the T-Mobile MDA Compact III. This is now showing in the Business section of the T-Mobile website here. It's the same handset you should also see coming soon on o2 UK as the XDA Orbit. The MDA …

You may remember our earlier stories on Hubdog - it ws previously just for Pocket PC users but now the excellent podcast, news and RSS reader comes to the Windows Mobile Smartphone too. Hubdog is totally free and will let you search and view video p...

Some Motorola Q news now - meet the Motorola Q Norman. Yes. Norman. Possibly the stangest name for a phone ever, this is a restyled Motorola Q with a new keyboard with larger, flatter keys plus some new shortcut buttons. But wait.. the front of the ha...

Here's another new ROM for Orange SPV M5000 owners. It's just popped up here at Orange.co.uk. It's dated November 6th and is a weighty 60Mb in size and corrects any issues with synchronisation failures that some users may have experienced when using A...

WiMax. What's it all about eh? Well, it's a way to deliver the "last mile" and is an alternative to cable and ADSL. Imagine a pumped-up WiFi router and then imagine a few of these routers dotted around in lamposts and signage in your local town. Wait ...