Vodafone VPA Compact III Reviewed and Released

4WinMobile have a review of the Vodafone VPA Compact III (HTC Hermes). I'm not quite sure how they've got hold of this, or how everyone commenting seems to have one too, as I've been unable to get any info from Vodafone about this 1605 - the Vodafone ...

Motorola Q to hit Sprint Network

US Mobile network Sprint is to become the second carrier to pick up the Motorola Q handset following its' launch on Verizon. This should be a welcome addition to Sprint, who don't currently offer a lot in the way of Windows Mobile handsets - I could o...

SPV M3100 hits Orange Website

The Orange SPV M3000 is a great handset. It got released by Orange in most of Europe but not here in Britain. It's appeared on o2 (XDA Mini S), Vodafone (QTek 9100) and T-Mobile (MDA Vario) but Orange UK didn't release it. We got mad. We started a …

Virgin Mobile TV Handset to arrive next month

The handset we saw in February is now known as the "Lobster 700 TV" and has started to appear in catalogues. You may have heard it called the "BT Movio" or the "HTC Trilogy". This will fit nicely into the new range of Virgin Lobsters including the 485...

HTC Excalibur – Real snap and possible launch for T-Mobile!

Hot on the heels of the HTC Excalibur graphic comes the actual device itself! Here it is running what appears to be a T-Mobile flavoured Smartphone OS. Yes, it looks like T-Mobile are testing this out ready for a possible launch.This blurry shot (whic...

Do you know where that phone has been?!

Following on from the story last year showing work desks to be dirtier than toilet seats, it's now emerged that your mobile phone is too. You mobile also has more germs and bacteria than the bottom of your shoe or a door handle and there's tens of tho...

News designed for your mobile

If you're looking for a one-stop news site suitable for your mobile screen then try News4Mobile.com. It's a mobile portal featuring charts of mobile websites listed into categories. You can also use tage or do a search for news plus there's a ranking ...

Rivia Gentimer 1.1 Released

In May we showed you a new piece of software called Gentimer which includes several configurable alarms, a stopwatch, timers and world time with maps. It brings a much more advanced alarm-system to the Smartphone which is far better than the lacklustr...

Orange SPV M600 Stock – Check our shop!

I've been having quite a few emails from CoolSmartPhone readers who are having problems getting hold of the excellent Orange SPV M600. We reviewed this a while back and we were very impressed by it, however there appears to be a temporary blip in supp...

QuickMark – Get info, websites or text by QRCode!

Camera phones, they're everywhere. Surely there's got to be more useful things you can do with them than simply taking shots of your mates drunk? Well yes there is. This QuickMark software installs to your phone (I found that the Dopod 577W software w...

Orange to bring unlimited packages too

The Register have an interesting story on some data plan changes at Orange. Following the fantastic unlimited plans by T-Mobile Orange are going to bring in a top price on the Dolphin, Canary, Raccoon and Panther packages to include unlimited calls, t...

Pictured – The HTC Excalibur QWERTY

Windows Powered QWERTY-phones seem to be all the rage right now. We've seen the Motorola Q and the Samsung i320 so far, both super slim messaging handsets for text and email addicts. HTC, makers of the majority of Windows Mobile handsets, are now gett...

Orange Call Centres to close

Management speak is sometimes confusing. Imagine your boss coming in one day and saying, "Hi guys, we're having a re-alignment of our service strategy". This is what happened in the Orange Call Centre at Peterlee recently. Translated this basically me...

QTek 9000 Appears on Three.co.uk – Info and Specs

You may remember that we were first to tell you of the QTek 9000 arriving on Three. Well, they've now got an information and specs page online plus this picture of how it'll look on the Three Network here in the UK. Three will be offering their own …

Vodafone Palm Treo 750v pictured

msmobiles have a blurry shot of that Palm Treo 750v we told you about last week. As you can see it's the same as our previous image but with the usual Vodafone red homescreen and a white Vodafone sticker. If you like the look of this and you're …

Confirmed – Cingular 3125 (HTC Star Trek)

You guys from the US should be getting the lovely Star Trek sometime soon. You may remember we spoke about this just the other day when it got approved by the FCC so we figured it must close to release. Today, according to Gizmodo, it should be around...

The names’ Bond, I-Teq Bond

Remember how we mentioned the i-Teq X-Bond phone a few days back. It has a TV receiver built into it which lets you watch terrestrial PAL / Secam channels and radio too. Mobile-review.com have got themselves one of these, although it's just called a "...

HTC TyTN Pics and more

James Warburton has sent me in some lovely shots of the HTC TyTN (info and details here) alongside his HTC Universal (Orange SPV M5000) and SPV M600. This is pretty much the same device as the Orange SPV M3100 we saw the other week that'll soon be arr...

PC Pro – Not quite right…

I've just spotted this PC Pro article which looks at smartphones from a business perspective. This group test included a wide range of handsets but over half were Windows Mobile devices. It's an interesting read, although it starts off badly with.. "...

Lottery Wins, Viagra, Rolex, Gambling, Shares

AGH! Right, I've had enough of this. Today has been completely wasted due to spammers. At work I've had a server attacked by a hacker who was trying to bounce requests elsewhere for those fake ebay / paypal login screens, I've come home and had about ...