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 ...

Windows Mobile goes into high gear

The guys at TechDigest have a rather interesting write-up on their visit to Microsoft in Seattle. They've had a good nosey around at the latest Windows Mobile phones and they're pretty damned impressed by everything. They managed to get a look at Wind...

Oooh! Is your phone on vibrate?

The Mobile Life 2006 survey is out today with some interesting insights into todays mobile world. The survey, by the Carphone Warehouse in association with The London School of Economics, examines how mobile phones have changed the way we live. 16,500...

Share and publish phone vids easily

The guys at Blinkx.com have launched a new site today. SelfcastTV.com allows quick sharing and downloading of mobile videos via MMS. You register then - provided you're in the UK - you just upload your video via MMS and they appear online. The PR guys...

HTC – Now selling accessories too

HTC, the company behind the manufacture of the majority of Windows Mobile handsets, have recently started selling their handsets directly via HTC.com. Now they've branched out to making accessories too. These two headsets have just popped onto their s...

HTC Star Trek gets approved – Will Cingular grab it?

"That" flip-phone, the HTC Star Trek / iMate Smartflip / Orange SPV F600 has been approved by the FCC for use on cellular networks and there's rumours that US network Cingular are sniffing around it too. There's a couple of versions - one with and one...

A future for the dumbphone?

There's a rather interesting article here at The Register called "Whatever happened to Smartphones?" by Andrew Orlowski. It's a rather frank discussion into todays "dumbphones" and how advanced they are plus how popular they still are when compared to...

News feed goodness

Want to keep up with the latest Windows Mobile news and goings-on here at CoolSmartPhone ? Well you may have already heard about these nifty "RSS feeds" which automatically push the latest news down to your favourite news reader or web reader (like Wi...

i-Teq X-Bond – TV Enabled Pocket PC !

OK, you gotta check this thing out, it's called an i-Teq X-Bond (shaken, not stirred) and it's coming to the Batelco network in Bahrain. It's apparently the first Windows Powered PDA with TV to enter the Middle East market. Selling exclusively from Ba...

A6 Times – Read news on the go

Say "RSS feeds" to most people they'll fall asleep. Although most people won't have any idea what they're for or what they do, they are very clever indeed. RSS / ATOM / XML, whatever you wanna call it they're basically stripped down data feeds from we...

Sync your Mac with Windows Mobile 5.0

If you're a Mac user then you're probably one of many walking around saying, "Why can't I sync my Windows Mobile 5.0 handset with my iMac?" Well, now you can. MarkSpace.com have announced the launch of The Missing Sync version 2.5 which adds the much ...

Downloads searching fixed!

OK, OK! I've had a whole heap of emails saying, "Your search thing doesn't work on the downloads section". After several hours of drinking and keyboard-bashing I've finally sorted it out but we're always after more stuff to search through so get uploa...

Palm Treo 750v heads for Vodafone UK

You may have spotted news the other day that Microsoft and Palm were working on something for Vodafone which would "target the adoption of wireless push email in Europe". Well it's now official - the Windows-powered Vodafone Palm 750v (aka Lennon) dev...