I can't really remember if I've featured this before but it's well worth a look if you're after a proper 1980's style mobile phone. Retrobrick.com is a fantastic website if you're a fan of those big hefty mobiles from the A-Team and Knightrider days w...
See the mighty atom! Well, that's what this new o2 website is called - dedicated to the new o2 XDA Atom with it's Intel XScale PXA 27x 520Mhz CPU, Wifi, 240x320 screen, 2 megapixel cam (with flash), 192Mb ROM / 64Mb RAM and Tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE. It'...
The guys at SwiftScripts.co.uk have blessed us with the "website of the week" award. Their site, which houses lots of useful PHP, CGI and Perl scripts, gave us a stonking 8/10 for the service we provide. It's not all good news though, apparently we on...
Microsoft T'Interweb Explorer is now on version 7 with Beta 3 being available to download here. It lifted a lot of good stuff from Firefox plus it added a phishing filter to stop you giving away your ebay or bank details. Not to be outdone there'll be...
Some of you may be aware of a new service launched by Sky TV recently. If you're lucky enough to have one of their whizzy PVR's then you'll already be used to the live pause and recording to hard disk. However, recently they announced their Sky by Mob...
The MoDaCo summer event kicks off this Saturday. If you're planning to attend then there's the usual food, raffle, pub quiz and beer plus goodie bag. Held at the Orange offices at The Point in London Paddington (shown right) between 12 noon and around...
It looks like Vodafone Germany are to take on both the HTC Hermes as the Vodafone VPA Compact III (press release here) and the HTC STRTrk (press release here) as the Qtek 8500. Both devices should be an excellent addition to the network and will prove...
Microsoft have released a new ActiveSync - version 4.2. For the unaware ActiveSync enables the transfer and syncronisation of your Outlook details plus documents, music, videos, pictures and software. The new update resolves some issues that gave an e...
Japanese company Willcom have unveiled another Windows Mobile handset manufactured by Sharp. The WS007SH, which can be seen in 3D here, comes in black and iPoddy white and runs Windows Mobile 5.0 for Pocket PC. According to this machine translated pag...
Samsung have announced the launch of their SGH-i320 QWERTY handset which will beat the Motorola Q into Europe. According to Samsung the SGH-i320 will be available in Europe this month with further launches across the rest of Europe and Asia later. We...
Nick Butcher emailed me over the weekend regarding the new HTC brand and the pretty hefty advertising they're doing here in sunny Britain. This advert (click here for big) was placed in blokes gadgety mag Stuff - y'know the one, it's usually got some ...
Apart from having a keyboard like an old Nokia 5.1 and only a 1.3 Megapixel camera (we loved the 2 Megapixel cam in the M600 and want to see more), the MTeoR from HTC looks pretty cool and is featured in this video review.The MTeoR has a 300Mhz …
You may recall I mentioned the problems we're having with Google. It turns out that it's not just us - there's posts from annoyed webmasters on forums across the web and I've found some huge problems with the results it's giving. Something is seriousl...
Just before I went off on honeymoon the HTC Oxygen appeared on the web with a rather bland specs list. I say bland because it's got a 1.3 megapixel camera - something which would've been great in 2004, a low-res 176x220 screen and a few other bits inc...
Are you interesting in dogging? Well, maybe you should try Hubdog.com which isn't actually anything to do with driving into the woods late at night but is actually an RSS reader, podcast player, search engine, video and media provider all in one. It's...
You may remember we mentioned a company called TechFaithWireless before. They're busy making some pre-production handsets to show the various networks and distribution channels just what they can do. This Smartphone-web.com article shows just some of ...
NetFront Version 3.3 is now available for Pocket PC. It's a web browser with a password manager, smart frame capability, rapid-render, smart-fit rendering plus much more. The new upgraded version includes a pop-up blocker, RSS / ATOM feed capability a...
If you've got yourself a T-Mobile handset then it's well worth checking their update site and grab yourself the necessary AKU2 flash for the push-email facility on the MDA devices. The MDA Compact II, MDA Vario and MDA Pro are all on there so be sure ...
I'm sitting out in the garden watching the England match right now. Vista has finally allowed me to write a few quick stories which we've missed out whilst I was on my honeymoon. First up a quick note about SmartPhoneHistory.com, a site made by Ashley...
I'm always a bit sceptical about free text messaging services. Usually your number gets sold to some random company or the person you're sending to gets spam texts shortly after. Sure, you could say, "You don't get something for nothing" but heck it's...
