Orange Partner Camp – Get involved!

The Orange Partner Camp, being held from May 8th-10th is a chance for mobile games, ringtones, music, business solutions, applications, handset and network enablers or any other wireless services providers, to come together with Orange. This year the...

Exclusive first – v1240 and v1640 Now selling on Vodafone!

Remember a while back we exclusively revealed that Vodafone were testing the new Vodafone v1240 and v1640? Well, we're revealing that they've actually hit the shops and you can buy them right now!If you check the Vodafone UK Business store you'll find...

Red and Pink Handsets from i-Mate

Check this out! It's one of only 100 Ferrari red i-Mate JASJAR handsets. You've probably seen in less bright colours under different branding across the world (SPV M5000, o2 XDA Exec etc). According to NewMobile.com this and a pink version of the i-Ma...

o2 XDA Mini Push Email Update

Just a few days a go we told you to keep an eye on the new xda.o2.co.uk site for details of the push-email update for the o2 XDA Mini and o2 XDA Exec. Well, although the Exec update isn't here yet, the XDA Mini update is. If you've …

MobiLuck now for Windows Mobile 5.0 too

About this time last year we mentioned something called Mobiluck, the "BlueJacking" software that lets you detect all nearby Bluetooth devices and send / receive messages. Now compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0 handsets Mobiluck is a bit more than ju...

Shozu branches out

Shozu, the direct-pictures-to-web-from-your-phone-app, has announced that they're branching out to offer photo and video uploading to multiple personal blog and citizen photo-journalism sites such as Blogger, Typepad, Wordpress, CNN, the BBC and Scoop...

No more MSN in SPVs – The case continues

Michael Pearson has sent an email about this Orange Press Release which is actually from the 3GSM show on February 13th. It may explain the decision to drop MSN Messenger from the SPV range. The Press Release states an agreement between Vodafone and O...

Orange SPV M600 in the wild

Featured in my gadget photo blog is the Orange SPV M600 which we reviewed last week. I spotted it this afternoon in the Lichfield Orange store after grabbing a coffee. It just goes to show that this device is now readily available in stores. Interesti...

HTC Star 100 / QTek 8500 Preview

Lutzh at MSMobiles has yet again got his hands on one of the hottest Windows Mobile handsets around. The new HTC Star Trek, which is now also known as the HTC STAR100 and being sold as the QTek 8500 is a very slimline flip-phone that we've constantly ...

Bye Bye MSN on Orange SPV’s

Yes, it does appear that Orange did decide to remove MSN Messenger from the Orange SPV M600. They're apparently working on a new Instant Messaging (IM) application which, for the success of the handset, I certainly hope will include access onto IM net...

UK: o2 XDA IQ Cometh!

You may remember our previous story on the o2 XDA IQ, it's going to be the first big release of a WiFi-capable Smartphone. o2 UK now appear to have made it official, with this web page giving stacks of details and links for the handset. The new xda.o2...

Deploy Push Email and Microsoft Exchange

We've mentioned previously how to get started with all this push-email business. If I'm honest I wish it was slightly easier for end users, so that they could simply bang in a few details and get their POP account email sent straight away. Actually, I...

Mobile Registry Editor

Something I've just spotted whilst looking for a registry editor is this PC-based tool which connects to your phone and shows / edits your registry. I've been looking for one as I'm having trouble app-unlocking my C600 after the AKU2 update. Well, alt...

Max your broadband!

If you're after even faster broadband then it's worth looking at Internet Central. Right now they're offering up to 8Mb/s broadband with a whacking 30Gb data transfer limit per month for just £19.99. That's pretty fantastic when you realise that othe...

Stream live video to the web with ComVu

I spotted ComVu over at MoDaCo recently. It's a free piece of software that, after you've logged in and created an account, lets you stream live video and audio from your device. Yes - live. You can stream it over whatever connection you have, be it t...

CTIA: New slim QWERTY handset from TechFaithWireless

Y'know the Mototorla Q? Well, this isn't it, but you'd be forgiven for thinking it was. Chinese manufacurer TechFaithWireless have been showing this off at CTIA and it's the second clone of a Mototorla handset that we've seen from them following the M...

CTIA: HTC Announce Plans and another new handset

This is the HTC Foreseer, featured in this Phonescoop article covering the CTIA Wireless industry show in Las Vegas. Bearing a slight resemblance to the Virgin phone, it's a new DVB-H TV phone to be launched by Modeo in America. The HTC Foreseer has a...

Orange SPV M600 Review is here!

Aha! It's all done now. Get the full, completely finished review right here. Overall I was quick impressed with the 2 Megapixel camera and the design of the M600 is splendid. You may remember last night I put the "almost finished" version of the revie...

New push mail tariffs from Orange

Orange have announced pricing their new Microsoft Exchange Direct Push e-mail plans, according to this ComputerWeekly story. Data bundles will start at £6.50, giving users 10Mb of email. Medium usage packages will cost £12 per month for 30Mbytes, wi...

TechFaithWireless slide into play

Hey look ! It's the Motorola SLVR.. no, wait a minute.. It's actually a handset from TechFaithWireless. "Who?", I hear you cry. Well, these guys are from China and - like HTC - they design and build handsets for branding by networks and companies. Th...