Hot new games – Plus 10% off GPrime Xtreme!

We've managed to get a great deal for you guys on the excellent GPrime Xtreme. Right now you can get 10% off the price of our exclusive CoolSmartPhone Edition just by quoting the promotion code of "XTREMECOOL" at the checkout. Give it a try here - bla...

Bye Bye Tatung M1. Hello M1A

Remember the Tatung M1 we covered earlier? It's had FCC approval and was being shown just a month ago at 3GSM. Well it's been binned and they've instead moved the keyboard around a bit and called it the Tatung M1A. It'll get rebranded though as variou...

Orneta Beta Program for Windows Mobile

The guys at Orneta have unveiled a new beta program designed to help power users preview upcoming Orneta releases. The Orneta Beta Program currently offers six pre-release products including Biorhythm Mobile, Calculator Mobile, Checkers Mobile, Notepa...

CeBIT 2006: Samsung SGH-i310 Pictured

Engadget have some real-life shots of the Samsung SGH-i310. It's similar in design to the Samsung SGH-i300 that's currently on sale at o2 however the i310 has an 8Gb HD on board. That same design style has also been continued with the SCH-B600 10 Mega...

VITO AudioPlayer v1.0

VITO have announced their AudioPlayer for both Smartphone and Pocket PC. This software will play all your MP3 files and it has Bass Boost and loads of different "play modes" including single file, current folder, current folder and all subfolders and ...

CeBIT 2006: T-Mobile MDA Vario II On show

Engadget.com have got close-up pictures of the new T-Mobile MDA Vario II. "What!?", I hear you cry, "We've only just got the T-Mobile MDA 1!"Well yes, that's true. The USA only got the MDA (1) last month, however this new one is currently only slated ...

Orange SPV C600 AKU2 Update

It's now available to download here! This will bring the push email facilities promised by Microsoft. It's a whacking 34.5Mb download called "c600_mail.exe" from the Orange Business site and brings your handset up to version 11.2.1.5. Orange state... ...

BenQ P51 Announced.. Hmm.. Looks familiar…

BenQ have announced this - the BenQ P51. Hmm.. it looks a lot like the P50 doesn't it? You may remember that the P50 recently had a rebrand and a few tweaks (including adding Windows Mobile 5.0) in order to be sold as the AnexTEK SP310. Now it …

Samsung i310 Announced – With an 8Gb HD!

Our mates at NewMobile.com have got news on a new handset from Samsung. This is the i310 and comes with an 8Gb hard drive. Samsung are really throwing the punches at the moment. Their Samsung i320 QWERTY phone is already thinner and smaller than the M...

Even broader-band

Despite heavily misleading marketing campaigns from certain ISP's saying that "8Meg broadband is now available", it's not and it hasn't been. It will however be possible to get 8Mbit/s broadband from the end of this month providing your pretty close t...

More on the HTC Wizard push-email updates

Dipesh has just emailed me about the saga of the push email updates that are missing the stereo-over-bluetooth capability promised by A2DP. Dipesh says.. "I have been using the leaked ROM on my T-Mobile Vario for the last 2 weeks and I can confirm tha...

Atomic Cannon – Blast that tank!

Way back in the day I remember playing a very similar game to this on my Amiga, however it's now available in the form of Atomic Cannon which is now available to download for the Smartphone here (full screen for WM5.0 handsets too!) or Pocket PC here....

Avvenu brings remote files to your mobile device

Avvenu is an award winning free service that enables you to remotely access your computers from your smartphone or any internet-connected device. You can now download version 1.2 from our downloads section or from Avvenu directly. Once installed you c...

Push Email updates begin to appear

As you may know, iMate have now announced the ROM Update for the iMate K-JAM, which is also known as the T-Mobile MDA Vario or the O2 XDA Mini S. The good news is that, yes, push email is here and it's in the iMate update. Unfortunately it …

Style and design drive mobile sales

News today from industry analysts Gartner about the state of the mobile industry. Nokia is still the biggest hitter with a growth of 21% - selling 816 million devices. More and more sales in Western Europe and North America, where many sales are repla...

Bye Bye PSTN – Hello VoIP

Here in the UK our major telecommunications company is still BT. Soon they will be spending more than £10 billion to roll out 21CN - the 21st Century Network. Yes, you heard right - £10 BILLION. BT make a yearly profit of around £1 billion, so you ...

Skookum goes from strength to strength

The excellent Skookum is now at version 2 and includes support for Podcasts and audio from the equally excellent Audible.com. What does it do exactly ? Put simply it lets you easily subscribe to online media content via RSS / XML feeds like the ones o...

Record notes and CALLS with VITO Audionotes

VITO AudioNotes is an MP3/WAV recorder for Smartphones and Pocket PC's. Released today it's an easy way to record those important memos or thoughts on the go. It's simple to use to - you don't need to worry about stacks of recording formats etc - just...

Retro TV Clips on your phone

Right now there's probably a certain percentage of you lot saying, "Star Fleet! I remember that!" and a certain percentage saying, "What the chuff is that?" Well, this weekend I fell across a site called RetroJunk.com. It's a fantastic website where y...

Podcast 19 – At last!

OOOfff I've been a busy lad. This past few weeks has involved broken laptops, stack loads of DIY, motorway services, hotels plus some damned expensive tyres. Today though I've finally managed to finish off recording Podcast 19 and I even found a few s...