New Voice of Texting

Tom Baker has been brought in as the new voice of BT's text-messaging system. Now, when you send a text message to any landline in the UK, the recipient will hear the voice of Little Britain speaking back to them. The new system is much clearer and le...

The Mad Competition Results!

OK so it's Monday and I've had a nightmare choosing winners! We've had Stuey Roscoe sending in pictures of girls, girls and yet more girls. We've had Lee Sainsbury freezing his phone to make a real "CoolSmartPhone", weird car accidents from Jonathan H...

Eten G500 GPS Pocket PC

This is the E-Ten G500. It's a Quad-band Windows Mobile 5.0 handset with a GPS SiRF Star III, MiniSD slot and a 400Mhz Samsung CPU. This is the first Pocket PC Phone from E-TEN to have fully integrated GPS capabilities. There's also a 1.3 Megapixel ca...

Exclusive: Vodafone Testing their v1240 and v1640

These two handsets are familiar to us already on many different networks, however we have it on very good authority that Vodafone are ready to release these in the UK. The HTC Universal (aka o2 XDA Exec / SPV M5000 etc) will be called the Vodafone v16...

The Mad Competition

OK, so it is Sunday and I did tell you guys that I'd have a winner for you yesterday, however I've been completely snowed under with entries. Right now I'm just finishing the upload of the photos that have been sent in and I'll have a winner for …

Enhance Your Lifestyle with Astraware

Following their Hogmanay Party Astraware are once again giving away stuff - this time it's up to $10 (£5.61) off games starting on January 30th. Astraware are starting their 'Enhance Your Lifestyle' promotion on January 30th and will be slashing pric...

Happy Slapping consequences caught on CCTV

Here's a lovely shot from a CCTV camera of a gang of youths attacking a homeless man. The gang were all eventually locked up, however they probably would've got away with it if the guy they attacked earlier in the night hadn't have died from his injur...

VITO Taskswitcher for Smartphones

The guys at VITO Technology have released TaskSwitcher for Windows Mobile Smartphones. TaskSwitcher is already well-known on the Pocket PC and lets you switch easily between running tasks or stop them from a pop-up list. It's so simple to use - you ju...

Mad Competition Update

Don't forget that time is running out if you want to be in with a chance of winning an Orange SPV C550 or a music dock. Here's the entries we have so far - we've had over 125 and they're fantastic!! Some of them just go to show …

Future City – Another fantastic Mini Golf 2 Expansion Pack

If you've got Pocket Mini Golf 2 then you'll be pleased to know that there's yet another excellent expansion pack now available. Future City, available here, is now selling for the Pocket PC and Smartphone and comes with... - 18 New Futuristic Holes (...

XDA Neo Announced on o2 Germany

o2 Germany have announced the o2 XDA Neo which will appear at Cebit in March. Based on the HTC Prophet (selling as the iMate JAMin & Dopod 818 Pro too) the device has Windows Mobile 5.0, Quad-band GSM/GPRS, 802.11b/g WiFi, 128 Mb of RAM and ROM and a …

T-Mobile MDA and SDA USA Prices Revealed

Engadget are reporting that the T-Mobile SDA (HTC Tornado) and T-Mobile MDA (Vario - HTC Wizard) will be appearing in the USA early next month. Following our previous story the guys at Engadget say that the humpy SDA will come out on February 13th cos...

More Treo 700w Reviews

The Palm Treo 700w and the Motorola Q have received quite a bit of media attention recently with the Moto Q getting yet more rumours of cancellations. For the Palm Treo it's another fairly bumpy review here at MobileWhack.com. They've come to a simila...

Podcast 18 Online

Podcast number 18 is now online here. As you know by now I record these whilst driving home from work. I had to do this podcast twice because some muppet decided it'd be a great idea to try and join the M6 at 20mph on the slip-road. When …

Happy Slapping ? Try it in jail

Yet more evidence emerged today that "Happy Slapping" will just get you into sertious trouble. How the term "Happy Slapping" came about I'll never actually know. It's like "Joyriding", it's gonna get you banged up for a very long time. Case in point t...

T-Mobile SDA and MDA Set Sail for the New World

Nearly forgot this one. T-Mobile have announced that the USA will be getting the T-Mobile MDA (the Vario) and the SDA... with a hump (a hump, a hump, a lovely lady lump, check it out) added. If you're in America this is extremely good news. T-Mobile s...

Mad Competition – Prizes Update!

We've received quite a few entries to our mad competition where we're giving away a spanky new music dock. As I said previously I'm going to be adding to the prizes, so what better to go with a music dock than an Orange SPV C550 !?! Yes this …

e-fuze – Get involved !

The guys at e-fuze have contacted me about their company. They're an emerging Canadian company in Toronto and strive to produce high-end powerful mobile devices. They're encouraging you guys to sign up to their forum here and tell them what you're aft...

The Green Button – Coming to your Smartphone?

Today around town we popped into the Orange and o2 shops to look at some possible upgrade handsets for Em. Despite my advice (as if she listens!), handsets like the Samsung D600 and the Motorola PEBL attracted her more than the Windows Mobile handsets...