T-Mobile MDA Compact II in Pink and Grey now available

We've now managed to get both the grey T-Mobile MDA Compact II and the baby pink MDA Compact II into our handset shop. Yes, you heard right. Baby pink. Both of these devices come with Windows Mobile 5, Pocket Word, Excel and Outlook plus a 1.3 mega-pi...

CES: Navtones Launches Celeb Satnav Voices

If you've got TomTom or CoPilot installed on your Smartphone or PocketPC you may be aware that a range of voices are available to download. From John Cleese to Darth Vadar, you can have them telling you which is the best way to your destination. Now h...

Smart Explorer v2.1.4 Now Available

The ever-excellent Smart Explorer, which (apart from being an excellent file explorer) lets you beam stuff over Bluetooth, has now been updated to version 2.1.4. Those of you lucky souls with a Windows Mobile 5.0 device (Orange SPV C600 etc) will be g...

T-Mobile MDA and SDA Update Site

If you've got a T-Mobile MDA Vario it may be worth checking out this link, where you can get the latest version of the ROM. There's expected to be another update in March but be sure to check it periodically to keep your Vario up-to-date. Although it'...

Samsung i730 – Keep it protected

If you're lucky enough to have the Samsung i730 (available in the US here) then you'll probably want to make sure that it's well protected. This is where this new Armor Case comes in, which will stop you scuffing your shiny new device. It's a form-fit...

HTC Sets up US Office

Looks like HTC, the people behind a huge amount of Windows Mobile devices (iMate, Orange SPV range, T-Mobile MDA's, o2 XDA range, UTStarcom XV6700 - the list goes on) have taken the logical step of opening up an American office. HTCAmerica.net is now ...

ShoZu adds more online galleries

We love Photoblogging. For the unaware, it's a way of getting photos direct from your phone to a website without fuss. Apart from Splashblog there's also ShoZu, which mentioned previously. They've now added support for Flickr.com, Textamerica.com and ...

More on the Music Dock

Lee Smart has emailed regarding our earlier story on the music dock kit. He's found a company in Birmingham called MobileFun that'll do a iMate K-JAM / o2 XDA Mini / T-Mobile MDA Vario version for just £19.99 here. There's also an iMate JAM / T-Mobil...

Do you have a Photo Blog?

I've just added a new category to our links section called photoblogs. If you've got yourself an online photo gallery then submit yours now by logging in and clicking this. It'll then appear after I've approved it and will get cycled around the "Rando...

CES: SlingMedia Announce Windows Mobile Player for SlingBox

See this (top)? It's called a SlingBox and you can get one for $249.99, which is about £142.13. What it'll do is let you control your TV and watch the output across a WiFi connection to any PC or laptop. Although it may look suspiciously like a choco...

CES: MediaPass Audio and Video on your Windows Mobile Device

MediaPass have announced that their content will now be available for Windows Mobile Devices. You can access their special Windows Mobile section here and choose whatever you want. You can also access the content from the WindowsMobile.com website and...

UTStarcom XV6700 Released on Verizon Wireless

This Verizon Press Release confirms our earlier story about the launch of the XV6700. It's the HTC Apache, which is pretty similar to the HTC Wizard (AKA MDA Vario etc) but with a chunky aerial on the top. According to the Press Release, which you ca...

CES 2006 – Bill Gates and Windows Mobile

Last night Bill Gates made his keynote at CES in Las Vegas (webcast here). In the speech he states that there's now a hundred Smartphones on 93 networks in 55 countries with 5 million devices being shipped in 2006 - 36% up on 2005. The Treo 700w, whic...

Cheapy MiniSD Cards

Are you sat at home sorting through the Christmas gifts and finding socks, socks and more socks? Is your girlfriend / wife out at the sales buying 5 identical-looking tops "because they're half price"? Well maybe it's about time you bought yoursel...

Free: AirFix for Windows Mobile 5.0 and ActiveSync 4.x

So, you're using ActiveSync 4.x and you're happily browsing over your WiFi connection on your Pocket PC. You decide to syncronise everything by ActiveSync'ing, but just when you plug in the USB cable - horror of horrors - you're WiFi connection is sto...

Smartphone Music Dock

Although this has been mentioned before this could feasibly work with other Smartphones like the Orange SPV C500 / C550 / C600 due to the placement of the Mini USB and audio ports. This iMate SP5m Music Dock is available from Brando.com.hk and will he...

Yet more themes and homescreens!

Another excellent homescreen website for you today. This time it's JDSKins.com who've also now added a seperate section for QVGA screens like the C550 / C600 etc. Click here to browse and then get yourself a cool homescreen or a complete theme like th...

Start the New Year with a New Homescreen

If you've received a nice spanky new Windows Mobile Smartphone for Christmas then you should definitely make sure that Kleinweder.ch is on your favourites list. Yes, I know I keep plugging the Kleinweder.ch website, but his homescreens are unbelievabl...

Skype (sort of) working on your Smartphone

Here's an interesting story I spotted whilst browsing SmartPhoneThoughts. Blogger "Headworx" has himself an i-Mate SP5m which comes with WiFi on-board. One problem though is that you can't really run stuff like Skype on it as the current Smartphone ve...

Sharp W-Zero3 on show

Some lucky dude at Engadget has got his hands on the Sharp W-ZERO3 / WS003SH Pocket PC Phone. It looks a bit like a PSP and a darker-than-average screen. It's got a megapixel camera, a polished black finish and is bigger than the HTC Universal (M5000...