What better thing to do on a Friday than record a huge great Christmas Podcast! This is a big-ass mother of a Podcast, with news of the C600, Visto trouble, free games, the Samsung i300, the MDA Compact II, our reviews and me being raced by some dude …
I'm just wading through my email and stumbled across a link for the i-Mate SP5m at Smartphonethoughts. Here's a taster... "The i-mate SP5m is the first of its kind to hit the street; a Windows Mobile Smartphone with WiFi built-in! Don't be fooled by i...
At this time of year everyone loves free stuff, so what better than a free game? Quartz X-Mas is a free follow-up of the popular Quartz puzzle series. It's available here to download now for both high-res QVGA screens (C550/C600 etc) and regular scree...
I've had a few emails regarding the release of the Samsung i300 on o2. There's several Windows Mobile websites out there announcing that it's now available and people are asking why we haven't covered it. Well, erm.. we have. In fact it was almost 10 ...
It's all kicked off today in the "push email" arena. True "push email" is promised on Windows Mobile devices early in 2006, however a company called Visto have taken great exception to the technology being used by Microsoft to do this, saying that it ...
Do you want to feel a nice warm glow all over you whilst trying to get the latest Smartphone ? Well now you can thanks to a bunch of eBay auctions designed to raise money for Children in Need. Our friends at o2.co.uk and Samsung are flogging the …
We're getting into the Christmas spirit here at CoolSmartPhone. I've got the biggest possible Christmas tree to fit in the house, plus I got a bit drunk and fell over at the office party (not totally my fault) and then had to walk miles to get home. S...
The Register are reporting the launch of the Mio A201 GPS-ready Pocket PC device. Although slightly larger it does have a flap and swivel GPS unit so that you can use the sat-nav display in any orientation you please. It also comes with the SiRFStar I...
So we've already mentioned that the Orange SPV C600 is on sale here in the UK, plus we've reviewed it too. Well, today you can now also get the American cousin of the SPV C600 in the shape of the Cingular 2125. The "bulgy version" is now on …
The much-praised mobile photo-blogging service at AtomicLava.net is to close its doors. In a statement James and the team said..."I regret to inform you that the service will be shutting down in the New Year. Its been a fun ride over the last 2 years;...
Many thanks to everyone emailing in to inform us that the Orange SPV C600 is now available to buy on the Orange Shop. The price? FREE! Yep, on selected packages you can get this Windows Mobile 5.0 handset for absolutely nothing! Don't forget that we'r...
Engadget have some info and HowardForums have lots of pictures of a "new" device from HP. The HTC Feeler - seen out as the new T-Mobile SDA / iMate SP3i amongst other names - is to be badged as the "iPAQ SmartPhone rw4500". This device should have the...
This afternoon I took a trip across to Russia, wait.. perhaps it was a disused military base in the UK. Either way, I found this RoverPC M1 Smartphone. It's even got a "Çåðêàëî äëÿ àâòîïîðòðåòíîé ñú¸ìêè", which I think is...
You may have read a bit of news from webmasters who were invited to the Mobius thing in the USA about Photon. Photon is the code-name for the next version of Windows Mobile. Although I wasn't there, I've already had a look at "what it might look like"...
Hey guys. Remember how I said, "The Orange SPV C600 review will be online by Monday". Well, I never said it would necessarily be last Monday did I ? :) You can now find the full review, with up-close photos, screen shots, animated GIFs, example camera...
OK so first up today a bit of bad news. I'm sure you'll all remember our campaign to try and get the Orange SPV M3000 released on Orange UK. o2 are releasing it as the XDA Mini and T-Mobile let us borrow one in the shape of the …
This Verizon page is now online showing the Treo 700w. Although not yet available, you can sign up to know when it is. Treo, you may remember, dipped their toes into the Windows Mobile platform and this 700w is the result. MSMobiles are reporting that...
Now, there was me thinking T-Mobile were joking when they said, "Hey, you'll love what we've got coming next - it's a Pink MDA Compact II!!" Aha.. no, it really is bright pink. Aimed directly at female and pink-pound customers this Windows Mobile 5.0 ...
Our software partners at Clickgamer have announced a mobile game programming competition called the "Cutting EDGE Coding Competition 2006" using the recently launched EDGE mobile game engine. Everyone, whether you be an individual programmer or full ...
Thanks to many people who responded to our earlier story regarding the Samsung i300. Well, it's now back and live on the o2 Shop (click "Samsung" from the handset lists). Nice one! We haven't had chance to play with this handset yet - do you have one?...
