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?...

Nearly done! Gimme another few hours. Sorry about this. I've been taking a day or two off to do some much-needed Christmas shopping and house-related stuff, so everything has been on pause. I've also got around 230 emails to respond to, so apologies a...

At last it's here ! Well, nearly. The Orange SPV C600 is now on the Orange shop as "Coming Soon" so hopefully we should see it just before Christmas. Many thanks to those of you who emailed me in about this (Eden Dwek, Matt Gough, Andy Lamb, Roger …

Where's the Samsung i300 gone ? The Samsung i300 should now be out on o2 after it got pushed back a few times. It's been promoted quite heavily too, however it looked like December was finally the i300's month. Unfortunately though, after appearing on...

We're building up a reputation for bringing you fun stuff every Friday. This week is a little different, but it's still rather excellent indeed. It all started when Mark Lee emailed in to say that he had some MP3's for the unsigned artists section of ...

Just a quick note about my photo blog. It's now had a bit of a move and is being hosted on Splashblog.com along with the CoolSmartPhone User Blog and my gadget blog. Don't forget, if you want to turn your Smartphone camera shots into an instant online...

After their earlier story, online tabloid TheRegister is reporting that the Mio A701 handset, with Windows Mobile 5.0 and in-built GPS unit, will be available in ajust a couple of weeks. Loaded with a 520Mhz Processor and 1 Mega pixel camera the A701 ...

Got an M5000, o2 XDA Exec or another Windows Mobile "Pocket PC" style handset? Got TomTom Navigator but found it doesn't work? Well, now TomTom Navigator 5.20 is here. You can upgrade to this version, which is written for Windows Mobile 5.0 devices, a...

Jon Pewtner has emailed in about a new feature on Orange. They've recently introduced a new feature called "Orange Calling Tunes". This allows callers to hear a funky musical ringing tone over the top of the usual, "ring ring" tone. Plus you can even ...

Orange Netherlands have officially announced the launch of the Orange SPV C600 and much sought-after Orange SPV M3000 in the today. Although we knew they were launched already, this is confirmation from Orange Netherlands themselves that they are to l...