Yes yes, I know - CoolSmartPhone.com has been offline a bit this afternoon (July 27th - 13.00-17.00 BST). It was all due to very hungry rabbits chewing through some cables and disrupting the backhaul hardrive CPU floating bit memory wobble-board unit....

Oohh.... Look what I got..  Some specs from a T-Mobile PDF that fell into my inbox. It's labelled in the sheet as "T-Mobile MDA Universal" and there's news that this handset will be out in the September / October time frame..Feature List: &n...

More pictures of the T-Mobile MDA Pro here today which show the device in super-juicy close-ups. The device, made by HTC and known as the HTC Universal, will have a tablet-eque slip-around screen and full QWERTY keyboard. Click here to see them. There...

The other day we ran a story about the Orange SPV M3000. It had some grainy pictures of the device courtesy of SmartPhoneFrance. Well, now it's the turn of WindowsMobile.no, who have some spectacular close-up shots of this hot new phone. Although this...

Ok, so I have the C550 now and I can start to do the review I mentioned a few days back. There's one thing I've learned about doing reviews - and that's to never do a review straight away. It's like a new car. Sometimes you get so …

For an amazing £11.85 ($20.65) 3D Game Jumbo Pack 2 includes following games: 3D Nine Hole Golf - a distinctive real-time 3D mobile Golf game featuring addictive game playing and the most realistic 3D simulation ever! You can choose from six animate...

Microsoft and Conchango Provide Selection of Mobile Workers with Remote Access to Store Performance, Outlook Email and Calendar on Windows Mobile-based Smartphones   LONDON — UK – 26 July 2005 — Microsoft Ltd. and Conchango (UK) plc, today ...

Remember our earlier story about Pantech announcing their innovative Swivel design Smartphone? It's the PH-S8000T, or the 'Quritel PH-S8000T’. It comes with an Intel CPU, Windows Mobile 2003SE and a 1.3 MegaPixel Camera. The 180 degree swivel design...

Yes, it looks like the rumours were true - a cousin to the Motorola RAZR is on the way and yes, it is powered by Windows Mobile 5.0. The Motorola Q is the "thinnest, lightest and coolest QWERTY on the planet" and is yet more fantastic news for …

Ok so you remember us mentioning the excellent PhoneThemes.com and the superb animated homescreens they do yes ? Well, now they're working on developing a PocketPC version of their PhoneThemes media player. They're ready for beta release and are acti...

SmartPhoneFrance.com have news that the Motorola MPx220 has appeared on the Orange France website here. Check out this machine translation here or read the full article here.

Another day, another handset! Today it's rumours of an Orange SPV M3000 - another exclusive by SmartPhoneFrance.com. According to their sources, this will be appearing in September on Orange and has a sideways-slideout keyboard meaning you can use it ...

I really must start reading my emails more often because Antal van Wijk from NewMobile.nl gave me a snippet of info about this Silicon-i i800 handset last Wednesday! This tri-band phone comes with a 1.3 Mega pixel camera, MiniSD card slot, 176x220 pix...

It looks like the Orange SPV C600 rumour mill has kicked into gear again. You may remember our story which forecasted it plus the this earlier picture from Mobile-actus.com. Well, now SmartPhoneFrance.info have got a picture of it (right) plus this st...

My new PodCast is now online for you to download. It's probably one of the strangest ones I've done to be honest, because I was only going to test something and ended up talking about all sorts. Check it out online here. There's a whole range of stuff...

We've already seen the HTC Universal badged up by Vodafone and by T-Mobile as the MDA IV, but we haven't really seen proper shots of the Orange variant - the M5000. Sure, we've seen one on a projector here at TechEd, but how about some shots of the …

A little off-topic, but worth mentioning this. The Microsoft code-named "Windows Longhorn", which is the next generation of Windows on your PC - has been given a name today. It'll be called "Windows Vista" and will start appearing as a Beta in a few d...

I'm always trying to add bits and bobs to the site that I hope are useful. Todays' tweak allows you to view the last 200 news items that have been published right here on CoolSmartPhone. Hopefully this item will help you find "that news item I saw las...

Way back in the day I used to have a Nokia (yes, I know - I was young and inexperienced, I only have myself to blame) which was absolute pap in comparison to the C500 I have today. However, it did used to be able to turn itself …

I see that the BBC are doing a Podcasting trial featuring some of their own radio shows. Very promising. This comes on the back of news that BBC Radio 1 is being picked up and re-broadcast the following day on the US Sirius service. Looks like Podcast...