According to several stories today, kids are spending more than £1bn a year on mobile phones and mobile services. Yes, read it and weep - £1,000,000,000,000 spent on phones and crappy-arse ringtones. Jamster is one of the chief money-grabbers, who a...
It seems that France Telecom, owner of Wanadoo and Orange, is going to change the old "Freeserve" name again. Freeserve, which hit the headlines originally by offering an 0845 dial-up without any additional charges, was bought by France Telecom and th...
One thing gets me about Pocket Internet Explorer on the Smartphone. It doesn't support frames. Even in Windows Mobile 5, it still doesn't support frames. Why-oh-why-oh-why ? But wait, Opera browser for the Smartphone has now entered the non-beta stage...
I'm far too busy doing my day job at the minute to give this a proper right-up, but it's worth noting the release of Facade, which is a home-screen plugin allowing.. Launcher bar - Bring your favorite application shortcuts directly to your Home scree...
This T-Mobile Press Release, which goes on about the new T-Mobile Web’n’Walk service, has a note about a new T-Mobile SDA Smartphone..... "Around September, T-Mobile is due to introduce a fourth web’n’walk device, the new SDA model, which will...
Simbsoft now have 30% off Volleyball 1.1 for Smartphone. You can grab it here or try it out. The object of Volleyball is to win volleyball match with jelly boy. Yes.. yes.. Jelly boy. Don't ask me, I'm not sure. I'm really not sure. Anyway, you can c...
The guys at Jeyo.com are a little too modest in my opinion. They've released version 2 of the excellent Jeyo Mobile Extender for Outlook with bug fixes (remember these bugs we mentioned in our review of version 1.11 ?) and a free upgrade path for exis...
Quick ! You've only got a few days to get an amazing 50% off excellent puzzles like Quartz 2 for JUST £1.90 ($3.48 | €2.86), Octopuzzle Deluxe for JUST £2.18 ($3.98 | €3.27), Fruit Bomb for £3.27 ($5.98 | €4.92), Candy Catchup for £2.74 ($5....
I've just taken delivery of an incredibly quick 2Gb SD card from MobyMemory.com - yes 2Gb!!! I've still got a Hard Drive that big in a PC upstairs!! The SanDisk Ultra II 2GB SD memory card is the largest capacity card currently available in the SD fo...
I'm tweaking and upgrading the blog at the minute. The main reason is that I wasn't happy with the way it was working, so I've made the site to do something it's not designed to do - which is to take blog entries and display them in a …
I forgot to mention this, but SmartPhoneThoughts.com have a good write-up on the "first thoughts" of a Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone. Check it out here.
You may remember back in January we ran this story about phonethemes.com. I got the chance to play with some of these excellent animated homescreens - which are far more than an animated gif! Phonethemes bundle background images, colour schemes, theme...
XS Portfolio (MS Smartphone) 1.21 by XCite Software now has a 30% discount !XS Portfolio is the ultimate in stock management. A complete stock system and packed with features: *Multiple stock exchange support*Long / Short / Watch stocks*Multiple portf...
Remember this story from just a few short days ago ? Well, it appears that this Pocket PC handset is now on sale on T-Mobile Germany. It's available as part of the T-Mobile "Take-Away" promotion which is aimed at the business customer This device is G...
ORANGE OPENS DEVELOPER CENTRES IN BOSTON AND SAN FRANCISCO Orange announces today that it has extended its Developer Centre network to the US with the opening of new centres in Boston and San Francisco. This follows the developer event – Code Camp -...
Yet again Smartphones have helped people to win awards. This time it's the Microsoft Imagine Cup, which is intended to encourage student creativity. In fact it's the second year that Smartphones have helped win the prize. Last year the guys from Team ...
Blimey, we'd almost forgotten about the Peabody. It's a cheapo mass-market handset made by Flextronics and will run Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5.0. If you've not heard of Flextronics then prepare to be quite amazed. They're actually one of the world'...
If you've gone out and bought the excellent Pocket Mini Golf 2 (more info on this game in our earlier story here), then you'll no doubt be gagging for more. Step forth Fire Island - an excellent expansion pack for Pocket Mini Golf 2 and exclusively av...
Yet more excellent Windows Mobile devices are on the way. Today Orange - the network that brought us the first ever Windows Smartphone back in 2002 - put the Orange SPV C550 and the Orange SPV M500 on their shop in the "Coming soon" section. Click he...
BT are using Microsoft powered mobile phones for their BT UK Livetime trial. The trial, currently in London, allows users to get access to Sky news services, a music channel and 50 radio stations. BBC News states.. "BT has drawn up its own designs bec...
