More pictures of the Orange SPV C550 appear

Arne over at theunwired.net (it used to be called PPCW.net) has these pictures of the upcoming Orange SPV C550. The design itself now appears pretty similar to that of the Orange SPV C500 albeit with a few buttons and a funky logo on the back. With ru...

Windows Mobile 2005 to be announced in a couple of weeks?

More and more rumours and gossip now surrounds the Mobile and Edmbedded DevCon 2005 at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA soon. The conference will be held between May 9-12, 2005 and - according to many rumours from our members and even ...

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Vodafone IS getting the Motorola MPx220 !

Vodafone have confirmed that their customers are to get the Motorola MPx220 very soon. Their media centre is now displaying the handset complete with a customized Vodafone homescreen here. The revelation comes after our earlier story and then through ...

Skookum and Jeyo Mobile Extender Reviewed

A big thank-you to the support guys at our hosting company today, who've helped to sort the memory issues some of you may have noticed with CoolSmartPhone.com. This is due to heavy usage - we're now bigger than ever before and the site was extremely a...

C500 Update coming soon for UK customers

MoDaCo are reporting that a UK version of the recent French SPV C500 update is coming very very soon indeed! It's so close that MoDaCo say it's "IMMINENT". More details here.

Skookum – excellent for grabbing PodCasts on your phone!

Following our first ever CoolSmartPhone"Cast" this week I've been contacted by Scott Peterson. Hey said in an email... "I'm checking out your new podcast. Very cool! I'm so glad we now have an audio version of your content as well. I'm a big fan of yo...

MPx or MPx220 as a free gift!?

Hmm.. this seems almost too good to be true, but apparently, according to MobilesWork.com you can get an MPx or an Mpx220 - or another pre-release handset as a free gift !!! The catch ? Well, you have to refer 5 other people to their site and they …

CoolSmartPhoneCast XML feed and listings now online

Ok, following on from the first ever CoolSmartPhone"Cast" I can now announce that the hastily botched-together XML / RSS feed is now online and ready to rock. So, if you're already drooling with excitement and can't wait for the next CoolSmartPhone au...

Improvements made to the site today…

The upgrade to a full 1Gig of memory is now complete, which means that CoolSmartPhone can now handle more visitors than ever before. I'm still working on the cookie login system, this should be live very soon! I also had an email in from Neil Deadman ...

Strange story of the day

Over at MoDaCo today there's an interview with the developer of top shoot-em-up Eclipse (available here). If you wanna have a read of the transcript with head honcho "Muff" just click here. While we're on the subject of Muff, here's an intreresting st...

Skype coming to the Smartphone soon?

It's been a really big day for news today, so it's no surprise to see another big announcement - Skype is coming to the Smartphone. Yes, co-founder and CEO Niklas Zennstrom reported that a mobile version of Skype - for Embedded Linux, Symbian and Wind...

CoolSmartPhoneCast #1 is online!

Well, it's by no means a "polished production", but it's my first valiant effort into the realms of Podcasting and it's now online :) I'm going to construct a page containing these PodCasts, which will be roughly 15-30 minutes long each, but for now y...

Rumour ? Or truth ?

A strange guy wearing a long coat and a fake beard met me in a park today. After exchanging code-words, he passed me a piece of paper with this scribbled on it... - C550 will be launched in May - Orange will roll-out EDGE across the full UK …

Server Upgrade (yes, again!)

Sometime today the dedicated server hosting CoolSmartPhone.com will be off-line for a short while. We're having a memory upgrade, which will mean we can have even more people online at once. Each person on the site uses a connection to the database, a...

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Motorola MPx hits the buffers

After our recent story regarding the Moto range of Windows Mobile phones, it appears that a Motorola spokesman has now confirmed that they've stopped production of the MPx. This PhoneScoop article also states that Motorola won't launch the MPx beyond ...