Our US Gadget Shop is about to change!

Some of you will have already seen the great deals on at our US Gadget Shop here. Well, our partners at MobilePlanet, who run the CoolSmartPhone Gadget Shop, have now been acquired by eXpansys which means that soon we should see global shipping availa...

CoolSmartPhoneCast Number 2 is online!

Our second audio extravaganza is now online here. It's new and improved this time - I actually did some editing too! :) We've had CoolSmartPhone member "Doofus" adding some funking bits into it - a theme tune and "segways" are now including to break e...

Dancing Citroen

Hey, it's Friday so I'm gonna post a rather excellent video which would look great on your Smartphone. It's from X-Bam.com and the author - Alex Mallinson took two weeks to do it. It's a fantastic spin on the recent Citroen commercial. Download it b...

Orange SPV C500 Update coming Tuesday ?

Our spies reckon that May 3rd could be the day when UK Orange SPV C500 owners get the Operating System update which includes Windows Media Player 10. This update was announced recently on Orange France here. May 3rd is a Tuesday, which may sound a li...

Skype comes to the Smartphone

Well, sort-of - it doesn't support voice yet. You'll also need to plug your SmartPhone into your PC (ActiveSync) to avoid a big GPRS bill. It's a bit of a shame that the voice hasn't been implemented yet, as it'd make the SmartPhone into a "SkypePhone...

Smartphone Broadcasting!

So you've got a brilliant MP3 - be it a PodCast or a new dance track - and it's stored on your Smartphone. Then, you get in your car and you wanna listen to it on your way to work. Options? Well, you could use your headphones - …

Want a car kit for your Orange SPV C500?

I've just had a mail from Tim Phillips, who says... "I've just been informed by a colleague of mine that we are having carkits fitted for our C500's at work. I didn't think there was one, but he told me about the Uni Take & Talk made by …

The SMT 5600 goes back on sale – now on Cingular

Visitors from the USA have been pretty much left out in the cold as far as the Windows Smartphone is concerned. The Audiovox SMT 5600 (AKA the SPV C500) was released on AT&T Wireless, but then AT&T Wireless promptly got taken over by Cingular and the ...

Hells Kitchen fan?

If you're a fan of the ITV show "Hells Kitchen" then it's definitely worth checking out this limited-time offer. Right now, thanks to CoolSmartPhone member "Doofus" you can get your hands on an exclusive remix of the theme tune here in our downloads s...

First real pictures of the Orange SPV C550

Stuff Magazine have now posted this photograph - believed to be the first quality shot of the phone - on the web. The handset can now be seen much more clearly, and - after getting my hands on a T-Mobile SDA for a few minutes today - it's …

Stuff Magazine have the Orange SPV C550!

Yes, top UK gadget magazine Stuff have the Orange SPV C550 in their sweaty mitts and have a "first thoughts" article online here. In the article Adam Vaughan states... "First thoughts: it's heavier, bigger and seemingly a bit slower on the menus tha...

Will the C600 be the first to have Windows Mobile 2005?

Remember this story we ran recently ? We mentioned news on the Orange SPV C600 and the fact that it'd have Windows Mobile 2005. We also mentioned that it'd be out in June. Now.. let's step back a few months to this story. Remember the "Orange 3G SPV" …

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...