HTC Typhoon – taking over the world bit by bit… :)

Tomas in Prague has emailed in about the infamous HTC Typhoon, which is now selling on Czech provider Eurotel here. It'll be known this time as the Eurotel Smartphone II, and it adds yet another alias to the probably the most successful Windows Powere...

Dr. Neil’s SMS Utils – New Version

We've already raved about Dr. Neil's SMS Sender and Tools previously, and now a new spangly version of the much-improved SMSUtils application is now available for download from www.smartphone.roodyn.com here. This version fixes a number of known issu...

TomTom fix

Some people (who I must give full credit to for sending this in, but I don't have everyones' email to hand), including Richard Norris and others, have mentioned that they found it difficult to connect the TomTom GPS box to their C500. This is only the...

Krome sell the Smartphone too!

Hey look ! It's an SPV C500! Ermm... no, sorry, it's an Audiovox SMT 5600! .. oh, no.. wait.. it's erm.. yes, another name for the HTC Typhoon ! Although this new came out a couple of months ago it's worthy of a front page story. So this …

Tsunami Appeal

I'm joining pretty much every other Smartphone website by adding my support, publicity and money toward the Tsunami Fund which is being handled by the Disasters Emergency Committee. The DEC consists of many agencies, including the British Red Cross, O...

CoolSmartPhone into 2005

It was quite an eventful Christmas this year, and I want to thank all of you who sent emails following my car accident on Boxing Day. Yes, I am alright - just a tad shook up because no-one had bothered gritting and I completely lost all control. The …

T-Mobile UK Delivers a Christmas Present

Looks like T-Mobile UK are playing Santa Claus and dropping something nice into your stockings. Yes, the excellent T-Mobile SDA is most definitely coming to the UK very very soon. Check out this T-Mobile UK page for information. Although it doesn't gi...

Christmas Time

Christmas time and another year is almost done. This is the point where a lot of sites do a "year in review" thing - however I couldn't be arsed so I'm here instead to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. :) 2004 …

Orange gets 14 Million Customers !

Orange have become the first UK network to reach 14 Million active customers. Orange, measuring with their own strict guidelines, have only counted those customers who've used their Orange phone in the last three months. This means that a quarter of t...

TomTom Mobile – I forgot to mention…

In my recent TomTom Mobile Review I neglected to mention a rather excellent add-in feature which comes courtesy of the guys at PocketGPSWorld.com. This feature is basically to add in Speed Camera locations. Ber-loody excellent! Here in the UK we are p...

View any site quickly and perfectly with Skweezer

Skweezer is an excellent and now completely free web service that greatly improves browsing the web on small-screen mobile devices such as the Windows Smartphone. Skweezer dynamically reformats web content of any website and makes it look good when yo...

All ready for Christmas?

One week is a long time off when you're running a site like this. I'm well behind with my emails (I will reply!), and there's tonnes of news and file submissions to go through yet. Many thanks for all this! While I was off getting drunk with the …

Buy yourself a Christmas present!

It´s great to see that both Atlantis Redux Episode 1 and 2 are now bundled together and available at at stupidly low price of £3.57 (or €5.18). This means you can now get both episodes and progress even further into this excellent story for the ...

MPx220 Comes to Cingular

Well, here I am, sat in a sweaty web cafe with a funny-looking keyboard... all the damned symbols are in the wrong place! Aggh!! Good news travels quick though, and it would appear that the MPx220 is now available fully in the USA on Cingular.com. Th...

My week off..

OK, I'm off now on hols. I'll be back next Sunday evening (19th December), all ready to hit the Christmas and New Year festivities full on. In the meantime, if I do pop across a web-cafe I'll update you guys with the latest Smartphone news and info. O...

TomTom for Smartphone review

OK, so it's not quite ready - I need to polish it off tomorrow (Friday 10th December) and I'll have it ready by about 9PM. However, I'm tired and I've been typing for hours on it! :) Click here for my review complete with pictures and an example …

Mozilla browser could be coming soon

Mozilla are now targetting the mobile phone market according to this ZDNet article. Their mini-browser, called Minimo (which is the slimmed-down Mozilla browser) is hoped to speed browsing up on mobile phones. Doug Turner, the project leader of Minim...

C500 wins another award

It's just been announced that the Orange SPV C500 (which is available elsewhere under the guise of the SMT 5600, Dopod 565, iMate SP3, TSM 520 etc) has won an award as most indispensable mobile of 2004 by Tech Digest. Find more details here at Tech Di...

Flash files on your Smartphone

There's a lot of chatter about this Beta Macromedia Flash player for the Smartphone right now. It's got the guys at MoDaCo talking quite a bit and they're even developing add-ons to allow you to zoom in on the flash files, like the excellent Flashhack...