The Pocket PC Phone Orange SPV M2000 was officially launched today by Orange. It's built again by HTC (the "HTC Blue Angel") and is also known as MDA III, O2 XDA IIs and iMate PDA2K. It's got a slide-out keyboard and a while lot more. The full press …
Doah! Think you're having a bad day ? Well, at least you're not as stupid as David Kelly, who decided to rob a local estate agents. Driving down to the estate agents, in his OWN car, he proceeded to wave a hammer at staff and claim that it …
As we hurtle toward Christmas, what could be better than confirmation that yet another Windows Mobile Smartphone will be launching in the UK ? Well, the Motorola MPx220 will, according to my sources (they live in the cardboard boxes behind mobile phon...
Tong has emailed me (Who ? Pete Tong ? Ramalama ding-dong? .. oh, no.. different person.. it's Tong Zhang, the webmaster of the site below) to say that his new US-based Smartphone site / forum, SmartPhoneChatter.com is hosting a three-week giveaway ev...
OK, so you know the deal by now. An until-recently-fairly-unknown company called HTC makes the handsets, then the network plonk their badges on and call it their own... or other companies if you want. Heck, if the network pays enough they can change t...
If, like people I know, you smoke, but deep down you'd like to stop - then "My Last Cigarette" may help. It's (rather unsurprisingly) a piece of software to help you stop smoking for good. Plus, with smoking likely to be banned from many places, and t...
This Register story reports on a new breed of smartphones which will, in the future, predict where you're going and who you'll meet. The original news release comes from the New Scientist and details of "what could be" are quite interesting... "The Ne...
Orange shops have launched C500 on pay as you go at £149.99. Hurraaa! :) Although it's not on the Orange website as I type, I've had it on very good authority that the phone is available now on PAYG!
Yup, you guessed it, this app will protect your Windows Smartphone against viruses and tojans. Airscanner® Mobile Antivirus has already been out on the Pocket PC, but now it's here for the Smartphone. Airscanner® is the world’s market leader in Wi...
What is Skype and what does it do ? Well, it used to allow people to make free calls to each other over the internet - provided you were on-line and had a microphone and some speakers ready. Now however it's got "SkypeOut" added, which lets you call …
The iMate SP3i (available here) and the MPx220 (available here) are featured in this Smartphonethoughts.com photo shoot-out, so if you want to get up close on these phones, have a browse! Source - Smartphonethoughts.com
It seems that the Audiovox SMT 5600 is down, but by no means out. We'd always suspected that Cingular, after swallowing up AT&T, would test and re-introduce the Windows-Powered Audiovox SMT 5600 - now this Engadget.com story seems to support it. As yo...
MoDaCo.com are offering you the chance of winning either $1000 first prize or a $500 second prize - all just by filling in a simple web form! You don't need to be a developer, you just need to answer a few quick questions about how you use your …
Oradell, NJ November 23, 2004 LandWare announced today that it is readying a Windows Mobile Smartphone edition of their award winning Leonard Maltin 2005 Movie Guide. This compelling new Smartphone application has been especially designed for on...
A big-ass Nokia brick on the front page of a Microsoft Smartphone website ? Well, I guess my dad would be pleased, I had to convince him fairly recently to upgrade from his chunky Nokia 5.1 - it was pretty much the same size as this Nokia 2110. …
Silicon.com and many other news sites are reporting today on the news that the Queens speech is to include Government proposals to double the existing £30 and include 3 penalty points on your licence if you're driving with your phone held to your e...
Wll satellite navigators used in automobiles be banned in Norway? Yes, if the norwegian police have their way.According to a newsreport on TV2 the police in Norway are looking to ways to ban the use of satellite navigators and GPS's in automobiles. Bo...
Just a few short months ago it seemed that the US market was finally taking off for Microsoft-powered phones. The MPx220 launched, then the Audiovox SMT 5600 appeared and quickly received rave reviews as AT&T stocked it in their shops. Now, just a sho...
Yup, that's definitely an SPV C500! You can see it right here in the latest Maroon 5 video for their song "Sunday Morning". In the vid, the SMT 5600/C500 is being used to video a gang who are doing a spot of Karaoke on a night out, singing …
The MPx220 had a difficult first few months. Camera problems and sound issues plagued it, and then AT&T / Cingular / Best Buy recalled it to fix the sound. Well, it turns out that the phones will get returned, updated, then an orange sticker will get ...
