Monster Summer Sale!

At the mintute over at the CoolSmartPhone software shop there's a massive 60% OFF selected products until mid July. This sale includes two Smartphone games that are well worth considering. Firstly there's the "3D Motor Racing Game Pack", which becaus...

SPV M1000 Now available for all!

To celebrate the fact that Orange have now released the SPV M1000 Pocket PC phone to consumer connections (Orange previously only sold to business customers), we can now offer these fantastic deals in association with our friends at FoneTasticMobile.c...

Orange go 3G

We likes Orange we does. They're bloody good. They brought us the Smartphone (with a bit of help from Microsoft) and we like the lady on the answer phone. She's nice. So, you know that there's only one 3G network here in the UK ? They call themselves...

Interview with Ya-Qin Zhang

There's a good interview here with Ya-Qin Zhang, who is the Vice President of Mobile and Embedded Devices at Microsoft. The interviewer (from CNet.com) throws some challenging questions, particularly concerning the early versions of the Smartphone OS...

Smartphone to hit Spain

It looks like the Amena and Microsoft have joined together to launch a Smartphone in Spain. It appears that the MPx200 will be launched first, along with the Pocket PC XDA II. Details are sketchy at present as I only have Babelfish (Altavista) transl...

More hi-quality images of the MPx220

I know a lot of you have heard about msmobiles.com and the various things that have been said in the past. However, it's hard to deny that they're are always incredibly fast with the latest news and goings-on where the Windows Mobile platform is conce...

Motorola i930 out and about

Motorola are on a roll at the minute. The excellent MPx100 and the MPx220 handset, both powered by Windows Mobile, plus the Pocket PC MPx are all ready to rock 'n roll. These devices join the much raved-about MPx200 handset which many people have alre...

MPx220 – Full Confirmation from Motorola at last!

Absolute, concrete, solid, 100%, definite PROOF that the MPx220 exists is now available here at Motorola.com. It's now officially announced on their website, so it's all go ! Official pictures are now available here and the announcement comes on the ...

Mobile Phones rot your balls?!

Blimey - some good and rather bad news today. Whaddya want first ? Well, lets do the good news eh? It seems that there's a distinct possibility of a fierce price war on SMS (text) messages here in the UK soon, following a similar battle in the Netherl...

TuneCast – broadcast your Smartphone tunes to your car radio!

I spotted This Belkin Tunecast II Mobile Transmitter at Pocket PC Thoughts. It's $49.95 from the States - that's roughly £27. It may be worth your while considering buying from the US - it's amazing how strong the Pound is against the US Dollar at ...

Games galore

MSMobileNews now have a dedicated area for Roozbeh, who was behind the Doom, Wolf3d and Duke Nukem 3D ports. Check out his page here at MSMobileNews for news, info, instructions and downloads of these excellent games. Source - MSMobileNews

MPx220 announced soon?

You know the story by now... if you don't, read this news item. I'm hoping, and this is just me being optimistic - I haven't heard any "special rumours" or anything! :) After reading this MSMobiles.com story, I'm going to place (quick furk in pockets...

SkypeOut

Ok, so you've heard of Skype yeah? This free software allows you to make phone calls across the internet for free to other Skype users. Brilliant, but it's always been an underground-app because you have to ensure that the other person is online and r...

Neonode N1 – at last?

Both The Register and EnGadget.com are reporting that the infamous N1 handset (pictured) is finally shipping... a .. test.. .. unit... for ..... errmm.....some.... pre-order........ customers..... Oh dear, poor Neonode. This teeny-weeny handset has b...

Throwing down the chuffing gaunlet..

Right. I've had enough. It's 5.30pm, and even though I've now completely sobered up I still think this is a good idea.The MPx220. Where the chuff is it ? Come on Moto, Orange, AT&T or whoever. We've got the leaked announcments, the leaflets and ev...

MPx – it’s here! Sort-of..

Over at Mobile Gadget News there's rumours of release dates for the MPx220 handset (while we're on this, I'm hearing that the MPx220 may make an appearance at around the same time as the C500 here in the UK still). Anyways, they've spotted that Mark M...

More fun from Astraware

It's always time to start worrying when you're in the pub and actually OFFERING to buy a round of drinks. If that wasn't bad enough I offered to buy several more rounds after - mainly because I seemed to be finishing my pint first. This morning is a …

Fantastic backdrops

I've just had an email from Ian Bradshaw about these excellent backdrops for your Windows Mobile Phone. There's some very nice images to choose from, with more to come. Don't forget that you can install any JPG backdrop on your handset which is 178x1...

Pocket Image Editor 1.0!

Yes, it's back - and now a newer version too. You may remember this story from about a month ago, however version 0.1 had to be withdrawn... :( Well, now there's an even better version, which is more stable and has many features including point-and-cl...

Smartphone Virus Protection

It seems that the latest Smartphone virus, which affected Symbian Smartphones (not your Windows Mobile handset!), has ruffled a few feathers. According to this silicon.com article Microsoft is to build-in virus protection in future versions of Windows...