Analyst house Quocirca recently looked into the confusing world of tariffs. It appears that, although voice tariffs are pretty simple to understand - the advent of mobile data tariffs, MMS, GPRS, WAP and SMS "bundles" is confusing the hell out of Joe ...

Silicon.com asks whether it may be a good idea to have mobile devices implanted into children. This comes off the back of recent news announcing the HUGE uptake in mobile phones for children, plus the increasing revenue gained from ringtones etc. Cra...

The market for Pocket Organisers (PDA's) is expected to decline for the second year running, as customers choose to buy Smartphones and phone-enabled PDA's instead. Worldwide shipments for unconnected PDA's are expected to decline during 2003 by 8.4 ...

I've now added a new link called Your Photo Blog where you can easily email in your fave Smartphone camera shots!Just attach the picture to an email using your Smartphone (or send it from your PC if you wish) to [email protected] and your pi...

Check this out - we only mentioned it a few days ago and already the "BlueHereNow" website, which allows Smartphone users to email in pictures for news stories and breaking events, has been at the forefront of todays events. Click here to see picture...

Yes it's coming - Windows Mobile 2003. these screenshots from smartphone2002.info show the new OS in action, and it features the new "Start" button instead of the Programs button, as seen in the .NET video. Speaking of which - this video included the ...

Tomb Raider 2 - The Cradle Of Life is coming out August 22nd here in the UK (where it was filmed too!) and to celebrate we have been sent this from Joel Francisco (DeBuG) direct from the Philippines.This is currently gracing my Smartphone and looks ex...

WestTek have announced the availability of their Clearvue range of viewers. I've already had a heads-up on this one and I have to say that it's absolutely excellent. You can view Word Documents, Powerpoint Presentations, Excel Spreadsheet etc easily, ...

As a Smartphone tweaker, I'm always browsing around all the sites in the links section to check the "vibe" and see what the latest news is. The latest from MS Mobiles intrigues me. I see quite a bit of MS Smartphone bashing in my everyday life to...

Modaco.com moderators are currently testing the latest update from Orange for their SPV range. This new update appears to be very similar to the QTek 7070 update here in that it fixes the SMS counter fully, some battery-life improvements etc. It's not...

MiTAC have revealed that the Mio 8380 (seen in detail here) is to be released in Europe in September. Stated here on MiTAC's website is the Q3 release date, although it doesn't mention what network it will be available on or which parts of Europe it w...

Pictures of the next MiTAC Mio - the 8390, are appearing around the web. This is MiTAC's second Smartphone after the 8380 and will probably be as locked as the 8380, which makes development as use of this particular handset quite tricky. At present th...

After the initial murmours about the SPV 2, and recent reports that Orange France are prepared to mention a bit more about it, it now appears that Orange have removed the link to the SPV2 news / info page and are attempting to cover up all knowledge o...

The mighty Celsol is back with a new skin called "Splashback" and can be downloaded here - this allows you to put any background you fancy behind a fully animated skin. Have a look at it now and give it a bash! :)

check4mail Ver. 1.0 for Microsoft Smartphone 2002 devices."Stay in touch with your email accounts!"check4mail automatically connects to the internet and checks your email accounts if there are new messages for you. So you are informed if new messages ...

A new service from BlueHereNow allows anyone with a camera phone, digital camera, laptop or PDA to send in photos that are related to local news events. This is an excellent idea and has already been seen in the UK recently when people sent pictures o...

I've now made it easier than ever before to include coolsmartphone.com news into your website. Simply click on the link that reads "Use our News Feed" (or click here if you want) to include the latest news and information into your website.Any problem...

Crappy, expensive, annoying "bleep bleep bleepy bleep" ringtones are set to beat the sales of CD singles, it was reported today. Ringtones are now more profitable to record companies than singles! Ringtones already fleece mobile-phone users to the tu...

Despite intense media advertising, incredibly cheap price plans and attempting to reduce the cost of handsets, Hutchinson is stuggling to shift their 3G handsets on their "3" network. City analysts estimate the company has probably signed up less tha...

In the UK it now appears that soon half a million kids will have mobile phones. This is according to research by mobileYouth. At the moment 400,000 children in the UK have a mobile, and often have them bought by parents who are concerned for their s...