Tag: smartphones
Sheesh. It never rains but it poors. Motorola may have generated a net income of $26 million but they've still made huge losses in their phone division. Shipments have fell by nearly a half - from 28.1 million last year to just 14.8 million this year....
Rumours, rumours, rumours. Gotta love them, or - if you're Microsoft - hate them. Following recent HTC announcements that they're "fully committed to Windows Mobile" there's now rumours via Digitimes that next year half of HTC kit will be powered by t...
If people decide to leave Windows Mobile it'll usually be for one handset - the iPhone. Until recently the iPhone 3G has only really been available on o2 here in the UK, but now there's news that both T-Mobile and Orange could be retailing the device ...
Back in February the GSM association and several handset manufacturers started discussions into a unified charger solution for mobile phones. Yesterday the decision was finalised, with 10 companies representing 90% of the European mobile market agreei...
A new service from 118800 is about to bring us a phone directory with a twist - it'll list mobile numbers too. It's set to go live next Thursday, June 18th and will let you connect directly to people by calling 118800 or online at 118800.co.uk. To use...
Most new Windows Mobile handsets now come with GPS capability. The system lets you navigate your way around our fair planet, geo-tag your photos or track your girlfriend when she goes to visit "the bloke about the curtains". What's perhaps not known a...
Hmm.. quiet ain't it? I've been having a look at the iPhone recently and comparing it to the HTC Touch HD. Both are very similar in terms of size and shape but differ wildly when it comes to user interface and specs like camera resolution or the inbui...
I've had several emails asking for me to compare the iPhone with the HTC Touch HD in my continuing video blogs looking at the iPhone and trying to cut through the hype. How does it compare with the Touch HD? Well, thanks to the guys at devicewire.com ...
Good news at last for anyone making a call whilst visiting foreign lands. Many of you will be aware that, simply by crossing a border, you have to pay extremely high call charges for texting or chatting to people and re-mortgage your house if you dare...
Thanks to the nice people at o2 we've managed to borrow the iPhone for a number of weeks and throw a few tests at it. Day 2 of our video blog shows how various frequent tasks like ringtone changing and looking through your calendar. I'm quickly realis...
Well, it's here - the iPhone 3G. In this video I take the iPhone out of the box for the first time. This is the first time I've had chance to play with the iPhone properly and, as you'll see by this first video, I stumble around trying …
Back in 2002 I bought my first ever Windows Mobile phone. Since then, coolsmartphone.com has been covering all aspects of Windows Mobile. We've seen the platform grow and develop with many different form factors to choose from. Now users are spoilt fo...
Following news of Windows 3.1 appearing on a Nokia N95 we decided to try it ourselves. Unfortunately we didn't have a Nokia to hand (shame) but someone came to our rescue with a Nokia E51. After a bit of faffing around we managed to get it to the …
The GSM association has sat down and agreed that having several different chargers is a nightmare for the consumer. Mobile phones today generally have many different plugs and adapters to charge mobile phones. The decision means that firms like Nokia,...
Want to know what to expect from today? Have a look at this Microsoft Teaser video and you'll feel just like you're in Barcelona yourself. While I'm here, today the Omnia HD was announced. It's got full HD (720p) recording and playback, GPS, TV-Out, ...
Next week it's the GSMA Mobile World Congress. From here on in you'll see it called "MWC" for short and you may remember it known as 3GSM World Congress. It's the biggest exhibition for the mobile industry and we're expecting to see some rather major ...
Bye Bye PalmOS, yes it looks like Palm has finally dropped it in favour of webOS. Thankfully it's not just webOS - Windows Mobile still figures strongly in the Palm future and Palm's CEO Ed Colligan stated that the Centro would be the last device to u...
As you may know we've been tracking the development of Android and getting it working on Windows Mobile handsets. The HTC Diamond is on display here with the latest build on film. Check it out here or read on to see it in action. Get more info on …
The future of mobile phones is always a hard thing to forsee. However, the guys at IA Technolody appear to have their idea. Now, bear with us here because you'll have no dount heard this before, but they claim to have created the worlds most completel...
After submitting a rather huge document back in 2008 it looks like Apple have now had multi-touch patentented. The document mention Steve Jobs by name and covers the dtection of "one or more finger contacts with the touch screen display, applying one ...
I spotted this yesterday but now the whole thing is spreading across the internet like wildfire. It's all about a very worrying bug with Google Android, which was posted here and then posted at xda-developers.com. Now if you, like me, spend any time i...
A while back I had a good old rant about the cost of calling 0800 numbers from a mobile phone. 0800 numbers are free from normal landline phones, but the mobile operators have chosen to add a charge just for handling the call. I was charged £1.18 for...
This story popped up around the web yesterday so we thought we'd take a look too. The video, which you can see below, shows an iPhone which can supposedly dual-boot into Windows Mobile. Norwegian iPhone developer Erik Kristiansen is responsible for th...
Check this out. It's part of my Orange phone bill for last month. I've changed my package and this particular phone doesn't get used a great deal. I pay around £30 per month, but this bill totalled over £55 so I looked deeper into it. Last ...
Mention an underground railway here in the UK and most people will talk about The Tube - aka The London Underground. It's the oldest and longest system in the world and serves 268 stations, but sadly lacks air-con or a phone signal pretty much everywh...
You've probably heard story after story about the iPhone and the comparisons with the HTC Touch Diamond. For me I was a bit surprised to see the HTC Touch Diamond dummy handsets in shops - complete with "stick on" screens. Anyhow, we were promised a c...
There's a rather interesting article in the Guardian newspaper today. It's all about the Bluetooth ID sent by your phone. According to the story, several scanners have been hidden in offices, campuses, streets and pubs around Bath. These scanners are ...
If you read my blog then you'll probably realise that I can be a little nuts at times. Every now and then I like to do some weird things with my Windows Mobile. Last year I filmed a time-lapse video of my journey into work using a free …
If you read my blog you may have spotted this blog post from yesterday. I blogged about a guy who answered his mobile whilst in a toilet cubicle and started chatting to a colleague. I was a bit puzzled why someone would want to do this, however I …
Regular readers will be pretty familiar with the HTC Shift by now. After all, we reviewed it way back in October last year and I tested the portability of this Windows Vista / Windows Mobile "SnapVue" device by taking it to the pub with me. To have a …
Like it or not, the mighty Google are stepping into the mobile phone world. It's based on Linux with Android being the software stack on top. The "Open Handset Alliance" are a group of software companies, manufacturers and carriers who've signed up to...
I've just stumbled across this interesting post at idiottoys.com. It shows the truth about the queues and hype surrounding the iPhone here in the UK on launch day. This post, plus my own personal iPhone experience and these additional pics, seem to su...
Here's how lager and Bluetooth can drop you into a whole world of problems. This guy decided, after several beers, to ... errmm... cause some damage to a Lamborghini Murcielago parked in the street. Filmed on various phones by his mates, the resulting...
Right, just to bring you up to speed with the story so far, Palm put this site online to promote a new phone arriving here in Europe. Everyone thought it was the Palm Centro (800p), which runs the Palm operating system. However, we crossed everything ...
Palm have cancelled their Foleo product "in its current configuration". The Foleo mobile companion had a full-size keyboard and a large screen to edit documents with changes being sync'd to your smartphone and vice versa. Announced just a few months ...
Amongst this mornings' press releases is the launch of VoxTone. To be honest we gets stacks of emails about new ringtone services and this one stood out due to the rather interesting idea behind it. The site basically lets you record your own individ...
Although we're true Windows Mobile fans, there's no avoiding the iPhone hype. It's coming to us here in Europe this Autumn and, finally, the networks carrying the device have been revealed. The Financial Times newspaper is now reporting that not one, ...
The events here in the UK over the last few days have really shown some major changes in news gathering. Floods across the UK, bombs in London, cars packed with gas cylinders crashing into Glasgow airport and arrests on the M6. But were the pictures c...
I heard it on the radio this morning, it was featured in the paper I read at lunchtime and the internet is absolutely buzzing about it. What am I talking about? The iPhone. It may seem strange that we're talking about it too, but I've got to admit …
You may have noticed already, but over the last couple of days there hasn't been a great deal of Windows Mobile news. This is basically because there isn't much at the moment, so I'm simply passing the time by drinking beer. This isn't too healthy as ...
