Tag: windows phone
Here's another new user interface for your touchscreen Windows Mobile. This is called yrgo and you can see it in action on the video below. It contains four full customizable desktops which uses finger gestures to help you navigate. Costing $10 (aroun...
Despite Windows Mobile now being more popular than ever we're sorry to report that Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine will be suspending its publication. The magazine, which has been running for 11 years now, is headed up by Hal Goldstein, who states.......
Just as I'm starting to fall in love with the HTC Touch Pro, this comes along. I want this. I want it now. Gimme. This is the HTC S740 - a handset with a 4-row QWERTY sliding keyboard and a numeric front keypad. Want. The specs, direct from …
Our video blogs are like buses - you wait for ages and then three come along at once. Today I've been asked what the signal strength is like, so I put my Orange SIM card into a HTC Touch Dual to compare the two handsets. Also in this …
Yes, it's yet another two-handed video with slightly less wobble than you're used to ! :) Today we take a look at the HTC TouchFlo 3D system, which is the fluid GUI used in this device and the HTC Touch Diamond. We take a tour of the contacts, …
OK, I'm back. Here in the UK we've had an extended weekend thanks to a Bank Holiday so, although I've been busy recording the "Week With..." videos, I've only just uploaded them! Here's Day 2, where I take a look at the 5-row keyboard and the on scree...
About a week back we told you how the Samsung Omnia was on sale on Orange stores. Now it's popped up on the Orange website priced up at £49.99 on the £35 p/m contract. You know the deal by now. Win Mobile 6.1, 5 megapixel camera with LED …
Day one of our "Week with the HTC Touch Pro" is now online. In this first video I've covered the unboxing, plus a comparison with the HTC TyTN II and HTC Touch Dual. There's also a look at the box contents, keyboard and an overview of the phone …
Winmobile.se have just published a review of the ETEN v900 handset. It has a VGA screen, 3 megapixel camera, WiFi, GPS, Radio and is powered by a Samsung SC3 CPU running at 533Mhz. Better still it has inbuilt digital TV for catching the latest episode...
The HTC Touch Pro is the bigger, fatter brother to the HTC Touch Diamond. It's available now for £514.99 and comes complete with the TouchFLO 3D system you saw on the Diamond. The Touch Pro isn't as slim as the Diamond but the extra bulge gives you s...
It's been a little quiet recently here at Coolsmartphone. This is one of the reasons. I drive a lot and use the motorway every day. It is, without doubt, a very safe type of road, however with stop-start traffic there's always the odd shunt. Yesterday...
Following more leaks than ever, the Palm Treo Pro is now official. A Qualcomm MSM7201 400Mhz CPU powers Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro whilst inside there's tri-band UMTS / HSDPA and quad-band GSM and 802.11b/g WiFi connectivity. There's also a 320x320 TFT sc...
Virtual Spaghetti Software have just launched (and we mean just... like, 10 minutes ago) VsNotepad 2. It's an updated version of the incredibly flexible note-taking software for recording and organising your life. The new version brings customized no...
Just after we spotted the Samsung Omnia i900 on Orange (with rumours of a short exclusive on the network), have a look what's just popped up on the Vodafone website. Yup, it's the Samsung Omnia i900. Whilst this is tucked away in the help section, it'...
The Samsung Omnia is starting to cause quite a stir across the internet. If the slick promo video on the official website isn't enough to interest you then check the specs. A 5 megapixel camera with auto focus and LED flash - yes, a 5 megapixel shoote...
This, if rumours are right, is a new Palm handset which accidentally got leaked here. It's the Palm Treo Pro and it quickly got removed from the treo website, but not before the guys at treocentral.com managed to snap some screenshots. Things we kno...
Snap2Face v1.0 has just been released. It's a free Facebook client for your Windows Mobile. Facebook access is now better and easier than ever, plus you get Outlook contacts integration (i.e. photo caller-ID) album slide show and much more. Snap2Face...
The guys at omio have managed to get their hands on a HTC Touch Pro and are busy putting it through a series of tests. Besides the usual unboxing video they've also added a text battle between the Touch Pro and an iPhone. Head on over to take …
You've probably noticed the Viigo RSS Reader button on the top-right of our site lately and hopefully you've downloaded it to keep updated with our news and other RSS feeds. Now version 3.0 is now available in Beta form for Windows Mobile users. It st...
Want a Samsung Omnia i900 ? Well, there's a number of ways to get one without having to fork out a huge wad of money. Sure, you can get yourself one for around £559.99 but, if you can bundle it into a contact you can bring the cost …
Vito Technology have just released a new version of Winterface. It comes with numerous improvements and bug-fixes - it is now started with a different on-screen gesture, you can now add any files on your Windows Mobile to the main screen, plus there's...
Official UK distributor devicewire is now selling the HTC Touch Pro for £514.99. This the official UK stock with a 2 year warranty - no grey imports here. The handset, which features the same juicy goodness found in the Diamond but with a better batt...
Following our earlier story on the XDA Ignito, Lee Sainsbury has been on the phone to o2 to ask when the o2-branded-Diamond will be available. According to their customer service reps it should be hitting shops on August 25th, however they've also sta...
Windows Mobile is our thing, but HTC have impressed us greatly over the years. They've moved forward with blistering pace and, thanks to fantastic people like Horace Luke, they have a user experience to match their exterior designs... But Windows Mobi...
It looks like the HTC Touch Pro should be available any day now. Scouring the internet Fola Bello has already found it as "available" on purelygadgets.co.uk for a whacking £521.95. Elsewhere expansys are showing it as available with a four day delive...
It's been a while now since we mentioned QR Codes. They're also called 2D barcodes and you may have seen them in our recent video. Now there's a new cool way to use them. If you're using FireFox as your browser, then listen up. If you've recently stum...
Fancy getting the latest cricket scores onto your mobile? If so, you just need to point your mobile to ci.plusmo.com. Download the CAB, run it, install and choose your location. It'll give you a ball by ball coverage of your favourite matches. This so...
If you bought a handset from HTC or one of their distributors (like devicewire.co.uk) then you'll be used to the HTC eClub and the login process by now. It involves logging in with the serial number from your phone ... at least, it did. Now HTC have a...
OK, I've had several emails following our HTC Touch Diamond ROM update story yesterday. I wanted to post a reply to this here, because I and other websites have raised recently with Microsoft - let's just say that it's a very sore point. The iPhone ...
The Hong Kong version of the updated Diamond ROM appeared a couple of weeks back, however it's now available for more countries in the HTC eClub. It's version 1.93 and is available for the UK and other European countries - from what we're hearing, it'...
Gadget magazine T3 have managed to get a great hands-on with the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1. The videos show this new curvy sliding QWERTY device in action, with the browser, main screen and clock getting a quick demo. The magazine also seem to have conf...
Samsung appear to have give a lick of paint to their excellent Omnia handset. It's now popped up on cnet.com sporting a pearly white finish on the back. The Omnia i900 is a 16Gb handset which uses a 624Mhz Marvell CPU and comes with a 5 megapixel auto...
It's been some years since the Samsung i300 was last mentioned here. In December 2005 it was being sold by o2 and packed a 3Gb internal HD, 1.3 megapixel camera and tri-band connectivity. Tom Weeks has just nudged us because expansys are now selling t...
We neglected to mention this last week - it's GPS.Friend. This will let you find anything or anyone quickly by using satellites. The free version allows one search per day, or you can purchase the full program for 17.25EUR ($17.25 / £13.60). If thi...
A week back we heard that the HTC Touch Diamond would be popping up on o2 as the XDA Ignito. Now it's appeared in the o2 catalogues for August as you can see here. :) I managed to battle past the huge crowd of people huddled around the …
Yes, it really is August! Blimey. Doesn't time fly eh? We've been digging through the mail and found that Elecont have just released their quick-launch plugin for your home or Today screen. This will give you quick and easy access into your favourite ...
Remember our story on how Orange almost launched the HTC TyTN II Windows Mobile 6.1 update? It was really quite simple. If you go to the Orange site here, then click "HTC" from the "Handset selection" screen, then "TyTN P4550 II" from the model sectio...
If you read about Opera Mobile 9.5 recently you may, like me, have downloaded this whizzy new browser and tried it out. There were, however, a few bugs, and some have recommended NetFront as an alternative. For me, I noticed one very painful bug when ...
If I'm honest I really didn't expect a great deal from these two GSmart handsets when they arrived some weeks back. It's the first time I've seen or used a GSmart phone. The devices are pretty much the same, with the only difference being a 3G / HSDPA...
New Zealander Kevin Daly has just unveiled his new Twitter client, called Twitula. It's completely free and shows public and friend timelines plus people you follow or those who follow you. You can also update your status direct from the software, alt...
