Tag: windows phone
We love doing reviews. At the moment we're trying to get hold of a Lexus IS-F to test but they don't seem too keen, so instead we've managed to bag our second HTC Shift. This one is a brand new retail unit with the cellophane still in-tact, so …
The Engadget boys have managed to grab a look at the new Asus user interface tweaks for Windows Mobile 6.1. It's a smooth animated experience with menus sliding into place, plus there's a nod to the HTC guys with a spinning cube / triangle system. An...
After a rather major product announcement the last thing you'd want is for a 2009 release date to appear on the web. Alas, that's what's happened to the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1. Here it sits with a release date of February 10th 2009. We think this is ...
i-Mate have always been an interesting company. We've been impressed by some of their handsets and their rather splendid specs, however there have been constant rumours about manufacturing and financial problems within i-Mate. Despite reassurances fro...
If you've got friends, relatives or other contacts living abroad it's always a little tricky to remember what their local time is. Sometimes you can accidentally call your contacts in the middle of the night, which is never good if you're trying to cl...
We're not quite sure how many people have been affected by this problem (I've not experienced it), but HTC have just released a hot fix for the HTC Touch Dual. It rectifies a screen problem causing icons to vabish and words to overlap. It also correct...
A couple of weeks back we spotted the HTC P6500 sat proudly on the Orange UK website. Forum member "Pickett" has just had his delivered and luckily for us he's snapped some rather excellent shots of the handset. Scroll down for more shots, or check ou...
Imagine the scene, you've just left home and you've forgotten to turn your PC off. Tskk.. your local electricity company will be dancing with joy and your girlfriend could come home to see those "interesting" websites you've been viewing. What to do ?...
A few weeks back the HTC video issue was being discussed everywhere on the web. After a while HTC posted their official response to the issue and said that there was no problem and their handsets were operating as expected. Now there's an extra twist ...
It's been some time since we spotted the Samsung i640 as "Coming Soon" on the Vodafone website. David B has emailed in to point out that it's now available to buy. It costs absolutely nothing on selected plans and comes with a 2 megapixel camera, micr...
You may remember how Microsoft have tied up with Zumobi to help distribute and promote their new product. It's a mobile entertainment and information gateway with a slick GUI and updated news from various sources. It's controlled with a zooming interf...
We started this site nearly 6 and a half years ago now. At the time we were stumbling across issues with the original Orange SPV Smartphone and finding work-arounds. Now it's February 2008 and still I'm finding problems - and this time it's with my br...
Feeling a bit nostalgic? SmartGear is a multi-console / handheld game emulator which supports GameBoy, GameGear, MasterSystem, NES, TurboGrafx-16 and Genesis. Right now there's a stonking 50% off for just 48 hours, so be quick and you can get it fo...
The Samsung i780 is now available on Orange with some of you bagging one for £29.99 on a 12 month contract. Viktor Bijelovic has sent us in some more photos of his device, this time showing off the box contents and comparison shots next to the SPV M3...
Owners of the HTC Touch Dual / T-Mobile Touch Plus may have already seen our coverage of the MMS sending bug and fix, but there is another rather annoying issue with this handset. When you're sending a text or email you'll no doubt have seen that the ...
It's reviews galore at the minute. Just a few days back we managed to grab some time with the Asus P526. Priced up at £288.99 off-contract this is a touch-screen Pocket PC hiding in a classic Smartphone shell. It packs a 2 megapixel camera, quadband ...
Well, it seems like at last things are happening - the HTC Shift is definitely coming to Orange and you'll be able to buy it before the end of February. Orange have just sent us the official press release which states... "The HTC Shift will be availa...
We've just added our review of the i-Mate JAMA 101. It's a tough little Windows Mobile 6 Pro phone which is currently selling for £199.95 off-contract. Equipped with a 2 megapixel camera, microSD slot and Bluetooth 1.2, we've perhaps seen higher spe...
During the Mobile World Congress Sony Ericsson were being pretty selective when demonstrating their new XPERIA X1 device. Now, thanks to this Hungarian blog, the reasons are becoming clearer. The XPERIA X1 runs a new version of Windows Mobile called "...
We've been keeping an eye on the Samsung i780 for some time and now it's available on Orange Business for a very strange price of £25.52. The Sammy i780 brings GPS, optical mouse technology and Windows Mobile 6 Pro.You guys have already been finding ...
Got a Windows Mobile Smartphone (Windows Mobile Standard / Non-touch screen) ? You do? Good. Want to download a free tool that'll create a fake call to your phone as a way to escape boring meetings or events? Err... You do? Blimey, you're a strange lo...
Kevin Osborne has just emailed in because he's spotted the HP iPaq 610 / 614 for sale. We spotted it some time back but, as of Monday, you'll be able to buy it off-contract for £389.99. The phone, which is called the "HP iPaq 614c" here, is powered …
It looks like Palm are taking full advantage of yet another outage on the BlackBerry system in the USA yesterday. RIM blamed the outage on "a system upgrade which went wrong" and is the second major failure in less than a year. Palm have taken out ful...
Available now, 3D Mad Cars is a highly detailed racing game where you get to choose your car and race through cities, fiels and beaches. You must use your skill and expertise to drive through the weather conditions and other beat other cars. There's a...
Just yesterday i-Mate announced the launch of two new handsets - the Ultimate 8502 and the Ultimate 9502. However, there's other i-Mate devices out there, and we decided to take a look at this - the JAMA 101. It's a dinky device and is pretty much the...
Engadget have some great hands-on photos of the upcoming HTC P3470, which we spotted last month. There's no WiFi or 3G, but leaving these technologies out will give you quite a tidy battery lifetime. HTC are thowing in a 1Gb microSD card with (possibl...
We were hearing just a couple of weeks back that the HTC P6500 was to arrive on Orange pretty damned soon. Well, here it is hidden away on the Orange website.It's got Windows Mobile 6 Pro and GPRS/EDGE/3G/HSDPA connectivity. The extra specs detail a 3...
Showing off the latest handsets at the Mobile World Congress is all well and good, but there aren't many you can go out and buy yet. The Samsung SGH-i780 is an exception, and you can purchase it right now on Orange. Forum member "krowboi" has just re...
i-Mate has just announced an exclusive deal to roll out two new handsets in Australia. The handsets in question are the all-new i-Mate Ultimate 8502 and i-Mate Ultimate 9502 and will be appearing on the Telstra network very soon. The i-Mate 8502 is a ...
GoodWin is a launcher and task manager for your touch-screen Windows Mobile. It's designed with the finger in mind and you simply need to slide your finger along to scroll the list of favourites, running programs, settings or installed applications. T...
Yep, another free browser has just turned up. This one is based on WebKit (y'know, the engine beneath the Safari browser) and it comes hot on the heels of NetFront 3.5. This is a first look at the Iris Browser from Torch Mobile. Now available for free...
You're probably all aware of the T-Mobile Sidekick thanks to people like Paris Hilton. At the heart of these units there's a suite of mobile internet apps made by a company called Danger. It adds features such as ringtone stores, games and even produc...
MSN Direct has just been announced in Barcelona. I've downloaded it, and.. it didn't install. Why ? Well, it seems that this is currently ONLY for non-touch screen devices. Try it on Windows Mobile Pro and you'll get a failed install reporting, "not m...
We've already seen announcements from Sony Ericsson and others at the Mobile World Congress, however Microsoft have now hosted their press conference. You can watch the replay from Barcelona here.
Samsung are about to announce several new handsets at the Mobile World Congress. We're expecting to see at least one new Windows Mobile handset in the form of the SGH-i200, snapped by theUnwired. More information will no doubt appear when Samsung hold...
The HTC Shift we reviewed has now been mad available by HTC. The Shift integrates the Micosoft Origami Experience 2.0, which you can see in action here. It basically gives a finger-friendly navigation around your UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) with a browser,...
It's been just weeks since our reviewed the HTC Advantage review. Today HTC are announcing more storage and the addition of the now familiar HTC Home Today screen plus the HTC TouchFlo technology for quick and easy navigation. The Opera browser and Go...
We ran a news story on the HTC Pharos a few weeks back, now it's official. The slim Pharos will be sold as the HTC P3470 and, although there's no 3G, HSDPA, or WiFi it will have GPS. The P3470 is set to launch on Orange in the …
We'd heard rumours, but now it's here in the flesh. This is the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1, running Windows Mobile 6 Pro. Yes, you read that right - a Sony Ericsson running Windows Mobile. Just one more time for my own sanity.. it's a Sony Ericsson with ...
Access have just released the Mobile Concept version of NetFront, version 3.5. We last mentioned it in 2006 so a video demonstration is well overdue. NetFront version 3.5 brings fast, smooth browsing and quick draw time, zoom speed and rendering. Thi...
