Tag: windows phone
OK, so you know about the HTC S730 and the new tweaked keyboard, faster CPU, 3G and face-pointing camera right? Well, if you're thirsting for some super close-up unboxing shots then head over to boygeniusreport.com. HTC have pimped the existing S710 (...
Where Is My Phone is an application to find your mobile in the event of a theft or if you've simply lost it. By sending a specially formatted message to your handset it'll return the GPS location of your handset. Of course, you'll need a handset with ...
Here's that silver HTC Touch that got mentioned just the other day. It'll be available from November at devicewire for £257.99. Regular readers will have seen our review of both the black and wasabi green version, plus if you buy one you'll be joinin...
Our man Johnny De'Silva has spotted the Palm Treo 500v sitting proudly on the Vodafone Business site in a rather dashing charcoal colour. Launching on Friday (yes, this Friday), the Palm Treo 500v will cost between asbolutely nothing and £85.11, dep...
Robo is a puzzle game with an amazing 76 levels filled with graphics and brain-melting tasks. Your quest is to help two lonely hearts find each other and you have to risk life and limb to achieve your goal. In order to move, you must block laser beam...
Line Rider is hugely popular game that even has its' own Wikipedia entry. You must draw one or more lines and then let the "dude" slide down them without falling off. This is a strangely addictive combination of physics and fun and you'll soon find y...
Yesterday we covered the launch of the HTC Touch Dual and we stated at the time that "we assume WiFi is on board". We couldn't see any mention of it on the product page under "Connectivity" but, in the first and second promo flyer it was mentioned und...
Opera have officially announced the avaibility of Opera 8.65. The new version brings the ability to import favourites from Internet Explorer, sending links as SMS, MMS or email, saving of images, copying of text and a "grab and scroll" mechanism in th...
Out of the rumour mill and into reality comes the Asus P527, a GPS equipped handset with Windows Mobile 6 Pro, WiFi, Bluetooth and GPRS quad-band capabilities with EDGE. Powered by a TI OMAP850 CPU running at 200Mhz the P527 also has a 2 megapixel ca...
Hello hello, it's that BenQ E72 again. We spotted this in February and now it's appeared on Phonedaily.com. It runs Windows Mobile 6 Standard and comes with a 260Mhz CPU. This only has triband radio and we doubt we'll see it here in Europe, however it...
Available from November, this is the HTC P6500. It's an enterprise handset running Windows Mobile 6.0 Pro and is designed to cope with the logistical and technical demands of industry. The P6500 runs Windows Mobile 6.0 Pro with a 3 megapixel camera, ...
Meet the S730, coming this month from HTC. Running Windows Mobile 6.0 Standard (Smartphone), this is a 3.5G (3G + HSPDA) handset with quad-band capability and WiFi. This will be the successor to the already popular HTC S710 which unfortunately lacked ...
The HTC Shift was also mentioned at todays HTC event. Touted as ushering in "a new era in mobile computing" this baby has Windows Vista combined with 3.5G connectivity whilst still managing to provide a two day battery life. The Shift will come with a...
HTC have also used their London event to announce a new Arctic Silver paint job for the original HTC Touch. The new colour will be available this month plus HTC have also announced a free virtual keypad for existing Touch owners. The full-screen keypa...
HTC have just announced the HTC Touch Dual. You've seen this on the site under various names (Nike, Touch Slide etc etc) and it builds on the already popular HTC Touch device. One thumb-flick is all it takes to reveal the numeric keypad which is neatl...
Today in London HTC are to announce three new handsets. They are the HTC Touch Dual, which is based on the already highly successful HTC Touch, the HTC S730, which is the successor to the HTC S710 and the HTC P6500, which is a rather large device like...
Looks like Orange are to sneak out the HTC TyTN II also. MoDaCo have managed to snap some shots of a dummy unit popping into Orange stores, complete with Orange homescreen and a tiny Orange logo at the rear. It's great to see Orange rolling out this p...
Meet the HTC S730. We sniffed this out some months back now when there were rumours of GPS. This will be the worthy successor to the rather excellent HTC S710 that I use daily. The S730 ("Wings") has a rapid 400 Mhz Qualcomm CPU, 3G, face-pointing ca...
Doah, you just knew it would happen didn't you? Yes, this is the HTC Touch Slide and it should be one of the devices appearing on Monday during the HTC announcement. These pictures have appeared on this blogpsot website. This is in fact similar to the...
When I first loaded up Office 2007 on my PC I was a fairly happy bunny. I say "fairly happy" because, when I saved a Word document it would use - by default - the .docx format. This was all well and good if you're sending the file …
Look what's just turned up on the FCC. It's the HTC Phoebus and there's a 2 megapixel shooter round the back and WiFi on board. There's not much we can gleam from the FCC documents, however the one image we do get looks a helluva lot like the …
Remember those Ted Baker handsets we mentioned nearly a month ago? Well, they'll be touching down at your local Carphone Warehouse in November 2007. This little purple monster (ahem) is a slightly re-worked version of the HTC Touch and, although there...
Right, listen up. Remember how we told you when the HTC TyTN II came on sale? Remember how it sold out a few days later? Well, if you missed out don't worry, because it's back and there's 464 of them available. Devicewire have dropped the price too - …
Stephen Fry. You know him. He was in BlackAdder, Jeeves and Wooster, Fry and Laurie, Harry Potter and even that Twinings TV advert. Here's something I bet you didn't know though, because Stephen is a bit of a Smartphone geek. His official website has ...
This is UltimateSearch. It's a homescreen plugin that'll let you easily search Google, Wikipedia, Movie databases, local businesses, dictionaries, news, Yahoo, Flickr, answers.com and YouTube - all from one box. Simply install, type in your search, ch...
First came the review, then news that it was coming soon to T-Mobile. Now it's (almost) officially available with the launch details quoting, "The MDA Vario III will be available from 28th September to purchase from T-Mobile stores and online at T-Mob...
Photo Contacts PRO has now been updated to version 5. The new version brings this home screen plug-in to should your favourite contacts and recent callers, a fully integrated schedule for swapping profiles when you need, an SMS answering machine, enha...
Late last week the Commercial Times reported that Sony Ericsson was sending orders to HTC for a Windows Mobile handset. Apparently a new Smartphone will appear in the latter half of 2008 with an estimated one million handsets being produced. HTC have...
Remember that Samsung SGH-i640v Vodafone sneaked out in their Christmas line-up? Well, it turns out that it's more than just a SGH-i620v with a paint-job. The i640, shown below in a YouTube video from DinarSoft, gets GSM 900/1800/1900 GPRS, EDGE, 3G a...
Remember that Samsung handset we saw the other day? It had an on-screen pointer, track-ball-style navigation and touchscreen. It turns out that this phone is in fact the Samsung SGH-i780. Billed as a "hybrid messaging handset" it'll run Windows Mobile...
Recent news about the iPhone has caused quite a debate in the forum. Your comments here and here show just how passionately you feel about it. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a recent interview that the iPhone has "no chance of getting any signifi...
When people mention Windows Mobile they tend not to think of Samsung. Why I'm not sure, because their Samsung Blackjack is a fantastic handset and, if Orange PR are listening, we'd love to review the Samsung i600 on Orange. Samsung look to be testing...
This is Hidden Expedition: Titanic from Astraware. They're developing and publishing handheld versions of Big Fish Games and this highly addictive hidden-object game will also immerse you in georgeous graphics as you explore the 14 diving missions. I...
Our earlier iPhone story caused quite a stir with you lot, but there's at least some good news. The UK-bound iPhone will not have 3G. Indeed, it's exactly the same 8Gb handset that our US-cousins now have, except we'll be getting it for just £269 - a...
You may remember how we picked up on the T-Mobile Vario III - aka the HTC TyTN II / Kaiser showing up on the T-Mobile website. T-Mobile plonked it into their "Coming Soon" section, but it showed the MDA Compact III on the image instead. Good news thou...
TextR is a conversation-based texting system messaging for Windows Mobile Pro (Pocket PC) devices. It stores and archives your conversations on the storage card and features pop-up notifications, photo integration, emoticons and much more. You can tr...
Jason Langridge has done a nice YouTube video demonstrating the Palm 500v user interface in action. It combines Vodafone Live plus all a whole new menu interface making it easy to glide between menu pages and choose your favourite program. Check it ou...
So after yet another bizarre week (I'll tell you more in time) in my life, I was sat down this morning going through the various Windows Mobile websites. MoDaCo have a feature on vTap which, I have to say, is an absolutely excellent application. Why e...
Here it is, the T-Mobile branded version of the HTC HyTN II listed as "Coming Soon" on their website. Wait... hang on a minute. That's not the HTC Kaiser / HTC TyTN II we all know and love .. it's the MDA Compact III! Oh dear, it looks …
The Boy Genius has come up with another soon-to-be-announced HTC device called the "Juno". To be honest there's not a huge amount of information about it as yet. 3G connectivity, a 2 megapixel camera and Windows Mobile Standard (Smartphone) has been r...
