Tag: windows phone

Samsung i300 – Exclusive to o2, plus more to come!

We've had a chat with the nice people at o2 today and they've slipped a few press releases our way. First of all we have news on the XDA SP, which was advertised previously as the "XPhone II". It's a sweet looking Smartphone with similar specs to the …

o2 XDA Exec – Press Release

O2 INTRODUCES NEW-LOOK Xda Exec – the Ultimate Mobile PDAO2 ADDS FIRST 3G HANDHELD DEVICE TO POPULAR Xda PORTFOLIO   O2 announces the launch of the O2 Xda Exec, the first integrated PDA and mobile phone device to feature 3G, offering a complete...

o2 XDA SP – Press Release

SLIM DOWN FOR THE NEW YEARO2 launches super slim business device – the O2 Xda sp If you want to keep on top of your workload but not get weighed down by technology, this Christmas treat yourself to the O2 Xda sp – the perfect device for busy …

gStart – Customize your Start Menu!

I meant to do a write-up on this yesterday, however, here is gStart. It's a free Windows Mobile 5.0-esque start menu which is currently in Beta release form over at airfagev.com. It doesn't work too well on QVGA screens (like the Orange SPV C550), ho...

Smart Explorer v2.1 now available

Want to send and receive stuff over Bluetooth ? Get Smart Explorer. End of discussion. Just get it, get it now. This is the daddy of all file-explorers for your Smartphone and deserves to be installed on every Windows Smartphone. It's shareware and it...

Orange SPV C600 – First real-life picture

Antal van Wijk from www.newmobile.nl has done it again with these exclusive shots of a real, yes real, Orange SPV C600. Antal can't reveal his sources but says it'll appear pretty soon! He says that the rumours ARE true - this device has no built-in W...

More hot games for your Smartphone. Make a weekend of it!

It's been a busy week here at CoolSmartphone towers, so after I've recorded another Podcast I'm going to go and buy me some games. Right now there's some excellent new games to buy like Banjo Kazooie, Mr Pants, SabreWulf and Zoo Tycoon 2. They've alre...

New Developers Group

If you're a developer, or interested in becoming one, you'd probably find that this new MSN group hits your favourites menu soon. Neil Cowburn of OpenNetCF fame, is already a blogger on Conchango.com and you can read more about his thoughts here. He i...

HTC Universal Reviews

Everybody is talking about the new 3G handset from HTC at the moment. Whether you call it an o2 XDA Exec, SPV M5000, T-Mobile MDA Pro or one of it's many other names, it's certainly taking the mobile world by storm. InfoSync have just done a review of...

Get Doom on your Smartphone – you deserve it!

Friday again ? Already ? Right, time for a bit of fun. I wrote an article a few years ago about Doom - y'know, the pioneering 3D Shoot-em-up. Back then getting Doom running on your Smartphone was a tricky prospect at times. Now however it's easier and...

The biggest thing possible in your trousers

I'm a busy flippin' bunny today. You should see the sweat pouring out of me as I beaver away on these news stories. One story I've been meaning to post something about is Microsofts' Virtual Earth. It's been available to browse on your PC for a bit (I...

Orange SPV C550 Back in Stock PAYG!

Just to let you guys know that the Orange SPV C550 is now back in stock PAYG on the Orange website. Many of you will know that it has been showing as Out of Stock for the last couple of weeks or so after the huge demand when …

o2 XDA Exec in Stuff Magazine

Check out the new o2 XDA Exec in this months edition of Stuff Magazine (UK) where it gets rave reviews. Such a shame o2 aren't promoting it much.. ermm.. at all .. on their website... :( Come on o2.. get in touch! Tell us of your plans! Stuff …

iMate JASJAR flies off the shelves..

Has anyone got about 600 quid right now ? It appears that a lot of people have, because - as I type - the number of "available handsets" showing on this expansys.com page have dropped from 877 to 866 !! If you're wadded (loaded / minted / in …

Astraware contest hots up!

Astraware have just sent me this press release. It's good to see that there's some Smartphone people sending in entries too! Even if they are of ..err.. cows.. :)--------------It's week 4 of our Play Anywhere and Win contest and the fourth set of entr...

o2 XDA Mini S Comes to o2 Germany

Looks like o2 Germany are about to start selling the HTC Wizard if this article is anything to go by. This o2 Press Release states that the German carrier will launch the device as the o2 Xda Mini S (no, not the one made by BMW). The Wizard …

iMate SP5 and SP5m – More HTC Tornado based handsets appear

Antal van Wijk from NewMobile.nl has just emailed me about a couple of new handsets from iMate. Yes, you heard right... more new handsets. They're coming from every angle at the minute and I'm extremely happy to say that it's almost difficult to keep ...

Exclusive: Qtek 9100 – Another HTC Universal comes to play

You know about this device by know.. surely!? Well,vit's the HTC Universal. It's going to be sold on o2 as the XDA Exec, on Orange as the SPV M5000, on T-Mobile as the MDA Pro and i-Mate as the JASJAR. Well, know Qtek are getting in on the …

HTC Universal spotted browsing a very nice website indeed

A rather interesting bit of CoolSmartPhone promotion over at MSMobiles.com today (wehay!) in this article. The MDA Pro is shown here browsing CoolSmartPhone.com in both "portait" and "landscape" formats. There's still a little bit of scrolling needed,...

Orange SPV C600 – Maybe it isn’t such a mystery!

Aye up, here we go again. Yet more news on the Orange SPV C600. We covered this on July 24th when SmartphoneFrance.info had a grainy photocopy of the handset. Now however we have a full colour graphic. The phone itself looks like a mix of the previous...

Exclusive: o2 XDA Exec launching this month

Here it is people, the o2 Xda Exec. Available this month on o2. It's the "latest and most advanced evolution of the Xda family" and it's.. yes, the HTC Universal again. We can now add this to the increasing list of brand-names - T-Mobile MDA Pro, Oran...

Midtown Madness 3 Reviewed

Following our earlier story, there's a great review by AWarner of Midtown Madness 3 over here at MoDaCo.com. He says of the game.."Initially I found the controls took time to get used to, but with a bit of practise the basic movement with the controll...

Technical details of HTC Universal (M5000 / MDA Pro)

Full specs of the HTC Universal (SPV M5000 / T-Mobile MDA Pro / i-Mate JASJAR) are now available. They can be found below (click "Read more" if you need), or you can check them out at the source here at Club iMate It's a sure sign that this …

Orange SPV M5000 – Date moved forward?

We're hearing gossip that - on the same day that T-Mobile Germany announced the launch of the T-Mobile MDA Pro in just a few short days - Orange may indeed be launching their Orange SPV M5000 at the start of September too! At the moment we've only had...

Midtown Madness 3 – Super-smooth driving action!

This is flippin marvellous. I've even played it on the toilet this morning. Super-slick 3D game Midtown Madness 3 is now available from our shop here and has a natty auto-accelerate option so you don't need to hold down the joystick on your Smartphone...

Samsung i300 coming to o2 UK in October – Confirmed

The Inquirer.net have just put a story on line entitled "3Gb Windows Smartphone Spotted". The article rattles on about "a party given by O2 (UK network) ... (we) stumbled across an impressive new Samsung Windows smartphone. It's either called the i300...

More GPS Windows Mobile handsets arrive – the HTC Galaxy

French phone site Mobinaute.com have a preview on yet another GPS-enabled handset, this time it's good old HTC back again with the HTC Galaxy here. We saw some murmourings about this a few weeks back but these are the first real photos we've seen. Thi...

T-Mobile USA to launch the HTC Tornado in October

Engadget.com reckon that the Qtek 8310 we saw earlier at Pocket PC Club will be out in the USA on T-Mobile in October. This Engadget story states.. "(The HTC Tornado) is going to be the first (and possibly only) US carrier to get its hands on the H...

iMate K-JAM joins the iMate JASJAR

Expansys, the online retailer of network-free handsets, have now put the HTC Wizard onto their site here in the shape of the iMate K-JAM for about £490 or £255 with a Vodafone contract. This comes just a day after they put the i-mate JASJAR (AKA SPV...

ALL-backup 1.3 Save 30%!

ALL-backup 1.3 by Ordina ALL-locations is now available here for just $13.95! That's about £7.75 - that's a saving of 30%! A Smartphone can crash in such a way, that you need to hard reset it. The Smartphone goes back to 'factory settings', which m...

TomTom Mobile 5 Review

I've finally put my TomTom Mobile 5 (for Smartphone) review online today. I've taken a while to do it mainly because I was waiting for it to be fully available. Since May 19th the TomTom Mobile 5 kit has only been available directly from the TomTom.co...

More HTC Universal Questions and Answers..

More HTC Universal (Orange SPV M5000) questions answered here at Jason Langridge's weblog. Questions such as "Has the voice quality improved ?", "Is voice dialing possible?" and "Will Orange remove the WiFi?" are answered here, so give it a read. Jaso...

Qtek 8300 Reviewed

Following our story yesterday on the review of the Qtek 9100 here at PocketPC-Club.nl, there's now a review of the Qtek 8300, which is the T-Mobile SDA II, online here.Check it out (if you're good with your Dutch) here, although the pictures are worth...

Qtek 9100 (HTC Wizard) and Qtek 8300, 8310 reviews

PocketPC Club have written an excellent preview of the Qtek 9100 (the HTC Wizard we saw previously here, that we think will possbly be out on Orange as the M600) along with a look at the Qtek 8300 and 8310 that we caught a climpse of earlier this …

Play Anywhere with Astraware and win – update

It's week 2 of Astraware's Play Anywhere and Win contest and the second set of entries are now up on the website ready for you to vote. Don't forget, even if you don't want to submit a photo for the contest you can still have a chance of …

SPV M5000 – More details and questions answered

Jason Langridge is one of a lucky few who've managed to get hold of an HTC Universal - shortly to appear on Orange as the M5000. He's put his thoughts and answered some questions here, plus some photos of the device which.. unfortunately don't seem to...

Super Slyder now available to buy in our shop!

Super Slyder works on any Windows Mobiles device. Without a shadow of a doubt I have to admit that Super Slyder has to be one of the most annoyingly addictive games I’ve ever played. It’s one of those “Oh, I can beat this easily” games which r...

The Core Pocket Media Player

OK, remember BetaPlayer? It's a brilliant video viewer for watching DivX, XviD, MPEG4, MPEG1, M-JPEG and WMV formats on your phone (if you didn't understand all that, don't worry - basically it lets you view pretty much any video file). Using various ...