Tag: windows phone
So, what am I to do ? It would appear that Microsoft are to phase out the "Pocket PC" and "Smartphone" brands, and instead head into "Windows Mobile" territory. But what does this mean? Will I need to rename the site.. ? CoolWindowsMobilePhone.com ? S...
ActiveSync has always been the tool Smartphone users use for linking their phone to their PC. It synchronises your data, your contacts, your inbox and calendar plus much more. Microsoft have now released the next version of ActiveSync, predictably cal...
Tomas in Prague has emailed in about the infamous HTC Typhoon, which is now selling on Czech provider Eurotel here. It'll be known this time as the Eurotel Smartphone II, and it adds yet another alias to the probably the most successful Windows Powere...
We've already raved about Dr. Neil's SMS Sender and Tools previously, and now a new spangly version of the much-improved SMSUtils application is now available for download from www.smartphone.roodyn.com here. This version fixes a number of known issu...
Some people (who I must give full credit to for sending this in, but I don't have everyones' email to hand), including Richard Norris and others, have mentioned that they found it difficult to connect the TomTom GPS box to their C500. This is only the...
The SmartJacking application offers users the convenience of using Bluetooth-enabled Microsoft OS Smartphone to find new contacts, communicate over small distances, and share information related to their business. SmartJacking works as follows: your p...
In my recent TomTom Mobile Review I neglected to mention a rather excellent add-in feature which comes courtesy of the guys at PocketGPSWorld.com. This feature is basically to add in Speed Camera locations. Ber-loody excellent! Here in the UK we are p...
It´s great to see that both Atlantis Redux Episode 1 and 2 are now bundled together and available at at stupidly low price of £3.57 (or €5.18). This means you can now get both episodes and progress even further into this excellent story for the ...
OK, so it's not quite ready - I need to polish it off tomorrow (Friday 10th December) and I'll have it ready by about 9PM. However, I'm tired and I've been typing for hours on it! :) Click here for my review complete with pictures and an example …
Mozilla are now targetting the mobile phone market according to this ZDNet article. Their mini-browser, called Minimo (which is the slimmed-down Mozilla browser) is hoped to speed browsing up on mobile phones. Doug Turner, the project leader of Minim...
There's a lot of chatter about this Beta Macromedia Flash player for the Smartphone right now. It's got the guys at MoDaCo talking quite a bit and they're even developing add-ons to allow you to zoom in on the flash files, like the excellent Flashhack...
Fizz Traveller 2.0 - Smartphone - New ReleaseVoted Best “Designed for Windows Mobile™” Application 2004 Welcome to the award winning Fizz Traveller 2.0 Your feature packed travel mate. Some of the best weather forecasts ever seen on a Microsoft ...
Benn has emailed in with a very interesting and valid point. DVD to Smartphone, which we've raved about here already is on sale for a mere £12.99 ($24.99 / €18.82) in our shop here. However, the Orange software shop, run by Handango. are selling ...
CoolSmartPhone can exclusively announce that the author of SmartNotes (Mark Davison) is seeking a buyer to continue development of this application. The successful purchaser will get: - The full source code for the application (VB)- The full customer ...
That HTC built Typhoon gets around more than Jordan at the minute. It's already known as the Orange SPV C500, the Audiovox SMT 5600, the Dopod 565, iMate etc etc etc.. now, now it's got yet another badge on it and yet another name - this time in …
The price of Smartnotes, which is an excellent utility which enables you to create / edit notes on your PC, then access them via the Programs menu on your phone, has now dropped to just $10 - that's about £5.18. Check the link below for screen sho...
The Pocket PC Phone Orange SPV M2000 was officially launched today by Orange. It's built again by HTC (the "HTC Blue Angel") and is also known as MDA III, O2 XDA IIs and iMate PDA2K. It's got a slide-out keyboard and a while lot more. The full press …
If, like people I know, you smoke, but deep down you'd like to stop - then "My Last Cigarette" may help. It's (rather unsurprisingly) a piece of software to help you stop smoking for good. Plus, with smoking likely to be banned from many places, and t...
Yup, you guessed it, this app will protect your Windows Smartphone against viruses and tojans. Airscanner® Mobile Antivirus has already been out on the Pocket PC, but now it's here for the Smartphone. Airscanner® is the world’s market leader in Wi...
What is Skype and what does it do ? Well, it used to allow people to make free calls to each other over the internet - provided you were on-line and had a microphone and some speakers ready. Now however it's got "SkypeOut" added, which lets you call …
The iMate SP3i (available here) and the MPx220 (available here) are featured in this Smartphonethoughts.com photo shoot-out, so if you want to get up close on these phones, have a browse! Source - Smartphonethoughts.com
Oradell, NJ November 23, 2004 LandWare announced today that it is readying a Windows Mobile Smartphone edition of their award winning Leonard Maltin 2005 Movie Guide. This compelling new Smartphone application has been especially designed for on...
Yup, that's definitely an SPV C500! You can see it right here in the latest Maroon 5 video for their song "Sunday Morning". In the vid, the SMT 5600/C500 is being used to video a gang who are doing a spot of Karaoke on a night out, singing …
You drive a lot. You wanna know where to go. A satellite navigation kit such as the TomTom Go is around 400 quid, but what if you could get the same thing for around half the price on your Smartphone? Interested? Read on.. I've only had the TomTom …
Home | Downloads | Entertainment | Company | Contact | Licensing | Helpdesk 10/16/04 ONLY $ 4.99 Candy Crusher Tired of playing the Same Game over and over? Well, now you can a...
What a good idea! For those suffering from Diabetes, this could be a very helpful tool and helps you to control diabetes. SiDiary is in Beta stages at the minute, but is available here for you to use. It maintains all the important data - such as bloo...
This is the first official Boulder Dash sequel ever developed for PDAs and SmartPhones. This heart pumping, state of the art action game introduces us to Rocky and Crystal (the children of the star of the original game: Rockford). Join them on their j...
Fizz software are looking to beta test Fizz Traveller 2.0 in a week or so. If you'd be interested in taking part, have a look at the Fizz Traveller 2.0 beta page. The new version is packed with features, here are just a few : Smaller pr...
After far to much time Riki has released Theme Changer Version 4. Theme Changer allows you to change home screen themes, system screens, and windows media skins at the touch of a button. New in Version 4 is support for sound - allowing you to change s...
Blimey ! This is one flippin excellent game and has already sold like freshly baked bread rolls on the Pocket PC. Now it arrives on the Smartphone and comes complete with music and spoken dialogue too! Atlantis Episode 1 is available exclusively fro...
David Knipe has just nudged me about this BBC News story for Stuff Magazine's top Christmas Gadgets. Topping the chart is (rather unsurprisingly) the iPod, however the Orange SPV C500 is in the list too, which is well deserved. You can buy Stuff Magaz...
The latest Pocket PC Phone from Orange - previously code-named the HTC Blue Angel - is now online here at the Orange shop. Yes, this is the one with the sliding keyboard!The SPV M2000 comes with a massive list of features, some of which are included b...
Skyforce is one helluva game. It's already taken the PocketPC and Symbian platforms by storm and is a top seller. This wicked shoot-em-up is available exclusively from our friends at Clickgamer, who do a fantastic job running our software shop here. ...
Blimey, it's handset day today! o2 have announced the release of the O2 Xphone II in Singapore today, stirring rumours that they may add or replace the MPx220 handset from Motorola in the UK. The Motorola MPx220 hasn't been released on o2 in the UK ye...
I've had a few emails about people wanting Windows Media Player 10 for their Smartphone. You'll be aware that the Audiovox SMT 5600 has it, but many other handsets don't. Well, according to MS themselves you CANNOT download it. However, there's a beam...
Remember the HTC Vivida? Well, the guys at Mobile Gadget News were taking a stroll around the CTIA Wireless 2004 event in San Francisco when they came across the Audiovox stand. Audiovox were showing off their SMT 5600 (AKA the Orange SPV C500) and .....
This is a fantastic utility which includes... 1. Countdown: Tells you how much time is left in days, hours, minutes and seconds for a particular event (say Christmas). Enter any holiday or event date. Default is Christmas. 2. Date Difference: Comput...
After our roaring review of DVD to Smartphone, Greg Rawlings has emailed in about PocketDivXEncoder, which encodees video into a size and format suitable for playing eaily with the excellent free Betaplayer, which is a free video-viewing util fot your...
We've featured Mavec before, but it's flippin' good and we like it. Mavec is a multi-user game for Windows Mobile 2003 owners and allows you to adventure around the virtual world, then syncronise with a central server and meet others. The new version...
Looks like MobileJoe have found a way to security unlock the SDA - and possibly other HTC phones (such as the SPV C500, Audiovox 5600) - this mobilejoe.de story (translated) explains how it's done. It looks like some registry tweaking, so if you do th...
