Author: Leigh Geary
One rather clever development from BT that you may not be aware of .. Yes, I said BT, the landline provider that provide a lot of the UK's standard phones. How do they warrant a story on CoolSmartPhone ? Well, you can now send a text message to …
I always get mails from people saying, "How do I sync with my iMac?" and usually I say, "Buy a PC mate" .. Nah.. not really. I'm only kidding. :) We already have the excellent MissingSync for Pocket PC, but now it looks like there'll soon be MissingSy...
DAT Group PLC have just announced the acquisition of Synchronica GMBH and will add the Synchronica OMA compliant DS/DM and FOTA servers to compliment DAT’s existing DMP platform which supports WindowsMobile, Symbian and Palm devices. This is obvi...
Another exclusive to the CoolSmartPhone software shop comes Pocket Mini Golf 2 and Pocket Mini Golf 2 - Winter Wonderland! What's the big thing about Pocket Mini Golf 2 ? Well, it's the successor to the best selling Smartphone game ever! This follow-...
According to my sources, the Orange SPV C550 should be appearing next month (May 2005) and has already been coined the "SPV Robbie" by some retailers. Why the SPV Robbie? Well, the Orange SPV C550 will include stacks of Robbie Williams content on (we ...
The iMate SP3i is a fantastic Windows Smartphone, and if you can't get a Smartphone in your home country it's well worth a look. In fact, our USA visitors can get a great deal on an iMate SP3i in our USA Gadget Shop here for a mere $291.95 …
In our recent poll we asked you to tell us just which handset you guys are using. So far, we appear to have a high amount of people using the SPV C500 (53.96% at present) and 15.83% of people are using the SPV E200. The T-Mobile SDA still …
Hmm.. Looks like someone has got their hands on Magneto (Windows Mobile 2005) and even written a review about it here! The changes appear to include more one-handed operation so that the Smartphone and Pocket PC brands are basically merged into one de...
I'm hearing a lot about TV Show "24" at the minute, although I must confess to never watching it. The very recognisable phone ring is heard throughout the show and is being played a lot on Radio 1 during the Chris Moyles show at the minute. The phone,...
G-Prime Xtreme has already received many rave reviews from various websites, but now to make things even better it's available for the Smartphone! At a mere £5.29 ($9.95, €7.68) you can enjoy this fantastic throwback to the great arcade games of ye...
You may remember over the weekend I published a review of the Orange SPV M2000. This has now been tweaked, updated and new pictures have been added to now fully complete the review. You can see in the review just how many people near my home don't bo...
To celebrate the screening on May 19th of Star Wars III (Revenge of the Sith .. that's "Sith" people.. OK?), Orange are launching a special box this week. This coming Saturday, April 2nd, Orange are doing a promotion at the Orange Shop on the Kings Ro...
I've not used our voting / poll booth system for quite a while, so I thought I'd ask our members a relatively simple question - just what Smartphone do you use? I ask this mainly because I get questions from people using the SPV and Motorola handsets ...
According to this MobileTracker.net story, the Audiovox SMT 5600 is still being "evaluated" by Cingular. The SMT 5600 was launched on AT&T Wireless just before it effectively got consumed by Cingular and there's not been much seen of it in Cingular s...
The undesputed king of homescreen design, kl1wdr, has now received a staggering 1 million unique visitors to his kleinweder.ch website. With excellent skins like these, it's no wonder that he's popular. While I've been away kl1wdr has been busy desi...
CONNECTIVITY WITH BLUETOOTH® WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY Perfect for the multi-tasker, the latest addition to Motorola’s Bluetooth® portfolio make sure you never miss out.* HS820 – Wireless headset with Bluetooth® (Surf ...
If you're responsible for testing and evaluating new kit for your company, then you may want to have a look at the latest deal from Orange and Microsoft. You can actually try out up to 3 of the excellent Orange SPV C500 handsets per organisation with ...
When I was packing for our trip abroad I threw the M2000 into the suitcase as a "just in case" phone. Whilst on holiday I decided to do the ultimate test - to write the entire review of the Orange SPV M2000 Pocket PC Phone on the Orange …
Whilst checking for news items I came across some interesting news items from MSMobiles.com. At CeBIT this year there were three companies - Pantech, LG and Tatung - suggesting that they had Windows Mobile phones in development. You can see the associ...
Great to see the tiny Audiovox SMT 5600 (AKA the SPV C500 etc) now hitting Canada. Rogers Wireless have now annouced the handset here on their site. The handset costs $299.99 if you don't mind being shackled into a 3 year term, however it is a wicked ...
My good mates at Astraware have announced another one of their highly addicitive games on the Windows Smartphone while I was away. Crazy Daisy (available here) is needs you to spin the flowers so that you match the coloured petals and watch them pop. ...
After the success of the last Orange Code Camp in France last year, Orange are doing it all over again - this time in Florida USA. More details on the event can be found here, where you can also register for the event and learn more about coding …
New Skweezer feature opens up the Internet for cell phonesIRVINE, Calif., March 14, 2005—Greenlight Wireless today announced a new paging feature to Skweezer, which detects devices with memory limitations and then slices Web pages into smaller secti...
This Samsung.com promo is a great way to learn more about the upcoming Samsung SGH-i300. Samsung are suitably proud of this handset and have pulled out all the stops to publicise it. Huge mock ups at CeBIT, fantastic flash movies and .. wooo! Very nic...
Special edition newObjects ActiveX Pack1 family for Microsoft Smartphone 2003 and later has been published. AXPack1 Family consists of about 50 COM components that cover wide area of OS features and supply additional useful features. The family ...
The bags are packed and there's a plane at Gatwick airport with a few seats free so we're off on a 10-day holiday. This time I won't be able to get near an internet cafe and check the site, so I'm going to be leaving you guys until …
Blimey! One moment T-Mobile are announcing the SDA II at CeBIT and then it appears on the T-Mobile Germany website ready to reserve with a June release date. T-Mobile HQ have yet again shown that they're ready to push forward with their very latest ha...
Samsung this week announced their new Windows Mobile phone - the SGH-i300 at CeBIT. This is another very music-centred handset and includes a 3Gb HD and a 1.3 Megapixel camera. You can see lots of pictures here at PPCW.net but now you can also see som...
MSMobiles have news on this press release from T-Mobile about the T-Mobile SDA II and T-Mobile SDA II Music. Things are moving quickly for the Windows Smartphone by the looks of it - the T-Mobile SDA (1?) has only just arrived here in the UK. These ne...
Bluetooth headsets are a must for pretty much everyone now - especially drivers as it's illegal to hold and use and mobile whilst driving. Bluetooth headsets, like the Jabra headset I reviewed a couple of years back are now quite widespread. Russ Cas...
Over in Hannover there's a big gadget show called CeBIT which is one of the worlds largest IT and telecoms trade fairs. Basically it's another chance for us plebs to see what's "coming soon" in the mobile phone world. The show features this Samsung i3...
I've probably missed it previously, but it looks like the silver C500 which was previously only available to people taking out Orange Premier plans, is now available to all - even PayAsYouGo customers! The C500s is identical in every way to the cool b...
MiniMo is a new cut-down version of the Mozilla (Firefox) web-browser for Mobile Devices. It's still in it's very early stages and you can catch updates here at the project site.Some pictures of this new browser have appeared here on the internet runn...
I've just put a first-look review of the T-Mobile SDA online here, which was written by CoolSmartPhone member Ian Moore. As you may know, T-Mobile weren't willing to let me review an SDA handset (and I can't afford to buy another phone!), so I've aske...
The Dopod 585 is coming soon to Taiwan. It comes loaded with the specs (megapixel cam, extra music buttons etc) already seen in our story on the SPV C550 handset here in the UK. The Dopod 585 will run Windows Mobile 2003 OS and follows on in the …
There's been many rumours about the SPV C550 handset we told you about a couple of weeks back. However, it now seems fairly certain that this device will definitely have 262,000 colours on the display. We're getting info that this device is not - repe...
MobileTechReview have had a look at the upcoming Pocket PC phones that'll hopefully be appearing very soon. Running Windows Mobile, these handsets include the Samsung i730, HP Mobile Messenger, MDA IV, ASUS P505 (looks a lot like the P900), Benq P50 a...
CoPilot® Live is basically door-to-door navigation via satellite from the guys at ALK Technologies. From today it'll be available as a bundle with the T-Mobile MDA Compact and SDA! The CoPilot® Live satellite navigation system transforms both the T...
CoolSmartPhone.com is, as you may know, based in the UK. However, I'm keen to include everyone, and so today I'm proud to announce the launch of the CoolSmartPhone USA Shop! Built and maintained by MobilePlanet, this shop includes the popular iMate JA...
Slightly off-topic this, but interesting none-the-less. Today Bill Gates attended Buckingham Palace to receive his honorary knighthood. The title of "Sir" isn't allowed though as he's not a British Citizen, however he will be able to use the letters K...
