Author: Leigh Geary

Today marks the tenth birthday of network operator Orange. Ten years ago today Orange set up the UK's fourth mobile network in competition with BT's Cellnet (now o2), Mercury One-2-One (now T-Mobile) and Vodafone. At the time observers predicted that...

April 26, 2004 (Internet) – today SmartFone.net announced that it intends to change its name to SlashPhone . Since its birth in November of 2003, SmartFone.net has experienced incredible growth, and has attracted a sizable following...

  ASTRAWARE GAMES NOW AVAILABLE @ CLICKGAMER   CUBIS Solve the intricate puzzles in this captivating new cube-matching brainteaser !Smartphone $14.95 Pocket PC $19.95 Palm $19.95 BEJEWELED Amazingly simple to...

MoDaCo.com has their Spring event today. On show was the MPx, plus the MPx100 and many other MS Smartphones. Unfortunately I couldn't make it as .. well, the sun was out - it was a nice day and I had to enjoy it. At least that was my …

See I reckon you're an 8 or a 9, maybe a 9 and a half in four beers time.. Yes, it's bloody catchy isn't it ? Even the entire lyrics are here! Anyways.. where was I ? Yes yes, oh yay. There's more rumours that the well-hidden Motorola …

mPack helps make your Smartphone complete. Sure, the built-in software can do Calendar, Contacts, a little task tracking, and basic calculations, but what about all the other great things your Smartphone could do for you? What about taking quick n...

Intellisync launches desktop synchronization for Windows Mobile-based Smartphones Windows Smartphone Compatibility Fuels Intellisync's Objective Of Keeping Mobile Professionals In Sync, Regardless Of Device Or PC Application SAN JOSE, CA (04/21/04) ...

 A great 3D game collection for air combat and flight simulation fans   Amazing ! Save up to $25 with this twin pack!   PPC $14.95 SMARTPHONE $9.95 3D Air Combat Game Pack2 Cool Games for the price of 13D Mini...

With Mobile Crossword you can complete crossword puzzles on your Smartphone anytime, anywhere! Mobile Crossword can read the popular Across Lite puzzles .PUZ format. This means you can literally download thousands of free Across Lite puzzles from the ...

I had a quick email from Travis about www.abidia.com, which offers software allowing your MS Smartphone to bid, watch, and outbid easily and quickly.But why use this when you can go to www.ebay.co.uk on your Smartphone ? Well, the small...

Over at MoDaCo.com there's a large dollop of plugging and promotion in the press release for "Eclipse: First Wave". However, having heard the MoDaCo boys ranting on about it recently - plus having seen them testing versions of "Eclipse: First Wave" - it's well deserved. "Eclipse: First Wave" …

Whilst mooching around on the net last night I found the Codent website, which contains some cool apps for the Windows Mobile 2003 powered handsets. There's an RSS feed (which allows you to grab headlines from around the web) and a slideshow program t...

SmartGV's team is proud to present their new products : - AleaSKin -> automatic skin changer. This application changes your phones skin by a skin on SmartGv's website, one skin by day (more 400 differents skins), many options available, check the h...

Poor old Nokia appear to be having some problems right now. Faced with increasingly tough competition from Samsung and Motorola amongst others. This Silicon.com story quotes analyst Urban Ekelund at Redeye, who says... "It does not look good. It is o...

Our partners over at ClickGamer have a great deal on the excellent Pocket Golf. It's worth checking out - definitely! I've only posted it here on the front page because it's a 48 hour special - so be quick!    Clickgamer is going Cr...

By gum, the Motorola MPx220, which is similar to the MPx200 but with an integrated camera and bluetooth, has now been featured in a Motorola competition. This is good news, especially when the MPx100 and MPx was announced recently, but the MPx220 was...

Geekzone.co.nz have a good review of the iMate 2 Smartphone, which is now available via Vodaphone in New Zealand. This handset is made by HTC - named "Voyager" and badged as the "Orange E200" here in Europe and the iMate 2 in New Zealand. The iMate 2...

If you missed our previous article on MVP's you may wanna check this picture out, which shows most of us Mobile Devices bods at the recent summit. We're pulling some strange pose here. I'm not quite sure why ;) I'm right at the back with my thumb up, …

So there I am, busy laughing at silly pictures on t'internet when suddenly I get an email from a chappie called Matt Milton. He's after beta testers for a new game he's working on called "Mavec". What's it all about ? Well, Matt describes it best on h...

You guys may have heard me mention the "MVP" thing previously. What is all this "MVP" stuff I hear you ask ? (Maybe) :) Well, it stands for "Most Valuable Professional" and is a yearly award given out by Microsoft to those who've helped the community ...

Yahoo! reports on yet another Nokia exploding today. This comes just a few short months after studies found the some Nokia batteries to be dangerous and 3 other Nokias blew up. Have a read of our earlier stories on this .... Exploding Nokia #1 Explo...

Theme Changer was written to change .CAB themes with system screens and can show a summary of the theme. The new version adds the ability to browse for backgrounds, schedule to automatically change the background image. Theme Changer was written to ch...

Over at MoDaCo.com there's confirmation via an email from Motorola regarding the production of the Motorola MPx220, which can be seen here. The MPx220 hasn't been mentioned much since it appeared around the web, however we have seen Motorola confirm t...

This has been mentioned previously, but has (until now) only been a rolling demo. However, provided you have an application unlocked handset, you can now grab the playable beta version! It now features trees and houses within the graphics, plus a "tu...

Over at MoDaCo.com SpaceMonkey has announced the latest version of his SurrealStart software, which allows you to quickly move around the Programs / Start menu simply by using the same method as your Contacts. So - if you want the Settings, you just t...

Yes folks, it's that time again - the quarterly bills for bandwidth and hosting. This time they aren't too bad, but I'm gonna try hard to pull on your heart strings here. ;) ;) CoolSmartPhone.com is .. me, basically. I put the majority of the news an...

You may have heard about this article recently, which stated that smartphones were no good and supported badly.Although the article didn't state which particular smartphones they were on about (Sony Ericsson smartphones? Nokia smartphones? MS Smartpho...

Astraware, one of the major mobile / handheld games developers and retailers around, have got some crackin' deals and software out at the moment. For the first part of this month they're running "April Foolishness" - which means you get many famous ti...

Fruity fun for everyone! Use your fruit shooter to make combinations of 3 or more fruit! Three great ways to play: Fruit Falls - clear the board before the fruit fall down! Harvest Time - see if you can beat your time! Citrus Twist - clear t...

You will need all your wits about you to solve the intricate puzzles in this captivating new cube-matching brainteaser! Beautiful graphics and animation please the eye, while the in-game music delights the ear! Cubis features: One hundred in...

News Update #1 - Our New Look Website Today sees the re-launching our new look website, which is crisper and friendlier. The main difference is that it is now much easier to navigate whether you're looking for Palm OS, Pocket PC, Smart...

VnuNet.com have reviewed the Orange SPV E200 here and they've given it a well deserved 4 stars. Thanks to the recent update, which improves battery life somewhat, there is very little to complain about. Although the reviewer does make a few mistakes ...

(By the way, this was posted this morning - AHA! It was all a big April Fools Joke) ;) Shocking news this morning. I've just got off the phone with Paul at MoDaCo.com, who has accepted an offer from Nokia to purchase the MoDaCo.com site. Paul has jus...

  Sierra Wireless Bundles Handango's On-Device Download Catalog on the New Voq Professional Phone™Catalog offers unique data services and drives revenue for operators from application sales and downloadsSierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIR - ...

Here at coolsmartphone.com we're always on the look out for the latest deals and bargains. That's why we've linked up with the guys at SmartPhoneAddOns.com to give all coolsmartphone.com visitors an instant 10% discount on every product - however, you...

Here at MPx200.org / Mobile Gadget News there's some crackin' pictures of the Motorola MPx100 alongside the MPx200 that's currently on the market. Although the MPx100 in these shots is running Windows Mobile 2003, it does show the Bluetooth symbol an...

Today (well, actually it was yesterday, but I had a few too many beers) marks the launch of the CoolSmartPhone Software Shop! We're working with "ClickGamer" to bring you the hottest Smartphone games, and don't forget to try before you buy ! Grab the...

Looking at the update .. date on the Microsoft ActiveSync download page here, it looks like there's been a new version plonked online. If you're having trouble with ActiveSync, or anything using it, give this new download a try and it may fix your pro...

You may know that the recent E200 update relocks you handset (application lock) - what this does is stop you from loading / installing stuff that's not "signed". To get around this there is now only one way...1) http://www.developers.orange.co.uk/devz...

This shows great promise - it's T9 editor that sits on your PC and allows you to add custom words into the T9 database on your phone.It's still in it's early stages - and to use it you have to go ActiveSync your phone, copy the "\Storage\Application D...