Author: Leigh Geary

Rumours are swirling about the new Motorola A630 Communicator, which has already been seen out on Idnes.cz and Cellulari.it. The handset, which resembles the Nokia Communicator, is a nice looking device. But the rumours? Well, apparently at the heart...

A few emails this week regarding the MPx200. Apparently people are having problems getting hold of this excellent MS Smartphone. Excuses by shops range from simply having none to "faults". Even the Orange Shop Online doesn't have any. So what's happen...

Speculation is growing that CeBIT in Hannover, Germany, will see a large range of new handsets being announced. Already Motorola have released several new handsets and it's expected that other makers - such as Philips, Panasonic and Sagem - will be ma...

Well, another evening with the laptop! I guess that's what happens when your girlfriend is a stewardess. Still, it gives me time to drink beer and post near-incomprehensible rubbish here. :) I had an idea whilst checking out Peter Kays' latest John Sm...

News about the MS Smartphone has been a bit quiet this week. In fact, you could say that it was about as non-existant as those famous "weapons of mass destruction" (oh, political, political - I promise not to mention the glaring lack of evidence, but ...

I've just had an email from the guys at Astraware - they're a massively successful software house who design games for Palm, Pocket PC, Windows PC and (of course!) the MS Smartphone!! The email sounds like a big opportunity for CoolSmartPhone.com read...

2003 showed a huge growth in the amount of mobile phones sold. Market viewers IDC reckon that 533.4 million handsets were bought last year, which is an increase of 23.3 per cent from 2002. Smartphones, although not necessarily MS-based, had the stron...

  Home | Downloads | Entertainment | Company | Contact | Licensing | Helpdesk 02/03/04   Smart StrippokerGreat news for all Strippoker lovers! Check out Naomi, Roxy, Brian and Secretary Jane, 4 NEW TOP-m...

I haven't changed my phones skin for a bit, mainly because there hasn't been that many new ones around. However - I've recently plonked this new Motorola skin from KleinWeder.ch on. If you're looking for skins, check out places like Smartphony.org and...

MVP's are awarded recognition from Microsoft for "spreading the word" about Microsoft products, plus helping the community. I've been proud to be amongst this gang, and now it's expanding even further. You can see a list of the newbies here at MSMobil...

The Voq MS Smartphone, which was announced some time back in Canada by Sierra, has recently appeared on the FCC website. However, the dodgey 1980's style keyboard (it looked like part of an old getto-blaster) has now been ditched in favour of some cus...

For our German-speaking friends you may be aware of a top MS Smartphone fansite called MobileJoe.de. Well, Joe (the webmaster of MobileJoe) informed me about a week back about his rise to MVP status, and has recently told the world on his forum here (...

Well, I'm back and currently in the middle of downloading several thousand emails. To make things worse, about 99% of them are virused emails - which I presume is this "MyDoom" email virus that I've heard about. In fact, even since my last mail collec...

Well, here in Antigua the sun is blazing and the sea is warm.. but - I have to return sometime! Yes, I'm coming back to a very very snowy England tomorrow morning. :) I'm just gonna have a few more bottles of Carib, then it's time to hit …

exoPongBall is the addictive ball game for the MS Smartphone. A free demo can be downloaded from : www.exosyphen.ro

msmobiles.com reports today on a story from mobile-review.com. There is doubt about the authenticity of this photo, although it's similar to the earlier one we saw. To be brutally honest we don't know. If it looks like this, then great, but it is earl...

Chris Pendlebury has emailed about the Orange Developers site. It's undergone a massive overhaul. Brilliant, good stuff.. But .. where .. where has the Over-The-Air Application Unlock gone ? Well, thanks to jonnybarf at Modaco for finding it again - it can now be found here. Ohh .. …

There's been a lot of talk about the Motorola MPx220. This will be the next handset (hopefully) from Motorola featuring the Windows Mobile / MS Smartphone operating system. After the phenomenal success of the Motorola MPx200, which is completely free ...

Could this be the new handset from ICT Technologies and EurophoneUSA? Well, we're not sure, but it sounds bloody good. Called the SG 4000, Joshua Shainberg (head honcho of ICT Technologies) says, "It shall be perfect for people who want more features ...

ChrisJM has emailed me about SmartPhoneStuff.co.uk, which has just been launched. You'll find news, reviews, downloads and... ermm.. everything you'll find here basically.. wait up ! They're in direct competition with me and I'm plugging them! What am...

Hey all just found the MPx200 plug-in camera on a website in the U.K and it is selling for a mere £61.95! Go here to check it out and other cool stuff : http://www.mobilefun.co.uk Thanks all Segie

Yet another chance to win, this time over at new-boys MSMobileNews.com, they've got a spanking new Motorola MPx200 up for grabs, amongst several other things too! (Like StarBlaster, Outlook Task Manager+, SmartPong, Crazy Bubbles, eWallet, ListPro, Ru...

IA Style have been responsible for some of the best MS Smartphone software on the planet, from IA Caller ID, IA Album, IA File Manager and a whole lot more. They were bought out by MS Smartphone handset manufacturers HTC recently, so they'll still be ...

It's definitely worth keeping an eye on the guys at SmartGV, as they've lots of MS Smartphone software in development and ready to download. For me personally I've been eagerly waiting SmartDesiginer, which will allow you to easily create full skins. ...

Well, it's finally here - http://web.orange.co.uk/assets/sw/backupandrestore.exe - this is the Orange Backup and Restore tool that allows you to safely upgrade to the newest Orange update. The link above was spotted on MSMobileNews.com and will hopef...

In a blatant act of sexism, I've brought back the "sexy" backdrops, which you can use with any homescreen layout. You may remember in the "early days" of the MS Smartphone, many people sent in errrmm.. well, very, very naughty pictures. I put them in...

I had an interesting email the other day. It was only a one line email. It said, "Hi, I just bought Sendo Z100 - one of the ten prototypes in the world, can i use on it qtek programs and games? Thanks." "EH?", says I, "Yes you can …

Ok, so I've just received my Orange MPx200. It's great - sure, it runs MS Smartphone 2002, but it's still great. The first thing I did was to download the Bubbles skin from Kleinweder.ch. I use it on the SPV, I've used it on the E100 too.. all …

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I find myself in a tricky situation here. As you will no doubt have seen on MoDaCo.com and MSMobileNews.com plus several other sites, a new apparently fully working SIM Unlocking utility for the 1.6 OS is available at SmartEase.net (English translatio...

I've been asked by Orange Netherlands to mention again the latest Orange update for SPV and E100 users, as there's still quite a few people who haven't downloaded it. If you're an Orange SPV or Orange SPV E100 user, then be sure to click here now to ...

As you know, rumours are always flinging around. We've already had the "C200", which actually turned out to be the E200 ..... and the MPx100 picture, which probably isn't the MPx100 after all. (It's the Motorola MS230 - you can see it here!) Now we h...

Paul from Smartphone forum MoDaCo.com has been playing around with the various "flavours" of OS for the SPV e200 (aka the QTek 8080 / xPhone). He's found a few very interesting differences. Firstly, when compared to the Orange SPV e200 build, the QTe...

Alexander Dreyer Johnsen from Windowsmobile.no has emailed in to say that Norway has now got the SPV e200 too! In the shape of the QTek 8080 handset, which comes hot on the heels of the QTek 8060 handset. Dangaard Telecom will be launching this hands...

MTekk, an Australian website, reports on a possible OS update for the Samsung i600 Smartphone. They take a snippet from the microsoft.public.smartphone newsgroup. Douglas Genetten writes... "I just spoke to a very well-informed technical manager at t...

The recent update for Orange SPV and Orange SPV E100 handsets meant that a lot of data would be wiped from your phone. Although this was OK, we were all waiting for the backup utility to restore this info. Well, thanks to Patrice at huge French site ...

People often ask me just what Microsoft Smartphone I use on a day-to-day basis. Well, as you know I received an Orange SPV e200 from Orange recently, and all was good. Or at least it was until the joystick started playing up. :( I sent it back to …

HTC, the guys behind the SPV and QTEK handsets, are quoted in in this Digitimes.com article as saying that the Smartphone handset market will triple during 2004. As the first widespread Microsoft Smartphone handset manufacturer, they're definitely wo...

The Mitac Mio 8390 will be available in TW around the end of this month. The offical annoucement said that the Mio 8390 was going to be launched at 8th of Jan. However, they now decide to delay the launching somehow till after Chinese New Year. Mayb...

You may have entered our recent competition to win an Orange SPV E200 handset, or one of four Orange SPV E100 hansets - courtesy of our good friends at Orange. If you didn't win, don't worry - you get another chance! This time, courtesy of the good pe...