Category: Android
Would you believe it ? T-Mobile have finally posted the HTC Hero / G2 Touch ROM upgrade. It's arrived some time after the Orange update and the long delay has upset quite a few T-Mobile customers. The download, available here should at least go some w...
Today being the the launch of 6.5 we're happy to see "the" handset of the moment announced at last. The HTC HD2 will have the latest 6.5 OS and comes with HTC Sense (yes, the software you saw on the Android-powered Hero). It'll be available later this...
We've already had a good poke around with the new WinMo 6.5 and were more than impressed with the My Phone service. Although it's still a little stylus-driven the idea of storing your pictures, contacts, texts and other important phone data online is ...
You may have seen the leaked builds of Windows Mobile 6.5, you may even have installed it, but during our time with the Touch2 we finally got time see the official release. We've detailed our thoughts on the new OS within the review. In short, the han...
Today marks the launch of several handsets with the all-new Windows Mobile 6.5 OS. One of them is the HTC Touch2, which is available unlocked for £284.99. We mnanaged to get one of these a short while back and we now have a full review online, comple...
To mark the launch of Windows Mobile 6.5 a new Windows Phone website is now online. It features the new orange colour scheme, the "Windows Phone" logo and quick links to mobiles, updates and apps. Today though there's growing rumours on the web about ...
See this? It's the Motorola DEXT sitting in the Orange shop, all ready to sell. The QWERTY-sliding Android phone had a 5 megapixel camera, 3.5mm audio jack, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, WiFi 802.11 b/g, aGPS and a load more. If you're looking to get one of th...
Windows Marketplace appeared a day early today. A few lucky AT&T owners have picked up HTC devices with it on board and some of you with cooked ROM's have got it too. But what of us Windows Mobile 6.0 / 6.1 owners? Well, word on the street is …
The HTC Leo is thw Windows Mobile powerhouse that's already caused tremours across the web. It's rumoured to be the first device to support Windows Mobile 7 and it should be landing on o2 very soon. We've seen it in T-Mobile colours too with the name ...
Tomorrow Windows Mobile 6.5 launches officially. However, things have already started slipping out a little early. In the US the HTC Tilt 2 (Touch Pro2) and HTC PURE (Touch Diamond 2 are both now available on AT&T with 6.5 on board. Elsewhere Vodafone...
Just a day before the big launch of Windows Mobile 6.5 and there's yet more bad news for Microsoft. Palm have dropped Windows Mobile, Motorola seem to have done the same and now Acer are to shift focus. Although we've not seen a massive amount of Acer...
The Motorola DEXT should be arriving very soon here in the UK on Orange. If you're interested in this QWERTY-sliding Android phone then definitely check out these photos from mobile-review.com. The review doesn't include much of the software as, alas,...
The HTC Tattoo is already about to arrive unlocked and on Vodafone but look, it's coming Orange too! Standing proud on the coming soon pages the Tattoo is the "HTC Android device for the masses" and will go head-to-head with it's Windows Mobile cousin...
Eagle-eyed Johnny De'Silva has spotted that the Omnia II recently got a public outing whilst collecting Orange email. Although this is speculation Orange did pick up the original Omnia so it wouldn't be a huge surprise, especially as we haven't seen a...
Oh dear. Things have got even more ugly in the T-Mobile forums since we reported on the Hero / G2 Touch update this morning. T-Mobile G2 Touch customers are getting even more angry about the situation now and T-Mobile have been forced to apologise but...
Well, slap me with a fish. Just a few minutes after posting the painfully short LG GM750 video I get an email from top man Johnny De'Silva saying, "There's stacks more". LG themselves have uploaded all these. There's demos showing the weather theme, m...
Just yesterday we broke the news that the power-house known as the HTC HD2 was about to land on T-Mobile. Not only that, but the Touch2 is coming too. Great news all round.Today we've had another anonymous tip, this time with a picture attached showin...
The HTC Hero. It's great, but recently an update appeared to make it even greater (I'm declaring that a word). It's been available for generic Hero devices since September 15th and for Orange customers since September 20th. But what of those T-Mobile ...
The LG GM750 marks the beginning of the "LG WinMo Assault" and it should be available any day now from Vodafone. There's a 5 megapixel camera, GPS, WiFi and a 3" touch screen. You can see it in action in this all too brief video from FoneHomeUK. There...
Gadget of the year? According to Stuff Magazine it's the HTC Hero. We reviewed this phone some months back and made the dangerous claim that it was "a true iPhone contender". Let's admit it, it is. Stuff states.. "No smartphone floored us in the way ...
The Android-powered Pulse is now showing on the T-Mobile website. It's free on the £20 per month package (although that's a 24-month contract).The device is made by Huawei and has a 3.2 megapixel cam, 480x320 3.5" screen and T-Mobile are thowing in a...
Yes, another post about the HTC HD2. It used to be called the HTC Leo but - whatever you want to call it - the device is really stirring interest. HTC have thrown everything at it - a 1Ghz CPU, 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus and flash, a …
OK, we've been following the "on again, off again" HTC Peep problems for some time now. If you've got the new HTC Hero then you'll probably have switched to another Twitter app by now but, according to HTC and our own tests it appears that yes, finall...
Well, it used to be the Scholes, now it's the Tao. Blurry pictures of Motorola's new Android phone have appeared on the web in all their blurry glory. The screen appears to take up most of the device, which is due to arrive later this month. The Tao …
It's fairly safe to say that o2 are probably a little upset to lose the iPhone exclusive. They're now looking around for powerful handsets to bulk up their range and they already have the exclusive on the Pre. Today there's the concrete proof that the...
We've not really seen much of the Omnia Pro B7610 since it got announced some months back but, if this YouTube video is right, it's had a certain amount of magic fairy dust thrown over it. The official Samsung video, shown here, shows a different des...
Monkey Boy Moon Head (yes, really) has spotted the Samsung Omnia Lite over on Carphone Warehouse as coming soon. It's showing on an Orange tariff but we're still not entirely sure which network which actually be carrying this in their range. The Omni...
We've got the HTC Touch2 right here and you may have already seen the unboxing video. We'll have the review online next Tuesday - it's a Windows Mobile 6.5 device with WiFi, GPS, 3.2 megapixel camera and a 3.5mm audio jack. If you're interested in on...
SPB Mobile Shell has always been good but now the very latest version brings enhanced personalization and customization. Widgets are now included which support Facebook and Twitter plus there's new enhanced Internet searching. Available from today you...
A few days back we launched a competition to win CoPilot Live 8. The sat-nav software comes courtesy of our friends at devicewire.com, where you can buy it for £73.99. We had hundreds of entries and our randomizer has picked out Bizhan Shokouhi as th...
Two ROM updates have just appeared on the HTC support site for the HTC Touch Pro2. An update is available for the Vodafone and Orange versions to bring your device up to the latest version. There's no real detail on what is improved here, but if you w...
Seriously, how much are we probably going to love the HTC Leo when it arrives ? The benchmarks are now available at it shows the 1Ghz CPU leaving skid marks all over the shop. The stats show a 300% speed boost over the existing Touch HD on 3D …
Linux users may already be well aware of the old "what's open source and what's not" argument. Certain flavours of Linux will appear without certain parts you'd expect because they're not legally allowed to be distributed that way. Sure, you can downl...
We've added a video showing the Touch2 being unboxed. It's a preview unit, but we've got WinMo 6.5 and TouchFLO on board and it's looking all ready for the October 6th launch. We take a look around the handset, contents of the box and the all-new Wind...
The Boy Genius has managed to get his hands on the Motorola CLIQ - soon to be coming to our shores as the Motorola DEXT. It's an Android-powered device with a 4-row sliding QWERTY and 5-way directional pad. The CLIQ has a 3.1" capacitive display, 5 me...
We reported a week back that i-mate had closed up shop and CEO Jim Morrison had left the country. Then, just recently, Jim popped up to state that "fraud" had caused the company to suspend operations for a while. Now, though, it's emerged that the ope...
We doubted it. We couldn't understand why o2 would want to pick up a potential competitor to the iPhone, especially when they have the exclusive on it. Following the earlier story the guys at engadget have had a picture showing promo material with the...
Shh.. Keep this on the down-low. pocketnow.com have just got some more bits of information regarding the HTC Leo / HTC HD2. Yes, it will be called the HD2 and yes, it does have a 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash. The BIG 4.3" WVGA capacitive scr...
Look what just arrived - the HTC Touch2. It comes equipped with Windows Mobile 6.5 and has a 3.2 megapixel camera, 2.8" QVGA screen, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, GPS, 3.5mm audio jack and microSD expansion. A review will be online in a few days and we'll have...
Android users may well have heard about the CyanogenMod. It's an optimized and tweaked build of Android based on bits of Donut and some excellent contributions from xda-developers.com. Now, whilst ROM cooking and tweaking has been going on for years w...
