Category: Android
The FCC have finally approved the Samsung SGH-i750 handset. We saw this last year and it appears to be running Windows Mobile 2003SE for Pocket PC still, however we'd hope it would be updated to Windows Mobile 5.0 if released on a network. FCC approva...
QTek already retail lots of HTC phones including that excellent QTek 8310 - y'know, the one with WiFi. So it's no great surprise to hear that a certain "Qtek clamshell EDGE music phone is here!" Aha! Could that be the HTC Star Trek / iMate Smartflip? ...
I'm not sure if I've mentioned it yet, but we love the look of the HTC Star Trek / i-Mate Smartflip. Seriously - it comes to something when the most bulbous thing on it is the Mini USB port! Oooo that is thin. There's even a second screen …
We like the i-Mate Smartflip. We really, really like the i-Mate Smartflip. No, we love it. We love the i-Mate Smartflip. If this device doesn't get badged up by several major networks I'll eat my hat. So here, for the first time anywhere, is a video o...
Our great friends at NewMobile.com have given us a shout about some excellent photos and videos they've taken of the new Orange SPV M600. These shots were taken on the Orange stand at 3GSM and show the real deal - no computer trickery, no artists impr...
The HTC Hermes looks pretty much like the HTC Wizard however it's gonna have a quicker 300Mhz CPU and will support HSDPA / 3G. It's got WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, a 2.1 Megapixel camera with flash and - if you look carefully on the top left of the unit …
The i-Mate Smartflip / HTC Star Trek is the device that has caused quite a stir recently. Now there's some excellent pictures here at Phonescoop. I like this device, I really do. It's wafer thin - check this shot in particular and it's got a keyboard ...
If you're hungry for yet more shots of the thin Samsung i320 then this Phonescoop article is definitely worth a look. This device came out of the blue and it's yet another Q-competitor that's even thinner than the Motorola model. The link below contai...
Our friends at Orange have sent even more huge pictures of the Orange SPV M600 PDA we mentioned earlier today. Click the "read more" bit below to see them, then click the thumbnails to get bigger pics. Right! I'm off to the pub. See you lot in the …
Here it is kids, the Orange SPV M600 ala the HTC Prophet we mentioned earlier. It's just been announced at 3GSM and it'll run on Windows Mobile 5.0 with push-email. It will be available initially from Orange in the UK, France and the Netherlands and i...
The wacky magician that is Steve Ballmer has just got off stage after doing his Keynote at the 3GSM conference in Barcelona. He mentioned the Microsoft Office Communicator and went on to show the new live TV service from Virgin Mobile and BT Movio. He...
HTC have just announced this phone, called "The Trilogy". It's due to appear on the VIrgin mobile network in th UK at some point. This is a Smartphone running on Windows Mobile 5.0 with push-email technology and all the usual fancy gubbins. However, w...
See? Didn't I tell you we'd be busy at 3GSM ? Here's yet another new handset. This is the Asus P305 3G Smartphone. Yes, this is it - don't be fooled by those other fuzzy shots on the web. The Asus Press Release (which can be read below) …
This is the Samsung SGH-I320, which despite only appearing minutes ago, has already been nick-named the "Q-Killer" and "KoreanBerry" by various websites. It's another slim Windows Mobile device with a full QWERTY keyboard. This one is a tad thinner th...
Damian Gale has been lucky enough to get his hands on a HP iPAQ hw6510. This device is being sold by HP in the UK and Cingular in the US, however we think that Vodafone may pick it up too. Although this one has got Windows Mobile 2003 …
This I guess is the news you've been waiting for, and amongst the Press Release below the following paragraph is definitely worth noting.. "Cingular Wireless, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone today announced free upgrades to the Messaging and Security Fe...
Here comes one of the first announcements from the Windows Mobile camp for 3GSM. This is an announcement between Texas Instruments, who already have quick a few CPU's in Windows Mobile handsets (the TI OMAP850 can be found in the Orange SPV C600 and T...
This, as we all know by now, is the Orange SPV C550. Except... err.. it's not. This is actually the O2 XDA phone, now available in Germany here and loaded with Windows Mobile 5.0, a megapixel camera and bluetooth. This at least is evidence that the Or...
PocketInfo.nl have just emailed about their exclusive first shots of the i-Mate Smartflip, which is said to be based on the HTC Star Trek handset we got a glimpse of last October. According to this PocketInfo story it'll be running Windows Mobile 5.0 ...
Whilst browsing around NewMobile.nl I found this Orange SPV M600 .. now doesn't that look like an HTC Prophet to you? Why I think it is! You may have already seen this as the Dopod 818 Pro / iMate JAMin. Let's see... 2.0 Megapixel camera? Check. WiFi?...
Steve Fossett is currently at the controls of the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer in order to set the record for the longest flight of all time. He's attemting to fly over 700 miles further than any aircraft or balloon has flown. Conchango are the Web Mi...
Our friends at Phonethemes.com have published news of a case study into the development work required to produce WM5.0 applications. This follows last year's presentation of the PhoneThemes PocketPC media player by Bill Gates as he launched Windows Mo...
MoDaCo mentioned this Eye On Call (PhoneSharp) software today so I decided to give it a bash. The software is delivered as a Zip file so you have to copy the contents across to your phone. When you initially run it you'll need to start "Loader.exe" an...
Back when PCs were the same speed as your Windows Mobile phone everyone was "overclocking" their CPU's. For the unaware Wikipedia states that overclocking is.... "Making a computer component run at a higher clock speed than the manufacturer's specific...
Owen from MSMobileNews has emailed in about a rather interesting issue. He's gone into Start-> Settings-> Security-> Certificates-> Root and found that the "GTE CyberTrust Root" one is due to expire in just a couple of weeks time. We're not 100% sure ...
I've added a review of the baby pink T-Mobile MDA Compact II. It's also available in a graphite colour too, so have a read if you're in the market for a tiny Pocket PC. The handset comes with a megapixel camera, Windows Mobile 5.0, 128MB of memory plu...
Spotted here at MSMobiles is something that looks quite familiar. O2 MediaPlus is an application that comes with the XDA Atom and gives us a interesting view of how the Windows Media Center interface style can be used on portable devices. You can see ...
Following their Hogmanay Party Astraware are once again giving away stuff - this time it's up to $10 (£5.61) off games starting on January 30th. Astraware are starting their 'Enhance Your Lifestyle' promotion on January 30th and will be slashing pric...
The guys at VITO Technology have released TaskSwitcher for Windows Mobile Smartphones. TaskSwitcher is already well-known on the Pocket PC and lets you switch easily between running tasks or stop them from a pop-up list. It's so simple to use - you ju...
If you've got Pocket Mini Golf 2 then you'll be pleased to know that there's yet another excellent expansion pack now available. Future City, available here, is now selling for the Pocket PC and Smartphone and comes with... - 18 New Futuristic Holes (...
MSMobileNews have spotted that Woize now has a client available for the Smartphone. Woize is a bit like Skype in that it'll let you make lots of calls for very little money. There's also a version of the software for Pocket PC too (seen here) which le...
o2 Germany have announced the o2 XDA Neo which will appear at Cebit in March. Based on the HTC Prophet (selling as the iMate JAMin & Dopod 818 Pro too) the device has Windows Mobile 5.0, Quad-band GSM/GPRS, 802.11b/g WiFi, 128 Mb of RAM and ROM and a …
The Palm Treo 700w and the Motorola Q have received quite a bit of media attention recently with the Moto Q getting yet more rumours of cancellations. For the Palm Treo it's another fairly bumpy review here at MobileWhack.com. They've come to a simila...
The guys at e-fuze have contacted me about their company. They're an emerging Canadian company in Toronto and strive to produce high-end powerful mobile devices. They're encouraging you guys to sign up to their forum here and tell them what you're aft...
We mentioned that there was an update for the Orange SPV M2000 the other day (here), well Bob Khatker tried it out and said... "I performed the new Rom update on my phone last night, and it does contain Windows Media Player 10. It'll also allow speci...
TrueConnect, which we mentioned here last week has now been fully released and is available to buy for $29.99 (around £17 / €24.85). Currently it's only available for Smartphones, although there is a Pocket PC version in development. Although the p...
It's been announced that the phone-to-web-gallery software Shozu, which we've mentioned previously has been nominated for the Best Mobile Messaging award at the 2006 GSM Association Awards. People have already warmed to Shozu, available here at Shozu...
Good news for you Orange SPV M2000 owners, there appears to be an Orange update available. This should bring you up to version 5.40.1.179 and delivers improved camera support and some other performance tweaks. Most M2000's will be on version 5.31.1.12...
This my friends is the Samsung i300x. It's just like the Samsung i300 that's selling now but with a bit more "oomph". This uprated version has a bigger hard drive - 4 Gb instead of the 3Gb one previously. It's also got a 1.3 megapixel camera and a …
Pocket Controller-Professional v5.05 is now available here. It's the program to use if you want full control over your mobile device. The new version brings ... - Multi-Lingual Keyboard Support : Enter data into your mobile device in any language inc...
