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If you're sitting down to do some lunch-time browsing I'd heartily recommend this BBC news story. It covers the recession and how it's affecting mobile phone sales. Whilst many "mid-range" handsets are being hit by the world credit problems, smartphon...
Orange have just announced an exclusive - the Android-powered Motorola DEXT will be on sale today only on their network. The first of the handsets will only be available from the new Milton Keynes store, situated in thecentre:mk. It's a new venture fo...
Right, just to bring you up to speed. The HTC Hero. It's an Android handset with the HTC Sense experience. Last month it had an update to take it from "brilliant" to "super-brilliant". HTC unlocked handsets got their update on September 15th and then ...
I'm not perfect. I'll admit that the phone has distracted me whilst driving in the past. Sometimes a text arrives and you may try to at least see who it's from. Here in the UK it's illegal to physically use the phone, so more people have Bluetooth kit...
A little news snippet for you this morning from Palm. We're hearing that they're laying off staff in the US. We're doing a little more checking into this currently. Apparently it's due to "restructuring" but a number of staff have been dropped. Link -...
Yesterday we were pretty much the first people to reveal that the iPhone was officially coming to Orange. It explains why o2, who have had the exclusive rights on the iPhone here in the UK for two years, are sniffing around the HTC Leo / HD 2 and …
A quick apology. If you tried to get to coolsmartphone.com between 23:00 BST and 03:30 BST or anytime around 14:45 today then it probably would've failed. The news from our data centre is that an emergency router firmware upgrade went a little wrong l...
Listen up coffee lovers. If you're a regular at one of the UK's Starbucks then this will definitely be of interest. You'll no doubt have seen the BT Openzone WiFi access points but perhaps ignored them due to the price. However, there is a way to get ...
Fancy a chance of winning something ? We love giving stuff away and today there's a chance to win CoPilot Live 8. It's worth £73.99 and it'll work on either Android or Windows Mobile. You know the deal - this is an award-winning sat-nav system giving...
Oh what's this over on the Vodafone coming soon pages? Not one, not two, but three hot new phones we've been covering. First is the HTC Tattoo is coming to Voda exclusively in black next month. It's the Android device for the masses and has a 3.2 mega...
American readers will soon be getting the HTC Whitestone in the shape of the "HTC Imagio" on October 6th for Verizon customers. The device, which features Windows Mobile 6.5 running on a 528Mhz CPU and a 5 megapixel auto-focus camera, will be one of t...
As you may know, we started this site some 7 years ago. To begin with we were covering the classic "Smartphones" - those Microsoft-powered non-touch devices like the Orange SPV E200 and so on. We branched out to "Pocket PC's" and, just recently, we've...
Having problems with you Twitter client on Windows Mobile or Android? Well, don't fret - you're not the only one. It appears that quite a few people are getting messages such as "Unknown response from server" or "Communications error" in Twitter clien...
The LG Watch Phone started selling a short while back and queues of people waited to get the first ones from Orange. Every now and then we have a look at cool gadgets, so this techradar.com review lets us know if it's worth buying. The verdict? Well, ...
Are you a T-Mobile customer? Are you going to the USA or Canada soon? Well, watch out. T-Mobile have just increased their roaming charges and, in some cases, it's quite a big increase. Switzerland, for example, has increased from 55p per minute to £1...
Rumours of a possible merger between Orange and T-Mobile have been stirring up since this Guardian story appeared on Sunday. Bids of £3.5bn to buy T-Mobile were received from Vodafone and o2 but rejected. Both bids were low because o2 and Voda would ...
Back in September 2007 we spotted a cool-looking device called the Pantech C810. It was destined for a US launch on AT&T and the device had 3G / HSDPA connectivity, a 2 megapixel cam, GPS, 528Mhz CPU and Windows Mobile 6 as the OS (non-touch). It look...
T-Mobile have announced the launch of their third Android handset in the form of this, the T-Mobile Pulse. It's a device we saw rendered just a week ago and has a 3.2 megapixel auto-focus cam, WiFi, GPS and a big 3.5" HVGA touchscreen whilst still mai...
Starting a new contract is often a confusing affair. Finding the right phone, the right coverage and the right price is sometimes can take time. With more and more business done online we decided to take a look at what happens if you're not happy with...
We've been tracking the launch of the LG Watch Phone for the last few weeks. Today marked the first sales of the device and queues formed outside the Bond Street Orange store this morning as the watch phone arrived. John from Harogate travelled to get...
No, your eyes aren't playing tricks on you, that really is the HTC Hero Android OS running on a HTC Touch Dual. The ageing Dual first appeared a couple of years ago with Windows Mobile on board and, if I'm honest, I still like it. If you've still …
News today that'll no doubt stir-up feelings with WinMo owners comes in the form of OneApp. It's designed to deliver access to apps such as Facebook, Windows Live Messenger, Twitter and others to feature phones. Oh and yes, those feature phones includ...
We've just added two new sections to our forum dedicated to software. Head to WinMo Apps or Android Apps, whatever your flavour, and tell us what software we should be checking out. I've kicked things off in the Android section with some essential sof...
This is the Acer Tempo M900. It runs WinMo 6.1 and it's got Acer's GUI interface (although we'd probably swap that for PointUI Home). It's a little bloated but there's a sliding QWERTY, auto-focus 5 megapixel shooter, 3-way jog-wheel, GPS, microSD car...
Leak time. This is the new Huawei Android handset with a hastily edited T-Mobile logo splatted on top. Known as the "T-Mobile Pulse" it's just popped up on this web shop on pre-order. It (apparently) has FM radio, a 3.2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, 3G...
We've been keeping an eye on the LG Watch Phone for a while now. It's available from selected Orange stores next Thursday but lucky Stephen Fry has already managed to get one (I do envy his life at times). If you've got £500 washing around in your ba...
4WinMobile have published a review of the o2 XDA Venn - the Pantech DUO C810 we spotted a couple of years back in the USA.This is a classic Smartphone with Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard (non-touch) powering the device. Under the hood there's a 528MHz Qu...
Dell recently showed off their own Smartphone, although Dell staff were pointing out that this unit was a "proof of concept". It's true, they are dev eloping devices for China Mobile, but they're not named or pictured as yet. Dell are rumoured to be b...
Right, we've been soaking up the t'interwebs for 7 long years with all the latest Windows Mobile (and now Google Android) news and reviews. Today it's time for one of those "public awareness" messages. We don't do it very often and sure, nobody likes ...
OK, a few changes have been happening here at Coolsmartphone.com of late. Firstly, all news stories now also include details of the category they're filed in - look, this one is in "Website News". See? :) Secondly, we've got some additional newsfeeds ...
The server completed it's move last night and we're now in a brand new data centre with greatly enhanced network connectivity. If you were trying to get here between 0:30 and 1.45 GMT (1:30 - 2.45 BST) this morning then the site wouldn't have shown up...
We've got to announce some scheduled maintenance to the server today. Tonight, at some point between 22:00 BST and 05:00 BST our server will be turned off, unplugged, removed from the server rack and packaged up. The server will then be transported to...
Now, I know I'm pimping the guys at Devicewire.com yet again, but they've loaned us some of the latest phones so we can get them reviewed for you recently. They've got quite a few deals on the latest kit currently, plus if you follow them on Twitter y...
Motorola will soon be releasing their first Android-powered handset. It's called "Morrison" (no, not the shop) and there's now lots of charming drawings appearing on the interwebs. The design, as you can see, is a sliding QWERTY. Other than that the s...
It's safe to say we love our phones. But, following Ofcom research, it's not just us. 862 people were questioned and 41% said they would rather cut out home improvements and holidays than their mobile phone. A massive 47% save rather pay for their mob...
Hello everyone. Welcome back :) Yesterday we had a problem. I'll not go into detail as it's far too dull and technical to desribe. We got a big warning sticker from Google and rightfully so. The addition of a nasty IFRAME by a hacker was my own fault …
At around 6.57 this morning a hack attempt was made on our server. We get a few of these and this one was removed by the system automatically at around 8AM. An IFRAME was added which basically tried to put software down your browser. Unfortunately dur...
Following our announcement yesterday I just wanted to remind everyone about how you can keep updated with all the latest Coolsmartphone news. There's several ways you can do it. First up you can simply browse to Coolsmartphone.com or yo...
Coolsmartphone is 7 years old this year and during our time we've brought you all the latest Windows Mobile gossip, news and reviews. It all started in 2002 when I popped into an Orange shop and upgraded to an SPV Classic. Back then it was just called...
Sheesh. It never rains but it poors. Motorola may have generated a net income of $26 million but they've still made huge losses in their phone division. Shipments have fell by nearly a half - from 28.1 million last year to just 14.8 million this year....
