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We've seen mobile recycling schemes several times here at coolsmartphone.com. There's now quite a few to choose from with each one offering cash for those unused mobiles, but just how do you find which one offers the most ? Well, in my never-ending qu...
Thanks to the nice people at o2 we've managed to borrow the iPhone for a number of weeks and throw a few tests at it. Day 2 of our video blog shows how various frequent tasks like ringtone changing and looking through your calendar. I'm quickly realis...
We're hearing that the HTC Touch 3G will be out this week on Orange. This sleek phone is already available unlocked from devicewire.com but Orange will be adding UMA fun into the mix. What? UMA? Surely everyone knows what that is, right? Err... Well,...
Well, it's here - the iPhone 3G. In this video I take the iPhone out of the box for the first time. This is the first time I've had chance to play with the iPhone properly and, as you'll see by this first video, I stumble around trying …
Back in 2002 I bought my first ever Windows Mobile phone. Since then, coolsmartphone.com has been covering all aspects of Windows Mobile. We've seen the platform grow and develop with many different form factors to choose from. Now users are spoilt fo...
This evening I tried to check my email on an Orange mobile but.. it didn't work. I figured it was just me and rebooted but no, a data connection couldn't be found. Following a quick check of our forum I found this post which seems to suggest a …
Last week T-Mobile revised their Flext talk-plans. The details are here. They include 08 numbers, voicemail, international calls and texts plus there's unlimited internet that is, as with everything in this country, subject to "fair use". Plans for ex...
Following news of Windows 3.1 appearing on a Nokia N95 we decided to try it ourselves. Unfortunately we didn't have a Nokia to hand (shame) but someone came to our rescue with a Nokia E51. After a bit of faffing around we managed to get it to the …
Just a quickie - Expansys are selling Pay As You Go SIM cards for the "3" network here in the UK. They cost just £9.99 and come with a whopping £30 of credit loaded on. Once you've used the credit you'll be on the Flat 12 tariff and …
The GSM association has sat down and agreed that having several different chargers is a nightmare for the consumer. Mobile phones today generally have many different plugs and adapters to charge mobile phones. The decision means that firms like Nokia,...
Right, the HTC Touch Diamond2. It's like the original Touch Diamond but this time there's an uprated 5 megapixel camera, high-res 3.2 inch 480x800 WVGA screen, zoom bar, longer life battery and external storage in the shape of a microSD card. T-Mobile...
Want to know what to expect from today? Have a look at this Microsoft Teaser video and you'll feel just like you're in Barcelona yourself. While I'm here, today the Omnia HD was announced. It's got full HD (720p) recording and playback, GPS, TV-Out, ...
Remember that LG handset from earlier on? Here's the details - meet the LG Eigen / GM-730. This is an all-new handset with quad-band GSM, EDGE and 3G. At the back you'll find a whacking 5 megapixel camera whilst up-front there's a 240x400 WQVGA screen...
Arne at theunwired.net has been strolling around the Mobile World Congress and has just spotted this handset on the Microsoft stand. It appears to be a new LG handset called "Eigen" and is powered, of course, by Windows Mobile. No further details just...
Next week it's the GSMA Mobile World Congress. From here on in you'll see it called "MWC" for short and you may remember it known as 3GSM World Congress. It's the biggest exhibition for the mobile industry and we're expecting to see some rather major ...
Bye Bye PalmOS, yes it looks like Palm has finally dropped it in favour of webOS. Thankfully it's not just webOS - Windows Mobile still figures strongly in the Palm future and Palm's CEO Ed Colligan stated that the Centro would be the last device to u...
On Monday Google launched their "Google Sync" service for Windows Mobile. It's basically a free contact and calendar sync service pushed over the air for your Windows Mobile. At last, free push-email done simply and easily. Ah... no.. wait. There's no...
As you may know we've been tracking the development of Android and getting it working on Windows Mobile handsets. The HTC Diamond is on display here with the latest build on film. Check it out here or read on to see it in action. Get more info on …
Here in the UK there'll be several confused people after news of SkyBox appeared on the web. No, it's nothing to do with Sky TV or their Sky Box, it's actually a system to sync information between your mobile phone and the web and it's from the people...
Woah, check out this thin Toshiba handset over at trustedreviews.com. Named the TG01 it's a mere 9.9mm thick and there's aGPS, 3g/HSDPA and WiFi on board. The screen is a 800x480 WVGA and a G-sensor which act like an accelerometer but will detect mov...
Shh.. we're hearing on the grapevine that Orange have a new data bundle. It's £5 per month and you get unlimited mobile internet browsing anytime. Want to know more? Well, according to our sources it's available for customers who choose to have this ...
We've covered the launch of Netbooks and Laptops on Orange before but now we're hearing of a wider selection about to arrive on the network. The Eee PC 901 (currently free on the £25p/m 24 month plan with 3GB data per month) is already available, but...
This is the Optoma Pico Pocket Projector. Yes, it costs £249.99 including VAT but you can forget those laptop and projector nightmares - this will plug into your TV-out (like on the Touch Pro) and display your presentations any time, any place. It'll...
The future of mobile phones is always a hard thing to forsee. However, the guys at IA Technolody appear to have their idea. Now, bear with us here because you'll have no dount heard this before, but they claim to have created the worlds most completel...
Yes, we know you've heard it before and there's probably a lot of other sites out there (do tell us if you've seen a good one) but the guys at www.selloldphone.co.uk have pinged us about their service. You know the deal by now, the guys dish out cash …
Today I'm excited to announce the launch of a new venture - iPhoneBANG! This new website is the result of several emails and forum posts from people who have decided to choose the iPhone. People wanted a place like coolsmartphone.com, but for their iP...
After submitting a rather huge document back in 2008 it looks like Apple have now had multi-touch patentented. The document mention Steve Jobs by name and covers the dtection of "one or more finger contacts with the touch screen display, applying one ...
Apologies for the outage yesterday guys. I took the decision to re-format my laptop at home following a rather nasty virus / malware attack. Murphy’s Law dictates that, when I go out for the day and leave my mobile at home and my laptop formatting i...
Windows Mobile is what we're all about here at Coolsmartphone, but we still sometimes look at other OS's and think, "I wouldn't mind having a dabble with that". Here CompuLab have fixed the "grass is greener" thoughts with the "Exeda" - a dual-boot de...
Following our earlier report on the whole "is it or isn't it available" situation, we can now say for definite that the Vario IV is available on T-Mobile. Steve Clark has just ordered his and there's a stack of people at xda-developers.com getting the...
If there's one thing that annoys me it's that moment when you go round a corner and your phone slips off the side of the passenger seat. Why do I do it still? It wedges itself somewhere deep between the door and the seat and then, when you …
Hey, Motorola. Remember them? They used to make Windows Mobile phones. They were quite good too - the MPx200 was a great phone and we kinda miss that Moto magic. This is the Motosurf A3100, a touch-screen device with an omni-directional trackball and ...
Yup, it looks like the all-new T-Mobile (USA) Shadow will be called the.. err.. T-Mobile Shadow. It's already had a firm hands-on at engadgetmobile.com. Now, we've always thought that the new one would be called the Shadow II (which would make sense f...
Right. Enough messing around with site code, back to the business in hand. This week it's CES in Las Vegas (Viva!). The Consumer Entertainment Show should see a few announcements in the wireless arena, and already Pharos have announced this - the Phar...
Right, an update. On New Years Eve our forum collapsed in a heap. Over the years it has been gently moulded and tweaked to fit in with the main content management system on the site. It's taken some time to do this but, when the forum broke I …
Meet the ZTE E810. It's a QWERTY messaging device with some fairly basic specs. GPRS / EDGE, 320x240 pixel screen, 1.3 Megapixel screen, microSD card and it's powered by a 1100 mAh battery. Designed for the GSM 850/1800/1900 network it runs Windows Mo...
Virgin Mobile is to update their mobile data plans and will introduce a 30p unlimited daily browsing tariff. this page gives more details, with a claim that Virgin is 3 times cheaper than other networks. Sure, in the UK when you say "Unlimited" it gen...
Orange have just added three new mobile broadband plans. They include a 30-day tariff with 10GB of usage and two 18 month plans which give 1GB and 10GB usage respectively. These are to be made available immediately and target those using the Orange da...
Something I probably haven't mentioned for a while is the various ways you can keep up-to-date with our news here. You can use our RSS feeds at the top of the site here. Bang them into your Google reader, netvibes or whatever reader you use and it'll ...
We've all seen the endless scare stories of huge phone bills following trips abroad. Whilst roaming call charges were reduced a while back following an intervention by EU parliament, texting and data access is still shockingly expensive. Now EU Telec...
