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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...
Right, we know that Christmas is around the corner and money is a bit tight but here's a deal for you. You may have noticed our "Free delivery" offer on the top right of the site. We'd like you to take advantage of it so, as an extra …
I spotted this yesterday but now the whole thing is spreading across the internet like wildfire. It's all about a very worrying bug with Google Android, which was posted here and then posted at xda-developers.com. Now if you, like me, spend any time i...
A while back I had a good old rant about the cost of calling 0800 numbers from a mobile phone. 0800 numbers are free from normal landline phones, but the mobile operators have chosen to add a charge just for handling the call. I was charged £1.18 for...
Following our coverage of the Orange data plans and the eventual changes Orange now seems to have gained 2.9 million users with data revenue now making up 23.1 percent of total revenue. Coverage has now hit 94 percent of the population, with the USB d...
Want a free phone? Do you? Well great news. I've got a Nokia 5.1 in the garage that I've just run over by accident. If you want something newer, head over to omio.com where they're giving away a HTC Touch Pro. To enter the draw you'll need to …
Have you recently defected to the iPhone? Are you interested in everything Apple? If so, give me a shout. A new site is about to launch and writers / editors are needed to promote and expand the new venture. You will need to show a commitment to publi...
We don't just review phones here at coolsmartphone.com. Over the past few weeks we've been trying out the myhome247 Security System. It's an easy-to-setup monitoring and control system for your home or office. You can get it all ready in a few minutes...
If you're lucky enough to be going abroad any time soon then you'll probably want to take your phone with you too. Before you leave you'll probably find an array of travel adaptors to choose from, so having everything ready before you go should ease t...
Last week we published a scan of the HTC Touch HD in the Orange "Work" magazine. We also told you about the 3 month exclusive Orange had on the handset. Now Orange have confirmed everything with a full press release which reveals an early November lau...
OK, listen up dear readers because this news item contains some special stuff you won't see elsewhere. Our good friends at Devicewire have added a few goodies and new services of late. First up is their recycling service. Sure, it's great being green,...
There's an interesting discussion kicking off in the o2 forums about a certain "XDA Flint". The device is definitely on the way, but there's a bit of confusion about what it is. An email from o2 states.. "The XDA Flint will be a take on the HTC Athena...
Our earlier story on the HTC Touch HD has already sparked some interest. It's listed on page 34 of the Orange "Work" magazine and is coming soon. We're now hearing that it'll be on a 3 month exclusivity agreement with the Orange network, however it ma...
Coolsmartphone and the news items you see online daily would be nothing without you lot. Tips, scans, photos, information and press releases keep the wheels churning here, so please let me know if you've got any Windows Mobile news we should be lookin...
It looks like O2 are going to be grading their customers with a new scheme called the "O2 Priority Club". If you've selected an O2 Priority Club Portfolio tariff and have been with the network 5 months then you can join. O2 are also putting you into a...
Remember the days when the Orange SPV seemed to be the only Microsoft phone around ? Well now you can re-live them, thanks to a huge splodge of reconditioned SPV handsets from Orange. The Orange SPV C500 is for sale for £19.99 whilst the C600 is ...
We did a quick competition a few days back to win a 2GB pen drive. It's a credit-card sized unit and they gave these away at the HTC Touch Diamond launch. I asked for some "interesting" photos and we'd choose the best. There were hundreds, and it was …
This is a 2GB HTC Touch Diamond memory card drive. These were given out during the huge HTC Touch Diamond launch and I've actually got one in my wallet. They come in very handy for transferring data around and they're thin enough to slot into your wal...
This story popped up around the web yesterday so we thought we'd take a look too. The video, which you can see below, shows an iPhone which can supposedly dual-boot into Windows Mobile. Norwegian iPhone developer Erik Kristiansen is responsible for th...
Hello new and existing o2 customers. Want the Sony Ericsson X1? Do you? Have a look what's coming soon on o2. Kishan Sthankiya spotted this in the o2 catalogue and sent it into us. If you, like us, have been waiting since the start of February to get …
Just yesterday we ran a story about the o2 XDA Serra popping up in o2 catalogues. It's the o2 flavour of the HTC Touch Pro and both Kishan Sthankiya and Andrew Keith sent in scans so we can all see the evidence. No prices are showing as yet, …
Rumours over at Engadget suggest a new LG phone running Windows Mobile is about to appear on AT&T. It's been a while since we saw an LG packing Windows Mobile, which is strange in a way because the KS20 was a gorgeous handset and I was surprised not …
The Motorola Q 11 has been rumoured for a while now, but Motorola have now gone all official with details appearing on their site. Yes, a Windows Mobile phone from Motorola. It's been years since we saw such a thing here in the UK. The Q11 uses Window...
A great review of the Sony Ericsson X1 is now available on jouwmobiel.com. What? You want more? Well, how about a comparison with the T-Mobile G1 huh? Now you're talking. Both articles include screenshots, up-close shots, videos and, by the looks of ...
Following our earlier X1 story and the launch on Vodafone, it's now started to show up in advertisements next to o2 branding. The o2 forums are already buzzing about the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, with October 13th mentioned as a possible launch date. T...
Addicted to the Johnny X videos ? Waiting for the new Xperia X1 to appear on Vodafone? Well, you might have to wait a little longer. Voda appear to have pushed back the release date to October 17th. This Vodafone post forum a member of staff doesn't ...
Keep everything crossed guys, because I think we're now back to full steam. For those of you who aren't aware, the webmaster, tech guy, coder, reporter and guy doing the server management is.. me. If anything goes wrong, like it did last week, I have ...
Now that the "invisible" iframe causing the virus / badware / spyware problems has gone, I today moved onto removing how it got there in the first place. I've implemented a new security policy into our MySQL / Apache configuration and I'm currently te...
OK, a quick update on how things are going with the site. Google have no pretty much knocked us off the internet. Any search you do in Google that returns a Coolsmartphone page will have a horrible message under it saying, "This site may harm your com...
About 30 minutes ago Firefox blocked our site. If you click on the "Why was our site blocked" you'll find a nice Google page that says there's no problems. I've been asked to go into the Google Webmaster Tools an request a review of the site, however ...
Our friends over at Devicewire currently have some "B-Grade" stuff on sale. Y'know the sort of thing, they've possibly been opened or returned but they're still in excellent condition and you can save some dosh. They've got a few HTC Touch Diamond ha...
Check this out. It's part of my Orange phone bill for last month. I've changed my package and this particular phone doesn't get used a great deal. I pay around £30 per month, but this bill totalled over £55 so I looked deeper into it. Last ...
