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If you've got yourself a HTC Touch Diamond on Orange then you may still be waiting for the 1.93 update. This update has already been rolled out on some other Diamond variants, but Orange users have had to wait a little longer. The new firmware improve...
Here in Europe we often get spoiled with the hottest new mobile phones arriving first on our side of the pond. In the USA, Sprint has announced that the HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch Pro will be landing on their network from October 19th. Engadget h...
Mention an underground railway here in the UK and most people will talk about The Tube - aka The London Underground. It's the oldest and longest system in the world and serves 268 stations, but sadly lacks air-con or a phone signal pretty much everywh...
OK, the iPhone. It's exclusive to o2 here in the UK, so other networks are trying their best to compete. Orange have setup a dedicated web page which is accessible from the "Mobile Phones and Plans" section of the Orange website. There's a link called...
During the last few days you may have noticed some spam messages appearing in our forums. These usually advertise some mobile phones with a fake UK postal address. Many thanks to everyone who's spotted them and informed me - also to the excellent mods...
Crickey! We're starting to love Vodafone more and more each day. We've already seen that the Omnia is on the way, plus the Touch Pro should be landing any day now. Now there's more good news... First up, the Samsung Omnia is now live on the Vodafone B...
The HTC Touch Diamond is one of our favourite handsets, however you'll no doubt be handling it carefully and polishing it with any bit of material you can lay your hands on. Luckily Boxwave have developed a great armoured case which fits perfectly ont...
The guys at smartphoneTV have just announced a whole new look to their site with added extras. The new website lets you download hundreds of free videos for your mobile. Videos are being added daily and there's lots of great things to choose from. You...
Orange are pushing several packages and phones at the minute. They have the BlackBerry Bold exclusive to the network (the first 3G BlackBerry as far as we're aware) and we've just revealed that the Samsung Omnia i900 is now selling on Orange too. Howe...
Got a HTC Touch Diamond from Vodafone? You have? Good. Envious about those those OS upgrades for handsets bought direct from HTC? Hey, don't worry. Vodafone have released the 1.93 upgrade for their customers right here.Wehay ! Well done Vodafone! Why ...
Jason Langridge has just posted about this SIMable unlocking solution. It's a small chip which fixes to your SIM card which should then let you use your SIM in locked phones. On certain handsets there's a degree of SIM-card-snipping and hole-punching,...
Now, what if we told you that we had some news on the HTC Touch Pro that was announced two months back? You'd be interested right? Now, what if we told you that the news involved a launch on a major UK network ... this month. The Touch …
Our mobile site, which you can find on your phone by browsing to m.coolsmartphone.com, has today been given a facelift. New news and sports links have been added, plus we've highlighted excellent mobile sites such as radiofeeds.co.uk. This site in par...
You've probably heard story after story about the iPhone and the comparisons with the HTC Touch Diamond. For me I was a bit surprised to see the HTC Touch Diamond dummy handsets in shops - complete with "stick on" screens. Anyhow, we were promised a c...
Following our earlier story about Orange binning their unlimited data plans, I decided to call up on Saturday to see if I could increase the amount of data I'm allowed. After several minutes talking to Orange Customer Service people I got transferred ...
We've had a couple of emails about this now, so we're slowly beginning to realise that it isn't some sort of joke. Believe it or not, Orange appear to have put a stop the unlimited data bundles as of yesterday. Unlimited bundles included in the £30 a...
I feel the need... the need.. for.. errr.. storage. Just check this out - a whopping 32Gb SD card over at play.com. Now, this is an SD HC card, so don't go thinking you can stick it in older Windows Mobile phones. It might work on the HTC …
In our earlier story about the o2 XDA Mantle we mentioned that the HTC Touch Diamond may not be arriving on o2 just yet because the iPhone is exclusive to the network. However, we're now hearing that the Diamond will in fact launch on August 12th as t...
I stumbled across an Orange advert for their data dongles in one of Emilys' gossip magazines last night (it blew open - I swear). Quadband, 7.2Mbps speeds with unlimited data. Yes, unlimited-ish. It's actually a "fair usage" cap of 1Gb. According to o...
The HTC Touch Diamond is now back in stock at Orange following a bit of a shortage.. You can now hop off and buy one here in the Orange shop, plus you get the chance to win a trip to New York City ! How many of you …
There's a rather interesting article in the Guardian newspaper today. It's all about the Bluetooth ID sent by your phone. According to the story, several scanners have been hidden in offices, campuses, streets and pubs around Bath. These scanners are ...
A few of you may have been having issues posting into our forum of late - especially new members. Usually I would blame this on my drunken PHP coding, however I'm been fairly sober during the last 6 months. Sorry about the problems, I'm going to blame...
If you read my blog then you'll probably realise that I can be a little nuts at times. Every now and then I like to do some weird things with my Windows Mobile. Last year I filmed a time-lapse video of my journey into work using a free …
Oh, Orange are on fire at the moment! In fact, you should probably sit down for this one. Following the confusing new "unlimited" data tariffs which showed "unlimited for two months" they now appear to be offering a free iPod Touch with phones that ar...
We've been following the all-new Orange data plans since we asked the guy in charge why they were so pants during the launch of the HTC Touch Diamond. The "unlimited" data allowances aren't really unlimited but it's a whole lot better than the 30Mb li...
The new Orange data plans are now online. Dolphin 35 will have 600 minutes of talk time with unlimited texts and unlimited data (up to 500Mb fair usage). Racoon 35 will offer 700 minutes of talk time with 100 texts, unlimited calls to landlines and un...
A few weeks back the guys from Bye Bye Standby emailed in to say, "Hey, check out our Online Controller, it'll let you control your electrical devices using your mobile phone". Well, who are we to say no? There's two parts to this solution - some clev...
Following our earlier story about the imminent arrival of the HTC Touch Diamond on Orange, we've had some interesting news. By now you'll all be aware of our battle with Orange and their data plans. Personal customers, like myself, get just a 30Mb lim...
Last week we spotted this SanDisk 8Gb microSD card for £18.98 delivered. Now there's one even cheaper over at play.com for just £17.99 delivered! If you think 8Gb is just too vast, try the 4Gb one for £9.99, again with free delivery. Don't forget t...
From what we're hearing it sounds like the HTC Touch Diamond has started appearing in network catalogues. It's popped up already in the Orange brochure, but strangely it's appeared in a Vodafone catalogue sporting a price of £230.... handset only. Y...
T-Mobile appears to have announced a new set of charges today. The prices, which will take effect on July 28th, are detailed here. It appears that T-Mobile have chosen to completely ignore an Ofcom ruling which states.. "Ofcom will require mobile and ...
The credit crunch is hitting everyone right now so saving money is a must. As for me, I'm still feeling the pinch after spending £11 to watch that Sex and the City movie (really, how many minutes did they spend writing and filming that eh?) Anyhow, o...
We cover nothing but Windows Mobile news here at Coolsmartphone.com, however there comes a time when you do have to look at the competition. Today, as expected, the 3G iPhone was launched. The new unit gets 480x320 screen, 3G / HSDPA (850/1900/2100Mhz...
This may be a little off topic, but I just wanted to post a message about some of our friends in cyber-space. Sites like PocketPCThoughts, MobilitySite.com and even my favourite comedy site - b3ta.com have been pulled off line following an explosion a...
The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 is another hot handset due to arrive this summer, but we've not heard much about which UK networks will be releasing it... until now. Orange seem to have it listed on their partner pages and, although you have to login to s...
This is the Orange Liveradio. It'll give you the ability to listen to internet radio stations easily and has a "drag and drop" function to let you create favourite stations. Costing £99.99 it'll connect to your WiFi router and update itself on the fl...
As you'll all know by now, I'm currently on Orange. I'm one of the many customers who are paying a rather large amount of cash for data. Today I've been charged nearly £12 for using just 7Mb of data, which seems to come from the "Pay As You …
We've just received the Orange press release for the HTC Touch Diamond. Like the T-Mobile variant, it'll be arriving in July, so it's looking like HTC will be selling these in June - a few weeks before the networks. The Orange branding has been carefu...
Earlier in the week you may have seen our live coverage of the HTC event in London. During the day I posted live pictures, details and bullet-points from my Windows mobile phone. I wanted to cover the day without having stacks of extra equipment, so I...
Data usage is a hot topic at the moment. Most networks have started to get wise to the fact that - if you want to sell a "mobile internet" handset you've got to give users a decent allowance. If you don't, people will simply be too cautious and …
