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If you're after even faster broadband then it's worth looking at Internet Central. Right now they're offering up to 8Mb/s broadband with a whacking 30Gb data transfer limit per month for just £19.99. That's pretty fantastic when you realise that othe...

I spotted ComVu over at MoDaCo recently. It's a free piece of software that, after you've logged in and created an account, lets you stream live video and audio from your device. Yes - live. You can stream it over whatever connection you have, be it t...

Y'know the Mototorla Q? Well, this isn't it, but you'd be forgiven for thinking it was. Chinese manufacurer TechFaithWireless have been showing this off at CTIA and it's the second clone of a Mototorla handset that we've seen from them following the M...

Orange have announced pricing their new Microsoft Exchange Direct Push e-mail plans, according to this ComputerWeekly story. Data bundles will start at £6.50, giving users 10Mb of email. Medium usage packages will cost £12 per month for 30Mbytes, wi...

Hey look ! It's the Motorola SLVR.. no, wait a minute.. It's actually a handset from TechFaithWireless. "Who?", I hear you cry. Well, these guys are from China and - like HTC - they design and build handsets for branding by networks and companies. Th...

Philip Nowlan has messaged in about a UK based service called TVGenius it's a website you can access on your handset by browsing to www.tvgenius.co.uk/mobile.html then bang in your favourite TV show and it'll remind you when it comes on! Hoho! Just wh...

Doing podcasts can sometimes be a tad annoying. This particular one has been recorded around 5 times. I've either broke into coughing fits, found that the microphone fell out without realising it, or the piggin' battery has gone flat. Tonight though I...

Right, I'm going to confuse myself now. Here in Europe we're now on Daylight Savings Time, so all our clocks have gone forwards. However, in the USA their clocks haven't changed yet - that happens on April 2nd at 2am. So, if I've got this right, New Y...

This news item regarding the "April" release date of the Motorola Q raised a few eyebrows. There were in fact two different web pages at Motorola - one stated, "It's coming in April" and one said, "It's coming soon.. sometime... ish...". Well, the one...

Engadget Mobile have spotted this QUsers post linking to a promo page at Motorola for the much-anticipated Motorola Q handset. Now, this is where it gets a bit weird. There's this Motorola Q page that states it's "shipping soon" and then there's this ...

UPDATE - Since writing this article various CAB files have appeared which will automatically install Windows Live Messenger for you. Download these, copy them to your phone and then RUN the CAB file on your device to install. Try here, here, here or h...

This is the Mago Premium Smartphone. It was designed by the Maslovdesign Studio for Mago Mobile, who appear to have their site redirected to some news-provider for mobile devices. According to sources, this should be out mid-2006 but there's a €3000...

There were rumours, however it's now confirmed - T-Mobile are to launch a new Internet service on April 1st for £7.50 a month as an add-on to the already successful Relax and Flext tariffs. The unlimited web’n’walk means that e-mail, browsing and...

Orange have today announced a new low cost deployment tool to make roll-outs of push-email a whole lot easier and quicker. From April 3rd business customers will not only be able to use the push email solution provided with Windows Mobile® 5.0 for Di...

In an attempt to make this site more orderly, I'll be introducing some more categories to the news and articles section. The first new one is "Fun Time Friday", which is our weekly slice of video goodness. This now has it's very own section within our...

A little tip for those of you who have an Orange SPV C600 and would like to application unlock it. Now, normally you can just go through the Orange Developers site however it's not recognising my IMEI for some reason. I even downloaded their suggested...

Unfortunately with a site of this size it's sometimes a little difficult to continually.. Errmm.. How do they say.. "monetize" it, however I did promise myself that I'd at least test those "flashy banner"-type ads you (used to) see on the side panels ...

If you're ever in the need of a encyclopedia when you're on the move, when not try typing in http://www.3g.co.nz/wiki into your device to get a mobile version of the huge Wikipedia.org site. New Zealand-based company "Instinct" have developed this por...

The guys at NewMobile.com have just published this very interesting story detailing the Windows Mobile handsets shown at industry event CeBIT. They've got lots of very interesting detail which I've not seen elsewhere. The Qtek 8500 was on show, which ...

WiFi ? On a bus? Yes, it's now possible on National Express coaches on the SH010 service from Cambridge and London. Working via a 3G connection, which then feeds into a WiFi access point. The WiFi access is included in the ticket price, so you can gra...

Steve Litchfield has just put his sixth Smartphones Show online. It includes a review of the QTek 8300 music phone and a beginners' guide to using more than one application at once on both Windows Mobile and Symbian handsets. Get the latest episode, p...

Remember the Tatung M1 we covered earlier? It's had FCC approval and was being shown just a month ago at 3GSM. Well it's been binned and they've instead moved the keyboard around a bit and called it the Tatung M1A. It'll get rebranded though as variou...

It's now available to download here! This will bring the push email facilities promised by Microsoft. It's a whacking 34.5Mb download called "c600_mail.exe" from the Orange Business site and brings your handset up to version 11.2.1.5. Orange state... ...

Despite heavily misleading marketing campaigns from certain ISP's saying that "8Meg broadband is now available", it's not and it hasn't been. It will however be possible to get 8Mbit/s broadband from the end of this month providing your pretty close t...

News today from industry analysts Gartner about the state of the mobile industry. Nokia is still the biggest hitter with a growth of 21% - selling 816 million devices. More and more sales in Western Europe and North America, where many sales are repla...

Here in the UK our major telecommunications company is still BT. Soon they will be spending more than £10 billion to roll out 21CN - the 21st Century Network. Yes, you heard right - £10 BILLION. BT make a yearly profit of around £1 billion, so you ...

OOOfff I've been a busy lad. This past few weeks has involved broken laptops, stack loads of DIY, motorway services, hotels plus some damned expensive tyres. Today though I've finally managed to finish off recording Podcast 19 and I even found a few s...

Last week we saw the Tatung M1 at 3GSM. Although it didn't cause waves like the i-Mate Smartflip did we still found it quite interesting that Tutung were entering the market. It's already had FCC approval, so it can be safely sold without melting your...

The DCI Mobile Content Festival is an event examining the effect of mobile devices on everyday life. The Digital Convergence Institute is seeking "mobile content submissions that explore the mobile lifestyle". They're looking for app's and games for t...

The WindowsMobile.com site has received a significant facelift recently and is well worth a visit. There's support, news, handsets, accessories and add-on information plus a whole load more. There's also information about the upgrade to Windows Mobile...

Following our earlier story we can now confirm that the T-Mobile MDA and SDA are available at T-Mobile USA. If you're in the United States just pop along to T-Mobile and say Gears from CoolSmartPhone sent you. Sure, they'll probably say, "Who?", but h...

This video review of the Torq P120 comes from Digital Lifestyle Magazine, plus there's a streaming version here at Slashphone. The Torq P120 is the US re-badge of the Eten M600 and comes with GPRS, Quad-band, Bluetooth, 1.3 Megapixel camera and WiFi c...

Here's the AnexTEK SP310 Windows Mobile handset. Wait a minute.. doesn't that look a lot like a BenQ P50? Why I think it is. The guys at PocketPCItalia spotted this at 3GSM. It's gonna have Windows Mobile 5.0 with push email and has a pretty funky spe...

There's a video of the Motorola Q - which is now officially not the thinnest QWERTY Smartphone on the planet (check this pic of it next to the Samsung i320 - the Q is on the right) - here at YouTube.com. But we want more! Come on Moto, …

There's not much about the the Tatung M1 at the Tatung website, even though it's being shown at 3GSM this week. However, I guess that's not all too surprising as there's little mention of their Portable Media Center devices either.If you're making a p...

This as you may know by now is the Motorola Q. We've heard quite a bit about this, plus it was being shown off at CES at various stands. Today at 3GSM Motorola have announced that there is to be a 3G version of the Motorola Q. This …

If you're lucky enough to own an O2 XDA Atom then you can now keep it in tip-top condition with this FlexiSkin from BoxWave. It available in Coral Pink, Frosted Clear, Future Blue, and Smoke Grey - each one is custom made for the Atom so you needn't …

If you've splashed out on an Orange SPV M5000, o2 XDA Exec, i-mate JASJAR or another variant of the HTC Universal then you're probably a biot upset that you can't get a good protective cover for it. Well, actually you can. Our mates at Boxwave have cr...

UPDATE - If you're in the USA and you like the look of the T-Mobile MDA Vario we reviewed then you'll be glad to know that you can pre-register at T-Mobile.com for news. Also, from today you can actually buy an SDA here at T-Mobile.com. If you're stil...

You may remember that push-email providers Visto launched a law suit against Microsoft and their push-email solution. Now today, just as Microsoft launch their push-email solution, Visto state that they're "Leaping Ahead" with Visto Mobile 5.5. They d...