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Orange are at 3GSM with these video glasses. This pic, via TechDigest shows them in use around Barcelona. Although not that new it is interesting to see a mobile network promoting video to this extent, and we presume Orange intend feeding 3G video int...

Fujitsu Siemens have today announced the Pocket LOOX T Series device at 3GSM. Their Press Release can be read below and you can get the full specs here or a 3D video here. The Pocket LOOX T830 comes with a 240x240 screen, 416 Mhz Intel PXA270 CPU, 128...

Tomorrow (Monday) marks the start of a big mobile phone show in Barcelona. 3GSM is a chance for operators, networks and manufacturers to show off their products and services usually for the first time and it's always the place to look for hot new stuf...

The European Regulators are set to stamp down on mobile roaming charges. The commisioner in charge - Viviane Reding (right) - stated that they have long been concerned with the cost and complexity of international roaming charges and have admitted tha...

NewMobile.nl has always been one of my most checked websites. It contains a mountain of mobile phones, comparisons and photos of all the latest devices. Now it's even better because their English version is online at newmobile.com. If you're ever conf...

One thing that slipped through my net recently was the launch of EDGE in the UK on Orange. This is great news for those of you with EDGE compatible handsets (like the Orange SPV C600) however it still doesn't signal the release of the Orange SPV M3000...

It looks like the Cingular 8125 we mentioned some months back has now launched in the USA. According to MobileMag it's currently... "...only offered to Cingular’s Business 2 Business partners, so for the average consumer, it is still just a bit out ...

Steve Litchfield has just published his fourth Smartphones Show which is available here and features a full video review of the Windows Mobile powered i-Mate SP5. His next show should feature the QTek 8300 music smartphone, so it's well worth keeping ...

I'm a big fan of VoIP however I feel that the existing peer-to-peer clients like Skype don't tell the whole story. Today a company called iC-Talk have announced the launch of their revolutionary business-class telephone solution. This is pure VoIP and...

When you read stories of mobile phone masts being pulled down by concerned local residents it is usually due to the fact that they're fairly big, fairly visible and right next to a school or local houses. Some may question the anger. I myself remember...

Last month there were lots of news stories coming out of telecoms show "CES", however you may have missed one rather surprising announcement. Unbelievable yet true, the DECT standard has only just been approved in the USA. Approved late last year by t...

More bad news for travellers today after this story highlighted the case of Joanne Lancaster. After getting the flu whilst on holiday Joanne decided to check a few film trailers on her Orange phone. Unfortunately, because she was in the French Alps, s...

Tom Baker has been brought in as the new voice of BT's text-messaging system. Now, when you send a text message to any landline in the UK, the recipient will hear the voice of Little Britain speaking back to them. The new system is much clearer and le...

OK so it's Monday and I've had a nightmare choosing winners! We've had Stuey Roscoe sending in pictures of girls, girls and yet more girls. We've had Lee Sainsbury freezing his phone to make a real "CoolSmartPhone", weird car accidents from Jonathan H...

This is the E-Ten G500. It's a Quad-band Windows Mobile 5.0 handset with a GPS SiRF Star III, MiniSD slot and a 400Mhz Samsung CPU. This is the first Pocket PC Phone from E-TEN to have fully integrated GPS capabilities. There's also a 1.3 Megapixel ca...

These two handsets are familiar to us already on many different networks, however we have it on very good authority that Vodafone are ready to release these in the UK. The HTC Universal (aka o2 XDA Exec / SPV M5000 etc) will be called the Vodafone v16...

OK, so it is Sunday and I did tell you guys that I'd have a winner for you yesterday, however I've been completely snowed under with entries. Right now I'm just finishing the upload of the photos that have been sent in and I'll have a winner for …

Here's a lovely shot from a CCTV camera of a gang of youths attacking a homeless man. The gang were all eventually locked up, however they probably would've got away with it if the guy they attacked earlier in the night hadn't have died from his injur...

Don't forget that time is running out if you want to be in with a chance of winning an Orange SPV C550 or a music dock. Here's the entries we have so far - we've had over 125 and they're fantastic!! Some of them just go to show …

Engadget are reporting that the T-Mobile SDA (HTC Tornado) and T-Mobile MDA (Vario - HTC Wizard) will be appearing in the USA early next month. Following our previous story the guys at Engadget say that the humpy SDA will come out on February 13th cos...

Podcast number 18 is now online here. As you know by now I record these whilst driving home from work. I had to do this podcast twice because some muppet decided it'd be a great idea to try and join the M6 at 20mph on the slip-road. When …

Yet more evidence emerged today that "Happy Slapping" will just get you into sertious trouble. How the term "Happy Slapping" came about I'll never actually know. It's like "Joyriding", it's gonna get you banged up for a very long time. Case in point t...

Nearly forgot this one. T-Mobile have announced that the USA will be getting the T-Mobile MDA (the Vario) and the SDA... with a hump (a hump, a hump, a lovely lady lump, check it out) added. If you're in America this is extremely good news. T-Mobile s...

We've received quite a few entries to our mad competition where we're giving away a spanky new music dock. As I said previously I'm going to be adding to the prizes, so what better to go with a music dock than an Orange SPV C550 !?! Yes this …

Today around town we popped into the Orange and o2 shops to look at some possible upgrade handsets for Em. Despite my advice (as if she listens!), handsets like the Samsung D600 and the Motorola PEBL attracted her more than the Windows Mobile handsets...

People are going to think I'm nuts here.. and they'd be right. You may remember that I bought this music dock recently. £20 of my own hard-earned cash was spent getting this over from Hong Kong. I've reviewed it and now I've decided to give it away t...

Boxwave.com have just announced this armoured case for the i-Mate K-JAM / O2 XDA Mini / Orange SPV M3000 / T-Mobile MDA Vario / Qtek 9100. As with the Samsung i730 case, it's form-fitting and designed specifically for your handset. Made of anodized al...

The guys at Smartphonethoughts have just published this review of the Nextel i930 Smartphone by Motorola. It's an iDEN-based flip phone which first appeared way back in 2003 but never really became available until very recently. It's got no bluetooth,...

Sean Murphy @ MobileGadgetNews.com has just posted this... "It is with a heavy heart that I write this post. Tomorrow at around noon Pacific time, MGN will go up on the auction block on Ebay. I have been running this site since October of 2003 and it...

Remember how I said I was ordering a music dock? Well, it's arrived. In fact it arrived yesterday but after the problems this weekend I've only just started playing with it. It took just 10 days to arrive from Hong Kong and works perfectly with the Or...

A quick thank-you to the guys at Spoonydunappa for helping me get CoolSmartPhone.com back online today. We were hit by a double-blow this weekend. Firstly we had several thousand IP's trying to grab a rather large file from our downloads area directly...

Jeez.... Log files.. I hate looking at them. That's all I've been looking at this weekend, mainly because we have been attacked, massively. I've never had a Denial Of Service Attack before and I never want to again. This one, I believe, was a "distrib...

We've added another one of those fantastic Podcasts online today. Download it here or subscribe to the RSS feed. Don't forget that you can get a huge range of RSS feeds here at CoolSmartPhone, and if you don't know what they are just click here and I'...

A new internet TV-show is now available at smartphones-show.com covering all smartphones, not just Windows Mobile ones. It also touches on Windows PC's, video iPods and more. I've had a brief look at the first show, which has the T-Mobile MDA Vario, w...

The amount of news flinging out of CoolSmartPhone is getting quite hefty now and stuff sometimes doesn't stay on the front page long. We've already added the option to see the last 200 news items, plus there's the "News Extra" block on the top right o...

Following our earlier story about the Dualcor handset, the guys at Dualcor have agreed to send us one to review!! Wehay! .. oh... wait.. no.. Apparently I got that a tad wrong. Apparently their email says that they're sending some high quality pictur...

We've already seen some of the booths at CES in Las Vegas. The Microsoft and Motorola stands are looking prety nice, however Geekzone now have some hi quality photos of the device everyone is asking me about - the Motorola Q. Here it sits on a pink di...

This DualCor device has kicked up quite a bit of media interest of late. It's a whole new kind of device which combines Windows XP Tablet Edition and Windows Mobile 5.0 in one device. Equipped with not one but two processors (a 1.5 GHz and 400 MHz one...

I've been waffling on about about this Music Dock quite a bit over the past few days. As I couldn't find it locally I've gone and ordered one to see if it'll fit my C550. If it does, then I want to hear the sound of European and …

If you've got a T-Mobile MDA Vario it may be worth checking out this link, where you can get the latest version of the ROM. There's expected to be another update in March but be sure to check it periodically to keep your Vario up-to-date. Although it'...