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See this ? It's called a Sky Gnome. It's gonna be available soon and won't bump up the cost of your Sky TV. It runs on batteries and connects via wi-fi to your Sky box. It'll let you listen to the wide variety of radio stations available on …
A couple of interesting devices have appeared here at eten.ch. The Eten M500 runs on Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 SE and has a camera with flash. However, there's also an upcoming Eten M600 which is due to go on sale any day now (right) running Windo...
A couple of weird stories I've picked up on today which I can't make sense of. Firstly, Liam Billington told me about this rather strange Inquirer article, which talks about ... "(Orange) will release a version of its SPV C550 smartphone featuring Wi...
According to this Smartphonethoughts.com story, the Motorola Q could well be appearing on Verizon Wireless in Q1 2006. The news comes from a conference and a Motorola rep ... "Everything that I've read about the Moto Q has talked about a GSM device....
Whilst looking for more information on the o2 X-Phone II I found the seeo2.com website, which has a plethora of handsets - all made by HTC (oh how I wish I'd bought some shares in THAT company a few years ago!). The handsets sell mostly in the Asia-Pa...
Neil Deadman has emailed in to say... "I went into my local O2 shop the other day, and picked up a brochure. To my amazement, there was a listing for the O2 Xphone II with contract for free!!" "I've heard no mention of this on any site!" It's …
According to this Infosyncworld.com story, the T-Mobile Pro will appear on September 1st... in Germany at least. No word as yet on the rest of Europe, however we are hearing very positive signals that there won't be much of a wait. The race is still o...
Hello, what's this then? Well, it's the MiTAC Mio A701. A GPS-enabled (yes, we said GPS enabled) Windows Mobile phone. This Register article has the full info, which show the phone as having an Intel 520Mhz X-Scale PXA 270 processor, 192Mb of memory a...
Orange have now placed the SPV C550 into their available handsets on the Pay As You Go scheme here. You can now pick it up for a fairly respectable £149.99, then add credit as and when you need it. A lot of people have been asking me when …
I've just been checking out your photos that have been sent in. It's easy to take part. Every time you see something interesting, just take a snap of it on your phone, then attach it to an email either by copying to your PC or direct with Email …
I've added podcast number 11 on tonight. Yes, that's right - just a few short hours after number 10! Number 11 is basically a "question and answer" session, responding to all the voicemails you've left me on Skype. To be honest a lot of the messages w...
I've added Podcast number 10 here this weekend and will shortly be adding number 11, which will be a special one responding to your Skype calls (yes, at last!) I've also tweaked the RSS feed for the Podcast so that it's now fully compatible with iTune...
There's some spectacular offers in our software shop right now. Take this Chainpus Gamepad, not only do you get completely free shipping, but you also get two free games to play with !!! Yes, Sky Force and Flux Challenge are chucked in completely free...
If you're a mobile developer, publisher, manufacturer, provider or programmer then you'll be interested to know that network operator Orange, who brought us the first Windows Mobile phone along with Microsoft, are staging another Code Camp in October....
We've seen the T-Mobile SDA II way back in March however, following the Qtek announcement we now have the very similar looking T-Mobile SDA II now showing in the business section of T-Mobile Germany. Source - TheUnwired.net
Another lovely Podcast is now available for your audio tastebuds here. Check the frigger out now, or use the new "PodCast Preview" wotsit at the bottom of every excellent CoolSmartPhone page. I'll have my own radio show by the end of the year, I can s...
The ultra-thin Smartphone from Motorola has already been featured by CoolSmartPhone, however today there's some close-up shots here where you can see the operating system running. The shots are on bengalboy.com which is a rather.. ermm.. "interesting"...
Agh! Right. Finally, after thinking I'd fixed it yesterday, I've actually got the XML / RSS feed working... with pictures... hurray! Details on what exactly all this RSS / XML mularky is can be found here. It's jolly good y'know. Picture right robbed ...
Another little addition to the site today. unfortunately it's at the bottom of the site (I'm working on something that'll fit elsewhere), but it'll let you quickly listen to one of my PodCasts easily and quickly. Just scroll down now and choose the Po...
I've fiddled around with the PHP code today and now hopefully, if I've done it right, the XML icons at the top should now feed you the appropriate content WITH pictures. Several people requested this, and I kept putting it off (as is my usual style), ...
Following my blog post the other day, in which I mentioned how bizarre it seemed to take photos on camera-phones in the middle of emergencies, things have just gone one step further. New site Scoopt.co.uk encourages you to log in and sell your news-wo...
Just last week we ran a story about the cool new swivel-screen clamshell Pantech PH-S8000T handset. We run these stories, but sometimes the phone doesn't make its' way across to Europe or America. However, according to Phonescoop.com this could very w...
HTC Voyager, HTC Magician, SPV, QTek 8020, C500, C550, M500, JAM, i-mate, SDA, XDA, T-Mobile AGGHHH!!! Too many names!! So how do we cut through all this ? Well, WindowsMobile.no have published a neat little table which will help you sort out what's ...
Following on from yesterdays story showing comparison photos taken with the C500 and C550, well - now we've had even more sent in by Antal van Wijk at NewMobile.nl. He says .. "The camera quality is amazingly good as long as you play with the light en...
Yes yes, I know - CoolSmartPhone.com has been offline a bit this afternoon (July 27th - 13.00-17.00 BST). It was all due to very hungry rabbits chewing through some cables and disrupting the backhaul hardrive CPU floating bit memory wobble-board unit....
Oohh.... Look what I got.. Some specs from a T-Mobile PDF that fell into my inbox. It's labelled in the sheet as "T-Mobile MDA Universal" and there's news that this handset will be out in the September / October time frame..Feature List: &n...
Remember our earlier story about Pantech announcing their innovative Swivel design Smartphone? It's the PH-S8000T, or the 'Quritel PH-S8000T’. It comes with an Intel CPU, Windows Mobile 2003SE and a 1.3 MegaPixel Camera. The 180 degree swivel design...
Yes, it looks like the rumours were true - a cousin to the Motorola RAZR is on the way and yes, it is powered by Windows Mobile 5.0. The Motorola Q is the "thinnest, lightest and coolest QWERTY on the planet" and is yet more fantastic news for …
SmartPhoneFrance.com have news that the Motorola MPx220 has appeared on the Orange France website here. Check out this machine translation here or read the full article here.
I really must start reading my emails more often because Antal van Wijk from NewMobile.nl gave me a snippet of info about this Silicon-i i800 handset last Wednesday! This tri-band phone comes with a 1.3 Mega pixel camera, MiniSD card slot, 176x220 pix...
My new PodCast is now online for you to download. It's probably one of the strangest ones I've done to be honest, because I was only going to test something and ended up talking about all sorts. Check it out online here. There's a whole range of stuff...
A little off-topic, but worth mentioning this. The Microsoft code-named "Windows Longhorn", which is the next generation of Windows on your PC - has been given a name today. It'll be called "Windows Vista" and will start appearing as a Beta in a few d...
I'm always trying to add bits and bobs to the site that I hope are useful. Todays' tweak allows you to view the last 200 news items that have been published right here on CoolSmartPhone. Hopefully this item will help you find "that news item I saw las...
Way back in the day I used to have a Nokia (yes, I know - I was young and inexperienced, I only have myself to blame) which was absolute pap in comparison to the C500 I have today. However, it did used to be able to turn itself …
I see that the BBC are doing a Podcasting trial featuring some of their own radio shows. Very promising. This comes on the back of news that BBC Radio 1 is being picked up and re-broadcast the following day on the US Sirius service. Looks like Podcast...
Pantech have launched their PH-S8000T handset in Korea today. Running an Intel Bulverde 400Mhz the handset, which has an innovative tilt and twist screen, comes with a mega-pixel camera and Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition. Sung-Kyu Lee, President...
An interesting news item here which quotes research done in Australia showing that hands-free kits don't reduce the risk of having a crash. In fact, they're still four times more likely to have a prang even with a hands-free kit! Researchers questionn...
Ok, so you know by now that Windows Mobile Phones and Pocket PC's are known as lots of different names around the world. Usually, a company called HTC in Taiwan make them, then they get badged by various networks and providers and sold on. Well, meet ...
The long, long awaited update for the Orange SPV C500 is now available to download here which adds Windows Media Player 10, MP3 ringtones, ringtones from your SD card plus compatibility with the THB car kit. Grab the direct download here - don't forge...
Initially only available in Germany, the teeny-weeny HTC Magician is about to make an appearance in the UK as the Vodafone VPA Compact about September time. Orange are launching their variant of this - the M500 - any day now, so it looks like Vodafone...
