Category: General
It looks like the rise and rise of text messaging is severely impacting our future generation and their ability to communicate successfully. According to several news items yesterday, including the Daily Mail, this Telegraph article and the BBC, text-...
Oh! Check it out. Vodafone are selling Windows Mobile handsets in their Vodafone Business channel. They're offering the QTEK 2020i, the Qtek 8020 and the VPA Compact for business users right here at VodafoneBusiness.co.uk Source - Keni at Conchango Li...
We like free stuff here at CoolSmartphone.com, so I was very interested when I received a mail about AgentSMS.com. It's a worldwide "web-2-phone" system that lets you send free text messages to people. Yes, free. It pays for itself by adding a teeny-l...
Hello ! Right. I've got a confession to make. A few months ago I went on MoDaCo and said something like.. "What the chuff are all these new links with the underlines on? They've got tool-tips with adverts! It's a disgrace I tells ya! None of this! Pa...
We previously did some stories on the evolution of TV here and here. Well, now it's going to go another stage further with the implementation of IPTV - a new way of pushing TV down your broadband line. Sure, we've already got something like this, but ...
A good day today for Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis. They're bosses of Skype and first burst onto the scene coding Kazaa - the (still widely used) file sharing program which allows people to swap music and more. Although - hey - they're seeking to ...
Just read the story on the new Motorola iTunes phone over at Keni's Blog. Keni has an excellent blog and it's well worth a read, so take a click or two when you've got time. He raises some very good points.. "Why is that Microsoft can release an …
I mentioned yesterday about the new Sky TV widget called the Sky Gnome. It's a fantastic idea, and welcomed, but it's the stepping stone onto something bigger. Wherther you've noticed or not, the way we're watching TV is changing by each passing day. ...
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...
