Category: General
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...
Huzaar! Another quick tweak to the site is a special subdomain for those of you viewing CoolSmartPhone on your Smartphone. From now on, you'll need to set your phone to go to .... http://mobile.coolsmartphone.com This will then show the mobile versi...
Despite being put through 2 hours of "Sex and the City" hell on random satellite channels this evening by my darling, I did at least manage to upload the CoolSmartPhoneCast - number 5. This time we have news on the campaign to bring the C500 update to...
Wikipedia.org is a fantastic free on-line encyclopedia which you can access from anywhere. Gone are the days of paying a fortune for editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica, now it's all free and online. But wait - have you tried accessing it on your ...
According to several stories today, kids are spending more than £1bn a year on mobile phones and mobile services. Yes, read it and weep - £1,000,000,000,000 spent on phones and crappy-arse ringtones. Jamster is one of the chief money-grabbers, who a...
It seems that France Telecom, owner of Wanadoo and Orange, is going to change the old "Freeserve" name again. Freeserve, which hit the headlines originally by offering an 0845 dial-up without any additional charges, was bought by France Telecom and th...
This T-Mobile Press Release, which goes on about the new T-Mobile Web’n’Walk service, has a note about a new T-Mobile SDA Smartphone..... "Around September, T-Mobile is due to introduce a fourth web’n’walk device, the new SDA model, which will...
I've just taken delivery of an incredibly quick 2Gb SD card from MobyMemory.com - yes 2Gb!!! I've still got a Hard Drive that big in a PC upstairs!! The SanDisk Ultra II 2GB SD memory card is the largest capacity card currently available in the SD fo...
I'm tweaking and upgrading the blog at the minute. The main reason is that I wasn't happy with the way it was working, so I've made the site to do something it's not designed to do - which is to take blog entries and display them in a …
ORANGE OPENS DEVELOPER CENTRES IN BOSTON AND SAN FRANCISCO Orange announces today that it has extended its Developer Centre network to the US with the opening of new centres in Boston and San Francisco. This follows the developer event – Code Camp -...
Yet again Smartphones have helped people to win awards. This time it's the Microsoft Imagine Cup, which is intended to encourage student creativity. In fact it's the second year that Smartphones have helped win the prize. Last year the guys from Team ...
BT are using Microsoft powered mobile phones for their BT UK Livetime trial. The trial, currently in London, allows users to get access to Sky news services, a music channel and 50 radio stations. BBC News states.. "BT has drawn up its own designs bec...
At last, the fouth CoolSmartPhoneCast with added jingles is now online. You can download this to your phone and listen to whenever you feel. It's the mobile audio version of CoolSmartPhone and you can get the latest installment here. Don't forget that...
Blimey, it's a bit warm. At about quarter to five last night it was still a blistering 30 degrees C here in Merry Ole England. While I was having a nice boozy barbeque last night (along with the rest of the UK by the smell of it), it …
I can't remember the last time I sat down to watch some TV because I had nothing else to do. I always miss the good TV shows or I only catch part of it. So, I decided to find a way to work around this problem without having …
Early this morning CoolSmartPhone was subject to a rather heavy Denial Of Service attack at around 4AM which lasted for 3 hours. The origins of this appear to be an AOL IP address at 172.216.224.73 which hammered our servers with tonnes of requests to...
Cookies! Yeah! They're great! The chocolate-chip ones are my favourite, but alas we're not talking about the lovely cookies you get from the local Morrisons, oh no. We're talking about those web-cookies that store little tit-bits of information, such ...
Oh dear, the Sierra Wireless Voq is dead. The company announced the news today and we could almost see it coming if we're brutally honest. The handset was big and looked a bit like a prop from Star Trek. Aside from the design of it, Sierra Wireless ma...
Crazy Frog is number 1 again, the goverment want to charge us for every mile we drive or something and now apparently there's a recession on. Still, don't worry - you've always got that box in the corner of your room to access CoolSmartPhone.com! :) P...
Apparently the HTC Universal will be out on Orange later this year - late Autumn time probably. The "3G SPV" or C600 will be it's name.Also the M500 shown right should be out for business customers some time soon - possibly at the end of this week.Thi...
I mentioned happy slapping some weeks back and how it had been picked up by the media. Known as "Happy Slapping", it is in fact just bullying at best, or mugging at worst. The Crazy Frog generation appear to have started this (yes, he's at number 1 ag...
There's a lot of hoo-har about the C550 at the moment. Various websites are mentioning release days and shots of the Orange magazine. Although June dates are being mentioned, we're still expecting July 11th to be more realistic, and don't forget that ...
I've been checking out these videos on wmvhd.com and it's pretty damned excellent to see high-definition TV on your PC. If you've got a fairly pokey PC then you NEED to flex your broadband and download some of some of these vids. This is the next big ...
According to Reuters.co.uk, Orange are to launch its high-speed EDGE mobile service for consumers on June 9. This comes neatly after the Orange TV announcement too. EDGE will let people get on t'internet and email - plus access TV / Video on demand t...
I'm always striving to make CoolSmartPhone bigger and better, but I need your help. My immediate plans for this site at present involve a cookie login system, which will allow you to log in without having to type in your damned details each time. Howe...
Following our earlier story here it would appear that TomTom have increased the price of the excellent TomTom5 for the Windows Smartphone. Originally we were informed via their website that it'd cost €249, but now it appears to have gone up to €29...
The latest gossip is that the Orange SPV C550 (pictured) will be launched on Orange on July 11th 2005. Yes, I know.. we said May.. that's what we heard, however, now we're hearing different :) Hey, it's always fun with release dates! :) Oh, and there'...
French Orange SPV C500's were updated on April 19th 2005. Windows Media Player 10 was included, as were a few other fixes such as the "bleeping" noise when you insert a symbol into a text message. Although the update wasn't major, we're left wondering...
MSMobiles have picked up on a TV Show called The Money Programme that was shown on BBC2 Friday. In the show a group of elderly people were given the chance to use Skype and call their friends for free across the planet. The programme found that the AL...
I've just added a couple of reviews today - both very good products and well worth splashing some cash on. The first review is the Flexiskin case from Boxwave. It freaked me out a tad when I first got it, but it's the first phone case I've ever …
At last, the news you've been waiting for, the new TomTom Mobile 5 is now available to buy as a complete package here! You may remember our review of the earlier version, in which we praised this GPS navigation solution. The new version 5 brings us ...
Today marks the launch of Orange TV - the UK’s first TV-on-the-mobile service. It operates on the Orange 3G network and brings news, sport and entertainment programmes onto your phone. 9 channels will be available including ITN News, CNN, Cartoon Ne...
The guys at MobyMemory.com have just emailed in to say that they've gone a bit mad and dropped their prices even lower than normal. Check out the price of a 1Gb miniSD ! It's now only £82.99 ! 1GB mini-SD - £82.99 512MB mini-SD - £35.99 256MB mini...
That annoying thing, commonly known as the crazy frog. That sound was on a website, www.studentfreestuff.co.uk long before som muppet decided it sounded like a crazy frog, and a very lucrative frog too. If anyone is prepared to pay up to
You may remember some months back we mentioned an event at Kingston Uni telling you how to build and deploy applications on Microsoft mobile devices. Well, Keni - who chaired the event - has now followed this up by blogging some blogging some code cal...
Check this out - it's a new Armor Case (that's "Armour" for those speaking proper English) :) :) for the i-Mate JAM! BoxWave's Armor Case is a form-fitting metal case made of aluminium that is designed to protect your i-Mate JAM from everyday wear a...
I've just spotted this news story about British troops from the Royal Dragoon Guards in Iraq. To keep moral high they produced a spoof version of the video for Amarillo, recently re-released by Peter Kay and Tony Christie. They called it, "Is this the...
Well hello - what's this ? Why it's the AudioVox 6600 of course!? Now available from Telus Mobility Canada here. Yes, it's that HTC-build Pocket PC phone again, already seen on Orange as the M2000 (review here) and Vodafone as the VPA III. This handse...
Ian Moore has just emailed me in about this i-mate SP3i USB Cradle. In theory this should work with the T-Mobile SDA and, we think, the Orange SPV C500 too. Here's a picture of the bottom of the iMate SP3i - the handset this cradle was made for... …
We're hearing that the VPA III, also known as the SPV M2000 on Orange, is to appear this week. The VPAIII was mentioned several months ago, but we've not seen it in the UK. It's pretty much identical to the Orange SPV M2000 which we reviewed here, so …
