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Many recent articles appeared to regurgitate old news about the TCL OCO1 Smartphone, as mentioned ealier this week. However, TCL Mobile said that these news items were just plain "wrong." Although the OCO1 Windows-Powered Smartphone is on the way, it ...

The SPV C500 was featured on ZDNet.co.uk about a week ago, but I've only just got around to reading it. Apart from the basic specs, most of the detail is a bit wrong - including this amazing sentence... "The operating system is Windows Mobile 2003 Se...

Over in Tenerife, Paul from MoDaCo.com is busy getting drunk and topping up his tan. However - he's still managed to post about the SPV C500, which will be running at a very slick 200Mhz. The C500 will be on the Orange network next month with any luc...

TCL Corporation have, according to this Inquirer.net article, announced the launch of their first Windows Mobile 2003 Smartphone. Named the OCO1, it will include an integrated camera, a 262,000 colour display and another 4000 sub-display. It'll have 3...

WOah! Before you start washing your phone with soap and water, then treating it to an early night tucked up in bed - the virus seems to only be affecting Symbian Smartphones, and the virus itself is a bit crap too. ZDNet.co.uk have the story, and sta...

Vodaphone have conducted research which shows that eight out of ten British business people are armed with Mobile devices or laptops. In this Register article there's a clear sign that being able to work anywhere is an ever growing necessity for busi...

Orange are now offering the fantastic MPx200 handset on UPGRADE for absolutely nothing. So, if you haven't got a Windows-Powered Smartphone, now is your chance to get one for nothing. Just give Orange a buzz or click here to upgrade for nothing.

Some good and bad reviews around the net today. The i-Mate Smartphone 2 (it's a rebranded E200) is making its long-awaited debut in New Zealand and is met with quite a good review in the New Zealand Herald here, however the Samsung i600 got slated in ...

Finally we have an early "official" announcement from Motorola about the MPx220. MSMobiles has the latest news release from Moto, which can be read here. We haven't seen anything from Moto themselves, but this is apparently direct from a release. It ...

Sierra Wireless Voq Professional Phone™ wins Excellence in Product Innovation Award British Columbia Technology Industries Association gives the 2004 award for superior innovation to the Voq Professional Phone at annual industry gala Vancouver, B.C....

Right, I've had 8 bottles of Grolsch now - it's all going a bit misty. However, I think I'd better mention that Mobile-Review have a review which includes a comparison of the MPx220 and the MPx200. Size-wise it's a tad taller than the MPx200 - but, f...

Ok, so that's not quite right. Neil Enns (Lead Program Manager, Mobile Devices at Microsoft) talks about what makes the Smartphone cool in this MS Channel 9 video.. Bagh - to think I gave him $20 to mention CoolSmartPhone in one of his videos. Damn!!!...

Over at the new mpx200.cjb.net is an interesting 27Mb operating system image and auto-loader for the Motorola MPx200. mpx200.cjb.net quotes it as..... "Removing all signs of AT&T / Orange off of the phone and add features such as a great image viewer...

It looks like this Autumn is going to be filled with Windows Mobile handsets. The MPx100, the C500 and the MPx220, which can now be seen in this review here. There's pictures galore in the MobilMania.cz article, including original computer graphics an...

MoDaCo.com have managed to get their hands on this 11Mb video of the Motorola MPx220 in action. UPDATE - The animation is a rather large Macromedia Flash movie, which should run fine on any browser, however if you're having problems you can download...

MSMobiles.com has picked up a story from PocketPC.ch regarding two new ROM upgrades for the various flavours of HTC Voyager (ala the E200) Mobistar, Belgium are providing an update here and so are Qtek over here. Remember it's sooooooooo not a good i...

It looks more likely that both the SPV C500 and the Motorola MPx220 are to launch in July. These details have just been forwarded to me...  SPV C500Java Midp 2.0GPRS (Class 10)WapInfra RedPolyphonic RingtonesFM RadioMP3 Motorola MPX220GPRS (C...

It's not often - if ever - that I post news about stuff that's not related to the MS Smartphone, but after seeing that Gary at GadgetAddict.com has taken ownership of his OQO, I think it's well worth a mention. What is the OQO ? Well, it's a …

We've mentioned this before after seeing it on MoDaCo.com, however - it may be worth noting that now we've got our grubby mitts on a full-sized picture too, we can see that it's running a Pocket PC version on Windows Mobile. Intentional ? Could just b...

I've just been forwarded this exclusive picture (top) of an actual MPx220 ! Check it out! :) (By the way, it's 12.08pm when I'm writing this boys and girls, I haven't started on the beer yet! It's real!) Below it is another picture, taken from SmartDe...

I'm sure we've all seen those friggin' irritating text messages that pop up on the phone. Y'know the type, "You've got a TCS answer phone message, dial XXXX to collect" - you call it, then there's some woman telling you you've won hundreds of thousand...

Apparently Orange are now beginning to test the Orange Motorola MPx220. Just talked to Orange about an upgrade to my SPV, I talked about an SPV E200 but then asked about the MPx220. They are testing it now ready for a launch. Now, do I want silver or …

In Neil Enns third video for Channel 9, he admits that Microsoft did indeed do most of their research (before entering the mobile phone market) in Japanese and Europe. Why? Well, mainly because these areas are more advanced in mobile technology and if...

I've lost count of the amount of times that this has been forwarded to me recently. It's rubbish, ignore it - for more info click here to visit Symantec.com.If you get any mails like this, please bin them and stop forwarding them!!! :) "ALL MOBILE PHO...

Crazy it might sound, but yes - it appears to be going that way. The US have now approved the "Video Voyeurism Prevention Act", and since passing the Senate last year, it's now also gone through the House Judiciary Committee. It's well on it's way to ...

In amongst the hundreds of irritating "Wandadoo" adverts here at Mobinaute (the one that used to be Smartphony.org) are these piccies of the MPx100 and Sagem myS-7 handsets, shortly to appear on networks. Yes, yes, that's all good. But I do have to s...

More stuff I'm hearing today.. the MPx220 is apparently due in August on UK network o2 and in September on Orange... It looks like Motorola are gonna take the MS Smartphone to a whole new level this Autumn! :)

An interesting story here on a device which records TV programs direct onto an SD card, which can then be slotted into a phone for playback anywhere. Mitsubishi Plastics makes the pyramid-shape recording device, which connects with a TV or VCR. An SD...

Over at SmartPhoneAddOns.com the E200 fully fitted car kit is now in stock and ready to roll, so have a butchers if you don't wanna get caught by the cops! :) Suitable for the SPV E200, Qtek 8080, iMate2 and O2 X-phone, it needs professionally fitting...

  Sierra Wireless Embeds Certicom's movianVPN Client in new Voq Professional Phone™New smart phone to provide business users with secure email capabilities while leveraging existing security infrastructureMISSISSAUGA, Ontario - May 11,...

It seems that MMS just isn't tickling the fancy of us brits. In a recent survey by NOP it appears that 80% of those surveyed want absolutely nothing to do with it. Orange are currently pushing hard with free trials for new products and services - th...

Barely a few days after pouring doubt on reports that the MPx220 is coming soon, it now seems that US-based SmartPhoneThoughts.com affiliate Tek'nToys is taking pre-orders for the MPx100 here and - more amazingly, the MPx220 here I'm confused, because...

We've reported on this before, but it's still good to see that it's on the way! :) Cydex emailed me about this story at Brighthand. It seems that SanDisk is planning on suppying a 256Mb SD complete with Wi-Fi for the Smartphone! The story goes onto s...

News from Mobile Gadget News reaches us today of a release date for the MPx220... apparently it'll be out at the end of this month. Now... I'm confused. Moto haven't announced this handset at all. They came out with the MPx100 and the MPx recently wi...

So, after all the MPx220 rumours, I decided to email Motorola myself and ask about the infamous clamshell handset - still yet to be announced by Moto. Here's what they said..."Thank you for your recent correspondence to Motorola. In reference to your ...

This comes from Ben Ferguson, who says... I received the following today after my enquery about the MPX220 in the USA, thought you may want to see the reply..."Dear Mr. Ferguson,Thank you for contacting Motorola e-mail support. We really appreciate yo...

Another surprising email from the guys at Motorola UK today, following the email sent to MoDaCo.com here earlier. John Naylor picked up this email after asking Moto about the MPx220... I'll let John take up the story himself... :) Having emailed moto...

Today marks the tenth birthday of network operator Orange. Ten years ago today Orange set up the UK's fourth mobile network in competition with BT's Cellnet (now o2), Mercury One-2-One (now T-Mobile) and Vodafone. At the time observers predicted that...

April 26, 2004 (Internet) – today SmartFone.net announced that it intends to change its name to SlashPhone . Since its birth in November of 2003, SmartFone.net has experienced incredible growth, and has attracted a sizable following...

MoDaCo.com has their Spring event today. On show was the MPx, plus the MPx100 and many other MS Smartphones. Unfortunately I couldn't make it as .. well, the sun was out - it was a nice day and I had to enjoy it. At least that was my …