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See I reckon you're an 8 or a 9, maybe a 9 and a half in four beers time.. Yes, it's bloody catchy isn't it ? Even the entire lyrics are here! Anyways.. where was I ? Yes yes, oh yay. There's more rumours that the well-hidden Motorola …
Poor old Nokia appear to be having some problems right now. Faced with increasingly tough competition from Samsung and Motorola amongst others. This Silicon.com story quotes analyst Urban Ekelund at Redeye, who says... "It does not look good. It is o...
By gum, the Motorola MPx220, which is similar to the MPx200 but with an integrated camera and bluetooth, has now been featured in a Motorola competition. This is good news, especially when the MPx100 and MPx was announced recently, but the MPx220 was...
If you missed our previous article on MVP's you may wanna check this picture out, which shows most of us Mobile Devices bods at the recent summit. We're pulling some strange pose here. I'm not quite sure why ;) I'm right at the back with my thumb up, …
You guys may have heard me mention the "MVP" thing previously. What is all this "MVP" stuff I hear you ask ? (Maybe) :) Well, it stands for "Most Valuable Professional" and is a yearly award given out by Microsoft to those who've helped the community ...
Yahoo! reports on yet another Nokia exploding today. This comes just a few short months after studies found the some Nokia batteries to be dangerous and 3 other Nokias blew up. Have a read of our earlier stories on this .... Exploding Nokia #1 Explo...
Over at MoDaCo.com there's confirmation via an email from Motorola regarding the production of the Motorola MPx220, which can be seen here. The MPx220 hasn't been mentioned much since it appeared around the web, however we have seen Motorola confirm t...
Yes folks, it's that time again - the quarterly bills for bandwidth and hosting. This time they aren't too bad, but I'm gonna try hard to pull on your heart strings here. ;) ;) CoolSmartPhone.com is .. me, basically. I put the majority of the news an...
You may have heard about this article recently, which stated that smartphones were no good and supported badly.Although the article didn't state which particular smartphones they were on about (Sony Ericsson smartphones? Nokia smartphones? MS Smartpho...
VnuNet.com have reviewed the Orange SPV E200 here and they've given it a well deserved 4 stars. Thanks to the recent update, which improves battery life somewhat, there is very little to complain about. Although the reviewer does make a few mistakes ...
(By the way, this was posted this morning - AHA! It was all a big April Fools Joke) ;) Shocking news this morning. I've just got off the phone with Paul at MoDaCo.com, who has accepted an offer from Nokia to purchase the MoDaCo.com site. Paul has jus...
Sierra Wireless Bundles Handango's On-Device Download Catalog on the New Voq Professional Phone™Catalog offers unique data services and drives revenue for operators from application sales and downloadsSierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIR - ...
Here at coolsmartphone.com we're always on the look out for the latest deals and bargains. That's why we've linked up with the guys at SmartPhoneAddOns.com to give all coolsmartphone.com visitors an instant 10% discount on every product - however, you...
Here at MPx200.org / Mobile Gadget News there's some crackin' pictures of the Motorola MPx100 alongside the MPx200 that's currently on the market. Although the MPx100 in these shots is running Windows Mobile 2003, it does show the Bluetooth symbol an...
Today (well, actually it was yesterday, but I had a few too many beers) marks the launch of the CoolSmartPhone Software Shop! We're working with "ClickGamer" to bring you the hottest Smartphone games, and don't forget to try before you buy ! Grab the...
Congrats once more to my cousin for winning the Approved Car Finance Heart of England Rally Championship. Dave and his co-driver Aid Camp picked up their awards at Hagley Golf Club, Hagley, Worcestershire and you can see pictures here.Their most recen...
It looks like king of the "cheap 'n cheerful" supermarkets - Aldi - is to start selling the Smartphone too. A company called Medion do their IT and entertainment products, which include Bluetooth headsets from a mere £39.99! According to this MSMo...
I've had 1...2...3,4,... well, about 500 emails asking me, "how do I change my case", or "I wanna change my facia, how do I do it?". Up until now it's not been as easy as the Nokia handsets, which seem to have all manner of extra bits on …
The MPx100 and the Sagem are, to be honest, a bit similar in the way they look. The major differences are the inbuilt camera (the Sagem will have a 640x480 pixel camera like the E200 has now, whereas the MPx100 will have a 1.3 megapixel camera) and Bl...
More pictures of the Sagem MyS-7 here at MSMobileNews.com (taken from mobile-review.com). The phone is nice and compact, but has a very large screen that covers the majority of the handset. The earpiece socket is on the top of the headset and Sagem a...
Sierra Wireless and Key Partners to Deliver the Voq Professional Phone™ to Mobile Customers Across EuropeSierra Wireless signs distribution agreements with A & C Systems, Cedros, Daimler, Dangaard, Speeka, and Xacom to offer the Voq Pro...
The MiTAC is a mystery for me - I've never handled one and I haven't seen one on sale here in Europe. However, the 8860 has been shown at CeBIT and the .. rather big handset can be seen here. These phones seem big to me.. I don't …
Wow ! I'm gonna use my bouncey girl picture again.. Have you got an UK Orange SPV E200 ? You have ? Wanna improve battery life? Wanna improve Bluetooth support ? GET THIS NOW! It will update your SPV E200 to ROM version 2.6.1.3 Download the update, a...
We've been running some stories about the short supply in the UK of the excellent Motorola MPx200, which is one of our fave MS Smartphones. Unfortunately I've been very busy recently and missed this email from Orange, who did email me several days ag...
It's handsets galore at CeBIT, and now Samsung have stepped up (credit - MoDaCo.com) with the i250! It's a clamshell, as you can see, with GSM 900/1800/1900 running Windows Mobile 2003 and will come equipped with a 1 mega-pixel Built in Camera with a...
Product Details Featuring Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 2003 software for Smartphones, the myS-7 is a tri-band GSM/GPRS enabled phone which has a VGA camera with digital zoom and MPEG4 video capture and playback capability. Hi-Fi, polyphonic and MP3 ri...
The new Sagem MS Handset has appeared finally, and looks a lot like the MPx100. The guys from infosyncworld.com have pictures of the Sagem MYS-7. It looks quite sexy, and we like. They go onto say... "MYS-7 appears to have good ergonomics going for i...
Here we go. Already we've seen the free SPV unlock software, which unlocks your phone for any network. Whilst we don't agree with doing this (it harms the revenue gained by networks normally used to subsidise handsets), we do have a problem with peopl...
We've already run a major story about the loss of the MPx200 on the Orange network. However, although news about the same thing happening in the States (MSMobiles.com) may be slightly exaggerated, it's still sad to see this phone slipping off the rada...
Don't worry, I haven't gone crazy! It's just that the ROM update for the SPV E200 is NOW available for French users! It boasts IMPROVED battery life, BETTER Bluetooth functionality and IMPROVED sound quality (?) are included as part of the update. Thi...
Well, it was only a matter of time ! Check out NovoMobile.com for information on downloading Smartphone Turbo - which will overclock your Mitac Smartphone. Can it be done on the SPV range or Moto ?
Nav has just emailed me about the launch of www.smartphonetv.com, which is a huge new video site where you can download video clips to your Smartphone. There's tonnes to choose from after registering (which is free at the moment) - from animation, spo...
An interesting news story here at Silicon.com, about a company called Simeda.com who offer services which will allow you to lie about where you are. These services range from playing false background noise (such as a train station, car noise etc when...
A new TLD ? What is it ? Well, you've heard of .com, .net, .org .. well, you might well hear of another soon ! Read on !!! Mobile Industry Leaders Announce an InitiativeTo Create a Mobile Top-Level Domain New Joint Venture to Be Created Upon Applicat...
Remember this story from last week?? Well, it appears that the infamous "sliding down an escalator" video has now been given worldwide recognition at the colossal b3ta.com, which is the biggest PhotoShopping website in the planet. The best bit ? Well,...
:) I'll be honest here and say that I've been driving round in a right s*it heap of a vehicle for a good many years now. This weekend it's all change, and the "tank" (as I lovingly referred to it as), has now been traded in. I've now …
US TV station ABC News has recently reviewed the MPx200. They appear to like it, although they do say "Potential customers may also frown when they find that the U.S. version of the MPx200 lacks the camera found on the European version." Has it ? I ...
Ok, I've been hoping that this was just a blip, but I have to say... where has the Motorola MPx200 gone ? A quick check of the Orange site reveals that there aren't any MPx200's on sale. I'm hearing several reasons for this - software problems, lack o...
Hot on the heels of Motorola and Sagem come TCL Corporation, who announced their new Windows Mobile - the OC1, which begins shipping in the early summer. The handset will come with many features, including a browser - called PicselBrowser which allow...
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