Category: General

Famous Orange Lady

Thanks to "dine909" for sending me a new updated version of the Orange Voicemail lady. She already has Radio airplay over here in the UK every Friday night as part of Radio 1's Essential Selection with DJ Pete Tong and I thought it was about time that...

Sponsor a Rally Car!

There's almost 25,000 registered users on coolsmartphone.com now - this is a major achievement. However, I need you guys to do me a favour if you could. See, my cousin is one of the leading local rally drivers and, along with his co-driver Aid Camp, h...

Convert sites for your phone

If you have difficulty accessing generic internet content not designed specifically for mobile devices, a free help is now available at:   http://www.jennerresearch.comThis service strips down existing internet content to its essential parts...

Cool charge and link

Simplify your handheld experience with miniSync! miniSync is the perfect cradle replacement! Save yourself the hassle of carrying all the bulky cables to support your handheld. miniSync makes it simple and convenient to travel with its dual sync and...

Do you want a Motorola MPx200 ?

Well, even if you can't get one or can't afford one right now, you can at least pretend. :) The lucky buggers who have one of these handsets have kindly sent in the backdrops and sounds that come with the phone. To see and download them, log in …

£1.7bn Text Bill

As the mobile industry grows, so does the "seedier" side. Flirt, Date and chat-text services are growing daily, but this cannot be blamed totally for amazing £1.7BILLION a year which is now spent on text messages. This is a massive increase from Â...

PC Format Mention

NEWSFLASH:COo! We've been mentioned in October's edition of the mighty PC Format magazine. Whilst it appears that they've grafted on several screen-shots from an Ericsson P800 and a Pocket PC onto an SPV screen (oh dear) and mentioned the E100 with a ...

Motorola Fact Sheet

Microsoft Windows Mobile Software for SmartphoneFeaturing the Motorola MPx200 Fact Sheet September 2003   The Motorola MPx200 with Microsoft® Windows Mobile™ software introduces an entirely new mobile phone experience through the integration o...

MS, Motorola, Orange Statement

ORANGE TO LAUNCH NEW MOTOROLA MPx200 WITH MICROSOFT WINDOWS MOBILE SOFTWARE   Motorola MPx200 is latest in the Orange Signature handset range     ·        Orange first to launch a Windows Mobile™-ba...

Motorola MPx200 Announcement

New Motorola MPx200 With Microsoft Windows MobileExtends the Power of the Desktop to the Wireless World Global Launch Increases Productivity for Mobile Professionals and Revenues for Operators; Motorola and Microsoft Align to Deliver Series of Mobile ...

Can you do better?

I've been meaning to try this for a while now but never got around to it. Orange UK users will know that the sexy "Orange Lady" is pretty well known. She appears every Friday on Pete Tongs' Radio 1 show and is far better than Vodaphone / Virgin …

SmartPhoneCinema Takes Off

My old mate Bobby has revamped and totally transformed his devoted.to/spv website to now become SmartPhoneCinema.co.uk. The site now specializes in Music Videos. A selected few others clips are up for grabs, but check the site out now and download som...

Confused? Well, now even more names..

The SPV2 ? You know, the one with the camera in the back ? So it's called the SPV E200 on Orange now.. errr... isn't it ? Well, no. Andy Maxfield has emailed me about his recent visit to the Orange Shop. He says... "I walked in to …

Hold the front page…

Yet more bits of info popping out on the net. The latest juicy titbit involves the SPV2... wait - scrub that.. It's going to be called the "Orange SPV E200"! This makes sense when you think about it, as the E200 is actually the third SPV.. so it …

MiTAC Extras

Data Nation are now selling accessories for the MiTAC Mio 8380 Smartphone. These can be seen simply by clicking on their website. Accessories include a Sync-N-Charge cable and Automobile Charger. Click data-nation.com here or click here to go dire...

Motorola MPx200 on Orange

Oh hello! What's this over at ZDNet? Bugger me, it's a preview of the first Motorola Orange MS Smartphone! Check it out! Apparently we have Smartphone 2002... wait.. yes, that's right - Smartphone 2002 - NOT 2003. That's good though, because it means ...

More bad news for 3G

Another embarrassing and unfortunate problem for 3G network "3". Here in the UK they're struggling to increase their userbase. Although new slimmer handsets are on the way for 3G networks, current subscribers are becoming annoyed at the big chunky han...

Review – MiTAC and Motorola

Whilst we await news of the clamshell Smartphones that are yet to appear fully over here in Europe, Russian website mobile-review.com has a feature which shows the two handsets side-by-side. The Motorola handset looks a tad smaller than the MiTAC and ...

Smartphones V PDAs

"Connected" PDA's will continue to soar above Smartphone devices, claims ABI research. Kenil Vora, from ABI, said that Smartphones will continue to represent only a small portion of the mobile phone market. PDA's will get their boost from innovations...

Orange Announces the launch of the Treo 600

Orange are on a launch frenzie at the moment. Today they're announcing the launch of the Handspring Treo 600, with the new re-branded name of the "Orange Treo 600". The Treo will sit in the Orange Signature device range, to add to the SPV and the...

ONE MILLION

Another BIG number smashed today, as coolsmartphone.com reaches a million unique hits. Berlimey! A big thank-you again for all your support over the past 10 months, it is very much appreciated and I love seeing people getting what they want out of the...

Take the Mio apart!

So, you've bought a brand new Mio. It's sitting there - all polished and new.. it's never been used.. what do you do ?? TAKE IT APART!????? No - of course you don't - not unless you're a bit crazy.. luckily, these people are, and they're taken it …

Last chance to win a Mio!

Don't forget that there's only a few days remaining to fill in the survey over at MoDaCo.com to win yourself a shiny new MiTAC Mio Samrtphone or, if you fancy - $600 in cash! :) Just click here to stand a chance of winning. The survey takes seconds …

IDC reports on Mobile Market

IDC.com has reported a slow quarter for renewals and new subscribers in the mobile sector. Networks have been trying different products, however the industry is now realising that replacements and upgrades are harder to compete in that a new subscribe...

Win an E100!

Yes, you can win yourself a shiny new Orange E100 Smartphone just by filling in this survey at realbusiness.co.uk. Real Business is a leading magazine for growing UK companies. After being launched in early 1997, it has now become one of the most resp...

MS says, "Hello Moto!"

More and more evidence is emerging regarding a possible relationship with manufacturing giants Motorola and Smartphone OS makers, Microsoft. In this reuters.com article Motorolas' phones are being readied for Microsofts Smartphone OS - to then be sold...

Limted edition E100 for sale

A limited edition Orange SPV E100 is for sale made by ORANGE and SPYKER. It looks very nice and appears to come in a neat metal box too. You can buy it for 1499 EURO you get a 256mb card free and a keyboard and some spyker stuff …

More phones to ship

Market research giant IDC reckons that half a billion new handsets will fly out of shops next year, driven by demand for new services such as GPRS, camera and third generation phones. However, 3G will not overtake the current market and will continue...

SPV Camera Extender

pc-mobile.net have got a nice long cable on sale, which means you can extend the length of your sync cable (not very useful) or use your cable away from your phone (a lot more useful!) The Camera Link Cable is only $14.50 (about £9.20) and comes wi...

Nokia wants a billion newbies

Nokia is aiming for a Billion mobile users - and they want TWO billion by 2008! They want to make mobiles cheaper in order to encourage this growth - and are concentrating on "new" markets (where phones don't exist much) such as India, Latin America a...

Dopod on sale with 2003

msmobiles.com reports on the dopod 515, which is now out for sale in Hong Kong. It comes equipped with the Smartphone 2003 OS and a TI OMAP 133MHz (yes, 133Mhz). All this on .. an SPV ? Yes, have a looksie - it's a HTC Canary, the original …

Site changing?

OK, I've had about 4 emails today asking roughly the same question. A few of you have noticed that the massive Smartphony.org is now splitting into a wider interest website, which will cover not only the MS Smartphone platform - but Symbian and Palm O...

France Telecom buys all

France Telecom is set to buy out all minority shareholders of Orange. This may seem like a strange tactic for the debt-riddled company, who currently owes € 49.3bn. However, by getting control of Orange completely, France Telecom also gains access t...

Woo hoooo!!!!!

Another milestone flies past as 20,000 people have now joined the coolsmartphone.com family. Woo hoo! We're bigger than microsoft.com baby!!! :) Well, OK... not quite... :) A big thank-you to everyone who has visited coolsmartphone.com!! You guys make...

We’re Jammin!

Have you stopped in a hotel recently ? Were you annoyed that your mobile phone had no signal ? Well, it may not be your networks' fault. A dodgey Scottish business-man by the name of Ronnie McGuire is selling hi-tech phone jammers - which he's bought...

Pockethub for SPV?

Control your pc and read and send email from your SPV using pockethub. PocketHub lets you remotely access your own PC wherever you are. You can use your existing mobile phone, your PDA or another computer to control and manage all your files, email, a...

Wi-fi on Smartphones?

Wi-Fi in a phone? Sure, we're waiting for Bluetooth still - but how about a bit of wi-fi on your mobile? Why? Imagine - high-bandwidth video streaming, fast email send/receive with large attachments - all while you're at the airport / motorway service...

MoDaCo Summer Event

Smartphone users from all around will be heading for Birmingham this Saturday as MoDaCo.com holds their summer event in association with Orange. The event will be at the Orange Studios in Cannon Street between 2 and 6, and is by pre-registration only....

ARGH!

SoBig.. SoBig SoBig SoBig SoBig SoBig SoBig.... I've got one piece of advice to everyone on the Internet. If you have a PC and plan to use it on the internet, use virus protection. It is essential now. This is my inbox (right) - it is now getting …

Stop the SMS spam!

Vodaphone is about to trial a new project to reduce the number of spam SMS messages that their customers receive. Text spam, especially in the UK, is becoming a huge problem. Now Vodaphone is asking anyone who receives such messages to forward it to ...