Category: Hardware Reviews
Windows Mobile 6.5 is getting a bit long in the tooth now but write it off at your peril. The HTC HD2 is simply amazing thanks to the HTC Sense interface and there's still a big community out there. The HD2, which we reviewed here, has the 1Ghz …
Back in October 2006 we had a look at the Omni Beanbag Chair. It arrived flat-packed from the USA and we added our own beans. It was a weird thing for us to review, but we figured a lot of our time was spent sat down, so why …
The HTC HD2 official car kit is here. It's from HTC themselves and sold here by easydevices.co.uk. First up, I will mention the drawing on the box. I think it's supposed to show you that the car kit can mount on the dash or the windscreen, but they've …
Battery life. It's always a massive talking-point when you mention mobile phones. Come on, let's admit it, if we all had crappy old Nokia's with monochrome screens they'd last weeks without charging. Sure they would, but who wants to go back to a pho...
The Laybag is a tiny bean bag for your phone to rest on. It comes with a small "lip" to stop your phone slipping down and is useful as a temporary phone holder or a way to hold your phone at a viewable angle. It's ideal for watching …
The X10 reviewed here is exclusive to Orange in white. The X10 is an Android powered handset and there'll be more from the X10 family in the shape of the Mini and Mini Pro. This, however, is the big daddy and has specs a-plenty. It's a quad-band GSM...
The HD HD2. This phone has a lot of weight on it's shoulders. In recent years and months Windows Mobile has been badly knocked by the iPhone and Android. Both of these platforms have made serious inroads and many Windows Mobile customers have moved a...
Above is the cradle itself - it's from easydevices.co.uk. It's made in China and, although probably not "official HTC merchandise" looks the business. In the box you get a UK mains charger with a small round plug at the other end, a small manual and...
The Motorola Dext is currently available from Orange. It's the first ever QWERTY Android handset to cross our desk and initial impressions are good. It seems well build, although the sliding mechanism is perhaps less snappy than the sliding QWERTY HT...
The Legend is similar in both size and shape to the HTC Hero but this times there's an "alloy unibody" making it very solid with a slide-in battery. The "chin" is still there but, instead of the trackball, there's now an "optical trackpad" on the chi...
The Snap is the return of the non-touchscreen QWERTY messaging phone. HTC last dipped it's foot into this marketplace with the HTC Excalibur and it's still a handset that's being used on BT with their Office Anywhere solution. The Snap brings WinMo ...
GPS and a circular navigation wheel has been a popular combination with the o2 XDA Orbit 2 paving the way with on-board GPS navigation software, wireless capability and 3 megapixel cameras. On the face of it the Guide seems to offer a similar setup ...
So, the Toshiba TG01. This has been eagerly awaited by many. Toshiba have at last released a Windows Mobile phone and, after glancing at the specifications, they've come up with one hugely powerful device. For a start there's that capacious screen - ...
I feel dirty in a way, and I'll tell you why. This is and always has been a Windows Mobile site. To be given a HTC Hero to play with for a couple of weeks? No.. we don't want it. Why? Because it's powered by Google Android - …
The Touch2 is one of the very latest Windows Mobile 6.5 devices. Scheduled to launch on October 6th this has a 528Mhz Qualcomm processor, 512MB ROM and 256MB RAM. The screen is a 2.8" TFT-LCD with QVGA resolution, which isn't quite as high as the hig...
The o2 XDA Venn actually appeared a couple of years ago in the USA as the Pantech Duo. It's an interesting idea - there's no touch screen but there are two keyboards - a sliding QWERTY out the side and a numeric keypad down the bottom. Specs Desp...
When HTC first asked me if I'd like a Tattoo I was a little confused. "Well, not really, I mean on women it can be kinda sexy but...", "No", they said, "The HTC Tattoo phone. Y'know, the new Android handset for the masses?" An interesting name it h...
The o2 Joggler is selling now on o2 and you can get it free with some upgrades. You may have seen TV advertisements for it, which look a bit like this.. The ads tell you how it'll replace your fridge door as a way to remind you of …
Over the years I've worked on this site there's been a lot of changes. Smartphones were once quite prolific, and when I say "Smartphone" I mean those Windows phones WITHOUT a touch screen. The Palm 500 is such a phone and, for someone who is now prob...
Here's our special report on the HTC Touch Diamond. We managed to get a demo unit for over a week and, in addition to the report below, we filmed a daily video diary of it in action. However, since writing the report below and filming these vids, we'...
If there's one thing we "do" it's Windows Mobile phone reviews. Every now and then though we love to review other cool stuff. One such product is Bye Bye Standby. It comes in two parts, although the first part will work on its own. Put simply ...
Hang on, we've been here before haven't we ? Yep, the iMate Ultimate 6150 and 8150 were designed with a similar idea. Keep the handsets looking the same but twiddle with the specs. On the right we have the grey unit, aka the GSmart MS800. This has 3...
Specs CPU - Qualcomm® MSM7201A™ 528 MHz OS - Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional Memory - 288Mb RAM / 512Mb ROM Dimensions - 102 mm (L) X 51 mm (W) X 18.05 mm (T) Weight -165 g (with battery) Display - 2.8-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen ...
The HTC S740 is a rare beast in the Windows Mobile world. Remember when phones were phone-shaped? A numeric keyboard up front, a screen you can't touch to activate stuff? Ahh.. Those were the days. The last time we reviewed a HTC "Smartphone" was ...
A while back the guys at MyHome247 sent me a box to review. Inside you'll find a starter kit which uses a combination of wireless technology, batteries and sometimes ethernet cable to connect you house onto the web. Why do that ? Well, fo...
Hey, remember nearly a year and a half ago? HTC sent us something called the HTC Touch. It was like nothing we'd ever seen before. Up until the arrival of the HTC Touch most Pocket PC handsets were either fairly bulky or brick-shaped. The HTC Touch ar...
So, the HTC Touch HD then. Now, before I start there'll be many sites comparing this device with the iPhone. You'll see many "iPhone Killer" headlines and, Whilst many may scoff at this, there are some decent reasons for it. It's got pretty much the s...
The Zest is an Asus-built handset and, once out of the rather swish box, it's a jolly nice thing to hold. The shiny surfaces give the handset a polished appearance and the flat pebble syling makes it a very touchable handset. This is a fingerprint ma...
I'll give you a brief history about this site. It all started back in 2002 and we've been covering Windows Mobile faithfully even since. However, a few years back a phone was launched that literally sent shockwaves across the mobile phone landscape. ...
It should be noted that during this review we used the test build of the OS. The Diamond2 is the successor to the incredibly popular HTC Diamond we looked at last year. I wanted to kick things off with the traditional unboxing video. You can also se...
I mentioned in my HTC Touch review that HTC seem to be pushing the envelope with their handsets at the moment. It's fair to say that HTC are adding features and functionality quicker than even Microsoft themselves. Now, with the TyTN II, HTC has throw...
So. This is the HTC P6300 then. If I'm to look into my bag of more supportive comments I'd probably find the words "well built" and "rugged". I may also find phrases like "traditional style" and "classic sized screen". If, however, I was to look i...
OK, so here it is - the HTC Touch Dual. We're lucky enough to have this handset way before it's release and long before other websites. It's the evolution of the original HTC Touch we reviewed earlier. It's a little longer and a little thinner tha...
Today one of these things pop through my door. At the time of writing it's the first ever 6Gb MicrosSD card and it's available exclusively from our mates at mobymemory.com for around £35. 6Gb. Just think! It was only a few years ago that 6Gb hard dr...
Please note - We managed to get the iMate Ultimate 8150 and iMate Ultimate 6150 handsets recently. Both of these phones are gold in colour and are early production builds. Although we've taken up-close shots of these phones, we've now received the ...
Before I start I must make something clear. This is not a phone. Sure, you can probably make calls on it if you really want to, but the SIM card slotting into this baby is mainly for your internet connection. We must also clear up a few …
Specs and details HTC S730 Qualcomm® MSM 7200, 400MHz CPU Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 Standard (non touch-screen) 256Mb ROM, 64Mb RAM Quad-band GSM/ GPRS / EDGE plus 3G ...
Known previously as the HTC Polaris this is now known as the HTC Touch Cruise. It's the replacement for the HTC Artemis - y'know, that phone we here as the T-Mobile Compact III. The Tom Cruise... sorry, I keep doing that. The Touch Cruise no...
The whole concept of this device is .. interesting. For someone to sit down one day and go "hey, I think we should have a phone that looks like a laptop, but it's not a UMPC, it's a Pocket PC with a really big screen". Indeed, this devi...
