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There's some offers hitting the VITO website currently, including the "Quick SMS" pack, which includes SMS-Chat (normally $14.95) and the ultra-quick on-screen ZoomBoard (normally $9.95). The price for both ? It's now only $19.95. So, if you're a fast...
Well, today was the big "Samsung Unpacked" event. It took until 7PM to get started in the UK, and in the end it seemed to mainly concentrate on the Jet, which sadly isn't powered by Windows Mobile. However, the Omnia range did receive a significant bo...
Whoops. What's the last thing you want to do before a massive press event? Yup, you definitely don't want to put pictures of the new Samsung Omnia Pro on your own press website. Here's the Louvre / B7610 / Pro once again, but in official Samsung shots...
Quick, before you all go home, there's just time to tell you a bit more about our survey results. Loads of you responded and we wanted to know what you'd like to see more of. What are Windows Mobile handsets missing? The results ? In the top spot …
Most new Windows Mobile handsets now come with GPS capability. The system lets you navigate your way around our fair planet, geo-tag your photos or track your girlfriend when she goes to visit "the bloke about the curtains". What's perhaps not known a...
We've mentioned SMS-Chat before and now version 1.2 has been released with bug fixes, backup functionality and three new skins. If your Windows Mobile doesn't have threaded messaging already then SMS-Chat will bring this functionality with a selection...
Now, I don't know anything about BitTorrents, honest, but WinMobile Torrent v.3 is now available and supports all versions of Windows Mobile. It supports trackerless torrents, peer exchange and seeding. A free 5-day trial can be downloaded with the fu...
Good news at last for anyone making a call whilst visiting foreign lands. Many of you will be aware that, simply by crossing a border, you have to pay extremely high call charges for texting or chatting to people and re-mortgage your house if you dare...
Winterface - we've seen it before and it's a great interface for your phone. It's been updated before but now version 1.3 brings a new bright skin, bug fixes, the ability to hide or show the Windows Mobile bar / Start button and Opera Mobile favourite...
The GSM association has sat down and agreed that having several different chargers is a nightmare for the consumer. Mobile phones today generally have many different plugs and adapters to charge mobile phones. The decision means that firms like Nokia,...
Well, you've already seen Windows Mobile pictured, mentioned and even shown in full video action on the HTC Touch HD just the other day. Now it's launched and fully legit. So what have we got? For the classic Smartphone (y'know, non-touch screen) ther...
Remember that LG handset from earlier on? Here's the details - meet the LG Eigen / GM-730. This is an all-new handset with quad-band GSM, EDGE and 3G. At the back you'll find a whacking 5 megapixel camera whilst up-front there's a 240x400 WQVGA screen...
On May 6th 2008 HTC announced the original HTC Touch Diamond which a collosal press event in London. Today, just a few months later, the HTC Touch Diamond2 is here. As expected it's the HTC Topaz we spotted in the leak last month and is powered by Win...
In June the HTC Touch Pro was launched. It had all the goodness of the original HTC Touch Diamond, but with a sliding QWERTY keyboard, external memory and TV-Out. HTC have today announced the all-new HTC Touch Pro2. It packs a new longer-lasting 1500m...
The future of mobile phones is always a hard thing to forsee. However, the guys at IA Technolody appear to have their idea. Now, bear with us here because you'll have no dount heard this before, but they claim to have created the worlds most completel...
VITO Technology have just Winterface, AudioNotes, AstroNavigator, SMS-Chat, FunContact and Voice2Go to be compatible with the Samsung Omnia. Winterface is a great program launcher we've mentioned before, AudioNotes is a voice recorder and AstroNaviga...
Whilst this story does mention Windows 7 and not Windows Mobile, it's still good to see Microsoft splashing the cash on buying a company which specialises in multi-touch technology. The company in question is called N-trig, and a quick look at their w...
Flexilis is a new company made up of security researchers, software developers and mobile technology fanatics. They want to help make the mobile world a safe place to work and play and the result is a new application which will keep your device and da...
couple of days now and I want to thank everyone who's emailed in about it. Microsoft has launched their first ever iPhone application, called Seadragon. It lets iPhone users look at high resolution pictures and zoom in on them easily over the net. Wh...
Our review of the HTC Touch HD should be up any day now. It follows the hands-on videos from a few days back. These appear to have caught the attention of the BBC, who have written a story about unboxing videos and their popularity online. Personally...
We've all seen the endless scare stories of huge phone bills following trips abroad. Whilst roaming call charges were reduced a while back following an intervention by EU parliament, texting and data access is still shockingly expensive. Now EU Telec...
Last week we published a scan of the HTC Touch HD in the Orange "Work" magazine. We also told you about the 3 month exclusive Orange had on the handset. Now Orange have confirmed everything with a full press release which reveals an early November lau...
OK, you know the deal. Today the T-Mobile G1 will be announced. It's the Google phone, the Dream, the Android thing. Built by HTC it's already slipped onto the net in these T-Mobile product shots. We've already seen it several times, but this time it...
Some years back you couldn't move for themes, backdrops and homescreens. Everyone seemed to have their own personal theme but now, with the HTC TouchFLO technology, many are choosing to stick with that instead. PortableThemes.com has been setup for th...
Over at the HTC website there's another handset lurking too. It's that Viva handset we mentioned before (aka the Opal). Nieuwemobiel.nl have managed to get shots from the HTC Touch Viva pages on HTC.com. Although we couldn't find the "offical" front-...
There's been a few stories around the net about the new Google "local" search. The My Location feature should now appear if you browse to Google.com on your phone in Internet Explorer. After the Google Gears plugin installs (what a great name), you'l...
The original HTC Touch is still an excellent handset that broke the mould for Pocket PC design. When I reviewed it I remember mistaking it for a battery because it was so small compared to the existing touch-screen devices of the time. Now it appears ...
Asus have today launched this, the P552w. Looking very similar to the HTC Touch it's got a finger-driven control system called "Glide" which uses "cutting-edge Gester technology" which will let you zoom, scroll, flip and select items with your finger....
Following more leaks than ever, the Palm Treo Pro is now official. A Qualcomm MSM7201 400Mhz CPU powers Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro whilst inside there's tri-band UMTS / HSDPA and quad-band GSM and 802.11b/g WiFi connectivity. There's also a 320x320 TFT sc...
Orange are pushing several packages and phones at the minute. They have the BlackBerry Bold exclusive to the network (the first 3G BlackBerry as far as we're aware) and we've just revealed that the Samsung Omnia i900 is now selling on Orange too. Howe...
Vito Technology have just released a new version of Winterface. It comes with numerous improvements and bug-fixes - it is now started with a different on-screen gesture, you can now add any files on your Windows Mobile to the main screen, plus there's...
I stumbled across an Orange advert for their data dongles in one of Emilys' gossip magazines last night (it blew open - I swear). Quadband, 7.2Mbps speeds with unlimited data. Yes, unlimited-ish. It's actually a "fair usage" cap of 1Gb. According to o...
Coolsmartphone launched several years ago dedicated to Windows Mobile Smartphones. These were cool new devices, usually with a numeric keypad and never with a touch-screen. Over time we've branched out to cover all manner of Windows Mobile devices but...
We cover nothing but Windows Mobile news here at Coolsmartphone.com, however there comes a time when you do have to look at the competition. Today, as expected, the 3G iPhone was launched. The new unit gets 480x320 screen, 3G / HSDPA (850/1900/2100Mhz...
Gigabyte have launched their MS800 (on the left) and MW700 in the UK today under the GSmart name. The handsets do look fairly similar, and indeed both are powered by the Marvell PXA270 520Mhz CPU with GPS, WiFi, 2 megapixel rear camera, FM radio and B...
Getting a bit sick of all these HTC Touch Diamond stories by now? ;) How about the first shots of the HTC Raphael ? Here they are, over at gsmhelpdesk.nl. Imagine the HTC Touch Diamond with a slidey-out keyboard and you're there. This is the dressed-f...
Hot on the heels of version 3.0, the guys at Mobilityflow have just released version 3.1 of their Touch Commander Suite. Bearing more than a passing resemblance to the HTC homescreen and TouchFLO technology, there's also skins available to download to...
Yes, yes, we know you're probably sick of hearing about the HTC Touch Diamond by now, but we've at last managed to get the official T-Mobile press release about launch dates, pricing and more. The device has a "GPU" (graphics processing unit) to help ...
Today HTC launched just one handset. Many people expected perhaps more, but this is one handset that HTC have put a huge amount of work into. The device looks sexy and it'll be launched on five networks in Europe. A launch date of June has been given ...
We've mentioned it many times and, thankfully, the phone manufacturers are well aware of it - the standard Windows Mobile homescreen and interface is getting a bit long in the tooth now. Another phone manufacturer - GSmart has now announced "Smart Tou...
