In a wired world, should we turn off more?

I posted this originally in my blog but I feel it deserves space here too. Sometimes whilst travelling you can overhear discussions which are really interesting. I’m in one of those situations right now. I’m at an airport somewhere in the world an...

No Windows Mobile apps in your Windows Phone

We kinda knew this already, but now Microsoft have confirmed. Those apps you're running on your Windows Mobile just won't work on Windows Phone 7 Series. There is no backward compatibility and Charlie Kindel states... "To be clear, we will continue t...

Wait a minute. Did we just kill the Smartphone of old?

Remember this ? It's the original SPV (HTC Canary). I bought it back in 2002 and started a little web page about it. The website grew and, after nearly 8 years and several billion hits, we're now in a world of Windows Phone. Tonight I took a trip …

Verizon going into the Pink

Remember when the Pink Project Phones got leaked ? Now there's more info - it's coming to Verizon in the USA. Gizmodo have got hold of some marketing material and it shows Verizon as the carrier. The images are the same as before but there are more wh...

Orange Hero issues following ROM upgrade?

There's an interesting story on theregister.co.uk this morning regarding the HTC Hero. According to the item there's issues accessing the Android Marketplace on the Orange-branded model following the recent update. I've tested it here and not had a p...

Mobility: An Education in Telephony

My appologies for missing two weeks; South Africa was very intense and left me in no fit state to write this as soon as I got back. I feel it has been improved by the extra time I had, though   As a current denizen of the Scottish …

HTC vs. Apple – The storm clouds gather

The Apple lawsuit against HTC appears to be aimed at Android via HTC. However, there are a number of Windows Mobile handsets included in this too. Apple claims to hold the patent on touch screens, power management, a particular unlocking system and a ...

Apple to sue HTC for Patent Infringement

HTC are doing well. They're doing very well. They arrived in Barcelona, announced three new devices, then took home a huge award. Apple now seem to be flexing their muscles, with an intention to sue HTC for HTC, infringing a massive 20 patents. These ...

HD2 and Motorola Cliq XT arriving in the US, cheap too!

Woaha. First rule of watermarking. Never put your logo right on top of the most important piece of information. TmoNews have got information on the arrival of the HD2 into the USA. It's showing up as $199 after various rebates and probably a fairly ch...

The results of our quick poll – WP7S worth waiting for

See this ? This is Windows Phone 7 Series. It was announced just a couple of weeks back in Barcelona. It's the all-new mobile OS from Microsoft and addresses a lot of the issues of Windows Mobile. Microsoft have taken more control and, although there'...

X10 Mini & X10 Mini Pro Coming 16th March

Online retailer eXpansys have just put up Pre-Order pages for both the X10 Mini and the X10 Mini Pro with an expected release date of 16th March... just over 2 weeks away!. The X10 Mini which was announced at Mobile World Congress packs a 5 Megapixel ...

Windows or Android? Let us know in our 5 second poll

Yes, we know that Microsoft had to press the "reboot" button. The Windows Mobile OS was on a huge range of phones and networks, with additional interfaces and tweaks making updates difficult and time-consuming. Stiff competition from An...

New HTC Arrivals coming April 12th

Mobile World Congress saw the launch of three new HTC devices. The HTC Legend and HTC Desire are both powered by Android and we managed to get a video hands-on here and here. They're just over a month away from your pockets now, with devicewire giving...

HD2 Not getting Windows Phone 7 Series OS – Official

We're getting almost daily updates on the "Will the HD2 upgrade to Windows Phone 7" question. Most responses so far have been "it's up to the hardware manufacturer" but now Natasha Kwan, General Manager for Microsoft’s Mobile Communications Business...

Orange and T-Mobile Merge – Approved

Orange and T-Mobile announced their intention to merge last year. However, the European Commission had to look into it first. Today it has been approved with European Competition Commissioner Joaquín Almunia stating.. "I am happy that we managed to ...

HD2 HTC Sense mod adds extra fun

Co0kie's Home Tab seems to be growing in popularity. It's a HTC Sense tweak which offers extended quicklinks and appointments plus other useful stuff. You can now get up to 4 appointments on the home tab, an optional call history button and configurab...

LG Prototype QWERTY shown off – WP7 Series on-board

Woaha. Why didn't we see this just a few days ago at Mobile World Congress? LG has today shown off their prototype Windows Phone 7 Series.. err.. phone (gah, I just can't get my head around that naming convention) to engadget. The LG handset is a sli...

Get that Windows Phone 7 Series feeling, right now

Well heck, that didn't take long at all did it ? Just 12 days after the official announcement there's already a theme being brewed over at xda-developers. It's a little juddery at the moment but, after just a few days, it's pretty impressive. Who know...

The Android App Review Show – Episode 10

Tom Ranson has been cranking out the Android App Review episodes and now, complete with tripod, episode 10 is online. This week Trimble Outdoors have given Tom their Allsport GPS app to review. It's a great app that'll turn your phone into a GPS-enabl...